Remora: One Prioritized Inbox for Engineering Work

Remora turns engineering work from several services into one inbox organized around the action you need to take. Instead of switching between tools to find reviews, replies, fixes, and reminders, you can start with a single queue on macOS or Windows.

One inbox organized by the next action

The central idea is to sort work by verbs—To reply, To review, To fix, Ready to merge, To do, and To read—rather than by the service that produced it. A GitHub review and a Slack mention can therefore sit beside each other when both need your attention.

Remora groups similar items, puts the most pressing work first, and keeps long bundles compact by showing their top items before the rest. The goal is a useful starting point for a work session, not another dashboard that asks you to inspect every integration separately.

It is aimed at people whose work already spans several tools. Remora does not replace those services: it gathers selected work from them and sends you back to the original item when you are ready to act.

Connect the tools you already use

The README lists GitHub and GitHub Enterprise, GitLab including self-hosted instances, Slack, Linear, and Notion. You connect accounts with the credentials each service requires; multiple named accounts are supported for tools such as client Slack or work GitLab.

The integrations are scoped to specific kinds of work: for example, GitHub covers your pull requests and review requests, while Linear covers assigned issues and unread mentions or comments. Slack can include mentions, direct messages, and replies from a configured recent period. Check the permissions requested by each connector before adding a work account.

Move between My turn and Waiting

My turn collects items where someone is waiting on you, including review requests, mentions, messages, tasks, due reminders, and certain merge requests. Waiting is for work you have handed off or questions that depend on someone else. Snoozed and Done remain available without crowding the active queue.

When a review request has no suggested reviewers, Remora can propose people; if a thread stays quiet, it can draft a nudge. These suggestions are written locally from templates for you to review and copy—the app does not send the message on your behalf.

Priority combines overdue or due-today items, the source tool's priority, the nearest due date, and recent activity. Done hides an item until something changes, such as a new commit or comment, while Pin keeps an important item at the top.

Snooze with a reason, not just a timer

A snooze can record why you are setting an item aside—waiting for someone, needing focus, having no time now, or deciding it is not urgent. Presets suggest a return time, or you can wait until there is news. The Snoozed view can also surface a loop, a pile-up, or related items: Mac uses on-device word embeddings for topic similarity, while the Windows preview compares shared words. Treat these as navigation hints, not performance scores or a substitute for judgment.

Prepare reviews and focus sessions

For a review request, Remora can show a rough time estimate, file count, test status, and a topic inferred from file paths and line counts. Start session then walks through selected items one by one, putting quick wins first.

The session controls are designed for keyboard flow: Enter opens an item, D marks it done, S snoozes it, and the right arrow skips ahead. This is most useful when your queue is long enough that choosing what to do next has become a task of its own.

macOS and Windows are not identical

On Mac, Remora is a menu-bar app with SwiftUI and AppKit. It can use Apple's on-device sentence embeddings after English and French keyword rules, and its menu-bar count can be organized around the most pressing action.

The Windows system-tray app is explicitly described as a preview. It uses Rust and Tauri, exposes a global Ctrl+Alt+R reminder shortcut, and currently relies on keyword sorting rather than the Mac's on-device sentence embeddings. The repository reports shared rules and test fixtures, but the two interfaces are not feature-identical.

Local-first privacy has a clear boundary

The project says there is no Remora server, account, telemetry, analytics, or crash reporting, and that sorting, ranking, and advice run on the device. But connecting a service still means Remora communicates with that service: the project describes allowed destinations per plugin and blocks requests to other hosts.

Credentials are kept in the operating system's credential store, with other app data stored locally. On Mac that is a Keychain item and an Application Support folder; on Windows the README names Credential Manager and a Local AppData folder. Settings → Privacy lists the data flows and offers local-data erasure.

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Remora/
Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\fr.igitscor.remora

Use the assistant only when your policy allows it

An optional assistant can create short briefs, bundle summaries, and Snoozed-tab triage using Claude Code, the Claude API, or an OpenAI-compatible model or server. The README says this feature is off unless external AI is allowed; a server running on your own computer is treated separately.

Even when enabled, this changes the privacy boundary: the selected model may receive context needed for its task. Teams should review the configured provider and their organization's rules first. The assistant is an optional aid, not a requirement for the inbox, integrations, or local sorting.

Download the official release

The latest checked release is v0.5.0. Download the official macOS DMG for macOS 14 or later, or the Windows installer for Windows 10 or 11; the Windows build is marked preview. The release notes contain the matching release details.

On Mac, open the DMG and move Remora to Applications. The project says the app is not notarized yet, so its README documents the first-launch approval flow through right-click → Open or System Settings → Privacy & Security. On Windows, run the per-user installer; because it is not signed, Windows SmartScreen may ask you to confirm. Only continue if you trust the publisher and the file came from the official release.

This article checked the repository and release metadata, not an installation on a physical Mac or Windows PC. The direct links above point to the uploaded v0.5.0 installer assets; if the publisher changes its release, recheck the asset and compatibility notes before installing.

Who will get value—and where Remora stops

Remora is worth a look if you handle reviews, conversations, and tasks across several developer tools and want a local-first way to decide what deserves attention next. Its strongest idea is the action-based queue, supported by snoozing, review preparation, and small workflow shortcuts.

It is not a replacement for GitHub, Slack, Linear, or a project-management system, and it does not automate sending replies or configuring team services. Mac users get the more mature feature set; Windows users should expect a preview. The source is available under GPL-3.0-or-later, so review the license and each integration's access before adopting it at work.

macOS DMG: https://github.com/iGitScor/triage/releases/download/v0.5.0/Remora.dmg
Windows preview installer: https://github.com/iGitScor/triage/releases/download/v0.5.0/Remora-Setup.exe
Release notes: https://github.com/iGitScor/triage/releases/tag/v0.5.0
macOS 14 or later; Windows 10 or 11. The README notes that the current installers are not notarized/signed.