GHManage 0.6.0

Released August 3, 2026. Downloads for this release

GHManage is a Windows desktop app for reading and managing your GitHub repositories from a fast, keyboard-driven list.

This release adds labels: a view of them, a way to read a repository through them, and the two actions that were missing.

Labels are a view now

Ctrl+8 lists the repository’s labels by name, with their descriptions and colours, the same way Ctrl+2 lists branches and Ctrl+5 lists releases. The details panel below spells out the label, its description, its colour, and whether it is one of the defaults GitHub creates with a repository.

Enter on a label reads the repository through it

Press Enter on a label and the Issues & PRs view comes back holding only the issues and pull requests that carry it. Everything you already know still works there — the state filter, the columns, the sort order, C to close, M to comment — because it is the same view, not a new one.

The restriction is applied by GitHub, not by the quick filter, so it finds items that were never on the page you were looking at. A repository with 800 open issues will happily tell you the 6 tagged accessibility, and you never have to press Ctrl++ to go looking for them.

While a label is on, the window title and the status bar both name it, so it is never a mystery why the list is short. Backspace returns to the labels. Ctrl+1 — asking for Issues & PRs by name — drops the label and shows everything again.

Creating and deleting labels

In the Labels view, Insert creates one and Delete removes the selected one. Right-click offers both, and File ▸ New Label… / Delete Label… reach them from the menu bar.

A new label needs a name. The description and the colour are optional; leave the colour blank and GitHub picks one, or give it six hex digits and GHManage checks them before it asks GitHub for anything. The form labels every field for a screen reader and opens with focus in the name box.

Deleting is the one that deserves a warning: a deleted label is stripped from every issue and pull request that carries it, and GitHub offers no undo. GHManage names the label and says so before it does anything, and does nothing unless you answer yes.

Favorites moved to Ctrl+9

Labels took Ctrl+8 and Favorites moved down to Ctrl+9. The numbers follow the order of the View ▸ View Mode menu and are printed next to each item there, which is the whole point of them — so the menu still tells you the answer.

A note on forks

On a fork, the labels come from the upstream repository — the same place the fork’s issues and pull requests come from, since forks have issues disabled. That means the labels you see always match the issues you are reading.