HACKER Q&A
📣 prakash09

What's your 2025 code review workflow? GitHub UI feels ancient


The GitHub web UI for PRs is painfully slow and clunky. I'm looking for better ways to handle code reviews in 2025—ideally with AI assistance, keyboard shortcuts, and minimal browser time. What tools are you actually using? CLI workflows with gh? IDE extensions? Desktop apps? AI-powered review tools? I'm willing to pay for something that genuinely saves time. Just want to review code faster and smarter without fighting GitHub's interface. What's working for you?

  👤 habosa Accepted Answer ✓
I created CodeApprove (https://codeapprove.com) because of my own frustrations with GitHub's code review UI and my experience with far superior tooling inside Google.

In the last ~5 years there has been a huge increase in the number of alternative code review tools for GitHub.

Some of my favorites (besides CodeApprove, of course):

- Graphite (https://graphite.dev)

- Reviewable (https://reviewable.io)

- CodePeer (https://codepeer.com/)

- Codelantis (https://www.codelantis.com/)

All of them have many of the things you are looking for!