Pullwatch
Pull requests, tags and outdated dependencies, watched from your Mac's menu bar.
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Pullwatch is a menu bar app for macOS. It tells you about new pull requests,
tags and releases on GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab™, Bitbucket, Codeberg,
Forgejo and Gitea, keeps a searchable history, and checks your repositories for outdated runtimes, packages and
known vulnerabilities. It speaks English, Dutch, German and French.
What it does
- Pull requests: a notification for each new or merged pull request (or
merge request), with its CI checks as
4/8 and whether it waits in a merge
queue or merge train.
- Tags and releases: new tags and the releases of GitHub, GitLab,
Codeberg, Forgejo and Gitea, per repository, with who made them.
- Branches: pushes to the branches of the repositories you follow, by
whom and when, before there is a pull request or a tag; a list to look
at, without notifications.
- History and statistics: every pull request and tag in a searchable
list, and charts of opened and merged pull requests per author and
repository.
- Repositories: every repository you follow, worst first, with a page
per repository for its pull requests, versions, dependencies and security.
- Dependencies: outdated runtimes, frameworks and packages from your
manifests and lockfiles, and what holds each update back.
- Packages: what your repositories publish to their own registry, and
who uses it; your own packages are checked against that registry.
- Vulnerabilities: known advisories from OSV.dev and the GitHub Advisory
Database, plus the code scanning, secret scanning and Advanced Security
alerts of GitHub and Azure DevOps.
- Notifications with buttons to mark as read, open the repository or
mute it, quiet hours, and a switch per kind.
- Agents via MCP: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or VS Code ask Pullwatch
about your pull requests, repositories and vulnerabilities, read-only and
off by default (Agents).
Supported services
| Service | Pull requests | Tags | Releases | Checks | Security data |
|---|
| GitHub (github.com) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Repository advisories, code scanning, secret scanning |
| GitHub Enterprise Server and GHE.com | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Code scanning, secret scanning; advisories where the server has them |
| Azure DevOps | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Advanced Security alerts |
| GitLab (gitlab.com and self-managed) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | None; packages are checked with OSV.dev |
| Bitbucket Cloud (bitbucket.org) | Yes | Yes | No (Bitbucket has none) | Yes (build statuses) | None; packages are checked with OSV.dev |
| Codeberg, Forgejo and Gitea (codeberg.org, gitea.com and your own server) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (commit statuses) | None; packages are checked with OSV.dev |
The dependency and vulnerability check works on every service. See
Add your accounts for the
details of each.
Install
- Download the latest
Pullwatch-x.y.z.dmg from
Releases.
- Open it and drag Pullwatch to Applications.
Pullwatch needs macOS 26.6 or later and runs natively on Apple silicon and
Intel. Every release is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple,
and Pullwatch updates itself through Sparkle.
More in Install and first launch.
Getting started
- Open Pullwatch. A welcome window points out its menu bar icon.
- Add an account: Sign In with GitHub, a personal access token, or the
gh, az or glab command-line tool.
- Choose per repository what to follow: PRs, Tags, Branches
(which follow along with PRs) and Merged (merged pull requests),
each with its own bell except Branches.
- Allow notifications. Pullwatch then polls in the background.
The documentation covers
every screen, the token permissions
and the keyboard shortcuts.
Privacy
- Pullwatch only reads. It never comments, merges or pushes.
- Tokens stay in the macOS Keychain, or with the
gh, az or glab tool
you signed in with. There is no Pullwatch server and no analytics.
- Settings, Sources lists every outside connection, and each data
source can be switched off.
Read Privacy and sources for what is sent
where.
Build from source
You need Xcode 27 (Swift 6.4) on macOS 26.6 or later.
git clone https://github.com/alessandro823/pullwatch.git
cd pullwatch
open Pullwatch/Pullwatch.xcodeproj # run the Pullwatch scheme with ⌘R
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