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Hush vs. gh-dash for GitHub notifications

gh-dash is a terminal dashboard for GitHub pull requests, issues, and notifications; Hush is a web app for GitHub notifications with push alerts. What each one does well.

Summary

gh-dash is a free, open-source terminal app (a GitHub CLI extension) with configurable sections of pull requests, issues, and, since January 2026, notifications, and with diff, checkout, approve, and merge from the keyboard. Hush is a web app that decides whose turn it is on each thread, keeps a "Needs you" list, and pushes it to your devices.

  • Choose gh-dash if you live in the terminal and want to check out and review code from the same place.
  • Choose Hush if you want sorting by who must act next, and alerts on your phone when you are away from the terminal.

At a glance

gh-dash Hush
Where it runs Terminal, as a gh CLI extension Web app (installable), on Cloudflare
Price Free Free in beta; planned $3 a month or $30 a year
Open source Yes (MIT) Yes
Where your data is On your computer; uses your gh sign-in On Hush's servers; token encrypted
Notifications Sections by GitHub reason and repository; mark read or done, unsubscribe, bookmark Needs you, FYI, Muted, by whose turn it is; done, snooze, mute, rules
Pull requests and issues Sections from GitHub searches, in YAML Sections from GitHub searches, grouped by whose turn it is
Pull request actions Diff, checkout, comment, approve, merge, close, assign, watch checks Approve, comment, merge, close, re-run CI; no diff
Alerts Not documented Web Push, quiet hours, digests
Runs when you are away No, it runs while open Yes, it checks GitHub every 5 minutes
Latest release v4.26.0, 21 September 2026 Beta, updated continuously

How they sort

gh-dash has three views: pull requests, issues, and notifications. Each view has sections that you define in a YAML file. Notification sections filter by GitHub's reason (reason:review-requested, reason:mention, reason:participating, and more), by repository, and by read state. It can limit a view to the repository of the folder you run it in. It does not decide which threads need you; you build sections that come near to that.

Hush reads the pull request or issue behind each notification and decides if you are the next person who must act: your review is requested, CI fails on your PR, someone replied to you. Those threads go to Needs you, and Hush moves them to Done by itself when they stop needing you. Its Pull requests and Issues tabs also use sections from GitHub searches, but group the results into Your turn, Your team's turn, and Waiting on others.

Pull requests

gh-dash has more review tools. From a pull request or a pull request notification you can view the diff, check out the branch, comment, approve, merge, close or reopen, assign, update from the base branch, mark ready for review, and watch the checks. Custom keys can run any command.

Hush shows the description, comments, reviews, and checks in the peek, with Approve, Request changes, Comment, Merge, Close, and Re-run failed jobs. It does not show the diff or check out code.

Alerts

gh-dash does not document desktop or push alerts. You see new items when you open or refresh it.

Hush keeps checking GitHub on its servers, and sends Web Push to desktop and phone browsers for what needs you, with quiet hours, digests, and limits.

Where gh-dash is better

  • It runs in your terminal, next to your code and editor, with full keyboard control.
  • Diff, checkout, and merge from the same place; custom keys run your own commands.
  • Free and local; it uses the gh sign-in you already have and no hosted service.
  • Mature and widely used: about 12,600 stars on GitHub and frequent releases.

Where Hush is better

  • It decides who must act next, from CI, reviews, and comments, not only from GitHub's reason.
  • Push alerts on desktop and phone, also when your computer is off.
  • Snooze, mute, rules, and saved views that act on threads by themselves.
  • Works on any device with a browser, also a phone.

Choose gh-dash if…

  • You work in the terminal and want your GitHub work there too.
  • You review code by checking it out, and want that one key away.
  • You do not want a hosted service.

Choose Hush if…

  • You want a list of what waits on you, not a set of filters to read through.
  • You want alerts when you are away from your desk.
  • You use a phone or a browser more than a terminal.

Sources

Last checked: 3 October 2026.