GitHub on your desktop, inside Franz

GitHub is the hub for most developers' day: pull request reviews, issue threads, CI status, and the notification inbox that quietly fills up while you are writing code. It is also a website you keep reopening, losing among editor windows and a dozen other tabs, then forgetting until a teammate pings you about a review that has been waiting. Franz gives GitHub a permanent home as a desktop service tab, so the place you check for reviews and mentions is always in your sidebar instead of somewhere in your browser history.

A dedicated tab for reviews, issues, and notifications

Franz loads the full github.com web experience as its own service, which means the GitHub notification inbox, your pull requests, issues, Actions runs, and code review threads are all one click away. Keeping GitHub in a dedicated tab matters precisely because GitHub's signals are easy to bury. When it is a standalone service in Franz with its own unread badge, an open review or an unread mention is visible without you remembering to go look for it. You stay signed in, your filters and saved views persist, and switching to GitHub is a keyboard shortcut rather than a tab hunt.

GitHub next to the rest of your developer stack

Most developers do not live in GitHub alone. There is Slack or Discord for the team, an IRC channel for an open-source project, maybe Gitter or a status page. Franz groups GitHub with the other developer tools you keep open so your whole workflow surface sits in one window. When a build fails and the conversation about it is happening in chat, you can move between the GitHub thread and the discussion without breaking flow or breaking your tab discipline. It keeps the context of a piece of work together instead of scattered across browser windows.

GitHub on macOS, Windows, and Linux

Franz is a native desktop app for all three major platforms, and GitHub behaves the same on each: the same web app, the same login, a real dock or taskbar presence, and fast switching to and from your other services. Whether you develop on a Mac laptop, a Windows machine, or a Linux workstation, your GitHub tab is set up identically, so a workflow you build once travels with you. It turns GitHub from a browser tab you keep losing into a dependable part of your desktop you actually check.