StaleMate is a tiny macOS menu-bar app that watches your GitHub & GitLab pull requests. The icon stays green when the queue is clean, fades yellow when reviews build up, and goes red when things start to rot. Up to 5 independent monitors. Native, sandboxed, $-friendly.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm the maker of StaleMate. The story is dumb but real: every Monday morning I'd open GitHub and find a PR I'd missed reviewing on Friday. It blocked a teammate for 3 days. Nobody was at fault — the information just wasn't visible.
StaleMate solves that by living in your menu bar. The dot is green when nothing needs you, yellow when the queue is growing, red when something has gone stale. You can run up to 5 independent monitors — "Mine awaiting review", "Assigned to me", "Team", whatever you want.
A few things that might matter:
– 100% native SwiftUI, sandboxed, no Electron, no telemetry
– Works with github.com, GitHub Enterprise, gitlab.com, self-hosted GitLab
– On the App Store (Setapp to come)
– macOS 15+
Happy to answer anything — bugs, feature requests, weird edge cases. I'm here all day.
Does it detect when a PR is blocked on you or waiting on someone else’s review?
Simple, sharp idea — the kind of tool that solves a real daily annoyance without overengineering it. Built this solo, or with a small team? Always curious how indie devs scope these micro-tools.
the no-server constraint is the real tax — sandboxed means polling, and 'red when stale' needs review state per pr, not just the list. 5 monitors on busy repos and the 5000/hr github ceiling gets close.
Congrats on the launch. Love a tool that makes you feel the problem instead of just listing it in a dashboard. It's so easy to let that stuff slide to the bottom of the to-do list, and a red menu bar is a smart nudge.
Love how this flips the usual "open GitHub to check" workflow into a passive ambient signal you can't ignore -- your menu bar becomes a guilt-free health check for your team's review hygiene.
green→yellow→red in the menu bar is the right kind of ambient signal, glanceable beats another notification you'll dismiss. does the color ease in or just snap?
The menu bar warning is a simple but useful idea. PRs often go stale quietly, so making review debt visible before it piles up could help teams keep momentum.
The traffic-light menu bar icon is such a clean way to surface this — green/yellow/red is instantly readable. With up to 5 independent monitors running, how does the single menu bar dot decide its color? Does it reflect the most urgent state across all monitors, or is there a way to prioritize one?
Nice launch 🚀
This solves a small but very real developer pain. Missed PR reviews can quietly block a team for days.
I'm curious: can StaleMate prioritize PRs by age or urgency, for example PRs waiting on my review vs PRs where I'm the author and need to respond?
That kind of separation would be super useful for developers juggling multiple projects.
This actually solves a real annoying gap with PRs slipping through. Would be good to know how quickly it reflects updates across different providers. Congrats on the launch
Hey, very useful product. Is this also available for Windows as well ? Are you planning to make this for some of the most popular OS as well ? Thanks
About StaleMate PR on Product Hunt
“Your menu bar turns red when PRs pile up”
StaleMate PR launched on Product Hunt on June 24th, 2026 and earned 127 upvotes and 24 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. StaleMate is a tiny macOS menu-bar app that watches your GitHub & GitLab pull requests. The icon stays green when the queue is clean, fades yellow when reviews build up, and goes red when things start to rot. Up to 5 independent monitors. Native, sandboxed, $-friendly.
StaleMate PR was featured in Developer Tools (514.6k followers), GitHub (41.3k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 99.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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