Focus Pill is a small always-on-top app for macOS. It keeps the one thing you're working on in view over every window, and every few minutes it gives a soft chime and a gentle wiggle to bring your attention back.
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Free & open source · macOS 13+ · Apple silicon
Three simple things, always running in the corner of your screen.
The pill sits above every window, even full-screen apps. Whatever you switch to, the thing you're meant to be doing stays right there in the corner.
Type what you're focusing on and it stays put. A glance is all it takes to remember what you sat down to do.
On a quiet interval you choose, the pill plays a soft chime and a brief wiggle. Attention wanders; this brings it back, without ever nagging.
The core stays simple. These sit quietly underneath, for when a session calls for them.
Tap a length (5, 15, 25 or 45 minutes) and a ring drains around the button as the time passes. No typing, no setup, no seconds to fuss over.
Something pops into your head mid-task? Jot it into the pill's notepad and keep going, so you never break focus just to remember it later.
Small, quiet, and always there. The one thing you keep coming back to.
git clone https://github.com/Avivhdr/focus-pill && cd focus-pill && ./install.sh
Free & open source. Today Focus Pill builds from source with one command. A signed, notarized .dmg is on the way.