Vigil
Productivity over procrastination.
Native macOS focus app in the menu bar: routines, Hard/Soft protection and time budgets. Steps in when focus is on and distraction opens.
No credit card needed · Installed in 2 minutes · macOS 13+
€8.99 (~$10.36) · One-time · 3-day trial · No subscriptions
Made in Germany · Developed in Kaiserslautern
No more monthly subscriptions for simple focus tools.
Comparable focus apps often charge €5–10 (~$6–12) a month. Vigil: a one-time €8.99 (~$10.36), yours forever.
See Vigil in action
Block YouTube, menu bar, Overview and Settings. Vigil live.
See Vigil in action
Focus on: YouTube is redirected straight to the Vigil block page.
Regain control. Get things done.
Procrastination often starts with one tab and five minutes that become an hour. Vigil breaks the cycle with routines, Hard/Soft protection and time budgets, not gentle reminders.
You define distraction and when focus applies. Overview and stats stay local; optional Focus Lock secures settings, for you or a child's Mac. One-time purchase, no subscriptions.
Less distraction. More real work.
Vigil is still young: our first testers are already using it. Be one of the first: privacy-first, no subscriptions.
Genuinely great that I can now regulate my tabs with time budgets. The scheduled focus start already saved me once. I was back on YouTube and would have been late for a meeting otherwise.
I'm not that tech-savvy, but Vigil helps me too, limiting my Instagram use on our Mac.
Since I started using Vigil, my productivity has gone up dramatically. Where I used to lose 1–2 hours a day to distractions, today it's 15 minutes at most. I barely procrastinate anymore.
Time wasted
Minutes per day
Founder's 14-day self-test. Individual results, not a study, not a guarantee.
Your toolkit against distraction
Routines & schedules
Recurring deep-work windows with weekdays and time ranges. Vigil arms focus automatically, optional Always-On after restart.
Hard & Soft protection
Hard closes or redirects tabs immediately. Soft keeps sites open until the budget is empty, then Vigil steps in.
Time budgets
Shared budget for the whole blocklist or per-domain limits. Soft counts down; Hard blocks immediately. See Protection → Overview.
Focus Lock
For self-control or a child’s Mac. Password, recovery code and optional security questions. Protects Settings, Quit and ending Focus, plus a watchdog after Force Quit.
Privacy first
No cloud, no accounts, no tracking by us. Lists, stats and license stay local (Keychain for the key).
Buy once, own forever
One-time purchase for €8.99 (~$10.36) via Lemon Squeezy, no subscriptions. 3-day in-app trial, then activate your license.
"Genuinely useful. You could easily sell this as a subscription, but it's great that you skip that entirely."
Internal tester
€8.99 (~$10.36) · One-time · 3-day trial · No subscriptions
Multilingual
Vigil is available in six languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese and Chinese. Choose your language in settings or follow your system language automatically.
Supported browsers
Safari
Chrome
Edge
Brave
Arc
Opera
Vivaldi
OrionReady to take back your focus?
€8.99 (~$10.36) one-time, 3-day trial, no cloud. Installed in under 2 minutes.
No credit card needed · Installed in 2 minutes · macOS 13+
€8.99 (~$10.36) · One-time · 3-day trial · No subscriptions
Legal & Liability
Vigil is provided "as is" without any warranty. Use is at your own risk. To the extent permitted by law, Broschat Studios accepts no liability for any direct or indirect damages arising from the use of the app.
Vigil actively closes and redirects browser tabs. No liability is accepted for unsaved input or lost tab contents. Configure your blocklist carefully.
Vigil is a self-control and productivity tool. We make no guarantee of specific productivity, health or behavioural outcomes. The app does not replace medical or therapeutic treatment.
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