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The screen is divided into 3 vertical areas. You pick repositories and worktrees on the left, view the commit graph and diffs in the center, and work with commit details and the Working copy on the right. Drag the divider to resize the left and right sidebars.
The full ParalleLane layout, made up of the title bar, the left sidebar, the commit graph in the center, and the right sidebar

Title bar

The headers of the 3 areas sit side by side in one row. You can drag an empty area of it to move the window, or double-click to maximize. When you’re signed in on a Pro plan, a PRO badge sits at the right end of the left header. 2 tabs at the top switch between views. At the bottom are the Account settings, Help, and Open settings buttons.
Registered repositories are listed, and expanding one reveals its worktrees. Select a worktree and the graph in the center redraws. You can organize repositories into groups.The right edge of the row shows the ahead/behind count against the remote, and hovering over a linked worktree shows a Delete worktree button in the same spot. Repositories and submodules tracked with Git LFS get an LFS badge.
The Projects tab with 3 repositories, each expanded down to its worktrees, and the commit graph to its right

Top bar

On the left, the current location is shown as Repository ⟩ Worktree ⟩ Branch (the Worktree segment is omitted in the main worktree, and a short SHA appears there if HEAD is detached). On the right are buttons for the current tab. The History tab shows Undo / Redo, Compare, and Edit .gitignore by default, with up to 2 more added depending on conditions.
  • Show all branches / Show current branch only appears only for linked worktrees.
  • Cleanup appears only in the main worktree. It’s a menu for deleting several branches at once, holding Clean up merged branches and, for repositories with a remote, Clean up branches deleted on remote. Cleaning up branches covers it in detail.
Look for the Push, Pull, Fetch, and Stash buttons in the right sidebar header. For github.com repositories, a Create pull request button follows them.

Open in…

The button at the far right of the top bar opens the selected worktree’s folder in another tool. Click the arrow beside it and the menu opens.
  • Default entries are built-in destinations such as Finder and Terminal. You can’t delete them, but you can hide them in Settings.
  • Added apps are apps registered in Settings, listed below.
  • Open in browser opens the remote repository’s page in your browser.
  • Copy path copies the worktree folder’s path.
Once you pick an entry, it’s remembered, so from then on you can rerun it by clicking just the button to the left of the arrow. The menu setup is covered in Open In.

Center: the graph and tabs

  • In the Tab bar, the first History tab is the commit graph and is always pinned. Diffs, comparisons, and file history each open as a new tab on the right, and you can drag to reorder them. A tab is labeled with the file name alone. Hover it and the full repository-relative path appears as a tooltip.
  • Commit graph splits commits into a lane per branch and draws them in time order. The layout streams in piece by piece. Even large repositories are ready to explore starting with the first piece. Click a commit and its details appear on the right.
A filled commit dot marks a commit reachable from a remote; a hollow ring marks a commit not yet pushed.

The tab menu

Right-click a tab and a menu opens with the path entries at the top, above the close entries.
  • Copy relative path copies the path from the repository root, the same form Git itself prints.
  • Copy absolute path copies the repository-relative path joined onto the worktree folder, so you can paste it straight into a terminal or Finder.
Both entries are missing from tabs that don’t point at a file (Compare and the .gitignore edit tab), and the History tab has no menu at all. Choosing one closes the menu. The confirmation comes as a notification carrying the path that was copied. Its content changes based on what you select.
  • The Working copy card at the top is always present, shows the number of changes and whether there’s a conflict, and opens the Working copy panel when clicked.
  • Select a commit and its metadata appears at the top, with the list of changed files below. Click a file and a diff tab opens in the center.
  • Drag the divider to resize the top and bottom panes.
The right sidebar with the Working copy card at the top, and below it the AUTHOR, COMMITTER, REFS, SHA, and PARENTS commit information stacked above the list of changed files

Context menus

Most repositories, worktrees, branches, tags, stashes, and commits have a right-click menu, and the whole app follows the same rules.
  • Groups separated by dividers are ordered from safest at the top to most dangerous at the bottom, and a group with no items disappears along with its divider.
  • Red marks only irreversible actions. Deletes, removals, and resets that can lose uncommitted work or refs fall under this, and are grouped together in the last group. Revert, amend, squash, and rebase are not highlighted, and items that are disabled because conditions aren’t met appear grayed out.
  • A trailing on the name opens a dialog first, for entering a name or choosing an option. It’s not added to confirmation dialogs or submenus.
Color is a secondary signal. Check the dialog’s description to see what a dangerous action would cost you.

Help menu

Click the question-mark button at the bottom of the left sidebar and the menu opens upward.
  • Developer docs opens this documentation site in your browser.
  • Check for updates checks for a new version right away.
  • Send feedback opens the feedback dialog.

Sending feedback

Pick a Type (Bug, Feature request, and Other), fill in Title and Details, then click Send.
Only your app version, OS, and plan are attached. Repository details such as paths and branch names, and your Git account information, are never sent.

Opening Settings

Open it from the settings button at the bottom of the left sidebar, or from ParalleLane → Settings… in the macOS menu bar. At the top of the Settings screen are the ParalleLane tab and the Projects tab. The ParalleLane tab holds app-wide settings (General, Appearance, Shortcuts, Accounts, Git, Signing, Open In, AI, Plan, About), and the Projects tab holds settings that apply to a single repository chosen from a dropdown (Accounts, Git, Signing, Open In).
Both tabs have a Git menu, but the content differs. The ParalleLane tab has global settings such as the default account, fetch/push defaults, the merge tool, and LFS, while the Projects tab has that repository’s list of remotes. That’s why these docs always include the tab name in a settings path.
Settings explains each setting in detail.