Vigil Companion
Claude Code on your Mac, live on your iPhone
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Details
- External ID
- 1264642
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Vigil
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7682903893172842
- Tags
- iOS, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Description
Vigil Companion is the free iPhone app for Vigil for Mac, the menu-bar app that keeps your MacBook awake with the lid closed while Claude Code works, then puts it to sleep when the job is done. On your iPhone: what each Claude Code session is doing, in the Dynamic Island, on the Lock Screen and in widgets. A notification when Claude needs you or finishes. A button to let your Mac sleep. No account: it all travels through your own iCloud, and we keep nothing.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS desktop and system utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ios companion app for claude code
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and notification aspects are approachable, but coordinating native macOS power management with iOS Live Activities and push updates requires specific native Apple platform development.
What it would actually take: The solution requires a macOS menu bar app written in Swift using IOKit/IOPowerSources to prevent sleep (`IOPMAssertionCreateWithName`) while monitoring child process output from Claude Code CLI. It also requires an iOS companion app supporting APNs Live Activities (ActivityKit), Dynamic Island rendering, and push notifications paired over an encrypted WebSocket relay or local network.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 425 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #121 of 426 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.
- Awakado · ph · 2026-10-06 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Lightkeeper · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Extra Cup · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Remind · hn · 2026-05-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Claude Watch · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Lunavect · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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