Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. GitHub Watches for User launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Hawk Eye▲78

   A useful app for GitHub Notifications

   2017 · harksys.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Gitify▲102

   GitHub Notifications on your desktop.

   2015 · gitify.io · its alternatives →

3. 3
   GitHub File Watcher – get notified when files change in a GitHub repo▲68

   2015 · github-file-watcher.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Add a License Please▲87

   The open source vigilante bot that is cleaning up Github.

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5WG
   Watch GitHub get spammed in real time▲35

   For the past month, we've been monitoring GitHub's public event stream to catch spam comments and fake stars. Today, the spammers are back. Go check out the damage! You can see the spam comments and which users are posting the spam in real time. Also, here's a post we wrote about how we set it up: https://www.trytrench.com/blog/preventing-spam-and-fake-star...

   2024 · play.trytrench.com · its alternatives →

6. 6AE
   An email reminder service for your GitHub starred repos▲5

   2013 · githubreminder.org · its alternatives →

7. 7SK
   Source Karma, discover how people react to you on GitHub▲7

   2021 · sourcekarma.vercel.app · its alternatives →

8. 8GD
   GitHub Detective – Investigate what a GitHub user has been up to▲16

   All— Lazy Sundays are for fun vibe coding, and this particular weekend, I decided to play around with the GitHub API. Ended up building this little app: GitHub Detective. It fetches the latest activity of a user, but in a nice way—you can filter by categories like PRs, issues, comments, etc., and easily navigate to them. You can also generate a sarcastic analysis of the user based on their activity, then download and share it with friends. :)

   2025 · githubdetective.vercel.app · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Octofication, GitHub notifications for Chrome▲9

   2012 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    New Kind of Servers Monitoring Nearing Completition (GitHub.com)▲7

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Assignees▲3

    Automatic code review requests on GitHub.

    2017 · its alternatives →

12. 12TT
    Tool to track star history and stats of public GitHub repositories▲6

    2021 · apps.tooljet.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Visualize and explore GitHub data in realtime▲6

    An attempt to visualize and explore the trending of OSS repo in Github

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14IM
    I made an app to automatically request code reviews on GitHub▲5

    2017 · app.assignees.io · its alternatives →

15. 15AB
    A bookmark manager that uses GitHub Gist as data back end▲5

    2020 · bookmark.wtf · its alternatives →

16. 16
    CodeNav – token highlighting and click-to-find usages on GitHub▲5

    2014 · ianww.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Git Logs▲8

    A Better Way to Search Github

    2016 · franksohakune.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Stalk your boss timeline on Github▲8

    Want to see the GitHub timeline of other users?

    2018 · its alternatives →

19. 19DR
    Discover RubyGems usage for a GitHub user or org▲8

    2013 · gigest.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

20. 20HC
    heathub.co, live GitHub push events visualization.▲8

    2012 · heathub.co · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Cozy Watch▲10

    Keep coding, we track GitHub

    Nov 2025 · cozywatch.com · its alternatives →

22. 22SE
    Software Engineer search tool based on GitHub public contributions▲7

    2015 · findmyninja.io · its alternatives →

23. 23GP
    GitHub Party!▲7

    2015 · github.party · its alternatives →

24. 24GA
    Gitsu.app – A Linear-alternative built on GitHub Projects▲5

    6d ago · gitsu.app · its alternatives →

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