Pullbell
Pullbell rings for the things that need you: review requests, comments and reviews on your pull requests, replies, mentions, a PR that just became ready to merge or got a conflict, a failed deploy. Everything else waits in a quiet FYI list. No more review requests lost in email.
Free and open source (MIT). macOS 13 or newer, Apple silicon and Intel.
Each GitHub event gets a kind. The ones that need you raise a macOS banner and count towards n; the rest go to the FYI list. Any kind can be turned down to FYI in Settings.
Your own comments, reviews and pushes never ring. A burst of comments on one PR is one banner.
⌃⌘G opens a searchable queue, ⌃⌘P your PRs and the ones waiting for your review. ⏎ opens and marks done.
Everything, or only your teams' repos plus any you add. Muted repos are always ignored.
Talks only to GitHub's API. Your token lives in the macOS Keychain. No account, no tracking, no server of ours.
Open links in the default browser, a specific one, or a specific Chrome profile.
Signed updates in the background, installed when no window is open.
About a minute. Needs macOS 13 (Ventura) or newer, on Apple silicon or Intel.
Get Pullbell_x.y.z_universal.dmg from the
latest release on GitHub,
open it and drag Pullbell to Applications.
Pullbell is a free side project, so it isn't notarized by Apple (that needs a paid developer account). macOS therefore refuses to open it the first time and may call it "damaged". Run this once in Terminal and it opens normally from then on, updates included:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Pullbell.appIt only removes the "downloaded from the internet" mark from this one app. The source is on GitHub if you'd rather build it yourself.
A bell appears in the menu bar and a welcome window walks you through it: sign in with GitHub (a short device code, no password typed into Pullbell), choose what to watch, allow notifications, start at login.
Pullbell is MIT-licensed. Built with Tauri, Rust and React. Bug reports, ideas and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.