What happened to Pull Panda?
Pull Panda bundled three tools: Pull Reminders (Slack nudges about waiting reviews), Pull Analytics (review metrics), and Pull Assigner (load-balanced reviewer assignment). GitHub acquired it in June 2019, made it free, and then retired the product. Two pieces were absorbed into GitHub itself: reviewer load-balancing became part of team review assignment, and reminders became Scheduled Reminders. The dashboards and analytics were never replaced.
What to use in 2026
- GitHub Scheduled Reminders — built in and free. A scheduled Slack message per team listing PRs awaiting review. No board, no time-in-state, no SLA; review-queue only.
- Gitboard — a live board of every open PR sorted by what it needs next (draft, awaiting review, changes requested, approved-but-unmerged), with time-in-column, SLA badges, and polite Slack digests. Read-only GitHub permissions, flat per-team pricing, free for one repository.
- Axolo — takes the opposite approach: a temporary Slack channel per pull request, closed when the PR merges. Strong for conversation-heavy reviews; priced per seat. See our Axolo comparison.
- CI/CD-platform dashboards — some code-review and engineering-analytics suites include PR aging views as part of a much larger (and pricier) product. Worth it if you want org-wide metrics; heavy if you just want reviews to move.
The gap Gitboard fills
What teams actually miss from Pull Panda is not the ping — GitHub kept the ping. It is the shared picture: one screen where the whole team sees what is stuck, for how long, and on whom. That is the part Gitboard rebuilds, plus SLA tracking Pull Panda never had. The digest stays in Slack; the truth lives on the board.