Gitta: Taming Your Local GitHub Chaos on macOS

If you’ve ever worked with more than a handful of GitHub repositories, you know the feeling: cloned folders scattered across your machine, branches you meant to clean up, pull requests you forgot to review, and the eternal question: “Wait, where did I check that out again?”

I faced this every day. As a developer, I wanted a tool that respected my workflow, my editors, and my command line habits, but still kept everything organized. That’s how Gitta was born: a macOS app designed to bring order to local GitHub checkouts.

A Single View for Your Local Repositories

Gitta automatically scans your local repositories and presents them in a clean, organized dashboard. No more hopping between terminals or juggling multiple directories running git status. At a glance, you can see:

• Which repos have uncommitted changes
• Which branches are out of sync with remote
• Active pull requests and feature branches

And when you want to dive in, opening a project in your preferred editor or terminal is just a click away. Think of it as gh repo list, but visual, searchable, and aware of your local filesystem.

Designed for Developers, by Developers

Gitta isn’t trying to replace Git or force a GUI on your workflow. It’s designed to enhance your productivity:

• Keep your repositories organized without changing how you work.
• Quickly surface the repositories that need your attention.
• Reduce friction so you can spend more time building and less time managing.

By focusing on local integration, Gitta gives you insight that web-based tools can’t: it knows exactly what checkouts exist on your machine, what’s been modified, and where attention is needed.

Next Steps

The macOS app is just the beginning. While it solves the immediate problem of local repository management, it also highlights new opportunities: what if you could keep track of all your repositories, even when you’re away from your Mac? Stay tuned - next, I’ll explore how Gitta expands beyond macOS while staying true to its core mission of keeping developers organized.