PullNotifier Reviews & Product Details

PullNotifier seems simple because it's so easy to setup and customize for your team, but it's actually far more capable than Github's own Slack app. When we added PullNotifier, we immediately saw a big jump in our team's responsiveness to new PRs and new comments, and we also felt relief about not having to directly ask (and re-ask) for reviews in Slack anymore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly, there's nothing I dislike about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We previously tried the official GitHub Slack integration, but it didn’t quite meet our needs for a smooth, reliable workflow. PullNotifier, on the other hand, automated exactly what we were looking for.

What I like most is that it triggers notifications the moment a PR moves from “Draft” to “Ready for Review.” Because review comments are expanded within the same Slack thread, the whole conversation stays in one place and remains easy to follow. Then, when a PR is merged, the original Slack message is updated to reflect the new status. Overall, this makes the process feel much smarter and more streamlined, and it removes the need for manual Slack updates or emoji-based status tracking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Overall, I have very few complaints, but there are a couple of minor points worth mentioning. Some team members find it a bit redundant to receive notifications for comments they’ve made themselves. Also, if a PR is moved back to “Draft” after being opened, comment notifications still continue to trigger during that time, which can be slightly distracting. That said, these are small issues and they don’t take away from the tool’s overall value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The standout feature for us is the notification speed, they're near-instantaneous, which was our primary reason for switching from our previous tool. For a 40+ person engineering team that lives in GitHub, that latency difference is huge.

The support has also been exceptional. We have a dedicated Slack channel with their team and founder, and issues are acknowledged and resolved remarkably quickly. It genuinely feels like a partnership rather than a vendor relationship.

We also appreciate that PullNotifier doesn't try to pull you into its own workflow. It simply surfaces what's happening in GitHub and links you back there, no trying to keep you in Slack or replace GitHub's UI. That's exactly what we want from an integration tool.

Worth noting: we're using it in a way that's slightly outside their primary use case (we rely on DM notifications rather than channel notifications), and it handles that seamlessly. The setup was straightforward, and with 40+ engineers using it daily, we've had zero complaints about the tool itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly, there is not much to dislike. The only minor friction is that user mapping has to be done through their website rather than directly in Slack. It is a small thing, but handling it inside Slack would make onboarding new team members slightly smoother.

As a side note, I personally noticed a couple of instances of notifications being misattributed to the wrong person, though I may be the only one on our 40+ person team who spotted it and it has had no impact on our workflow whatsoever. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like how PullNotifier takes care of keeping my teammates up to date on PRs. It lets me stay focused on my code, and I can trust that the people who need to know are aware of what’s going on. Totally worth the cost and the team loves it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Configuring the app is a little unintuitive and it can be difficult to find some features and settings. Once you have it all set then it's a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Beautiful UI. It is really easy to start using. You just need to connect your GitHub organization and install Slack app. PullNotifier also has a great and fast customer support. They replied all our questions rapidly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The price is high if you have a lot of members in your GitHub organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly one of the easiest tools to set up and test out and get integrated out of the box. Allows me to quickly get notifications and centralizes my tools into our existing Slack workflows. We have it wired up for our key repos and it's used daily by all developers. Lastly, i got instant response back from support with my questions when doing research on chat bots. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not a dislike but more of a feature that would be nice is if the PR description was listed in the PullNotifier comment thread. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PullNotifier keeps our team on top of pull requests without the need to constantly check GitHub. The notifications are fast, reliable, and highly configurable. I also really like that it immediately shows when code reviews are completed or when a PR has been merged — it makes collaboration much smoother. On top of that, setup took less than 5 minutes, and when we had a question the support team responded to our email very quickly, which gave us extra confidence in the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn’t much to dislike — the service is lightweight and does exactly what it promises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PullNotifier is the GitHub notification tool for Slack we’ve been looking for. It’s customizable and can be tailored to fit our needs perfectly.

Their team is always reactive and listens to their users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Truly, nothing at all.

Truly, nothing at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Visibility of the status of our PRs across repos Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The general offering is nice but I think the number of features could be expanded upon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our small team has been through a few iterations of Slack notifications using the default Github notifications bot. I needed to look up docs every time I changed them, and spent a while tweaking them until they were just right. Even then, they were too verbose–team was still missing details and PRs were going unreviewed. With just a few minutes in PullNotifier, I configured a new channel and the notifications were slimmed down to just the valuable info. It would be hard to switch back. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Little, as I appreciate the minimalism. It might be nice to have some opt-in config for more advanced use cases, e.g. do you want to add notifications for existing PRs when you start? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.