Hide specific posts to specific Usergroups/Guests & more

Hi there!

I’m searching for a plugin that allows me to define on each post/page what usergroup(s)/guests may view this post/page. I’ve found 2 interesting plugins, but they sorrily have some issues to solve:

https://fortes.com/projects/wordpress/postlevels/
This one seems to not work at all (no matter what user-level I choose, everyone can see it) and also it automatically sets the post/page to private, when I choose a minimum user-level, which adds some additional text to the title of this post/page, although I don’t want that text to appear.

https://blog.firetree.net/2005/08/25/viewlevel-20/
This one works pretty fine, but it forces me to add additional text into my posts/pages (eg, “vl=3”) to set a view-level instead of offering an option on the edit/write-page. And it doesn’t hide empty (because of posts with view-level-restrictions inside only) categories.

Does anyone know a plugin that better fits my needs?

Otherwise the Members only plugin would have been another solution for me: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/members-only/

But I’d like users to see the category- and page-links on my blog with a message in the blog-body that they need to login to view the contents, instead of automatically forwarding guests to the login-form. If anyone knows a plugin that does this, please tell me, too. =)

Thanks in advance,
renet