Growl App Reviews

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Growl is everything it is supposed to be

I almost didn’t upgrade because of all of the negative reviews but it works JUST as advertised and does a great job - very customizeable, couldn’t be better. I even downloaded the Hardware Growl and like it as well. I’m running Sierra with a Macbook Pro.

Stop sending updating notifications.

If I were to upgrade, I done so via app store. And I have already purchased the app why lead me again and again to the version 2 update?

Seems to work fine now...

Seems to be working well for me under Mountain Lion. You can have Growl send its own notices as always, or you can have those routed through the Mac OS notification system. Does what its supposed to do on my Apps and doesnt interfere with the stock Mac OS messages. The only reason I gave it four stars is because of the hassles I had to go through to uninstall the old version. Theres an official "uninstaller" on their website that you need to use to uninstall the old version FIRST before you install this new version. Whatever... You really shouldnt have to do that… Otherwise it seems fine now so Im giving it four stars. If it were easier to install I would have given it five stars.

I was a loyal user...

Ive been using Growl since 2008, and Ive been a loyal user telling all my friends about it. I was fine with it migrating to the app store, and Im a fan of supporting developers, so I felt the $1.99 price was perfectly reasonable. But $3.99 for an upgrade? Seriously?? Just… no. I will not be updating. OS X notifications are catching up to Growls capabilities and with the lack of development for Growl, I expect it to be surpassed. Sorry Growl, but youve lost me with stupid pricing schemes. Because, seriously, who doubles the original cost just for an upgrade???

A very helpful helper app

Many of the notifications Growl generates are very informative and helpful to knowing what is going on with your Mac. Im very happy with this app and would recommend it, especially if youd like to know more about what is happening - especially when youre away from your Mac. Tom

Waste...

I cant believe I paid for this garbage. It doesnt work. When I try to start it the icon just spins and says "Launching Growl" and nothing happens.

Essential OSX app

Growl is _the_ standard notification app. Application developers integrate with it, Apple copied it, they ported it to Windows, this is the one to get. Simple as that.

GROWL IS A GREAT APP!!!

I was running version 1.2. Installation of version 2.0.1 was easy! Simply go to the Growl website for instructions on how to uninstall your prior version. Once you uninstall the old version, you will most likely need to reinstall the new version in the App Store (if you had installed it while still running the old version). Once you installed the new version, just launch finder and go to your apps folder and you will see an icon for Growl. Load Growl to finish the installation. Youre done!

how to install growl if you have an old (non app store) growl

For starts, I have no connection to the growl project team, I am a user and am happy to do a small part to show my appreciation for the work that they have done to create this great application. My impressions of the app will be found below the install instructions. --------- App store applications are not allowed to replace applications in your application folder or in other locations that they did not create. So, if you have growl 1.2, you cannot replace it with growl 2.0 without some preparation. I wrote up step by step instructions, but it would be better to go the growl website, click on downloads, and get the growl uninstaller application. Now come to the app store and install growl. I just performed these series of steps on my dads computer and it worked. Years ago I had installed growl 1.2 on his computer. --------- I have used the application for more than 4 years, and it continues to very useful to me every day. Most recently I have used it combination with audium, which is logged into my facebook chat. I suspected that 2 of my friends were the same person, and by looking at my logs, I was able to determine that 3 of my friends were the same person. I do system administration, and often have my screen filled with terminal windows to different servers. Growl notifies me of incoming email messages from nagios as I bring computers online and offline, so if I am working on system A and make a minor change, then system B goes offline, I get notified immediately so I can fix it, hopefully before the customer notices that there was a problem. Apple notifications can only be triggered by applications that come from the app store. Since growl comes from the app store, it can trigger apple notification center. Growl has many more applications available for it than the apple notification center, and can be used to bridge growl only applications with notification center. --------- I do have two feature requests though. One is to specify a growl log folder, and have the option to write a different log per application. I would then write a cron to purge old rss feeder logs, while keeping others. The second is to roll the log files instead of truncating them once they reach a certain size, (can you use logrotate?) though the current solution is better than none. When I first encountered the problem of large growl logs, my computer was using 2/3 of it’s CPU doing spotlight updates on a heavily fragmented 1.5 gig growl log file that was being updated every 20 seconds (after which spotlight has to re-index the whole file) by my rss feeds all day long, but that was a long time ago. The problem described has been resolved in the current version of growl. -Michael

Good stuff, but for $4 should include more customization.

Love this style of notification, and I enjoy that I can customize it a decent bit more than the native OS notification center, which still will not fully work. My only issue is the lack of full customization. I feel it is a blaring issue that I cant control the duration of a non-sticky notification. Even more preferable would be the option to change durations of notifications based on priority. On MenuWeather for ex. I have several locations that I like to see the weather for, and when the app updates every 45 min (wish it was faster) it brings up 5 different locations, but becasue the duration of the app is so short I cant get through all of them before they dissappear. Now I could make the notification sticky, but then I have to interact with the notification every time and that is just a hassle, a $4 hassle. All in all its better than the native notification center, but could use some more options for displaying notifications.

Misrepresented The Truth

You are leading app buyers to believe that MAC is supporting this app. The truth is Apple is no longer supporting Growl because it has its own Notification system. Apple does not allow its basic apps in Growl, the calendar, mail, reminders, messages, Day-one, Evernote on and on. It is forcing MAC owners to use their Notification System which is a pain because its portal is right by the search system. I dont like being caught in a turf war. I dont like companies controlling me. I paid cold hard cash. Apple set it up so my choices are limited. This exactly what Microsoft started to do. I was so happy when my son broke me of that dependency but the time I left they were really throwing their weight around. I purchased a stand alone scanner, $800, had it for two months and couldnt use it on MAC. I gave the scanner away along with two dell computers. I pay good money for choices. Please Apple dont get that way or is that a natural outgrowth of unfettered power. Remember Miracle on 34th Street, Macy started helping the customers by referring them to other stores. That was a smooth move but respect here is not given on superior products --just market share. Shame on your Growl about not being honest with me about the limitations. I think I would have still purchase the expensive and limited app because one day Apple is either going to buy you out or make peace. Apple dont stifle competition dont repeat history. BJ Little

** THIS NEVER INSTALLS **

I have repeatedly attempted to download this update and install it. No file appears. No app appears anywhere on my system. Total waste of time and money. Im still using Ver 1.2.2 as it works. I recommend against this app and would give it zero stars if I could.

Not seeing the benifit of this ap

Is it suposed to do something?

Waste of Money!

Stopped working after I upgraded to the Paid version from the free version!

It is what it is...

Managed to work around some of the changes due to sandboxing. Its a bit of a hassle but then again, sandboxing does have some up side. Id jump to this version because Ive experienced no crashes in this version. I also like this version since it works well with my personal Applescripts, especially my iTunes Applescript app.

Dont buy!!!!

worst app i bought, plug-ins doesnt play well, no google drive support, gmail notification broken and corrupted my files had to use time machine, stay away!!!

Great notification application

Ive been using this application since I got my first Mac, and I think its a really good application for what it does. It has good integration with all the apps I use - Transmit, BBEdit, Skype, etc and I find it very useful. Ive been using it for free up until today, and its worth far more than the $3.99 (less than a large latte at starbucks) for something that I use every day, all day. I especially like the notificaitons in Transmit because I will be editing a file that I opened via transmit and growl lets me know when the edited file has been uploaded. Ive seen a lot of posts that complain about no new features or price. Well, integration with OS X notificaitons and sandboxing, while not readily visible are big enhancements, and $4 for a quality piece of software is cheap - software doesnt write itself. I do wish that Microsoft Office, in particular Outlook worked with Growl. This is a Microsoft thing, not a Growl thing, but hey, Skype made it work... 6 stars.

Not worth it

I know its not very much money but I will feel like I wasted my time buying and trying to get this set up. I remember when growl worked great, but I could not integrate it with anything, and it completely broke some applications.

Finally paid for the upgrade and now it doesn

As soon as I upgraded, the icon disappeared and it no longer works. I cant even find the files to uninstall it. Thanks Growl.

The growl of an old cat

Whats to say? Its Growl. Once a shining jewel of open source, now a buggy application whos functionality has finally been integrated into the OS where it belongs. Works fine for me, when it doesnt crash. Remembers my settings, most of the time. Still has issues, even on a freshly installed Mac. For some reason the control application is stuck in a small, non-resizable window. If youre considering purchasing, Id say dont bother. Most applications have moved on to Notification Center. Growl is still around for the old or abandoned applications that havent updated.

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