iPhone and Apple Watch · iOS 26 · Available in Norway
Feel it.
Before you say it.
Timeout is an iPhone and Apple Watch app that uses body signals to suggest a break. A discreet tap on your wrist and 20 minutes to pause before returning to the conversation.
Norwegian app interface · Available in Norway · 14-day trial, then NOK 99/month
How it works
Body first. Words after.
Try the flow in the iPhone demo. Heart rate alerts require Apple Watch. An alert is a suggestion, not a verdict: the app can be wrong or miss an episode. The examples below use invented readings.
The window is open
While a Window is open, your watch reads your pulse every few seconds. At home, your phone can analyse sounds such as sighs and a raised voice. You control the microphone. Timeout pauses its measurements during a workout.
no workout saved · orange dot on the phone
The window is closing
When the app finds a pattern that may suggest rising activation, it can give a discreet tap on your wrist. Choose Timeout or indicate that you feel calm. Nobody else receives the alert.
“The window is closing.”
Timeout, 20 minutes
The ring counts down for 20 minutes and offers suggestions for unwinding. You decide whether you are ready to return. Afterwards, you get words to help restart the conversation.
Put it into words
Afterwards, the watch asks: What do you feel? One word is enough. Your answer is stored with your body signals, so you can explore patterns over time.
What do you feel?
one tap · stored with pulse and deviation
Privacy
This is an app about you. Only you.
On your watch and phone.
Heart rate, episodes and sound analysis are processed locally. Appit does not receive these measurements. No separate Timeout account is needed. Some model settings may be included in device backups.
No audio recordings. No transcription.
Sound is analysed temporarily in the phone’s memory. No audio recordings are saved or uploaded, and words are not transcribed. Sound categories and times can be stored. By default, the microphone runs only at home while a Window is open. You can switch it off; the orange dot shows when it is on.
Your choice stays yours.
No partner alerts and no relationship score. Timeout does not judge what was said. Feelings are written to Apple Health only if you enable it.
Read the privacy policy · How the technology works
Timeout is a tool, not treatment. It makes no diagnoses and does not replace a therapist.
Pricing
Try it for 14 days.
Then 99 NOK a month.
One edition, with all features included. The subscription is bought through Apple, renews monthly and can be cancelled any time.
The first 14 days
0 NOK
- Everything included from day one
- Watch and phone
- Cancel any time
- Renews automatically after the trial
Cancel through Apple before the trial ends to avoid the subscription charge.
After that
99 NOK a month
- All features, no add-ons
- All updates included
- Your model, your episodes, your watch
- Cancel any time
VAT included. Billed through Apple, charged monthly until you cancel.
The trial is for eligible new subscribers. Apple shows the current price and terms before purchase. The app interface is Norwegian; availability is currently limited to Norway.
iPhone with iOS 26 · Apple Watch with watchOS 26
The background
Understand the signals.
Make room for the conversation.
Timeout draws on work about flooding and breaks during difficult conversations. Research on those topics does not establish that the app can predict arguments.
Overwhelm can make listening difficult.
The Gottman Institute describes flooding as intense emotional and physical activation during conflict. Timeout uses possible body signals; it does not know what you or your partner feels.
A heart rate number is not the whole story.
The app can raise false alerts and miss episodes. We have not published clinical studies of Timeout or figures establishing a particular accuracy.
Timeout is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Gottman Institute.
Understand and practise
Find words for the pause.
When the conversation becomes too much.
Understand emotional flooding during a difficult conversation. Separate body signals from assumptions, and find a practical way to ask for a break.
Read the guide From argument to pauseA break with a way back.
Find words for a break during a difficult conversation, agree when to return, and create a simple pause agreement without an account or an app.
Read the guide Apple Watch and stressHeart rate is a signal. You know the situation.
Heart rate is a body signal, not proof of stress. Learn how Timeout uses Apple Watch, what its limitations are, and what you need to try it.
Read the guideFrom the founder
I have read Gottman for years. Still, I often noticed too late. What I wanted was a moment to notice and choose.
The watch already has my pulse. The phone can analyse sound signals. I built Timeout for myself first: a possible cue to pause, and help taking that break. It cannot promise a head start, but you can try whether it helps you notice.
Try it
Try Timeout.
The first 14 days are free.
Timeout is available in the Norwegian App Store. Its interface is in Norwegian. Try the iPhone demo to explore the flow; heart rate alerts require Apple Watch.
Free for 14 days, then 99 NOK a month.
iPhone with iOS 26 · Apple Watch with watchOS 26
Timeout by Appit · Bergen, Norway