Pulldog

Pulldog is written entirely in Swift using Apple's current frameworks, so it behaves like a Mac app instead of a packaged website. Windows, menus, keyboard shortcuts and widgets all follow macOS conventions, and the app is compatible with macOS Tahoe. The payoff is speed: diffs load and scroll with native responsiveness, even on files that stall a browser tab.

The app connects to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Gitea and Forgejo, and Natic says Azure and Gerrit are in progress, which means most teams can point it at the provider they already use rather than migrating their repositories to fit a new tool. You can add as many accounts as you need, which matters if your company keeps separate orgs on different providers. Multiple accounts sit side by side, so a monorepo split isn't a problem. For teams, that means GitHub pull request review and GitLab code review live in the same tool rather than two browser sessions.

Borrowing the idea of Mail's smart folders, Pulldog lets you write rules that decide which PRs land in which view. A query can pull approvals that are ready to merge, PRs older than a set number of weeks, big PRs above a deleted-line threshold, or only the ones you opened. Once set, the list sorts itself. It's pull request management that adjusts to how you already think about your queue.

You can search across all changed files or restrict the search to changed lines only, filter files by name, and match patterns with regex, all of which speeds up the work of finding a specific function or string inside a pull request that spans dozens of files and hundreds of edits. When a pull request touches hundreds of files, filtering by folder lets you review the UI layer first and the core logic later. It's the difference between reading a diff and being buried by one.

Pulldog starts from a blunt observation: most review tools give the code barely half the window. Collapsing the sidebar expands the diff to roughly 93% of the surface, so you're looking at code, not chrome. That sounds like a small thing. It isn't. For close reading, that extra width cuts the horizontal scrolling that plagues long lines.

Select a variable and the app highlights where else it's changed or duplicated, which makes understanding impact faster. Not a gimmick. Notifications are subscription-based, so you can hear about replies to your comments and updates to PRs you approved while muting the noise of every new PR, which is the difference between a tool you leave running and one you eventually disable because the constant pinging wears you down. Alerts arrive as desktop notifications rather than email.