Explanation of Growl Styles



There are different kinds of Growl Styles. There are Growl Styles that change the way a Growl notification looks on your screen. Some can do things like send you an email. Some can even talk to hardware devices.


Visual Growl Styles


The Growl Styles that change the way Growl notifications look on your screen are what we like to call Visual Growl Styles. These displays can be created by anyone who has a little bit of talent with either web technologies like CSS/HTML or with Apple's Cocoa


Here is a list of the Visual Growl Styles that we have found. A lot of people have put out different Visual Growl Styles throughout the years. If you would like to have your display style listed here, just let us know about it via the discuss list.

Black Glass Growl Style - Design by Ryan Collins

Engage - Design by Engage Interactive

Hud Growl Theme - Design by Rogie King

iOS flip theme - Design by Shantanu Gautam

Mono, Eleven, Basics - Designs by Christopher Lobay

iOS 5 Notification Growl - Design by SkyJohn

GrowlingLion - Design by Andreas Heiberg

Nucleic Growl Theme - Design by Chris Wallace

Portal - Design By Will Blackmore

Ribbon Growl Theme - Design By Shantanu Gautam

SnowBezel - Design by Dennis Raver

Smokestack - Design by MattRobs

Sticky Growl Theme - Design by Shantanu Gautam,

Valet - Design by Dan Deming-Henes


Action Growl Styles


The other kind of Growl Styles, the ones which can do things, are called Action Growl Styles. If you are familiar with the MailMe display in Growl, then you have seen an Action Growl Style.



SMTP Mail - More options for sending emails through Growl - By Alessandro Volz

Mac LCD - Use Growl with a character LCD - By Eric Pooch


Styles Archive


We also have a few displays for archival purposes. You can see these at the Growl Styles Archive.