TrillMark plugs into macOS Focus the native way, as a Focus filter. Add it to Do Not Disturb, Work, or a Focus of your own, and your per-app sounds and flashes pause with it. When the Focus ends, macOS tells TrillMark and it starts alerting again.
Turn on a Focus and macOS holds most banners back. The apps and people you allow to break through keep posting, which is the point of allowing them, and TrillMark reacts to every banner it can see. During a strict Do Not Disturb there's usually nothing left to react to. In a Focus that lets your favorite apps through, TrillMark's sounds and flashes arrive with them.
Sometimes that's exactly right, because an alert important enough to break your Focus deserves a sound you'll notice. When it isn't, macOS has a native way for an app to follow your Focus: a Focus filter. TrillMark ships one.
Add TrillMark to a Focus and it goes quiet with you, with a moon in the menu bar so you always know. Leave your email and I'll let you know the moment it's ready.
Not by itself. macOS doesn't tell apps when a Focus starts unless you ask it to, and that ask is the Focus filter. Add TrillMark to the Focus once, switch on “Silence TrillMark sounds,” and from then on it follows that Focus: quiet while it's on, with a moon in the menu bar.
Open the filter and check the “Silence TrillMark sounds” switch inside it. Adding the filter alone doesn't turn it on, and it's easy to miss. Filters are also per-Focus, so adding one to Do Not Disturb doesn't cover your Work Focus. And on macOS 26.5 specifically, filters from non-Apple apps never activate, a macOS bug Apple fixed in 26.6.
Yes. Notifications that arrive while TrillMark is quiet for a Focus are still added to Recent Alerts, and the menu-bar badge counts them, so you can see what came in once the Focus ends. A Focus can also hide an alert completely, with no banner at all. TrillMark recovers those by reading macOS's own notification record, which needs Full Disk Access - an optional permission in Settings ▸ General ▸ Permissions. Without it, everything that still shows a banner is recorded as before.
Right-click the TrillMark icon and choose Alert anyway, and your alerts come right back. TrillMark only goes quiet when macOS tells it that a Focus with its filter started, and restarting TrillMark always clears it.
No. TrillMark has a global mute hotkey and a timed snooze that resumes on its own, both also available from Shortcuts and Siri. The Focus filter is for people who already live by Focus modes and want TrillMark to follow along without one more thing to toggle.