Prowl
Your pull requests, at a glance
Prowl is a Chrome side panel that follows your GitHub pull requests. See CI, reviews and merge state live, get a notification when something changes, and act without leaving your tab.
Free and open source. No Prowl account, no backend, no telemetry.
Stay on top of every pull request
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See every pull request at a glance
Live CI, review and merge state on each card: failing checks, requested changes, conflicts, ready to merge. A bar at the bottom for what you opened, what needs your review or your teams’ and where you are mentioned. Old, draft and bot PRs step aside until you want them.
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Know the moment something changes
Choose the events that notify you, open or snooze a pull request right from the notification, set quiet hours, and read the toolbar badge to see how many need you.
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Act without switching tabs
Approve, request changes, comment, merge, turn on auto-merge, update a branch that is behind or re-run failed checks from the panel. Ctrl+Shift+P (⌘⇧P on Mac) opens it.
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Private by design
Prowl runs in your browser. Your token stays on your device, GitHub is the only server it talks to, there is no telemetry, and it cannot read or change the pages you visit.
Read the privacy policy
Prowl cannot read the pages you visit
Prowl has no access to your tabs or their content. Chrome enforces that, not a promise: an extension can only touch a page if its manifest asks for it, and Prowl's manifest asks for the six things below and nothing else. A test fails the build if that list grows.
| Permission | What it allows | Chrome's install prompt |
|---|---|---|
sidePanel |
Show Prowl in the side panel | Nothing |
storage |
Keep your settings and data on your device | Nothing |
alarms |
Check GitHub on a schedule | Nothing |
notifications |
Tell you when a pull request changes | "Display notifications" |
api.github.com |
Read your pull requests and act on them, with your token | "Read and change your data on api.github.com" |
github.com (optional) |
Sign in with GitHub; asked for only then, and given back | Nothing at install |
Prowl can never read, inject code into or change a page, list your tabs or history, see other sites' requests or cookies, or be driven by a web page: it has none of the permissions for that. See everything it can never do.
Install in a minute
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Add it to Chrome
Open Prowl in the Chrome Web Store and choose Add to Chrome. It updates itself from then on.
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Pin it
Pin Prowl from the puzzle-piece Extensions menu so its icon stays in reach.
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Sign in
Click the Prowl icon to open the side panel, then sign in with GitHub or a token.