GitHub PRs and CI in the Mac Menu Bar: 7 Apps

Short answer: the best Mac menu bar apps for GitHub pull requests and CI depend on the job. For a list of your PRs with CI badges, GitBar is free and PullBar Pro is free with a $1.99 unlock. Gitify (free, open source) is the pick for GitHub notifications. CCMenu shows GitHub Actions builds, RepoBar suits maintainers of many repos, and Trailer is the power-user tracker. FavTray puts a GitHub dashboard next to your AI limits and dev servers, free for 2 repos.

Checked 26 September 2026: prices, latest versions and macOS requirements come from each app’s App Store listing, website or GitHub repository. We haven’t benchmarked them side by side. FavTray is our app; it’s listed last.

Which Mac menu bar apps show GitHub PRs and CI?

App	Price	Shows	CI status	Hosts	macOS	Open source
Gitify	Free	Notifications	Via notifications	GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket Cloud, Gitea, Forgejo, Codeberg	13+	Yes (MIT)
PullBar Pro	Free; $1.99 in-app unlock for tabs	Your PRs, review requests, assigned PRs	Yes, per PR	GitHub, GitHub Enterprise	14+	Original pullBar is (Apache-2.0)
GitBar	Free (App Store)	PRs and issues	Yes, per PR	GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps	14+	No
Trailer	Free	PRs and issues across watched repos	Optional	GitHub, GitHub Enterprise	15.6+	Yes (MIT)
RepoBar	Free	Repo dashboard: issues, PRs, CI, releases, local checkouts	Yes, per repo	GitHub	15+	Yes (MIT)
CCMenu	Free (App Store)	Build status only	Yes (GitHub Actions and CCTray feeds)	Any CCTray-compatible CI	14.6+	Yes (Apache-2.0)
FavTray	Free for 2 repos; $4.99 once for every repo	Today dashboard, your PRs, reviews, inbox, local checkouts	Yes, on your PRs and pushes	GitHub, GitHub Enterprise	14+	No

1. Gitify: the best free app for GitHub notifications

Gitify puts your Git notifications in the menu bar and lets you open, mark read, mark done or unsubscribe without visiting github.com. Version 7.8.0 came out on 6 September 2026.

• Strengths: it’s the only one here that handles several forges (GitHub Cloud and Enterprise, GitLab, Bitbucket Cloud, Gitea, Forgejo, Codeberg), and it runs on macOS, Windows and Linux. brew install --cask gitify installs it.
• Catch: it’s a notifications inbox, not a PR list. CI results reach you only as the notifications GitHub sends. It’s built on Electron, so it’s heavier than the native apps below.

2. PullBar Pro: a PR list with check runs

PullBar Pro (version 2.4, 20 September 2026) shows PRs that need your review, PRs you created and PRs assigned to you, with approvals, change requests and comments.

• Strengths: build status per PR from Check Runs or Commit Statuses, with a link to each workflow step. Custom search queries per tab, keyboard shortcuts and GitHub Enterprise support.
• Catch: GitHub only, and the tabs need a $1.99 in-app purchase. The original pullBar is open source; its App Store build was last updated in September 2025, PullBar Pro in September 2026.

3. GitBar: pull requests from GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps

GitBar 2.0 (free on the Mac App Store, version 2.0.1 from April 2026) shows each PR as a card with pipeline state, approvals, merge conflicts and draft status, and adds GitHub issues.

• Strengths: the only PR list here that also covers GitLab and Azure DevOps. A “Relevant” tab and filters cut the noise, and a compact view fits one PR per line.
• Catch: closed source, and the last update was in April.

4. Trailer: PRs and issues for power users

Trailer has tracked GitHub pull requests and issues for over a decade. Version 1.9.0 (29 August 2026) rebuilt the menu bar item for macOS 26 and now needs macOS 15.6 or later.

• Strengths: it lists everything in the repositories you watch, with per-repo display rules, optional labels and CI status, and GitHub Enterprise support. There’s also a CLI, and an iOS app that this release didn’t update.
• Catch: it lists every watched repo by default, so on a big account you’ll tune per-repo settings to keep it quiet, and first syncs take a while.

5. RepoBar: a dashboard for maintainers

RepoBar (version 0.9.3, 20 September 2026) is built for people who maintain many repositories. The menu shows issue and PR counts, CI state, releases, activity and your API rate limit; each repo opens a submenu with its issues, PRs, CI runs, branches and commits.

• Strengths: it also shows local checkout state (branch, dirty files, ahead/behind, worktrees) and can fast-forward clean repos. brew install --cask repobar.
• Catch: repo-centric rather than “my PRs”, and it needs macOS 15.

6. CCMenu: CI builds only, including GitHub Actions

CCMenu is the long-running open-source build monitor, free on the Mac App Store (version 28.0). Add GitHub Actions workflows by owner and repository, or any CI server that publishes a CCTray feed.

• Strengths: focused, native, and it works beyond GitHub. The icon shows at a glance when a build breaks.
• Catch: no pull requests, reviews or issues. It shows builds, nothing else.

7. FavTray: a GitHub dashboard next to the rest of your dev tools

Disclosure: this is our app. FavTray is a Mac menu bar app for developers, and its GitHub screen has six tabs: Dashboard, Inbox, My PRs, Watching, On disk and Manage.

• Today view per repo: commits, branches, unpushed work, PRs opened, merged and reviewed, reviews waiting on you, and CI on your latest pushes, for Today, Yesterday or This week.
• Your PRs: CI state, whether they can merge, and unresolved review threads.
• Two halves, one of them token-free. A read-only git scanner reads your local checkouts with no token and no network (it adds --no-optional-locks and refuses any command that could write). The GitHub half batches your watched repos into one GraphQL query (a second only past 39 repos), at most every 5 minutes and only while the Dashboard or the menu bar cockpit is on screen; the Inbox checks every 15 minutes by default.
• No new token to mint. It can reuse the gh CLI or your git credential helper, read-only, or a token you paste. You can switch between the accounts it finds, and GitHub Enterprise Server works too.
• Next to everything else: the same app shows Claude and Codex limits and localhost ports and Docker, and the free developer cockpit in the menu bar flags red CI and reviews that have waited a day or more alongside them.

Catch: GitHub only, PR-focused (no issue tracking), and it can’t re-run CI. Every tab is free for 2 watched repos; FavTray Pro, a one-time $4.99 Lifetime license, watches every repo, and every install gets Pro free for 7 days.

How do you choose?

• You live in notifications, or use GitLab/Bitbucket too: Gitify.
• You want “my PRs and their checks” at a glance: PullBar Pro, or GitBar if you also use GitLab or Azure DevOps.
• You only care whether the build is green: CCMenu.
• You maintain lots of repos: RepoBar.
• You track PRs and issues across many watched repos: Trailer.
• You’d rather have one app for GitHub, AI limits and dev servers: FavTray. Our roundup of AI usage tracking tools covers the AI-limits side.

When is GitHub’s own tooling enough?

A menu bar app earns its place when you check PRs many times a day. If you don’t, these may be all you need:

• GitHub CLI: gh pr status summarises your relevant PRs, including CI checks and reviews, and gh run watch follows a workflow run until it completes.
• GitHub Mobile pushes review requests, direct mentions and assignments to your phone. CI results aren’t among its push notification types.
• GitHub’s email notifications, or the GitHub app for Slack, suit teams that already triage there.

For more developer menu bar tools beyond GitHub, see our guide to the best Mac menu bar apps for developers.

Sources (checked 26 September 2026): Gitify, PullBar Pro on the App Store, GitBar on the App Store, Trailer 1.9.0 release notes, RepoBar, CCMenu, CCMenu on the App Store, GitHub CLI manual and GitHub Docs: configuring notifications.