Shine a spotlight on your github repos - powered by Shiny.NET
A cross-platform desktop dashboard for keeping an eye on the GitHub repositories you care about. GitHub Shine is a .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid app that polls GitHub through fine-grained personal access tokens and surfaces stars, forks, issues, pull requests, and CI build status at a glance — with native notifications when something needs your attention, a tray menu for quick access, and bulk source archiving.
GitHub Shine is organized into four tabs — Dashboard, Accounts, Archive, and Settings.
- At-a-glance repo dashboard — every monitored repo is rendered as a card showing open issues, open pull requests, stars, forks, watchers, and the status of its latest workflow run.
- Aggregate totals bar — running sums across all repos for stars, forks, watchers, open issues, open PRs, and how many builds are currently passing vs. failing.
- Sortable sidebar — sort your repositories by most stars (default), forks, open issues, open PRs, or build status; clicking a repo scrolls it into focus in the main panel. The sort order is shared with the tray menu.
- Live search — filter the repo grid as you type with a case-insensitive "contains" match on repo name and account.
- Drag-to-reorder — arrange the dashboard cards by drag-and-drop (or the
‹ ›buttons); your layout is persisted between sessions. - "Needs your attention" inbox — pulls your GitHub notifications and highlights the ones that matter: mentions, assignments, and requested reviews.
- Repository archive — on the Archive tab, multi-select repos and download a source zip of each one's default branch into a folder of your choice, with per-repo progress, a Saved/Failed badge, and cancellation.
- Local clones — on the Clone tab, pick a folder and keep real working copies of the repos you monitor. Each row shows the branch its working copy is on and how many commits that branch is behind, with a picker to check a different branch out and a "Select out of date" button to update only the repos that need it. A repo that isn't there yet is cloned on the initial branch of your choosing (its own default by default); one that already is gets fast-forwarded on whatever branch it's checked out on. Uncommitted changes, a detached HEAD or a diverged branch are reported and skipped rather than touched.
- Native notifications — get notified about new issues, new pull requests, and failed workflow runs; mute them from the Settings tab or the tray menu.
- Tray menu with repo list — a monochrome template tray icon whose menu opens the dashboard, refreshes, toggles mute, and lists your repositories (in the same order as the sidebar) — click one to open it on GitHub.
- Settings tab — mute notifications, choose the repository sort order (shared by the sidebar and tray), set the refresh interval, and back up or restore the database.
- Background polling — the refresh interval is configurable from Settings, with an immediate refresh whenever you add, edit, or remove an account/repo.
- Multiple GitHub accounts — monitor repos across several accounts, each backed by its own fine-grained PAT.
- Secure token storage — access tokens are kept in a secure vault, never in plain configuration.
- Database backup/restore — export and import the local store (accounts, repos, tokens, card order) as a single SQLite file from the Settings tab.
- Truly cross-platform desktop — runs natively on macOS (AppKit), Linux (GTK4), and Windows, all from a single MAUI project.
Grab a build from the latest release:
| Platform | Asset | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| macOS 14+ | *-osx-universal.dmg | Signed and notarized by Apple. Open the DMG, drag to Applications. Universal (Intel + Apple silicon). |
| Windows 10 1809+ | *-win-x64.zip | Unpack and run GitHubShine.exe. Self-contained — no .NET install needed. |
| Linux x64 | *-linux-x64.tar.gz | Unpack and run ./GitHubShine. Requires GTK4 + WebKitGTK 6.0 on the host. |
| Android 7+ | *-android.apk | Sideload. The .aab is the Play Store upload bundle and is not device-installable. |
| iOS 15+ | *-ios-unsigned.ipa | Unsigned — has to be re-signed with your own Apple account via a sideloading tool. |
Releases are cut by tagging; see docs/RELEASING.md.
- .NET 10 SDK
- The
mauiworkload:dotnet workload install maui - A GitHub fine-grained personal access token with read access to the repositories you want to monitor.
# from the repository root
dotnet build GitHubShine.slnx
# run on the current desktop platform (macOS / Linux / Windows)
dotnet build src/GitHubShine/GitHubShine.csproj -t:RunOn first launch, add a GitHub account with its fine-grained PAT, pick the repositories to monitor, and the dashboard will begin polling.
GitHubShine.slnx Solution
src/GitHubShine/
├─ Components/ Blazor pages, layout, and routes
├─ Features/
│ ├─ Accounts/ Account/repo config, secure token vault
│ ├─ Archive/ Bulk source-zip download of selected repos
│ ├─ Clone/ Local git working copies: status, branch switching, fast-forward
│ ├─ Dashboard/ Snapshots, polling, Mediator handlers
│ ├─ Settings/ App settings, file dialogs, database backup/restore
│ └─ Tray/ System tray icon + repo menu
├─ Platforms/ macOS / Linux / Windows entry points
└─ wwwroot/ Blazor host page and CSS