Growl is the is ultimate notification system for the Mac. It's the easiest way to instantly know what is going on with other applications while you are busy working on something else, in real time or even when you step away. One day we were working with pictures in iPhoto while having a conversation in Adium. While waiting on something important to come through in the conversation, we had to keep clicking back and forth every time an instant message came through.

Even though we knew were getting a message we'd have to click back to the Adium window to see what was being said. The idea for Growl was born out of the frustration of being forced to click back and forth to see what was going on. The real time notifications keep you up to speed with everything you need to know.

With smooth notifications and Growl's one of a kind rollup window, you'll always know what's going on even when you have to step away from your Mac. Never before has there been anything that personalizes notifications in such an effective way. You can receive notifications in several ways, such as on screen, via email, or even have them spoken to you. Plus if you know a bit about web technologies (CSS/XHTML/Javascript) then you can make a Growl style look how you want it to. So many more AWESOME features listed here. Personalize your notifications. Choose Growl's presentation, look and feels.

Keeps working even when you are not. Come back to your mac and review what happened while you were gone with Rollup.

Easy to use Applications tab for controlling what you receive and what gets blocked. Speech display for hearing your notifications, great for those who are visually impaired. Awesome notification history, so you can see what has been going on. A large variety of styles come with Growl. Anything from nano which is tiny, to music video which is huge. Make your own Growl styles very easily with web technology to give Growl your own look and feel. Send Growl notifications from Cocoa, AppleScript, or over the network.

Networking so that two or more macs can forward notifications to each other. Can work with the iPhone and iPad via Prowl. Growl is what you need. Millions of people love it, and you will too. New to Growl 2.1.1 Major Changes We fixed the Automator Action.

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This in turn turned something off that was required. We've fixed this permanently. Fixed screen saver and lock detection to behave as expected. New to Growl 2.1 Major Changes Added the ability to run scripts as an action. Added a the ability to control notifications via rules. See for more information. Growl no longer hangs when receiving a large amount of notes (more than 100) at one time.

Webkit displays can now have custom close buttons that are styled. General Changes Made it clear when the application decides for priority. AppleScript increases the image size from 128x128 to 1024x1024.

When using forwarding with Notification Center forwarding, you will now see notes on both computers. The Prowl action plugin now sends the notifications correctly if it has the notification click back set.

Automator The automator action is now localized. The GrowlAction workflow will now read from the description of the Automator action. 2.1 Jul 31, 2013. New to Growl 2.1 Major Changes. Added the ability to run scripts as an action. Added a the ability to control notifications via rules.

See for more information. Growl no longer hangs when receiving a large amount of notes (more than 100) at one time. Webkit displays can now have custom close buttons that are styled. Conference call omni for mac. General Changes.

Made it clear when the application decides for priority. AppleScript increases the image size from 128x128 to 1024x1024. When using forwarding with Notification Center forwarding, you will now see notes on both computers.

The Prowl action plugin now sends the notifications correctly if it has the notification click back set. Automator. The automator action is now localized. The GrowlAction workflow will now read from the description of the Automator action.

2.0.1 Dec 4, 2012. Growl 2.0.1 changes - Addresses the positioning problem that showed up in 2.0, thanks for the feedback! - Addressed multiple crash reports. Growl 2 changes General - 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.

Growl 1.4 changes General - Applications Tab Redesign! This is a major overhaul, and should be much easier to use. Moved Rollup controls to separate tab. Major improvements to networking. Preference Pane overhaul - New slider switch for on/off switches - Added keyboard support to position picker.

General Tab Relayout. Networking tab - Add support for subscription - History Tab, contextual menu for history table to jump to the app/notification settings - Rollup tab is the new home of controls related to the Rollup window. Adding a new display should not require a restart of Growl now.

Networking - Support for Notification-Callback-Target, a URL field in GNTP. Upon click, Growl lets OSX figure out how to open the URL (such as the default browser for an url) - Subscription support, subscribe to all applications on a remote machine. General improvements to networking authentication, removed requirement for, and use of password headers if the password field is blank - Fix networking crash related to address data resolution. Bind to local socket only if not listening for incoming notifications. Address data caching, and observation of network changes to clear caches Applescript - URL click feedback support, same as Notification-Callback-Target in GNTP Bug fixes - Resolved a crash with webkit plugin bridge on creation.

Resolved a crash with forwarding. Resolved an issue where the Speech display waits for previous message to complete causing a CPU drain - Resolved a crash with CFErrorGetDomain for WebKit Display Styles. Fixed duplicate listings of display plugins on reinstall.

Notification-Callback-Target is now respected, and used, even without the method header. Worked around problems with corrupt history databases. Fixed a sorting problem when deleting a single entry in the history list. 2.0 Sep 19, 2012.

Growl 2 changes General - 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. Growl 1.4 changes General - Applications Tab Redesign! This is a major overhaul, and should be much easier to use. Moved Rollup controls to separate tab.

Major improvements to networking. Preference Pane overhaul - New slider switch for on/off switches - Added keyboard support to position picker. General Tab Relayout. Networking tab - Add support for subscription - History Tab, contextual menu for history table to jump to the app/notification settings - Rollup tab is the new home of controls related to the Rollup window. Adding a new display should not require a restart of Growl now. Networking - Support for Notification-Callback-Target, a URL field in GNTP.

Upon click, Growl lets OSX figure out how to open the URL (such as the default browser for an url) - Subscription support, subscribe to all applications on a remote machine. General improvements to networking authentication, removed requirement for, and use of password headers if the password field is blank - Fix networking crash related to address data resolution.

Bind to local socket only if not listening for incoming notifications. Address data caching, and observation of network changes to clear caches Applescript - URL click feedback support, same as Notification-Callback-Target in GNTP Bug fixes - Resolved a crash with webkit plugin bridge on creation. Resolved a crash with forwarding. Resolved an issue where the Speech display waits for previous message to complete causing a CPU drain - Resolved a crash with CFErrorGetDomain for WebKit Display Styles.

Fixed duplicate listings of display plugins on reinstall. Notification-Callback-Target is now respected, and used, even without the method header. Worked around problems with corrupt history databases. Fixed a sorting problem when deleting a single entry in the history list. 1.4 Jun 8, 2012.

General - Applications Tab Redesign! This is a major overhaul, and should be much easier to use. Moved Rollup controls to separate tab. Major improvements to networking. Preference Pane overhaul - New slider switch for on/off switches - Added keyboard support to position picker. General Tab Relayout.

Networking tab - Add support for subscription - History Tab, contextual menu for history table to jump to the app/notification settings - Rollup tab is the new home of controls related to the Rollup window. Adding a new display should not require a restart of Growl now. Networking - Support for Notification-Callback-Target, a URL field in GNTP. Upon click, Growl lets OSX figure out how to open the URL (such as the default browser for an url) - Subscription support, subscribe to all applications on a remote machine. General improvements to networking authentication, removed requirement for, and use of password headers if the password field is blank - Fix networking crash related to address data resolution. Bind to local socket only if not listening for incoming notifications. Address data caching, and observation of network changes to clear caches Applescript - URL click feedback support, same as Notification-Callback-Target in GNTP Bug fixes - Resolved a crash with webkit plugin bridge on creation.

Resolved a crash with forwarding. Resolved an issue where the Speech display waits for previous message to complete causing a CPU drain - Resolved a crash with CFErrorGetDomain for WebKit Display Styles. Fixed duplicate listings of display plugins on reinstall. Notification-Callback-Target is now respected, and used, even without the method header. Worked around problems with corrupt history databases. Fixed a sorting problem when deleting a single entry in the history list. 1.3.3 Jan 26, 2012.

Bluescentric, Corrupt installation, paying for something I didn’t install in the first place As others have said, many apps don’t use growl, so it’s not exactly an easily justifiable endeavor. I somehow inhereted Growl with Adobe, if I remember right. After a year or two's worth of notifications that Growl, which I didn’t install in the first place, was out of date, (and Apple implementing it’s OWN notification system in that time) I finally decided to get it because my spam filter and some adobe programs use it, and I was tired of the old notification goofiness, so I thought maybe an update would make my life easier. I guess not, though. I buy it and download it like I do everything else on the app store and the first thing I see is that my install was corrupt.

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4 mintues after I bought this. Sorry guys, Growl’s old notifications were already not great. I’ve got a screencap of 25 notifications going off at once and covering my entire screen and I had to individually X each one.

Now I have to download their UNinstaller to REinstall the thing I just bought from the app store. Trying to update has officially become a serious pain, and all for an app that, again, I never bought.

Bluescentric, Corrupt installation, paying for something I didn’t install in the first place As others have said, many apps don’t use growl, so it’s not exactly an easily justifiable endeavor. I somehow inhereted Growl with Adobe, if I remember right. After a year or two's worth of notifications that Growl, which I didn’t install in the first place, was out of date, (and Apple implementing it’s OWN notification system in that time) I finally decided to get it because my spam filter and some adobe programs use it, and I was tired of the old notification goofiness, so I thought maybe an update would make my life easier. I guess not, though.

I buy it and download it like I do everything else on the app store and the first thing I see is that my install was corrupt. 4 mintues after I bought this. Sorry guys, Growl’s old notifications were already not great. I’ve got a screencap of 25 notifications going off at once and covering my entire screen and I had to individually X each one. Now I have to download their UNinstaller to REinstall the thing I just bought from the app store. Trying to update has officially become a serious pain, and all for an app that, again, I never bought. VLNewby, DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY Don’t waste your money, people.

I give it one star because there is no option for negative stars. These little notifications have been popping up on my Mac screen urging me to update Growl. I finally decided, sure, why not? So I paid the $3.99, and.attempted. to install the thing.

It did not work. I got a message saying, “We’ve detected that the Mac App store keft you with a corrupt install. Please follow the instructions the button takes you to in order to remedy the situation.” I did exactly that, but I tried FOUR TIMES, following ALL the instructions TO THE LETTER and got the same results, with the message that “the Mac App store has left you with a corrupt install, etc.” So it’s the App store’s fault Growl doesn’t work? I don’t think so. Growl needs to tune up its game, big time. If the Mac App store has a bad file, GROWL needs to freakin' give them a new one! Who even are these people, anyway?

And Growl doesn’t want to hear from you either. Their “contact us” page? The best you can hope for is to be sent to a “discussion page” where you can read about all the trouble EVERYONE else has had with it. If I wanted to do a research project, I’d go back to college. So after fooling with this WAY longer than I wanted to already, I’m giving them a bad review. Don’t waste your money, people.

VLNewby, DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY Don’t waste your money, people. I give it one star because there is no option for negative stars. These little notifications have been popping up on my Mac screen urging me to update Growl. I finally decided, sure, why not? So I paid the $3.99, and.attempted. to install the thing.

It did not work. I got a message saying, “We’ve detected that the Mac App store keft you with a corrupt install. Please follow the instructions the button takes you to in order to remedy the situation.” I did exactly that, but I tried FOUR TIMES, following ALL the instructions TO THE LETTER and got the same results, with the message that “the Mac App store has left you with a corrupt install, etc.” So it’s the App store’s fault Growl doesn’t work? I don’t think so. Growl needs to tune up its game, big time. If the Mac App store has a bad file, GROWL needs to freakin' give them a new one!

Who even are these people, anyway? And Growl doesn’t want to hear from you either. Their “contact us” page? The best you can hope for is to be sent to a “discussion page” where you can read about all the trouble EVERYONE else has had with it. If I wanted to do a research project, I’d go back to college.

So after fooling with this WAY longer than I wanted to already, I’m giving them a bad review. Don’t waste your money, people. Hoofhammer, Successfully brings notifications to programs that don’t normally have them I’ve found Growl to be very useful over the last several years and am happy to pay for it now that it’s found its way to the App Store. It does everything you could wish for it do without ever getting in the way or crashing.

It simply runs invisibly in the background until a program like (video encoder) Handbrake needs to notify you, and then it does so in much the same way Apple’s notifications work for most programs found in the App Store. Well worth its modest price. Hoofhammer, Successfully brings notifications to programs that don’t normally have them I’ve found Growl to be very useful over the last several years and am happy to pay for it now that it’s found its way to the App Store. It does everything you could wish for it do without ever getting in the way or crashing. It simply runs invisibly in the background until a program like (video encoder) Handbrake needs to notify you, and then it does so in much the same way Apple’s notifications work for most programs found in the App Store.

Well worth its modest price.