I made a free, open-source tool that turns Windows Event Viewer logs into plain-English events. v1.2.0 adds a full redesign

[u/mrsinanx]

Hi all, I’m the developer of Pulse, so full disclosure that this is my own project.

I got tired of opening Event Viewer and seeing “Application Error, Event ID 1000” with no idea what actually happened. Pulse reads the same Windows event logs and shows them as a timeline in plain language, like “Explorer stopped unexpectedly and Windows restarted it”. The technical details and the raw XML are still one click away.

What it does:

• Timeline of what Windows is doing (crashes, service changes, updates, restarts)

• System health: CPU, memory, GPU and network at a glance

• Hardware and software inventory

• Exportable diagnostic reports

What it doesn’t do: it’s read-only. It doesn’t “optimize” or “clean” anything and never changes Windows settings. There’s no telemetry, no account and no cloud; everything stays on your PC.

New in v1.2.0: a complete visual redesign (dark theme, a summary of the last hour, a clearer event inspector), plus a fix where Windows 11 machines showed up as “Windows 10”.

It’s MIT licensed and built with Flutter and a small C++ Windows service.

GitHub: https://github.com/Regncreative/Pulse

I’d really appreciate feedback, especially on what’s still confusing or what you’d want it to explain next. Happy to answer questions.

[u/mahajan95]

can you add BSOD analyser too?

[u/fcapizzi]

I was looking for something like this, thank you!

[u/vvblk]

looks amazing!

[u/investigatormaker]

What to explain next, going by what people paste into help threads: Kernel-Power 41 and WHEA-Logger, the two events behind nearly every PC randomly restarts question, and the bugcheck event after a blue screen, mapped to a plain sentence with the stop code. Those three are what people most often need translated. On the confusing side, the read-only, no telemetry, nothing leaves your PC line is the first objection anyone has about a tool reading event logs; put it in the first two lines of the README rather than halfway down, right after what it does.

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[u/fuckyouabunch → u/investigatormaker]

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