Stoiq for Mac
Plan the work in a sentence, start a block, and get pulled back to it the moment the scroll starts — quietly, from the corner of your Mac.
macOS 14 or later · one payment, no subscription
Where the day goes
The meeting ends at 3:52. You open one tab while your head catches up. At 4:20 you are eleven posts into something you will not remember tomorrow, and the doc is exactly where it was. That is not a discipline problem — it is what an interrupted day does to a person, and it is fixable from the outside.
01
Eleven tabs → one next thing
Give him the whole pile — the deck, the review you owe, the thing that has been sliding down the list since Tuesday. You get back a plan with one clear next step, which was the only hard part.
02
Meeting ends → straight back in
Pick the thing and pick the length. The block holds while you work and he sits in the corner of the screen, one glance away, saying nothing.
03
4:07pm → still on the doc
Drift onto a feed and a small check-in arrives within seconds, with one tap back to the sentence you left. No lost afternoon, and nothing to feel bad about afterwards.
The moment it earns its place
Drift to a distracting site mid-block and Stoiq shows up gently: a small check-in, not an alarm. Most of the time that is the whole intervention. Keep drifting and he draws the line — the page goes behind him until your block is done.
He always asks first, because sometimes the tab is the work. Blocking is the backstop, not the greeting.
The same gentle-then-firm cover runs in your browser on the Mac and on your iPhone, so when you sit down the scroll has nowhere left to go.
What it won’t do
Every app in this category eventually starts punishing you, and the punishment is what makes people delete it in week three. So the mechanisms are not tuned down here. They were never built.
There is no daily target, no score and no chart of your worst week. Come back after four days away and you will find exactly what you left, in the state you left it.
No keystrokes, no screenshots, no reading your messages. He sees the sites you shield and the work you tell him about, and nothing else.
On track, he stays out of the way entirely. One useful nudge is the whole intervention, and it only becomes a wall if you keep going.
On your desk
While you focus he wanders off and comes back with something — a fern from a cloud forest, a monstera he won’t explain, a lantern that is lit only while a block is running. Put them anywhere on the desktop. They grow as long as you do.
Choose who sits with you
01 / THE ORIGINAL
Steady, slow to be impressed, and always there when the scroll starts.
02 / THE WARM ONE
Quicker, brighter, and delighted by everything you finish.
03 / THE UNBOTHERED
Odd, observant, and completely unbothered.
The price
Nothing renews. Nothing lapses. Nothing to cancel.
$79, once. That is the Day One price, and it is the lowest Stoiq will ever carry.
We also sell Stoiq by the month, at $7.99. 10 months of that costs more than $79 does — and the $79is the end of it. That is our own price, not a figure we made up about somebody else’s.
A creator’s code takes $50 off. Type it in below, or arrive on their link and it is already applied.
Something for your companion to wear, made for the people who were here first and never sold to anyone who arrives later. It does not exist yet. When it does, it lands on your account without you asking.
The yeti, the red panda, the raccoon — and every companion after them. Not a bundle you bought, a licence that keeps covering them.
Founding purchases are numbered in the order they arrive. Yours is recorded the moment you buy, and the app shows it — the lower it is, the earlier you were.
Not a beta badge that disappears when the beta does. It is a permanent fact about your account, and it stays after everyone else arrives.
Your ordinal on something you can actually post. One per founding purchase, and the number on it is the one in our books.
Everyone who focuses grows a monstera. Day Ones grow the albo — the rare variegated one, white-marbled, the plant people queue for in real life. It only ever goes to the people who were here first.
At launch means it ships with the paid build. Planned means decided, not built. We would rather name the thing honestly than invent a feature to sell a page. Whatever we make for Day Ones reaches you retroactively, at no extra cost.
Join
$79, once — you’re in as a Day One. The Mac app, the browser companion, iPhone, every character we ever make, and the founding list above.
Would rather pay monthly? See the everyday plans
$79once · no subscription
Stoiq for Mac, yours for good.
Before you buy
30 days, full refund, no questions. Write to hello@stoiq.ai — a person reads it.
Your purchase attaches to your email.Stoiq is free while it’s in private beta, so there is nothing to activate today. When the paid build ships you sign in with the address on your receipt, on your Mac and on your iPhone, and it unlocks. No licence key to lose, and you will never be asked to buy it twice.
It needs macOS 14 or later. The browser companion for Chrome is included, and there is no Windows build — if you are reading this on a work PC, that is the honest answer.
And if we stop making it? You paid once, so there is no renewal to catch you and nothing to cancel. That is the part we can promise; anyone promising you more than that about a studio this young is guessing.
Prices are in US dollars. Payment is handled by Stripe — we never see your card.