Octobox 📮 Untangle your GitHub Notifications. by octobox

Untangle your GitHub Notifications

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Verdict 78/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty Last release 6 days ago

Self-host Octobox 📮 Untangle your GitHub Notifications. on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
78 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
4.5k
341 forks

About Octobox 📮 Untangle your GitHub Notifications.

From the project's README at github.com/octobox/octobox. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

Octobox helps you manage your GitHub notifications efficiently so you can spend less time managing and more time getting things done. Don't lose track - Octobox adds an extra "archived" state to each notification so you can mark it as "done". If anything happens on an archived thread, issue or PR, Octobox will move it back into your inbox. Starred notifications - Let's be honest, you probably don't have a 'favourite' issue but Octobox lets you highlight important notifications with a star so you can come back and find them easily. Enhanced notifications - Like notifications, but better. With issue/pull-request status, CI status, labels and more shown alongside basic title, organisation, repo and type information. Filter all the things - Filter notifications by repository, organisation, type, action, state, CI status and reason and keep notifications from bots alongside your regular labels, author and assignees. Search with prefix filters - No more Jedi mind tricks. Combine a wide range of powerful search filters help you get straight to the notification you're looking for and focus on just what you need. Built for keyboard warriors - Navigate, triage and manage your notifications like a pro using Gmail-inspired keyboard shortcuts for every function, no mouse required. Open for everyone - Octobox developers use Octobox to develop Octobox. 100% develop

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
88
maturity
85
community
92
security
85
sustainability
100
adoption
32

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 4.5k github.com/octobox/octobox
GitHub forks 341 github.com/octobox/octobox

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age9.4 yearssince Dec 2016
Last commit6 days agoMay 1, 2026
Releases shipped46last: 6 days ago
Security policySECURITY.mddeclared by maintainers
Funding links1declared by maintainers

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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