Native macOS triage for GitHub

Watch GitHub without living in GitHub.

Octowatch keeps pull requests, notifications, workflow runs, and security alerts in one focused inbox with a menu bar view, full detail window, and direct actions.

View Releases Browse Source

Looking up the latest release…

Inputs PRs, issues, workflows, alerts

Auth GitHub CLI or personal access token

Update Model Polling, local state, no GitHub App

Platform macOS 26+

One inbox

Pull requests, issues, workflow failures, and GitHub notifications come together in one stream.

Your Turn

Bring the work that actually needs action right now to the top with configurable inbox rules.

Native actions

Review, merge, snooze, open checks, and jump to GitHub from a native macOS window instead of a browser tab pile.

Screenshots

Built for fast triage

Octowatch main window — Main inbox and pull request detail view.

Octowatch first-run setup sheet — First-run authentication setup in a native modal sheet.

Install

Download a release or build from source

Direct download

The website always points at the latest published GitHub Release. Signing and notarization will be added next.

Open release downloads

Build from source

Octowatch is a SwiftUI macOS app. Clone the repo, run swift build, or generate the Xcode project with xcodegen generate.

Read setup instructions

Homebrew cask

Homebrew distribution is planned alongside the public release flow. The release pipeline already produces the artifacts and checksums that cask publishing will use.