GitHub Notifier vs Mergify: What are the differences?

Developers describe GitHub Notifier as "Chrome notifications for GitHub (open source)". Under the hood, this application simply polls GitHub web endpoints (/pulls|/issues|/releases) of projects you specify, it doesn't require OAuth tokens or credentials entering into the extension. On the other hand, Mergify is detailed as "Pull requests automation for GitHub". It provides automatic pull request merge and workflow automation. Save your time by automatically merging, commenting, rebasing, updating, labeling, backporting, closing, assigning, your pull requests.

GitHub Notifier and Mergify can be categorized as "Tools for GitHub" tools.

Some of the features offered by GitHub Notifier are:

• Supports public and private repositories
• Desktop notifications when a new pull request is raised
• Desktop notifications when a new issue is raised

On the other hand, Mergify provides the following key features:

• Workflow Automation
• Pull Request Merge
• Code Backport

GitHub Notifier is an open source tool with 42 GitHub stars and 10 GitHub forks. Here's a link to GitHub Notifier's open source repository on GitHub.