Growl versions

Monitors and notifies you of your Mac device activities.
2.1
Aug 5, 2013
Review
2.0
Sep 19, 2012
Review

What's new

v2.1 [Jul 31, 2013]
- Fixes an issue on 10.9 where sending notifications to Growl will result in Growl logging "(null) doesn't have enough information…" whenever it receives an incoming packet.
- The on/off slider is more accessible now.
- Adds an improvement to how the selection of the default plugin worked in the displays tab.

v2.0 [Sep 19, 2012]
- Adds support for OS X notification center on 10.8.

- Adds in support for Prowl and Boxcar services as action displays.

- Rollup has better idle detection.

- Growl is now sandboxed.

Preferences

- The ON/OFF switch throughout Growl should be easier to understand now.

Displays

- Speech now introduces greater control.

- Separates Action displays from Visual displays.

- Music Video can now left and right justify text.

- Fixes height problems for multi line notifications in Music Video.

- Nano can now display in multiple locations, left, center and right.

- Added an SoundAction display.

- Added a way to not have any visual notifications.

Bug fixes

- Resolves the high CPU issue.

- Resolves multiple crashes.

- Shortcuts can now be unset.

Alternative downloads

OmniGrowl
OmniGrowl
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OmniGrowl provides many practical notifications through Growl in a single application.

MacLive
MacLive
Free
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Mac Live can provide growl alerts when selected friends come online on xbox.com.

MacDroidNotifier
MacDroidNotifier
Free
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Very handy app that lets you receive notifications.

Gmail+Growl Utility
Gmail+Growl Utility
Free
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Google Notifier is Google's application for notifying you on new Gmail messages.

Growl Timer
Growl Timer
Free
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Very simple notification timer developed for Mac users.