reviews-plus

A fast desktop app for reviewing GitHub pull requests.

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reviews-plus is a Tauri + React desktop app that gives GitHub PR review its own focused, keyboard-driven home — syntax-highlighted split diffs, inline comments, and the full review workflow, without a browser tab.

Features

• Diff viewer — split/unified diffs with off-thread syntax highlighting (powered by @pierre/diffs), virtualized for large PRs.
• File tree — jump to any file; the tree always matches what's in the diff.
• Comments — click a line number to comment, multi-line selections, threaded replies, resolve/unresolve, edit/delete your own.
• Reviews — stage pending comments and submit a review (Approve / Request changes / Comment) in one go.
• At a glance — CI/status checks and a rendered (and editable, for your own PRs) Markdown description in the header.
• Local diff — compare two local directories with the same viewer.
• Keyboard-first — j/k files, c comment, ⌘P file palette, ⌘B tree, ⌘J comments, ? for all shortcuts.

Install

Download the latest .dmg from the Releases page, open it, and drag reviews-plus to Applications.

The app is not yet code-signed/notarized. On first launch, right-click the app → Open (or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/reviews-plus.app).

Set up a token

Open Settings and paste a GitHub personal access token with repo scope. It's stored locally via tauri-plugin-store — never sent anywhere but GitHub.

Then paste a PR URL (https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/123) and review.

Development

Prerequisites: Node 18+, pnpm, and the Rust toolchain (for Tauri).

pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev          # run the desktop app

Run just the web frontend (auto-mocks GitHub via fixtures when not in Tauri):

pnpm dev                # http://localhost:1420

Build

pnpm build              # typecheck + bundle the frontend
pnpm tauri build        # produce the native app + .dmg installer

Releases & versioning

Merging to main triggers a GitHub Action that bumps the patch version, tags the commit, builds the macOS installer, and publishes it to a GitHub Release. The app version lives in package.json and src-tauri/tauri.conf.json (kept in sync).

Tech

React 18 · TypeScript · Tailwind v4 · TanStack Query · Tauri 2 (Rust) · @pierre/diffs · @pierre/trees