Snarl

5.0 for Windows

Tina de Pierre

A notifications system inspired by growl for Mac.

Free and open source monitoring software download, reviewed by Tina de Pierre
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A huge selection of notifications on your desktop and other channels with support for mIRC, Pidgin, last.fm and Miranda.

Snarl is an interesting piece of software which notifies you of different events and actions from a variety of different channels.

Some of the default notifications built-in to Snarl are based on actions which take place on your PC such as hardware information, warnings, clipboard changes, USB devices being disconnected, etc.

Another part of Snarl can include other events and actions such as those of installed instant messaging applications. Currently supported applications are Cyberduck, AVM Fritz!BOX, Microsoft Exchange, Firefox, last.fm, iTunes, mIRC, Miranda and Pidgin... among others.

Snarl is also customizable in terms of appearance. You can modify transparency, onscreen position, style/skin and more.

All in all, Snarl is a very interesting concept which integrates many different popular applications which can give users prompt notifications of events and actions in real-time.

Features of Snarl

  • Integrates with Facebook, Spotify and iTunes.
  • Displayed on an external visual device such as a scrolling LED banner.
  • Forwarded as a tweet
  • Logged as a Windows Event
  • Passed to an external push notification service.
  • Posted to Facebook
  • Routed to an external Braille device.
  • Sent as an email
  • Spoken through your computer’s speakers.

Compatibility and License

Snarl is available for free and released under the open source GPLv2 license on Windows from organizer and PIM software. The license provides the options to freely download, install, run and share this program without any restrictions. The source code for Snarl should be freely available and modifications are certainly permitted as well as the option to inspect the software.

full phat accepts donations for the continued development of this free software.


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Snarl has been tested for viruses and malware.
We have tested Snarl 5.0 against malware with several different programs. We certify that this program is clean of viruses, malware and trojans.