sigstop for Mac
Context-aware break reminders that adapt to your work instead of interrupting focus.
By Mohamed-Elshesheny. Free and open source, GPL-3.0 licence.
sigstop at a glance
- Version
- 0.2.2
- Released
- 30 September 2026
- Download size
- 4.9 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Category
- Productivity
- Developer
- Mohamed-Elshesheny
- GitHub stars
- 16
About sigstop
You're a developer, not a server. A macOS menu bar app that works out what you're doing and interrupts at a defensible moment instead of on a timer.
How to install sigstop on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for sigstop and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.2.2 from Mohamed-Elshesheny's own GitHub release.
- Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.
Updates to sigstop show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.
Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: sigstop.dmg (4.9 MB).
What is new in sigstop 0.2.2
## v0.2.2 Wood Frog 🐸 ### 🐛 Bugs - Say the break length you set instead of five minutes - Keep a skip's quiet time when you pause and resume - Ignore a Resume that lands after the pause has ended - Give two corpus lines a break to take and no claim
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