PR Marmot.

GitHub's pull requests dashboard

GitHub's own pull requests dashboard is free, needs no install, and went generally available on 9 July 2026. Here is what it does, where it wins, and what a native desktop dashboard adds.

Compared 2026-09-16 against each product’s own pages, which are linked from every claim. Numbers drift; check the sources.

The short answer

Start with github.com/pulls. It costs nothing, there is nothing to install, it is never out of date, and since its general availability on 9 July 2026 it has an inbox, saved views, and a search that is better than anything a third-party app can reimplement.

PR Marmot is not trying to replace it. It is a native macOS window for the part a browser tab is bad at: being already open. It gives every pull request a plain-language Note, keeps your own watch and snooze state, and shows you what changed since it last looked. If reloading a tab already suits you, you do not need it.

What GitHub's dashboard does

Described from GitHub's own changelog post and documentation, read 2026-09-16. If GitHub has changed the dashboard since, those pages are right and this one is out of date.

  • An inbox that, in GitHub's words, “surfaces your review requests, pull requests that need fixing (e.g., CI failures or new comments), and pull requests that are ready to merge or in the merge queue.” You can reorder or hide its sections.
  • Saved views built from your own search queries, so a filter you use often stops being a browser bookmark. GitHub's docs put the limit at 25 saved views, and note that a view needs the is:pr filter to include pull requests.
  • Default filters for Authored by me, Assigned to me, Involves me and Review requested.
  • Advanced search with AND and OR, nested queries, and autocomplete across repositories, teams and organizations.
  • Filters added since the preview, including team-review-requested-user and review-involves, and an author filter that covers agent-created pull requests.
  • Keyboard movement through the list with j and k.

Where GitHub's dashboard wins

These are real advantages, and no desktop app closes them.

  • Nothing to install, nothing to update. No download, no signing questions, no version to keep current.
  • It runs anywhere. It is a web page, so any browser on any operating system reaches it, and GitHub also ships mobile apps. PR Marmot runs on Apple-silicon Macs, or from source elsewhere.
  • It is the source of truth. Nothing is cached, nothing is bounded, and there is no API budget to spend. PR Marmot loads a bounded snapshot and tells you when there is more.
  • You can act there. Review, comment, request changes, merge. PR Marmot is read-only toward GitHub on purpose and will send you back to the browser for all of that.
  • Your saved views follow your account to every machine you sign in from. PR Marmot's preferences and attention state are stored on the one computer.
  • It is free and will stay free for everyone with a GitHub account, including the people you work with.

What a desktop dashboard adds

The difference is not features on a list. It is that a native window is a place, and a tab is something you have to find again.

  • A window, not a tab. PR Marmot sits beside your editor and stays open. You switch to it rather than hunting for it among thirty tabs.
  • A Note, in plain language. CI, reviews, unresolved threads, conflicts, draft state, labels and linked issues are read together and summarised as a sentence you can scan before opening the conversation.
  • Attention state that belongs to you. Watch a pull request with w, snooze one with s, and come back to Changed markers showing what moved since PR Marmot last looked — none of which is a label GitHub has to agree with.
  • Stacks stay grouped. Native GitHub stacks are ordered from the base upward, and a stack that isn't fully loaded is marked partial rather than quietly shown as complete.
  • Desktop notifications for the pull requests you watch, while the app is running. There is no background helper, so a closed app sends nothing.
  • It uses the login you already have. PR Marmot reads GitHub through the gh CLI, so there is no new account and no app for your organization to approve.

Which one to use

Most people who install PR Marmot keep using github.com/pulls, because that is where the work happens.

Use GitHub's dashboard whenAdd PR Marmot when
You are about to review, comment or mergeYou want to know where to look before you open anything
You are on someone else's machine, or a phoneYou are at your own Mac all day
You want one precise search, right nowYou want the same view waiting for you every morning
You need saved views on every deviceYou want watch and snooze state that is yours alone
You cannot install softwareYou would rather not keep a tab open

PR Marmot is free and MIT-licensed, so trying it costs an install and nothing else. Getting started takes about a minute if you already have gh.

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