Never be the engineer blocking your team.
PulseBar lives in your menu bar and quietly tells you when pull requests, reviews, or CI failures are waiting on you — before your team has to chase you.
macOS 13+ • Apple Silicon & Intel • No credit card required
The cost of "I'll check later"
Senior engineers are often the busiest people on the team. But when you're busy, you become the bottleneck.
Review Latency
PRs sit for hours (or days) because you didn't see the notification in Slack or email amidst the noise.
Silent CI Failures
You push code and switch tasks. 20 minutes later, the build fails, but you don't know until you check back.
Context Switching
Checking GitHub every 30 minutes 'just in case' breaks your flow state and kills deep work.
The Bottleneck
Your team is polite, but they're waiting on you. Being the blocker feels terrible for everyone.
Designed for
flow state.
Instant Awareness
The menu bar icon turns red the moment you are blocking someone. No badges, no counts, just a binary signal: Clear or Blocking.
Action-Oriented
Clicking the icon shows exactly what needs your attention. One click takes you directly to the PR or failing check.
Focus Friendly
No notifications. No bouncing dock icons. PulseBar respects your attention and only demands it when necessary.
Focus Mode Scheduling
Set quiet hours when you need deep work. PulseBar stays silent during your scheduled focus time and catches you up when you're ready.
Secure by Design
Authenticates directly with GitHub. Tokens are stored in your macOS Keychain. We never see your code, only metadata.
Why not just use
what you already have?
You could keep checking GitHub, Slack, and email. Or you could glance at your menu bar.
| Feature | PulseBar | GitHub Notifications | Slack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Always visible status | ||||
| No notification interruptions | ||||
| One-click to PR | ||||
| Focus mode / quiet hours | ||||
| Binary blocking signal | ||||
| Works offline (cached state) | ||||
| Native macOS integration | ||||
| Free |
The best tool isn't always free. PulseBar costs less than one hour of engineering time per year — and saves you from being the bottleneck every single day.
Simple, transparent pricing.
A small price to pay for being the most reliable engineer on your team.
Pro License
- Unlimited repositories
- Real-time menu bar alerts
- One-click GitHub navigation
- CI/CD failure monitoring
- Focus mode scheduling
- Priority email support
Cancel anytime. 30-day money-back guarantee.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about PulseBar.
Not yet — PulseBar currently supports GitHub.com only. GitHub Enterprise support is on our roadmap. Join our waitlist to be notified when it's available.
We're focused on GitHub for our initial launch to ensure a great experience. GitLab and Bitbucket support are on our roadmap. Sign up for our newsletter to be notified when they're available.
No. That's the whole point. PulseBar uses a passive, glanceable indicator in your menu bar. You check it when you want to, on your terms. No interruptions, no notification fatigue.
Focus Mode hides non-urgent items and shows only what's actionable right now. You can schedule quiet hours (e.g., 9am-12pm, weekdays only) when PulseBar stays silent. Toggle it manually anytime with ⌘⇧G.
Never. PulseBar only reads metadata: PR titles, review requests, and CI status. Your actual code never leaves GitHub. Tokens are stored in your macOS Keychain, not on our servers.
Yes. Your license covers you personally, not a specific machine. Install on your work laptop, home desktop, wherever you code.
We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. If PulseBar doesn't help you be more responsive, email us for a full refund.
We offer a 14-day free trial with full functionality. After that, it's $49/year or $5/month. No feature gating or artificial limitations.