GitHub Notifier vs Next Release: 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, Next Release is detailed as "Automated Release Notes for companies using GitHub". It enables you to easily distribute professional, best in class, automatically generated notes or use them as a platform to kickstart your artistic release note process. With all the information you need in one place, it’s never been simpler to prepare tailored notes for each of your target audiences.

GitHub Notifier and Next Release belong to "Tools for GitHub" category of the tech stack.

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, Next Release provides the following key features:

• Automatic SemVar using GitHub Pull Requests
• Release note dashboard
• Share release notes via Slack

GitHub Notifier and Next Release are both open source tools. GitHub Notifier with 41 GitHub stars and 9 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Next Release with 8 GitHub stars and 6 GitHub forks.