Compare the Top Free Git GUI Clients as of April 2025

What are Free Git GUI Clients?

Git GUI clients are tools that provide a graphical user interface to interact with Git repositories. They simplify version control tasks, such as committing changes, branching, merging, and resolving conflicts, by offering visual workflows instead of command-line operations. These clients are designed to enhance productivity by making complex Git operations more intuitive, even for users without extensive Git expertise. They support collaboration by visually tracking changes and showing repository history in an organized way. By bridging the gap between Git’s functionality and user accessibility, Git GUI clients are valuable for both novice and experienced developers. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Git GUI Clients currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    GitHub Desktop
    Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git. Whether you're new to Git or a seasoned user, GitHub Desktop simplifies your development workflow. Quickly add co-authors to your commit. Great for pairing and excellent for sending a little love/credit to that special someone who helped fix that gnarly bug of yours. See the attribution on the history page, undo an accidental attribution, and see the co-authors on GitHub. See all open pull requests for your repositories and check them out as if they were a local branch, even if they're from upstream branches or forks. See which pull requests pass commit status checks, too! The new GitHub Desktop supports syntax highlighting when viewing diffs for a variety of different languages. Easily compare changed images. See the before and after, swipe or fade between the two, or look at just the changed parts. Open your favorite editor or shell from the app, or jump back to GitHub Desktop from your shell.
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    TortoiseGit

    TortoiseGit

    TortoiseGit

    TortoiseGit is a Windows Shell Interface to Git and based on TortoiseSVN. It's open source and can fully be build with freely available software. Since it's not an integration for a specific IDE like Visual Studio, Eclipse or others, you can use it with whatever development tools you like, and with any type of file. Main interaction with TortoiseGit will be using the context menu of the Windows explorer. TortoiseGit supports you by regular tasks, such as committing, showing logs, diffing two versions, creating branches and tags, creating patches and so on. TortoiseGit provides overlay icons showing the file status, a powerful context menu for Git and much more. It is developed under the GPL. Which means it is completely free for anyone to use, including in a commercial environment, without any restriction. The source code is also freely available, so you can even develop your own version if you wish to.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Sourcetree

    Sourcetree

    Atlassian

    Simplicity and power in a beautiful Git GUI. Sourcetree simplifies how you interact with your Git repositories so you can focus on coding. Visualize and manage your repositories through Sourcetree's simple Git GUI. Say goodbye to the command line - simplify distributed version control with a Git client and quickly bring everyone up to speed. Perfect for making advanced users even more productive. Review changesets, stash, cherry-pick between branches and more. Seeing really is believing. Get information on any branch or commit with a single click. A fully-featured GUI that offers an efficient, consistent development process right out of the box. Works with Git and Mercurial. Visualize your work and push with confidence. Stage and discard changes by the file, hunk or line. Never miss a thing. Stay on top of your work and up to date with your code at a glance. Detailed branching diagrams make it easy to keep up with your team's progress.
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    GitKraken Client
    Millions of developers and teams around the world choose GitKraken Client to make Git work for them. It makes Git more visual and accessible with an intuitive UI, the flexibility to switch between a GUI or a terminal, and a seamless experience across operating systems. Integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps make it swift and simple to clone, fork, and add remotes. You can even create, view and manage pull requests. GitKraken Client is the only Git GUI that detects and alerts ⚠️ you of potential conflicts so you can prevent them from ever happening! GitKraken Workspaces saves teams time by providing an easy way to group repositories and quickly onboard new team members. GitKraken Workspaces makes it easy to provision repositories with just a few clicks. No matter your expertise level with Git, GitKraken Client can help save you a lot of time when managing your code!
    Starting Price: $0
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    Glint

    Glint

    Logic Over Snacks Ltd.

    Manage your Git repositories in an easier and more visual way. Features: - A graph showing branches, commits, and where merges have happened in an easy to digest visual format - Perform merges and resolve conflicts with a 4-way diff editor - Manage multiple merges at once, without affecting the files on disk or needing to switch branch - Search commits and files in your repository history - Integrate with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket to easily clone or create repositories - Squash commits together - Insert new commits in the middle - Move individual changes from one commit to another - Edit commit messages - Undo/redo
    Starting Price: $0
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    Tower

    Tower

    SaaS.group GmbH

    Over 100,000 developers and designers are more productive with Tower - the most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows. Stunning new features like Pull Requests and Interactive Rebase as well as countless improvements make the new Tower the best Tower ever.Create, merge, close, comment and inspect Pull Requests right from within Tower! Integrated into our clear, responsive, and powerful desktop interface, Pull Requests become so much more useful. The brand new Quick Actions dialog gives you superpowers: Give it a branch name and it will offer a checkout. Give it a file name and it will present the file's history. Give it a commit hash and it will show it in the commit history. Fast as lightning, easy as pie. Interactive Rebase is an incredibly powerful tool - but also quite awkward to use. But now, in Tower, it has become as easy as drag and drop! We've added so many new levels of detail in the new Tower. And at the same time, navigating Tower is now as simple as browsing the web.
    Starting Price: $69 per user, per year
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    GitUp

    GitUp

    GitUp

    Work quickly, safely, and without headaches. The Git interface you've been missing all your life has finally arrived. 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. Highlight a commit and hit the spacebar to quickly see its message and diff. GitUp gives you full, transparent control over your local checkout, so it's easy to back out from unwanted changes. Margaritas, tattoos, sudo rm -rf /, etc. GitUp makes undoing your latest changes as easy as cmd-z. GitUp's Snapshot feature builds a Time-Machine-like history of every change made to your repo, allowing you to step backwards to any point in time. Rewrite, split, delete, and re-order commits, fixup and squash, cherry-pick, merge, rebase, it's all here, and it's lightning-fast.
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    GitX-dev

    GitX-dev

    GitX-dev

    GitX-dev is a fork (variant) of GitX, a long-defunct GUI for the git version-control system. It has been maintained and enhanced with productivity and friendliness oriented changes, with effort focused on making a first-class, maintainable tool for today's active developers. Building on the solid foundation of GitX, GitX-dev provides history browsing of your repository. See a nicely formatted diff of any revision, search based on author or revision subject. Look at the complete tree of any revision, and preview any file in the tree in a text view or with QuickLook. Drag and drop files out of the tree view to copy them to your system. Support for all parameters git rev-list has good performance on large (200+ MB) repositories. GitX-dev is further specialized for software developers, and is used day-to-day in production environments. We consider it to be feature-complete for most git workflows, with only uncommon or potentially-destructive commands requiring git command-line interaction.
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    Git Cola

    Git Cola

    Git Cola

    Git Cola is a sleek and powerful graphical user interface for Git. Git Cola is free software and written in Python (v2 + v3). The editor used by Ctrl-e is configured from the Preferences screen. The environment variable $VISUAL is consulted when no editor has been configured. Configuring your editor to gvim -f -p will open multiple tabs when editing files. gvim -f -o uses splits. When you select a line in the grep screen and press any of Enter, Ctrl-e, or the Edit button, you are taken to that exact line. Git Cola has many useful keyboard shortcuts. Many of Git Cola’s editors understand vim-style hotkeys, eg. {h,j,k,l} for navigating in the diff, status, grep, and file browser widgets. The Git Cola interface is composed of various cooperating tools. Double-clicking a tool opens it in its own subwindow. Dragging it around moves and places it within the main window. Tools can be hidden and rearranged however you like. Git Cola carefully remembers your window layout and restores it.
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