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Alternatives to GitUp

GitHub, Fork, SourceTree, GitKraken, and Tower are the most popular alternatives and competitors to GitUp.
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What is GitUp and what are its top alternatives?

GitUp lets you see your entire labyrinth of branches and merges with perfect clarity. Any change you make, large or small, even outside GitUp, is immediately reflected in GitUp's graph. No refreshing, no waiting.
GitUp is a tool in the Source Code Management Desktop Apps category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to GitUp

  • GitHub
    GitHub

    GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together. ...

  • Fork
    Fork

    Manage your repositories without leaving the application. Organize the repositores into categories. Fork's Diff Viewer provides a clear view to spot the changes in your source code quickly. ...

  • SourceTree
    SourceTree

    Use the full capability of Git and Mercurial in the SourceTree desktop app. Manage all your repositories, hosted or local, through SourceTree's simple interface. ...

  • GitKraken
    GitKraken

    The downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Cross-platform, 100% standalone, and free. ...

  • Tower
    Tower

    Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive. ...

  • Sublime Merge
    Sublime Merge

    A snappy UI, three-way merge tool, side-by-side diffs, syntax highlighting, and more. Evaluate for free – no account, tracking, or time limits. ...

  • SmartGit
    SmartGit

    It is a graphical Git client with support for SVN and Pull Requests for GitHub and Bitbucket. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. ...

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GitHub logo

GitHub

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PROS OF GITHUB
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    Open source friendly
  • 1.5K
    Easy source control
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    Nice UI
  • 1.1K
    Great for team collaboration
  • 864
    Easy setup
  • 503
    Issue tracker
  • 484
    Great community
  • 480
    Remote team collaboration
  • 450
    Great way to share
  • 441
    Pull request and features planning
  • 145
    Just works
  • 131
    Integrated in many tools
  • 119
    Free Public Repos
  • 114
    Github Gists
  • 110
    Github pages
  • 82
    Easy to find repos
  • 61
    Open source
  • 59
    Easy to find projects
  • 59
    It's free
  • 56
    Network effect
  • 48
    Extensive API
  • 42
    Organizations
  • 41
    Branching
  • 33
    Developer Profiles
  • 32
    Git Powered Wikis
  • 29
    Great for collaboration
  • 23
    It's fun
  • 22
    Community SDK involvement
  • 22
    Clean interface and good integrations
  • 19
    Learn from others source code
  • 15
    Because: Git
  • 14
    It integrates directly with Azure
  • 9
    Standard in Open Source collab
  • 9
    Newsfeed
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    It integrates directly with Hipchat
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    Fast
  • 7
    Beautiful user experience
  • 6
    Cloud SCM
  • 6
    Easy to discover new code libraries
  • 5
    Smooth integration
  • 5
    It's awesome
  • 5
    Integrations
  • 5
    Graphs
  • 5
    Nice API
  • 4
    Quick Onboarding
  • 4
    Remarkable uptime
  • 4
    Hands down best online Git service available
  • 4
    CI Integration
  • 4
    Reliable
  • 3
    Loved by developers
  • 3
    Free HTML hosting
  • 3
    Security options
  • 3
    Simple but powerful
  • 3
    Uses GIT
  • 3
    Unlimited Public Repos at no cost
  • 3
    Version Control
  • 3
    Easy to use and collaborate with others
  • 2
    Nice to use
  • 2
    IAM
  • 2
    Ci
  • 1
    Easy and efficient maintainance of the projects
  • 1
    Good tools support
  • 1
    Beautiful
  • 1
    Free HTML hostings
  • 1
    Self Hosted
  • 1
    All in one development service
  • 1
    Easy to use
  • 1
    Easy source control and everything is backed up
  • 1
    Leads the copycats
  • 1
    Never dethroned
  • 1
    IAM integration
  • 1
    Issues tracker
  • 1
    Very Easy to Use
  • 1
    Easy deployment via SSH
  • 1
    Free private repos
  • 0
    Profound
CONS OF GITHUB
  • 53
    Owned by micrcosoft
  • 37
    Expensive for lone developers that want private repos
  • 15
    Relatively slow product/feature release cadence
  • 10
    API scoping could be better
  • 8
    Only 3 collaborators for private repos
  • 3
    Limited featureset for issue management
  • 2
    GitHub Packages does not support SNAPSHOT versions
  • 2
    Does not have a graph for showing history like git lens
  • 1
    Have to use a token for the package registry
  • 1
    No multilingual interface
  • 1
    Takes a long time to commit

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Johnny Bell

I was building a personal project that I needed to store items in a real time database. I am more comfortable with my Frontend skills than my backend so I didn't want to spend time building out anything in Ruby or Go.

I stumbled on Firebase by #Google, and it was really all I needed. It had realtime data, an area for storing file uploads and best of all for the amount of data I needed it was free!

I built out my application using tools I was familiar with, React for the framework, Redux.js to manage my state across components, and styled-components for the styling.

Now as this was a project I was just working on in my free time for fun I didn't really want to pay for hosting. I did some research and I found Netlify. I had actually seen them at #ReactRally the year before and deployed a Gatsby site to Netlify already.

Netlify was very easy to setup and link to my GitHub account you select a repo and pretty much with very little configuration you have a live site that will deploy every time you push to master.

With the selection of these tools I was able to build out my application, connect it to a realtime database, and deploy to a live environment all with $0 spent.

If you're looking to build out a small app I suggest giving these tools a go as you can get your idea out into the real world for absolutely no cost.

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Simon Reymann
Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 30 upvotes · 5.6M views

Our whole DevOps stack consists of the following tools:

  • GitHub (incl. GitHub Pages/Markdown for Documentation, GettingStarted and HowTo's) for collaborative review and code management tool
  • Respectively Git as revision control system
  • SourceTree as Git GUI
  • Visual Studio Code as IDE
  • CircleCI for continuous integration (automatize development process)
  • Prettier / TSLint / ESLint as code linter
  • SonarQube as quality gate
  • Docker as container management (incl. Docker Compose for multi-container application management)
  • VirtualBox for operating system simulation tests
  • Kubernetes as cluster management for docker containers
  • Heroku for deploying in test environments
  • nginx as web server (preferably used as facade server in production environment)
  • SSLMate (using OpenSSL) for certificate management
  • Amazon EC2 (incl. Amazon S3) for deploying in stage (production-like) and production environments
  • PostgreSQL as preferred database system
  • Redis as preferred in-memory database/store (great for caching)

The main reason we have chosen Kubernetes over Docker Swarm is related to the following artifacts:

  • Key features: Easy and flexible installation, Clear dashboard, Great scaling operations, Monitoring is an integral part, Great load balancing concepts, Monitors the condition and ensures compensation in the event of failure.
  • Applications: An application can be deployed using a combination of pods, deployments, and services (or micro-services).
  • Functionality: Kubernetes as a complex installation and setup process, but it not as limited as Docker Swarm.
  • Monitoring: It supports multiple versions of logging and monitoring when the services are deployed within the cluster (Elasticsearch/Kibana (ELK), Heapster/Grafana, Sysdig cloud integration).
  • Scalability: All-in-one framework for distributed systems.
  • Other Benefits: Kubernetes is backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), huge community among container orchestration tools, it is an open source and modular tool that works with any OS.
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Fork logo

Fork

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Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac
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PROS OF FORK
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    One of the easiest and fastest git GUIs
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    Nice UX
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    Does the job way better than others
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    Fast, Great support, Does-it-all, blazing fast
  • 10
    Dark theme
  • 9
    Intuitive interactive rebase and conflict resolution UI
  • 9
    Gitflow support
  • 7
    Excellent commit history tree view
  • 5
    This even looks the same as SourceTree
  • 4
    Repository Manager
  • 3
    Countless quality of life features
  • 3
    Built-in developer feedback
  • 2
    Not buggy, works smoothly
  • 2
    Keyaboard-only
  • 2
    Visual branch history
  • 2
    Reflog support
  • 2
    Github Notifications
  • 1
    Git ammend
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    Smart 'Open in' menu; e.g. explorer, bit, giithub .
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    Native application
  • 1
    Interactive rebase window
  • 1
    Intuitive merge conflict resolution
  • 1
    Unique Activity Manager shows current/past operations
CONS OF FORK
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    Stability is fragile when looking deeply into history
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    Merges that require interactive user decision
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    Poorly written license

related Fork posts

SourceTree logo

SourceTree

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PROS OF SOURCETREE
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    Visual history and branch view
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    Beautiful UI
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    Easy repository browsing
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    Gitflow support
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    Interactive stage or discard by hunks or lines
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    Great branch visualization
  • 18
    Ui/ux and user-friendliness
  • 8
    Best Git Client UI/Features
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    Search commit messages
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    Available for Windows and macOS
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    Log only one file
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    Search file content
CONS OF SOURCETREE
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    Crashes often
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    So many bugs
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    Fetching is slow sometimes
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    Extremely slow
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    Very unstable
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    Can't select text in diff (windows)
  • 4
    No dark theme (Windows)
  • 3
    Can't scale window from top corners
  • 3
    Freezes quite frequently
  • 2
    UI blinking
  • 2
    Installs to AppData folder (windows)
  • 2
    Diff makes tab indentation look like spaces
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    Windows and Mac versions are very different
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    Windows version worse than mac version
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    Diff appears as if space indented even if its tabs
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    Doesn't have an option for git init
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    Useless for merge conflict resolution
  • 2
    Doesn't differentiate submodules from parent repos
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    Requires bitbucket account
  • 1
    Generally hard to like
  • 1
    No reflog support
  • 1
    Bases binary check on filesize
  • 1
    Can't add remotes by right clicking remotes (windows)

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Simon Reymann
Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 30 upvotes · 5.6M views

Our whole DevOps stack consists of the following tools:

  • GitHub (incl. GitHub Pages/Markdown for Documentation, GettingStarted and HowTo's) for collaborative review and code management tool
  • Respectively Git as revision control system
  • SourceTree as Git GUI
  • Visual Studio Code as IDE
  • CircleCI for continuous integration (automatize development process)
  • Prettier / TSLint / ESLint as code linter
  • SonarQube as quality gate
  • Docker as container management (incl. Docker Compose for multi-container application management)
  • VirtualBox for operating system simulation tests
  • Kubernetes as cluster management for docker containers
  • Heroku for deploying in test environments
  • nginx as web server (preferably used as facade server in production environment)
  • SSLMate (using OpenSSL) for certificate management
  • Amazon EC2 (incl. Amazon S3) for deploying in stage (production-like) and production environments
  • PostgreSQL as preferred database system
  • Redis as preferred in-memory database/store (great for caching)

The main reason we have chosen Kubernetes over Docker Swarm is related to the following artifacts:

  • Key features: Easy and flexible installation, Clear dashboard, Great scaling operations, Monitoring is an integral part, Great load balancing concepts, Monitors the condition and ensures compensation in the event of failure.
  • Applications: An application can be deployed using a combination of pods, deployments, and services (or micro-services).
  • Functionality: Kubernetes as a complex installation and setup process, but it not as limited as Docker Swarm.
  • Monitoring: It supports multiple versions of logging and monitoring when the services are deployed within the cluster (Elasticsearch/Kibana (ELK), Heapster/Grafana, Sysdig cloud integration).
  • Scalability: All-in-one framework for distributed systems.
  • Other Benefits: Kubernetes is backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), huge community among container orchestration tools, it is an open source and modular tool that works with any OS.
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Cees Timmerman

Tower appears to be between GitKraken and SourceTree in detail, but gave two scary error dialogs when attempting to merge resulted in a conflict. Doing the same in SourceTree just worked and showed the conflict in its handy file view that's always visible (unlike Tower's mere "Merge branch 'X' into develop" message when the commit is selected).

Both GitKraken and Tower lack the commit hash in their history overview, requiring one to select a commit to see it.

GitKraken appears to be the only Windows 10 Git GUI suitable for night shifts, but like Tower is only free for 30 days, unlike SourceTree.

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GitKraken

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Git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux built on Electron
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PROS OF GITKRAKEN
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    Dark theme
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    Best linux git client
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    Great overview
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    Full featured client
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    Gitflow support
  • 19
    Beautiful UI
  • 18
    Very easy to use
  • 16
    Graph
  • 13
    Works great on both linux and windows
  • 13
    Effortless
  • 6
    Easy Merge Conflict Tool
  • 5
    Amazing Github and Bitbucket integration
  • 4
    Great UX
  • 3
    Integration with GitHub
  • 3
    Automatic Repo Discovery
  • 3
    Submodule support
  • 3
    Easy to Learn and Setup
  • 3
    Super fast
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    Fuzzy find (CTRL P)
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    Very user friendly
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    Much more stable than source tree
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    Great for non-dev users
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    Because it has Linux client
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    Command palette (CTRL Shift P)
CONS OF GITKRAKEN
  • 3
    Extremely slow when working with large repositories
  • 3
    No edit/fixup in interactive rebase
  • 3
    Hangs occasionally (not as bad as sourcetree)
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    Not as many features as sourcetree
  • 2
    Do not allow to directly edit staging area
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    Does not work like a Mac app

related GitKraken posts

Cees Timmerman

Tower appears to be between GitKraken and SourceTree in detail, but gave two scary error dialogs when attempting to merge resulted in a conflict. Doing the same in SourceTree just worked and showed the conflict in its handy file view that's always visible (unlike Tower's mere "Merge branch 'X' into develop" message when the commit is selected).

Both GitKraken and Tower lack the commit hash in their history overview, requiring one to select a commit to see it.

GitKraken appears to be the only Windows 10 Git GUI suitable for night shifts, but like Tower is only free for 30 days, unlike SourceTree.

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GitKraken is the best git client so far. The user interface is very friendly. Everything is easy to do with this tool. A branch tree vizualization is very clear. I've tried SourceTree and I got lost in such many panels. Also performance of SourceTree is not as goot as GitKraken. I like Sublime Merge but it doesn't have so many features as the other tools. I've choosen GitKraken and as bonus I got GitKraken Glo that is the next perfect tool.

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Tower

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PROS OF TOWER
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    Git
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    Just works
  • 10
    Version control
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    Awesome
  • 6
    Simple layout
  • 4
    Multiple windows
  • 3
    Multiple tabs
  • 3
    Automatic repo discovery
  • 2
    Gitflow support
  • 2
    Uses standard git terminology and methods
  • 2
    Submodule support
  • 2
    Interactive stage or discard by hunks or lines
  • 2
    Github integration
  • 2
    Full featured client
  • 1
    SAS
CONS OF TOWER
  • 5
    Expensive
  • 4
    Subscription based
  • 1
    No side by side diff
  • 0
    Merge conflict resolution impossible/unclear

related Tower posts

Cees Timmerman

Tower appears to be between GitKraken and SourceTree in detail, but gave two scary error dialogs when attempting to merge resulted in a conflict. Doing the same in SourceTree just worked and showed the conflict in its handy file view that's always visible (unlike Tower's mere "Merge branch 'X' into develop" message when the commit is selected).

Both GitKraken and Tower lack the commit hash in their history overview, requiring one to select a commit to see it.

GitKraken appears to be the only Windows 10 Git GUI suitable for night shifts, but like Tower is only free for 30 days, unlike SourceTree.

See more
Sublime Merge logo

Sublime Merge

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A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text
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PROS OF SUBLIME MERGE
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    Speed
  • 5
    Hotkeys
  • 5
    Beautify UI
  • 4
    Command Palete
  • 3
    Blame and File History
  • 3
    Submodule Management
  • 3
    Command Line Integration
  • 3
    Commit Editing
  • 3
    Outputs matching git CLI command
  • 3
    Sublime Text Integration
  • 3
    Three-Way Merge
CONS OF SUBLIME MERGE
  • 2
    Only light mode available for evaluation

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Julian Sanchez
Lead Developer at Chore Champion · | 9 upvotes · 577.4K views

We use Visual Studio Code because it allows us to easily and quickly integrate with Git, much like Sublime Merge ,but it is integrated into the IDE. Another cool part about VS Code is the ability collaborate with each other with Visual Studio Live Share which allows our whole team to get more done together. It brings the convenience of the Google Suite to programming, offering something that works more smoothly than anything found on Atom or Sublime Text

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GitKraken is the best git client so far. The user interface is very friendly. Everything is easy to do with this tool. A branch tree vizualization is very clear. I've tried SourceTree and I got lost in such many panels. Also performance of SourceTree is not as goot as GitKraken. I like Sublime Merge but it doesn't have so many features as the other tools. I've choosen GitKraken and as bonus I got GitKraken Glo that is the next perfect tool.

See more
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SmartGit

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A Git Graphical User Interface client
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PROS OF SMARTGIT
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