macOS 14+ · Apple silicon

Your pull requests, one glance up

PRNotch sits in your menu bar and drops a dark, notch-styled panel under the camera. Every PR you own, owe a review on, or share an org with — with its CI state, in one place.

0.7 MB no telemetry one API: github.com
01 — The panel

Three lists, one screen

Everything PRNotch knows comes from three GitHub searches: PRs you authored, PRs waiting on your review, and open PRs across your orgs. No configuration, no repo list to maintain.

Reviews you owe, sitting above your own work.

CI state, approvals, and change requests per row.

Click any row to open it on GitHub.

PRNotch
Needs your review
Token pipeline for state colours#1286 · acme/api · chore/tokens · 5h
Menu bar fallback for older Macs#1279 · acme/app · feat/fallback · 2d ± 1
Your pull requests
Fix flaky notch hover test#1284 · acme/app · feat/notch-ui · 2h
Cache CI deps between runs#1288 · acme/app · ci/cache · 20m ✓ 2
Handle the empty review queue#1292 · acme/app · fix/empty · 1d Ready
Spike: Linear links in rows#1291 · acme/app · spike/linear Draft
Org pull requests
Ship read-only scope screen#1277 · acme/docs · feat/scopes · 5h ✓ 1
↑↓ move  ↵ open  ⌘R refresh refreshes every 2 min
Row anatomy
title 13/500 → meta 11 mono (number · repo · branch · age) → badges → CI dot
Badges
Draft · ✓ N approvals · ± N changes requested · Ready (green CI, an approval, nothing blocking)
CI dot
One colour for the whole rollup — green passed, red failed, spinner running. Not a per-job breakdown.
Keyboard
⌘⇧P opens from anywhere · ↑↓ move · ↵ open on GitHub · ⌘R refresh · esc closes
Scope
Open PRs only. Merged and closed ones drop off the list.
02 — Alerts

Seven things worth interrupting you

Each one slides out of the notch for six seconds, then leaves. Nothing else ever will.

On out of the box · one toggle to silence · plain panels, so Focus won't filter them

Reviews

Nothing sits unread for a day

Your review queue, always at the top of the panel.

Checks

A red dot before a red build

CI on every row, a toast the moment it breaks.

Quiet

Nothing to manage

No dock icon, no windows, no repo lists to curate.

03 — Settings

Everything you can change

The whole settings pane, listed. It lives behind the gear in the panel — there is no preferences window, and nothing to configure per repo.

GitHub tokenpaste & save
Refresh interval30s · 1m · 2m · 5m
Notch pop-up alertson / off
Alert soundson / off
Show all PRs in my orgson / off
Hide bot PRsorg list only
Open at loginon / off
Preview alertbutton

Where your token lives

PRNotch reads GITHUB_TOKEN, or asks the GitHub CLI for its token, or uses one you paste — saved to ~/.config/prnotch/token, readable only by you.

What leaves your Mac

One request, to api.github.com, on a timer. No analytics, no crash reporter, no third-party libraries, no server of ours in between.

04 — Install

About a minute, mostly unzipping

The app is signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens with a double-click — no right-click-to-open ritual, no security warning.

1

Download and unzip

Buy, and the download link appears. Drag PRNotch.app into Applications and open it. It has no dock icon — look for the pull-request glyph in your menu bar.

2

Connect GitHub

Already used gh auth login? It finds that token by itself. Otherwise open settings and paste a personal access token.

3

Glance up

The menu bar item shows a count and turns orange when something is blocked. Click it — or hit ⌘⇧P from anywhere — for the panel. Flip "Open at login" in settings and it's there every morning.

05 — Price

One dollar, once

No account, no licence key, no subscription, no trial to forget about. You pay a dollar and get a zip file.

PRNotch
$1one time

Everything the app does, which is everything below.

Menu bar count and the notch panel
Your PRs, your review queue, your orgs
CI state, approvals, change requests
Seven alert types, refresh from 30s
Keyboard-first: ⌘⇧P, arrows, ↵, esc
Signed, notarised, 0.7 MB, no telemetry
Buy PRNotch — $1

Before you buy

Check the requirements — the app is a native Apple silicon build and won't run outside them.

MacApple silicon (M1 or later)
macOS14 Sonoma or later
AccountGitHub — via the gh CLI or a token you paste
Size0.7 MB, signed and notarised by Apple

Pay and the download link appears immediately — no account to create, nothing to activate. Not what you expected? Reply to the Stripe receipt and I'll refund it.

Stop tab-checking your own pull requests

0.7 megabytes. Reads GitHub, writes nothing, phones nobody. Uninstall by dragging it to the trash.

Buy PRNotch — $1