Griotta: Pause Before You Buy

Griotta sits on the stores you shop and pauses with you at checkout. Entirely local: no account, no tracking.

Griotta is a small creature that keeps you company on the stores you shop, and gives you a moment before money moves. On the sites it covers, it sits quietly in a corner. It blinks. It doesn't talk, and it doesn't watch what you browse. On your cart, it perks up a little. When you reach the checkout, Griotta steps into a 30-second pause, its hand on a graphite sphere that breathes with it. "Do you really want this now?" Then three equal choices: • Walk away: you leave the checkout. • Plan it: Griotta keeps the store for later, in its menu, and you leave the checkout. • Buy now: it steps aside and stays out of the way on that store for 20 minutes. Each choice gets the same small reaction. Nothing celebrates, nothing sulks. Buying is not a failure. You stay in charge. Click the creature to hide it on a site or everywhere, or drag it to the other side. The toolbar button is its home: show or hide it, and find the stores you planned. It works on a set list of shopping sites, including Amazon, Etsy and Walmart. Its toolbar menu shows the full list. Private by design: no account, no analytics, no requests to any server. It reads the address of the page you are on, only on those sites, to recognise a cart or a checkout. It never reads page content, forms or payment fields. Your settings and planned stores stay in your browser. A welcome page opens once when you install, with a short demo of the pause. Griotta also exists for iPhone, where it pauses before the shopping apps you choose.