Pull Request Pilot Get the app
New in 1.3 Convert to draft, exclude with a right-click, and more

Your review queue, one glance away.

Pull Request Pilot turns GitHub searches into live views of the pull requests that need you: in your menu bar, on your desktop and in your notifications. Native, fast and private by design.

Download on the Mac App Store View the source

Free · Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later

The Pull Request Pilot window: view tabs, the search query of the selected view, and pull requests grouped by organization and repository, each with its labels, latest activity, age and diff size
  • Native SwiftUI app
  • No account, no tracking
  • Token kept in your Keychain
  • Open source, MIT licensed
Features

Built for the way you review.

Every view is a search you already know how to write. Pull Request Pilot keeps it fresh, tells you what's new and lets you act without opening another browser tab.

Views are GitHub searches

Start from four presets or write any search, issues included. Results are grouped by organization and repository, with review state, checks, labels, open threads and diff size on every row. Switch on hide-reviewed to drop what you've already looked at.

org:acme label:bug team-review-requested:acme/web author:app/dependabot is:issue assignee:@me

Act with a right-click

Open a pull request in your browser, VS Code, iTerm or cmux, copy its branch, turn it into a draft or mark it ready, and narrow a view to an author, label or repository, or exclude them.

The whole story in one panel

Click a pull request for its timeline, comments, reviewers and checks, with the ones required to merge marked. Double-click to open it on GitHub.

  • buildRequired
  • unit-testsRequired
  • integration-tests

Stacks, folded together

When a pull request targets another one's branch, the whole stack shows up as a single chain you can expand.

Straight to your checkout

Point it at the folders where you clone. It indexes branches and worktrees in the background and opens the matching checkout in one click.

VS Code iTerm cmux

Matched by branch name, then worktree, then commit.

Know what's new

Ring the bell on a view to get a notification when a pull request lands in it. Click the notification to go straight there. The menu bar icon counts what you haven't seen yet.

Made for the keyboard

  • Jump to a view ⌘1…9
  • Previous or next view ⌘[]
  • Refresh ⌘R
  • New view ⌘N

Steady when GitHub isn't

  • Offline or asleep: pauses, then catches up
  • Rate-limited: waits it out, results stay
  • Revoked token: asks for a new one, views stay
Widgets

Your queue, right on the desktop.

Two widgets, each in small, medium and large. Click one to open its view in the app.

  • PR Overview puts the count of every view side by side, with how many still wait on a review.
  • PR View lists the pull requests of the view you pick, with their review and check status.
  • Always current. The app refreshes them whenever their content changes, and leaves them alone otherwise.
The PR Overview widget, medium size: 18 pull requests across Needs my review, My PRs, My drafts and Recently merged The PR View widget, medium size, showing two pull requests that need a review
Under the hood

Small, native and open.

Written in Swift with SwiftUI and WidgetKit, sandboxed, and reviewed for the Mac App Store. The complete source is on GitHub.

0third-party dependencies
Swift 6with strict concurrency checking
14+macOS Sonoma or later
MITopen-source license
Privacy

Between you and GitHub. Nobody else.

There is no account to create and no server behind the app. It talks to GitHub with your token and to nothing else: no analytics, no crash reporting, no ads.

Locked in your Keychain

Your token is stored in the macOS Keychain and only ever sent to api.github.com.

Kept on your Mac

Views, settings and the widgets' snapshot stay inside the app's sandbox.

Open to inspection

Every line is public under the MIT license, so you can check all of this for yourself.

Read the privacy policy

Clear your review queue.

Free on the Mac App Store. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

Download on the Mac App Store What's new in 1.3