Many applications on your system register notifications frequently and display them to you to take necessary action. Some of these notifications are useless but still pop up which will be very disturbing and unpleasant when you are busy. Snarl is a simple solution that you want to control or manage all notifications of applications installed on your computer. It centralizes notifications at one place and you can choose which notifications to display and which not to. It integrates easily and safely with many applications and allows you to control notifications of that application from one place.

Snarl also helps you to check for notifications easily as all notifications are centralized you can look for notifications of any application. To easily identify notifications up on quick look you can assign different styles and schemes to each notification.

Snarl supports many applications so you can install any snarl enabled application any time and leave the notification part to snarl. There is no need to configure applications, etc it will be automatically register with snarl without any intervention.

If you have installed any other software that is not snarl enabled you can add support for that application by snarl: extensions. Extensions are very small modules that allow snarl to monitor and detect events of that application and display you notifications. As snarl uses no or limited system resource and even the code used to integrate with applications is equally light weighted. It will give a low footprint on your computer and safe to use.

You can use Snarl to monitor battery power, time, time reminders, etc apart from controlling applications notifications on your notebooks or desktop computers. Snarl is a windows only application that works fine on Windows XP and Vista versions. Snarl is very much similar to Mac OS X application Growl which is a universal notification system. Snarl is a free and open source application with more functionalities then Growl.