StaleMate PR
StaleMate PR is a lightweight macOS menu bar application designed for developers who want to stay on top of their GitHub pull requests without drowning in browser tabs. It quietly monitors your repositories in the background, alerting you the moment a PR goes stale — so nothing slips through the cracks while you stay focused on writing code.
Product Highlights
- Menu bar native: Lives exactly where power tools belong — one click away, zero dock clutter, zero window management
- Custom stale alerts: Define your own thresholds (2 days, 5 days, a week) and get notified before your manager notices
- Multi-repo, multi-org: Track personal repos, work projects, and side hustles across unlimited GitHub organizations in one unified view
- Review status visualization: Instantly see approved, changes-requested, and awaiting-review states with color-coded indicators — no GitHub tab required
- System-native notifications: Uses macOS Notification Center with full support for Focus modes and Quiet Hours, not intrusive custom overlays
- Zero-trust security: GitHub tokens stored exclusively in macOS Keychain — StaleMate never sees, stores, or transmits your credentials
Use Cases
- Daily standup preparation: Quickly scan all your open PRs across work and personal projects before your morning sync — know exactly what needs attention without opening GitHub
- Focus-first development: Keep deep work sessions uninterrupted while trusting that StaleMate will surface anything truly urgent through native notifications
- Multi-team management: Engineers juggling repos across multiple GitHub organizations can maintain visibility without context-switching between browser tabs and dashboards
- Open source maintenance: Track issues and PRs across dozens of starred repositories without maintaining custom scripts or checking email digests
Target Audience
StaleMate PR is built for macOS developers — from solo maintainers to senior engineers at multi-org companies — who value minimal, native tools that respect their attention and their system's security model.