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System tray utility to show you active PRs and notify on events in those PRs. Works on macOS, Linux & Windows.

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Cross-platform system tray utility for GitHub PR notifications

by ibetitsmike·Mar 4, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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GitHub PR tray notifier with adaptive polling—but GitHub Desktop already does most of this.

Strengths
  • •Native cross-platform (macOS status bar + Windows taskbar) with tiny ~5MB binary and responsive UI via Tauri v2 + Svelte 5.
  • •Adaptive polling (30s pending, 2min stable) is thoughtful—saves bandwidth and battery vs. fixed-rate polling.
  • •OAuth Device Flow avoids needing a backend server, and focused notification rules (merge queue, checks, reviews) reduce noise vs. raw GH email.
Weaknesses
  • •GitHub Desktop + VS Code GitHub extension already provide PR checks and notifications; unclear what this uniquely solves beyond UI polish.
  • •No webhook support for real-time updates—polling will always be slower than event-driven alternatives like Slack GitHub integration.
Target Audience

Engineers managing multiple GitHub PRs, especially those using AI agents for code generation.

Similar To

GitHub Desktop · Graphite (macOS tray) · VS Code GitHub Pull Request extension

Post Description

I found myself constantly struggling to watch over all of the PRs that I’ve been creating through agents and I found nothing outside of the Graphite macos tray app that would help me do that. For the desktop users it seems like a nice way to know if you have failing checks without GH spamming your mailbox.

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