gitacre

Your Git work, one glance away.
A native macOS menu-bar app for local changes, linked worktrees, and pull requests.

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gitacre keeps the Git work that needs your attention close at hand—without making you open a terminal. Choose the folders where your repositories live and gitacre quietly monitors them from the menu bar.

What it shows

• Pending local work: staged, modified, untracked, conflicted, ahead, behind, and stashed states in one compact list.
• Linked worktrees: every checkout stays grouped beneath its repository, with branch-level status and direct actions.
• Pull requests: review requests and PRs opened by you, using the GitHub CLI session already active on your Mac.
• Quick actions: reveal a checkout in Finder, open it in your preferred terminal, or visit its remote repository.
• A native macOS experience: keyboard navigation, automatic background refresh, launch at login, light and dark appearances, and a global Option-Command-G shortcut.

Get started

1. Download the latest beta.
2. Open the disk image and drag gitacre into Applications.
3. Launch gitacre, open Settings, and choose the folders that contain your repositories.
4. Look for the gitacre icon in the menu bar, or press Option-Command-G.

The Pull Requests view is optional. To use it, install the GitHub CLI and sign in with gh auth login. Local repository monitoring works without GitHub or network access.

Requirements

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later
• Apple silicon or Intel Mac
• GitHub CLI only for the optional Pull Requests view

Private by construction

Repository scanning happens locally. For pull requests, gitacre invokes the official GitHub CLI and reuses its active github.com session; it does not read or store your authentication token.

Build from source

Building gitacre requires Xcode 16 or newer.

git clone https://github.com/shivamx96/gitacre.git
cd gitacre
scripts/build-app.sh
open build/gitacre.app

For a development run without creating an app bundle:

swift run Gitacre

Run the test suite with:

swift test

Project resources

• The static product site and its screenshots live in website/.
• Maintainers can find signing, notarization, and packaging instructions in docs/RELEASING.md.
• Bugs and feature requests can be reported through GitHub Issues.

gitacre is currently prerelease software.