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Hush vs. Neat for GitHub notifications

Neat puts GitHub notifications in the macOS menu bar, for free, with local data; Hush is a web app that sorts GitHub notifications by whose turn it is and pushes to any device.

Summary

Neat is a free macOS menu bar app for GitHub and Linear notifications, with keyboard navigation, filters for projects, users, and events, and all data stored on your Mac. Hush is a web app that decides whose turn it is on each GitHub thread, keeps a "Needs you" list, and pushes it to desktop and phone browsers.

  • Choose Neat if you work on a Mac and want notifications in the menu bar, with nothing stored on a server.
  • Choose Hush if you use other systems or a phone, or want pull request dashboards, rules, and actions in one place.

At a glance

Neat Hush
Where it runs macOS menu bar app Web app (installable), on Cloudflare
Price Free Free in beta; planned $3 a month or $30 a year
Open source No Yes
Where your data is On your Mac ("100% locally stored") On Hush's servers; token encrypted
Sources GitHub and Linear GitHub
Sorting Filters for projects, users, and events; pin to set priority Needs you, FYI, Muted, by whose turn it is; rules
Actions Preview without marking read, mark done, pin, mute, mark unread Done, snooze, mute, read; approve, comment, merge, close, re-run CI
Alerts Desktop and menu bar Web Push on desktop and phone, quiet hours, digests
Windows, Linux, phone Not documented Yes, in a browser
GitHub Enterprise, several accounts Not documented No
Latest release v0.0.64, 20 August 2026 Beta, updated continuously

How they sort

Neat shows your GitHub notifications in a menu bar window. It says it pings you "only when an issue needs your attention", and lets you choose which projects, users, and events get through, for example to stop a noisy bot. You can pin a notification to set its priority. Neat does not document how it decides what needs your attention.

Hush reads the pull request or issue behind each notification (CI, reviews, review requests, conflicts, comments) and decides if you are the next person who must act. What needs you lists the cases. Rules change where threads go, and Hush moves a thread to Done by itself when it stops needing you.

Pull requests

Neat says it helps you "merge pull requests faster" and "nudge reviewers for stale PRs". It shows a rich preview of a comment, and you open GitHub for the review.

Hush has Pull requests and Issues tabs grouped by whose turn it is, and a peek with Approve, Request changes, Comment, Merge, Close, and Re-run failed jobs. It does not show the diff.

Privacy

Neat stores everything on your computer. Its privacy policy (January 2022) says it collects your email, usage data, IP address, and device data.

Hush stores your encrypted token and your thread data on its servers, so that it can check GitHub and push while your computer is off. It has no analytics (see Privacy).

Maintenance

Neat released seven versions from 18 to 20 August 2026 (v0.0.58 to v0.0.64). The release before them was v0.0.57, in January 2023. Its changelog site did not load when we checked.

Where Neat is better

  • A native macOS app in the menu bar, one keystroke away.
  • Your notification data stays on your Mac.
  • GitHub and Linear in one place.
  • Free, with no paid plan.

Where Hush is better

  • It runs on any system with a browser: Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone, and Mac.
  • It decides who must act next, and moves threads to Done by itself.
  • Pull request and issue dashboards, and approve or merge from the list.
  • Push alerts on your phone, with quiet hours and digests.
  • Open source, with documented sorting rules.

Choose Neat if…

  • You work on a Mac and want GitHub notifications in the menu bar.
  • You want no notification data on a server.
  • You use Linear as well as GitHub.

Choose Hush if…

  • You use Windows, Linux, or a phone, or more than one computer.
  • You want to know exactly why a thread needs you, and change that with rules.
  • You want to act on pull requests from the same list.

Sources

Last checked: 3 October 2026.