Releases: volnei/reviewly
Release list
Reviewly v0.1.4
A small but important fix for anyone on a locked-down corporate machine.
🔒 Works behind corporate TLS-inspecting proxies (Netskope, Zscaler, …)
Reviewly now verifies HTTPS against your operating system's trust store — the macOS Keychain, the Windows certificate store, or the system CA bundle — instead of a bundled root list.
So when your company runs a TLS-inspecting proxy whose root CA is installed system-wide, Reviewly trusts it automatically and reaches GitHub — exactly like the gh CLI already did. No more silent "can't connect" behind Netskope/Zscaler.
Auto-update: existing v0.1.3 installs update automatically. If yours couldn't connect at all before, download this build once from the assets below — after that, updates work through the proxy too.
Download the installer for your platform below.
Reviewly v0.1.3
The biggest release yet — saved views, a Dependabot that actually finishes, Settings reborn as a modal, and a guided tour that comes alive.
✨ Pull requests
- Saved views — save a filter combination (scope, labels, repos…) as a named view and re-apply it anytime, including from ⌘K. (thanks @sean-brydon)
- Polished the pinned-PR bar.
🤖 Dependabot — robust AI security fixes
- "Fix with AI" now runs in the background — leave the screen or refresh and it keeps going, reporting back when the draft PR opens (or if it fails). The outcome is persisted per alert, so it's still there when you reopen the app.
- Pick the base branch the fix branches off; it refuses to run on a dirty tree (never sweeps your uncommitted work in) and retries cleanly.
- Redesigned alert cards (severity rail, pill metadata). "Draft PR opened" opens the PR inside Reviewly.
⚙️ Settings
- Settings now opens as a large modal over your work instead of a separate screen.
- New GitHub activity card: a contribution-style heatmap of your merged PRs over the last year, with commit / merged-PR counts and your best day.
- Selects show their label, not the raw value.
🪁 Guided tour
- The loader is now a living kite — it flies a serpentine path, the sail billows in the wind, and you can tug it around by its line with the cursor.
- Approving a PR releases a flock of kites into the sky.
- Calmer, neutral tour chrome and smoother scrolling. (thanks @sean-brydon)
- The review can now read the PR's local clone (not just the diff), with a longer time budget so big PRs finish.
🛠 Fixes
- Specific sign-in error messages (gh not installed / not signed in / offline / …).
- The AI-review confirm action moved below the comment so a long file path can't push it off-card.
Auto-update: existing v0.1.2 installs update to this automatically.
Download the installer for your platform below.
Contributors
Assets 16
Reviewly v0.1.2
A big release — the guided tour, Settings, and the dashboard all leveled up.
✨ Guided tour, reimagined
- A vertical timeline of the walkthrough — see the whole journey, jump to any stop, motion that guides the eye.
- Draft as review — promote every suggested comment into your pending review at once, with a suggested verdict pre-filled.
- The AI now investigates the code, not just the diff: it follows the changed symbols to their definitions, callers, and tests, and only surfaces concerns it can confirm (needs a local clone).
🛠 Dashboard & review
- Roomier, calmer inbox with priority triage, snoozes, and clearer rows.
- Merge conflicts surfaced on the PR — plus Resolve with AI.
- PR list keyboard navigation and improved filter controls.
- Thanks to @sean-brydon for the triage, keyboard-nav, and filter work.
⚙️ Settings, expanded
- Collapsible sections, an accent color picker, and reduce motion.
- Diff defaults (default view, wrap long lines, hide whitespace) and hide generated/lockfile noise.
- Granular desktop notifications (review requested / mention / comment / CI) + a poll interval.
- Launch at login and start in tray; switch the Dock app icon (white / black).
- Confirm before submitting a review; default landing page.
🪁 Polish
- A new kite brand mark across the tray, Dock, and the app itself.
- Removed the per-chat cost readout — Reviewly drives your own local AI, so there's no cost for the app to show.
Auto-update: existing v0.1.1 installs update to this automatically.
Download the installer for your platform below.
Contributors
Assets 16
Reviewly v0.1.1
Reviewly v0.1.1 — first public release 🎉
A fast, local-first desktop app for reviewing GitHub pull requests — with AI that runs on your own machine.
Reviewly turns PR review from a dozen browser tabs into one focused workspace: it surfaces the PRs that need you, lays out the diff the way a reviewer actually reads it, lets a local AI walk you through the change, and posts your review back to GitHub — without sending your code to any server but the one you choose.
This is the inaugural open-source release. 🥳
✨ Highlights
🗂️ One inbox for the work that's yours — review-requests, your open PRs, what's ready to merge, what's blocked — grouped and always fresh. PRs are cached locally, so the list is instant and survives a flaky connection.
🔍 A diff built for reviewers — unified or split, syntax-highlighted, with expandable context, per-file viewed tracking, and inline comments that batch into a single review (Approve / Request changes / Comment).
🤖 AI that's actually private — one click for a Guided tour that reads the whole PR and walks you through it in a sensible order, or a back-and-forth Ask AI chat. Powered by your local CLI (Claude, Codex, Gemini) or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Only the diff is ever sent — there's no Reviewly server in the middle.
✅ Checks, Dependabot & local git — CI checks with granular per-job re-runs, Dependabot alerts, and deep local-clone integration (file tree with git status & CODEOWNERS, branch switching, one-click PR checkout).
🪄 Native niceties — menu-bar tray with your review count, command palette (⌘K), g-chord navigation, clipboard sniff, OS notifications, window vibrancy, and silent auto-update.
📦 Install
Grab the installer for your platform below:
| Platform | File |
|---|---|
| macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel) | Reviewly-0.1.1-macos.dmg — signed & notarized |
| Windows | Reviewly-0.1.1-windows-setup.exe or Reviewly-0.1.1-windows.msi |
| Linux | Reviewly-0.1.1-linux.AppImage, .deb, or .rpm |
On first launch, connect your GitHub account (a device code you approve in the browser) and pick the repositories to watch. Reviewly updates itself from then on.
🤖 AI is optional
Reviewly is a great review client on its own. To turn AI on, open Settings → AI review and pick a provider — a local CLI you already have installed, or your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Add custom review instructions to bake in your team's standards.
🔒 Private by design
Your GitHub token lives in the OS keychain. No backend, no telemetry, no account beyond GitHub. The only outbound calls are to GitHub and to the AI backend you configure.
Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 · Full feature tour → README