Top 15 Growl Fork Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Growl forked prior to going commercial, working with OSX 10.7 lion

1. MATE

MATE MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.MATE is under active development to add support for new technologies while preserving a traditional desktop experience.......

2. Iceweasel

Iceweasel Mozilla Firefox rebranded by the Debian project. It can run all Firefox add-ons and plugins.In 2006, a branding issue developed when Mike Connor, representing the Mozilla Corporation, requested that the Debian Project comply with Mozilla standards for use of the Thunderbird trademark when redistributing the Thunderbird......

3. Pinguy OS

Pinguy OS Pinguy OS an out-of-the-box working operating system for everyone, not just geeksThis OS is for people that have never used Linux before or for people that just want an out-of-the-box working OS without doing all the tweaks and enhancements that everyone seems to do when installing a fresh copy of......

4. OpenIndiana

OpenIndiana OpenIndiana is a robust enterprise operating system, based on the illumos kernel. It is open source, free to use, community developed, and suitable for servers and desktops. It forked from OpenSolaris after the discontinuation of that project by Oracle and aims to continue development and distribution of the OpenSolaris codebase.......

5. Sketchydraw

Sketchydraw Sketchy Draw is a simple powerful vector design application.......

6. AriOS

AriOS AriOS is an easy-to-use operating system based on Ubuntu. AriOS comes with a unique and optimized interface as well as many extra applications, multimedia codecs, flash and java plugins, and many tweaks! AriOS is not just Ubuntu+extra programs. It has been carefully designed to help you get productive instantly......

7. Oneye

Oneye Oneye is a takeover of the legacy series one from the eyeos project. This new project is powered by the community around the web desktop eyeos one. We feel responsible for further development of eyeos 1.9 featured as oneye.......

8. HardwareGrowler

HardwareGrowler HardwareGrowler is an application that sends Growl notifications when devices are connected or disconnected from your Mac. Supported 'Devices': FireWireUSBBluetoothFileSystem VolumesNetwork Interfaces......

9. MountainGrowl

MountainGrowl MountainGrowl - Growl Display Plugin for Mountain Lions Notification Center......

10. Pauses

Pauses Pauses is a small application that runs in the background while you work and helps you take regular pauses from working on your computer.Research has proven that sitting for too long can be bad for your health; taking regular breaks facilitates the blood flow in your body and helps relieve......

11. Life Stream

Life Stream Life Stream is an application allowing you to follow and interact with multiple social networks without using the browser. Follow all your friends from one unique stream, and interact with them cross sharing links between various social networks and services.Life Stream has three display modes, a simple notifier with integration......

12. Growl for Windows

Growl for Windows Growl for Windows is a Windows-compatible version of Growl, a notification system for Mac OS X.In general, applications integrate directly with Growl, but there are cases where it is essential to receive notifications from an application that does not have built-in Growl support (ex: Firefox, iTunes, Outlook). For applications that......

13. Notifo

Notifo Notifo is a mobile notifications platform empowering developers to build their own services with a scalable and reliable notifications API. The Notifo API is a simple and affordable way to add notifications to any web app or project. Real-time notifications from tons of services pushed to your mobile phone. Free.......

14. Facebook Notifications

Facebook Notifications For Mac OS X, Adds Notifications to your desktop, alerting you when interesting activity happens on Facebook! Note: This software is experimental and has only been tested on Mac OS X 10.5.......

15. Toasty

Toasty Toasty lets you receive push notifications on your Windows Phone 7 device while you are on the go. Some of the key features are: receive push notifications even when the app is not running live tile updates show you how many notifications you have missed icons for all notifications for......