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24 alternatives to Visibly – More Collaborative and Efficient Code Reviews on GitHub

Hey HN! I’m Nick, the founder of Visibly (https://visibly.dev). Visibly is a GitHub App and Chrome extension that makes code review more efficient, collaborative, and visible by enabling you to: - See review comment thread statuses so that you can quickly address each thread and focus your attention on the ones that actually require it - Indicate whether feedback is blocking or non-blocking so only crucial feedback blocks PR merge - Ensure all blocking review threads are addressed before merge via a status check - Track total active review time per reviewer so that you can…

Visibly is a GitHub App and Chrome extension that streamlines code review workflows by tracking comment thread statuses, distinguishing between blocking and non-blocking feedback, and ensuring all blocking threads are… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Visibly – More Collaborative and Efficient Code Reviews on GitHub launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Improve productivity for dev teams using Github and Slack

    2024 · pullnotifier.com · its alternatives →

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    Automatic AI-powered code reviews the moment you open a PR

    Jan 2026 · kilo.ai · its alternatives →

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    Your high-signal AI code review companion

    2024 · graphite.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHired▲360

    Hey HN - today I’m launching GitHired. A hiring platform that ranks developers based on what they actually build — not what they claim on a PDF. It’s called GitHired, and here’s the core idea: GitHub > Resumes Instead of trusting “proficient in React” bullet points, we analyze a candidate’s actual GitHub: their real tech stack their most complex projects how active they are what kinds of contributions they make which skills match your job description and yes, we detect fake “green square farming.” Why we built this Because engineering hiring is broken. Resumes are inflated. Activity charts…

    Dec 2025 · githired.tech · its alternatives →

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    cubic▲733

    Hey HN, I'm Paul, the founder of cubic.dev, an AI code reviewer for complex codebases. Over the past few months we’ve completely rebuilt our detection engine, and I wanted to share a few things we did to get more out of LLMs. Context: cubic specializes in code reviews for teams with complex codebases, like Better Auth, Cal.com, and PostHog. Our users have high standards. It’s important that reviews have real depth and actually understand the codebase. In the past, we've sometimes struggled with producing reviews that had deep insight into complex changes. It didn't feel like we were leaving…

    2025 · cubic.dev · its alternatives →

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    AI code review that knows when to chime in

    Feb 2026 · getunblocked.com · its alternatives →

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    Pullpo.io▲430

    Complete code reviews in hours, not days, right from Slack

    2024 · pullpo.io · its alternatives →

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    0github.com is a pull request viewer that color-codes every diff line/token by how much human attention it probably needs. Unlike PR-review bots, we try to flag not just by "is it a bug?" but by "is it worth a second look?" (examples: hard-coded secret, weird crypto mode, gnarly logic, ugly code). To try it, replace github.com with 0github.com in any pull-request URL. Under the hood, we split the PR into individual files, and for each file, we ask an LLM to annotate each line with a data structure that we parse into a colored heatmap. Examples:…

    Oct 2025 · 0github.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9CB

    Hi HN! I've been working on a code review app for GitHub called Crocodile for about a year. I used to work at Microsoft where we used a tool called CodeFlow for reviewing code and I missed it after I left. I know many other ex-Microsoft engineers feel the same. Here are some of the distinguishing features of Crocodile that are inspired by CodeFlow: * Comments float above the code instead of being inline. Long discussions that are displayed inline make it really hard to review the code. * Comment on any text selection in the file, even a single character. * Comments don't get lost when code…

    2022 · crocodile.dev · its alternatives →

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    Fast and easy code reviews you'll love, in your IDE.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    I was frustrated with how bad a signal of progress through a big PR "Files viewed" was, so I made a "Lines viewed" indicator to complement it. Designed to look like a stock Github UI element - even respects light/dark theme. Runs fully locally, no API calls. Splits insertions and deletions by default, but you can also merge them into a single "lines" figure in the settings.

    Feb 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    AI code reviewer that catches what others miss

    May 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Upgrade your GitHub PR workflow

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    I built Staying – a tool that instantly turns your code into interactive animations with no setup required. Just write or paste your code and hit "Visualize". No installs, no accounts, no configuration. *Supports*: Python, JavaScript & experimental C++

    2025 · staying.fun · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We're Charles and Dean, and we're building Stage: a code review tool that guides you through reading a PR step by step, instead of piecing together a giant diff. Here's a demo video: https://www.tella.tv/video/stage-demo-1pph. You can play around with some example PRs here: https://stagereview.app/explore. Teams are moving faster than ever with AI these days, but more and more engineers are merging changes that they don't really understand. The bottleneck isn't writing code anymore, it's reviewing it. We're two engineers who got frustrated with…

    Apr 2026 · stagereview.app · its alternatives →

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    Smarter assignment and notification system for code reviews

    2024 · friendlyfire.tech · its alternatives →

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    A code review tool based on the patch workflow

    2021 · its alternatives →

  18. 18PC

    Code review conversations on GitHub can be frustratingly slow, now you can have them on Slack. Features: - Each pull request (PR) on GitHub creates a Slack channel (public or private) with all involved parties (creator, assignees, and reviewers). - An auto-generated summary in English of what the PR does, making it easier for reviewers to enter the context. - Notifications of workflow results, new commits, new approvals... are sent in the channel. - Code comments with context are available. The initial review still takes place on GitHub, but messages are then transferred to Slack for…

    2023 · pullpo.io · its alternatives →

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    Increase LLM visibility, signups and activated users

    Nov 2025 · nakora.ai · its alternatives →

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    Continuous Claude is a CLI wrapper I made that runs Claude Code in an iterative loop with persistent context, automatically driving a PR-based workflow. Each iteration creates a branch, applies a focused code change, generates a commit, opens a PR via GitHub's CLI, waits for required checks and reviews, merges if green, and records state into a shared notes file. This avoids the typical stateless one-shot pattern of current coding agents and enables multi-step changes without losing intermediate reasoning, test failures, or partial progress. The tool is useful for tasks that require many…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Automated visual reviews for GitHub pull requests

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cut cycle time ~60% by automating the code-review process

    2023 · linearb.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m Valentin, a developer who’s found code reviews to be a slow process, especially after context switching or juggling different projects and languages. Even reviewing my own code can be tough when I’ve lost the thread or just need a fresh perspective. Over the past few weekends, I built GitReviewed to make PR reviews faster, smarter, and genuinely useful for real teams. What it does: - Reviews any GitHub or GitLab pull/merge request with AI-powered comments, spotting security issues, code patterns, typos, and more - Posts comments as you (not a bot), so feedback fits naturally…

    2025 · gitreviewed.com · its alternatives →

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    Automatically mention potential reviewers on pull requests. - facebookarchive/mention-bot

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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