--- title: Pause Reviews meta\_title: 'Pause Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 83 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Pause works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.7 review\_count: 83 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: HR url: https://www.g2.com/categories/hr --- # Pause Reviews & Product Details Pause is a paperless leave management tool that ensures teams are up-to-date on teammates' time-off schedules, making planning easier. Pause works where teams do (desktop, mobile, Slack, and Google Calendar). Take advantage of intuitive features: - simple application processes transparent leave policies - instant leave updates - daily leave notifications - Slack and Google Calendar integrations, and more. Pause makes capacity planning and team communication easier than ever before, all for the cost of a coffee. * * * Seller [Obvious Ventures](https://www.g2.com/sellers/obvious-ventures) Discussions [Pause Community](https://www.g2.com/products/pause/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Team Pause Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Pause. ### Business $1 per user/per month [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/pause/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Breathe](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Breathe") Breathe 4.4/5(606) ](https://www.g2.com/products/centurion-management-systems-breathe/reviews) [ ![Personio](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Personio") Personio 4.4/5(887) ](https://www.g2.com/products/personio/reviews) [ ![TimeClock Plus by TCP](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "TimeClock Plus by TCP") TimeClock Plus by TCP 4.3/5(592) ](https://www.g2.com/products/timeclock-plus-by-tcp/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/pause/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 83 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Pause Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Slack ](https://www.g2.com/products/slack/reviews) Show More ![Anish A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anish A.") AA Anish A. Software Development Engineer Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/2/2023 "Pause review" 4/5 What do you like best about Pause? Pause is easy to use and helps us a lot to manage our leaves and check all the official holidays without any confusion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? Pause sometimes take a little bit more time to load to show all the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? Since we're a remote organization Pause helps us in a big way to understand who is not available and efficiently manage leaves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Srushti S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Srushti S.") SS Srushti S. Marketing and Company Structure Head Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/2/2021 "A solution all HR and People Management Admins should have!" 4/5 What do you like best about Pause? One upside of pause is that it's easy to use! As someone who isn't as technologically fluent as others, pause has been an easy interface to deal with and has made my user experience wonderful. People management has been incredible as it allows me to use its various brilliant features such as daily calendar updates to slack, team calendars and much more. This not only keeps our internal team informed but also communicate the same with our clients and shareholders with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? There isn't much to dislike about the product. I do feel it is a brilliant yet simple solution for a day to day business problem. However, having said that I would suggest that a few features be improved upon or added on. For example, a feature that enables daily updates on when team members are on vacation. Maybe a sort of notification service that allows teams to be well aware (say 1-2 days earlier) about a team member's vacation. Also, an update when someone takes a half-day off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? One of the biggest issues Pause has helped us solve is employee burnout. We are a small organisation of 10-15 people and employee vacation days were not being availed by many within the organisation, which led to a lot of burnouts. With the help of Pause, we were able to effectively track and encourage not just deductible and paid leaves but also non-deductibles leaves such as burnout leaves and mental health leaves. It also solved the ease of applying for a leave. No more excessive forms or applications to fill or complicated leave procedures to follow. Helped by automating all aspects of our leave policy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Team Pause of Pause [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/pause-review-4904148/official_response/edit) Hi Srushti, thank you so much for your review — we're glad to hear that Pause has been easy to use so far, and happy that it's been helping you with people management. If I understood your feedback about the 1-2 day advance notification service correctly, the "weekly summary" notification on Slack might be what you're looking for. Also, you now get an immediate notification when someone takes half a day off on the same day, even if the morning notifications have gone out already. If you need help setting this up, please let us know through the chat on the Pause web app. Cheers! Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Malav D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Malav D.") MD Malav D. Full stack developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/28/2021 "Slick and minimal UI with exact focus on purpose of the product" 4/5 What do you like best about Pause? Smooth integration with Slack bot. Every morning at least, I know that who is there and who is not there. Minimal UI and UX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? On slack, there should be a more motivating message as a notification. One notification we got was 'There is no holiday in this week' or something like that, which is informative, but I don't know if it's motivating or demotivating. We have not used many features, if there are any. As I have used only to apply leave twice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? We used to don't have any system before for leave management. People used to apply leave on WhatsApp or slack. So Pause comes into place where it's just focused on the leave management part which is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Abhinav C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Abhinav C.") AC Abhinav C. S Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/2/2021 "Simplified process of leave approval. Easy to use slack plugin." 4/5 What do you like best about Pause? I love the slack plugin. The calendar is also lovely, showing all those on leave. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? mobile version on my iphone-XR has broken UI(/). can share screenshots if needed. also found the dashboard is not optimized for mobile view. I'm thinking that is a choice. could be a simplistic version like slack plugin [apply/check status]. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? The leave policy is more clear now. I can come to pause to plan my holiday without annoying the team for details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/22/2021 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Shruti T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shruti T.") ST Shruti T. Project Manager, BD & Operations Head Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/30/2021 "Amazing product to manage holidays & activities of team." 4/5 What do you like best about Pause? Pause is very user-friendly, has excellent UI, and helps keep track of the team's leaves/activities/bdays, etc. A very useful product IMO. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? Nothing really, but I want to explore and see the feature where we can mark our daily attendance as well, like the way jibble does so that we can tabulate our working hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pause: Great tool with amazing features and user-friendly UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? Helps keep track of our own leaves, which we weren't doing previously, and also lets us know if someone from the team is unavailable so that we can plan our work accordingly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Tejas B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tejas B.") TB Tejas B. Holy Spaghetti Monster stop adding new fields!! Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/24/2021 "Great app" 4/5 What do you like best about Pause? It is effortless to manage leaves from slack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? Pause web app does not remember the log-in info well. (and using this platform G2 to collect feedback where everything you type opens 15 new fields for you to fill out) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? quite easy leave-tracking yayy... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Consumer Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Services") CC Verified User in Consumer Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/21/2021 "Its a good forum to track and raise leave requests." 3.5/5 What do you like best about Pause? The leave requests and updates provided are the best thing on pause Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? nothing much. But it can be more advanced to be used for different purposes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pause: It's a good platform to intimate and use for leaves Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? I am yet to use the features provided on pause however it seems very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Design](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Design") UD Verified User in Design Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/1/2021 "Neat and simple leave management" 4/5 What do you like best about Pause? The clean design and the super tiny learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? Nothing to dislike, really. If anything, I would have liked for it to have a dark theme. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? Leave application process can now be non-synchronous. I don't have to find a time to be able to speak with another person, I just have to drop a leave request here, the other person gets notified about it, and they can respond to it whenever. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/30/2021 "Meenakshi - Pause Review" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Pause? I can apply for leaves easily and can see who is on leave from the entire organization on our Team's slack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? If I submit leave after 9 am, it doesn't notify anyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? Initially, we used to apply leaves on email or inform directly on Slack. But now pause helps to organize it better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Sindhu Shivaprasad of Pause [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/pause-review-4898884/official_response/edit) Hi Meenakshi, thank you so much for your review. We have good news — you now get leave notifications on your preferred Slack channel even if a teammate booked time off after 9AM that day! We hope you find this update helpful. If there's anything else we can help with, do let us know through the chat box on getpause.com. If you'd like to edit your star rating to reflect this update, please click on "Edit Review" to the right of this review. We appreciate your time and candidness! Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about Pause? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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