--- 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(889) ](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 AA Anish A. Software Development Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/30/2026 "Pause Makes Leave Management and Team Monitoring Easy" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Pause? Pause helps us to manage and monitor our leaves as well as our teammates' leaves Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? Couldn't find a Pause app in Microsoft Teams; it was showing in Slack, but Microsoft Teams still lacks integration support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Pause every day to check our team's leave status as well as to apply for leave. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Program Development](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Program Development") UP Verified User in Program Development Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/27/2021 "It was pretty easy to apply for a leave last week, took me like 1min." 5/5 What do you like best about Pause? It reduced the time to apply for leave, and I didn't have to mention it to my colleagues about my break personally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? Nothing as of now. I haven't taken many leaves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? TBH it's time-saving. I usually have to think about what to write. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/21/2024 Current UserValidated 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 Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/22/2022 "Best leave Management Slack app ever!!" 5/5 What do you like best about Pause? I love how easy it is to use, honestly. We did not even have a training session and we all basically understood how it works. Everything from applying the leave, to approval and calculation of the leaves left is available on the slack app. You can also see how many people are on leave in your team or even your entire company. Absolutely recommend! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? Nothing at all. Sometimes it doesn't work, but it is very, very rare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? Just makes leave application and approval super easy and simple. No other BS. Wonderful app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sanchari G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sanchari G.") SG Sanchari G. Content Writer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/7/2021 "An amazing user-friendly leave management tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Pause? The fact that Pause makes it so easy to apply as well as approve leave through slack is super cool. We can even check who all are on leave within the team and across (as per our commands to the Pause bot) is really helpful in figuring out meeting schedules. Absolutely love how it sends a decline note to all my meetings whenever I'm on leave. Best part - shows my leave balance every time I apply for a leave + I get notifications/reminders about the birthdays of my colleagues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? I would like Pause even more if it would allow us to customise our leave status updates when connected to slack. Right now it only allows a palm-tree emoji. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pause: Everyone looking for a quick and hassle-free way to apply and approve leaves should definitely go for it. Pause also has a lot of cool features to go with leave management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? Very convenient to apply and even approve leaves. Informs the entire organisation on slack when someone is away. Helps with Birthday reminders as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Traylor H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Traylor H.") TH Traylor H. Agile PM Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/5/2021 "ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR GOOD TIME MANAGEMENT" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Pause? Pause has the necessary tools that provide: autonomy for your employees' requests, data update in the cloud in real time with remote access, calendars, automated calculations in hours and payroll, management of the replacement of the position that is going to be empty or the reorganization of tasks for an ideal workflow. Spend less paper and spend less time. Real-time notifications through Slack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? I really like this absence software. It helps to unify and visualize all the necessary elements for decision making. When any type of request is processed, holiday example, the schedule and balance are available in real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pause: To see how Pause works, I recommend using a 14-day free trial. This absence software includes: Reports. Personalization. Documents Integrations. Notifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? The establishment of schedules, (including attendance and absence rates per period) Management of absenteeism requests, in order to modify, reject or validate them. Real time monitoring. Data export to the accounting department… .. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Austin M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Austin M.") AM Austin M. Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/1/2021 "Take control of your free time with Pause" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Pause? Pause is a usable and intuitive online platform, configurable and adaptable to our needs, it helps to manage our free time in the best way. Among the most notable features of Pause we can find: organizer, planner and absence calendars, attendance control, sending reminders and notifications. Its integration with Google Calendar and Slack works perfectly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? I have only been using the platform for a few days and I can only say that it is an effective absence control solution with which I can easily manage each working day, in addition, it is intuitive, flexible and adaptable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pause: Plan holidays and vacations easily, using a shared calendar. Pause is a powerful and flexible solution with a mobile app, it facilitates the autonomous management of vacations 24/7, in real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? Pause offers excellent benefits, such as scheduling, this platform allows you to easily monitor and track absences, and offers an automatic record of vacations or other absences of the teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Stanley K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Stanley K.") SK Stanley K. Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/6/2021 "Complete absence control software" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Pause? It favors the organization. With Pause it is easy to centralize all the information in a single place, such as simple requests, absences, integrations with Google Calendar and notifications via e-mails, other relevant documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? My experience is good. Pause manages your time off and much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pause: Pause is an excellent and effective absence management software. This accepts or rejects the absence requests of your employees. It allows you to review the available vacation days of your workers or view the status of your entire team with the team calendar, among many more functionalities that are only within the reach of a clip Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? Being able to manage the different types of absences and absences, such as absences from work, for example. Customize the different reasons for absences, manage the different leave or absence requests, and manage all absences and absences, with the team calendar. Everything from PAUSE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Arpan C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arpan C.") AC Arpan C. Founded/Director Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/12/2021 "Easy & Configurable" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Pause? It's simple and straightforward to use. Don't have to use another app, or open another page -- everything happens within Slack which our team already uses, so the effort and learning curve is basically non-existent. Has been really easy to get started, configure and best of all convince our team to start using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? We're a consultancy -- which means sometimes people have to take a break from one project to work on another. This is not a use case that is currently covered by Pause and I completely understand why -- but I really hope that they add it in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? Tracking leaves -- we have a pretty liberal leave policy but we still want to have a simple way to track leaves. But more importantly -- it makes sure everyone knows what's happening and simplies team colloboration which has many new challenges since having to go fully remote during this Covid19 age. 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-4930731/official_response/edit) Hi Arpan, thank you so much for your review! We're glad to learn that you and your team find Pause easy to use. The use case you talk about is quite interesting, and I'll pass it on to the Product team to see if there's something we can do about it. Cheers! Current UserValidated 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.) 10/25/2021 "Pause makes it very easy to apply for leave" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Pause? Easy to apply for leave Easy to see who's on leave Can check leave balance conveniently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? - It doesn't allow to edit leave type once it has been submitted (I had accidentally pressed 'Birthday leave' instead of casual and sent it, and it was approved, but I could not edit the leave type later, so the manager had to cancel the leave and I re-applied) - It doesn't have a compulsory option to give a reason for leave and gets misused sometimes by the team. As managers, we would need to know the reason for a leave. - There's no need for an alert if no one's on leave. (when integrated with Slack) - There's an option that team should fill their bdays and date of joining but that too is optional. Again as managers to celebrate the occasions, we'd like to have this information handy and therefore made compulsory to be filled for easy alerts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? The leave-taking process has become more straightforward, and there's company-level visibility when someone's on leave. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Manaal O.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Manaal O.") MO Manaal O. Design researcher and UX writer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2021 "Easy to use leave management tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Pause? Pause makes managing and staying up to date with time off from work easy and transparent. I like the way the Pause bot sounds, they are pretty chill and laid back. Pause makes it super simple to apply for time off, see how much time off I have taken and how many days I have left, and also to know when my colleagues are OOO. 10/10 would recommend, it's an easy integration into your Slack workspace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pause? There have been no downsides to using Pause. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you? Simplifying the time off process lets me plan efficiently and removes unnecessary back and forth with my colleagues and manager about leave. It makes me less anxious to take or apply for leave, and also means that I don't feel obliged to over-explain why I want to take time off. Since we can all see when people are on leave, this helps in not reaching out to people when they're off, who may feel inclined to reply even though they're technically not working. 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-4921517/official_response/edit) Hi Manaal, thank you for your detailed review! We're pleased that Pause has helped you free yourself from the anxiety and obligations that usually come with taking time off. 🙌 Current UserValidated 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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