Octobox
Take back control of your GitHub Notifications.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 72% of tracked projects; popularity more than 65%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 4.5k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | september-2026 · 1 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 26 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Ruby, Docker |
Is Octobox actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 672 commits, of which 216 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 72 commits a month.
The most recent tagged release, september-2026, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Note that Octobox depends on a third-party service to work fully. It is self-hosted, but not self-contained: if that external service changes its terms or disappears, your instance is affected.
Of the 45 projects we track in Software Development - Project Management, Octobox ranks #6 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Octobox actually does
Octobox is a self-hosted dashboard designed to help you manage and triage your GitHub notifications more efficiently. It provides an alternative interface to group, filter, and clear your notification backlog outside of the standard web platform. The project is built using Ruby and is distributed under the AGPL-3.0 licence.
Best fit: This is a good fit for developers and teams who receive a high volume of GitHub alerts and prefer a dedicated, self-hosted interface to stay organised.
Worth knowing: You will need to maintain your own instance and ensure it has reliable network access to the GitHub API. The AGPL-3.0 licence also imposes copyleft requirements if you modify and network-host the source code.
Deployment notes
As a Ruby application packaged with Docker, you will typically need to provision persistent storage for the database and configure an external reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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