※ vision
A dedicated video thought journal app for iOS. Pick it up and you only see your thoughts — not the noise of your Camera Roll. Say 'cut' to pause without dead air; say 'action' to resume. The app stitches the segments into one clean recording.
※ why
Phone cameras are incredible, but Photos and Camera dump everything into one undifferentiated stream. Your video journal entries get lost between vacation photos, screenshots, and random clips. Finding a thought you captured last week means scrolling through hundreds of irrelevant items. PauseBooth is a Moleskine notebook that only has your project notes in it — not mixed in with grocery lists and receipts.
core features
- ▶Pause / Resume by voice — say 'cut', say 'action', no dead air
- ▶Auto-stitch — segments combined into one clean recording
- ▶Project-scoped — every video is filed by topic, not chronology
- ▶iCloud-synced index — searchable across devices
- ▶Transcript-on-device — Whisper or Apple's local STT
- ▶Open with one tap — bypasses Camera Roll entirely
※ the trigger
I caught myself losing five interesting video thoughts in a row because they got buried under photos of breakfast. PauseBooth was the thirty-minute brainstorm that didn't go away after the brainstorm.