Compare the Top Source Code Management Software in Africa as of April 2025

What is Source Code Management Software in Africa?

Source code management (SCM) software is a type of software to help developers track, manage, and version control their source code throughout the software development lifecycle. These tools allow multiple developers to collaborate on the same project by maintaining a centralized repository where code changes are stored and tracked. SCM software typically includes features like version control, branching, merging, and conflict resolution to ensure that code changes are properly managed and integrated. It also provides tools for tracking issues, auditing changes, and ensuring that all team members are working with the latest codebase. SCM software is essential for maintaining code integrity, improving collaboration, and enhancing productivity in development teams. Compare and read user reviews of the best Source Code Management software in Africa currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    devZing

    devZing

    devZing

    Bug Tracking, Test Case Management and Version Control devZing provides a hosted, managed environment with the tools you need for your project team to get things done. We make sure the servers are running fast, are backed up and have the most current versions. You create great software. Bugzilla Hosting Bugzilla is the classic bug tracker. Have an existing Bugzilla installation? We'll import it. Subversion Hosting Do you have multiple developers writing code? Then you need Subversion. Create as many repositories as you need and access them via Subversion clients such as TortoiseSVN. MantisBT Hosting A great alternative bug tracker. Can even be used as a ticketing system. Testopia Hosting Testopia is a sophisticated addition to Bugzilla so you get integrated test case management and defect tracking in one package. Trac Hosting Trac is a fantastic combination of defect tracker, Subversion browser, Wiki and project management webapp.
    Starting Price: $15.00/month
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    Visual Studio Code
    VSCode: Code editing. Redefined. Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere. Go beyond syntax highlighting and autocomplete with IntelliSense, which provides smart completions based on variable types, function definitions, and imported modules. Debug code right from the editor. Launch or attach to your running apps and debug with break points, call stacks, and an interactive console. Working with Git and other SCM providers has never been easier. Review diffs, stage files, and make commits right from the editor. Push and pull from any hosted SCM service. Want even more features? Install extensions to add new languages, themes, debuggers, and to connect to additional services. Extensions run in separate processes, ensuring they won't slow down your editor. Learn more about extensions. With Microsoft Azure you can deploy and host your React, Angular, Vue, Node, Python (and more!) sites, store and query relational and document based data, and scale with serverless computing.
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    GitHub

    GitHub

    GitHub

    GitHub is the world’s most secure, most scalable, and most loved developer platform. Join millions of developers and businesses building the software that powers the world. Build with the world’s most innovative communities, backed by our best tools, support, and services. If you manage multiple contributors , there’s a free option: GitHub Team for Open Source. We also run GitHub Sponsors, where we help fund your work. The Pack is back. We’ve partnered up to give students and teachers free access to the best developer tools—for the school year and beyond. Work for a government-recognized nonprofit, association, or 501(c)(3)? Get a discounted Organization account on us.
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    Starting Price: $7 per month
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    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab is a complete DevOps platform. With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects in code among distributed teams via asynchronous review and commenting. Automate, track and report code reviews.
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    Starting Price: $29 per user per month
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    Bitbucket

    Bitbucket

    Atlassian

    Bitbucket is more than just Git code management. Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test, and deploy. Free for small teams under 5 and priced to scale with Standard ($3/user/mo) or Premium ($6/user/mo) plans. Keep your projects organized by creating Bitbucket branches right from Jira issues or Trello cards. Build, test and deploy with integrated CI/CD. Benefit from configuration as code and fast feedback loops. Approve code review more efficiently with pull requests. Create a merge checklist with designated approvers and hold discussions right in the source code with inline comments. Bitbucket Pipelines with Deployments lets you build, test and deploy with integrated CI/CD. Benefit from configuration as code and fast feedback loops. Know your code is secure in the Cloud with IP whitelisting and required 2-step verification. Restrict access to certain users, and control their actions with branch permissions and merge checks for quality code.
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    Starting Price: $15 per month
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    PhpStorm

    PhpStorm

    JetBrains

    The Lightning-Smart PHP IDE. PhpStorm deeply understands your code. PhpStorm is perfect for working with Symfony, Laravel, Drupal, WordPress, Zend Framework, Magento, Joomla!, CakePHP, Yii, and other frameworks. The editor actually 'gets' your code and deeply understands its structure, supporting all the PHP language features for modern and legacy projects. It provides the best code completion, refactorings, on-the-fly error prevention, and more. Make the most of the cutting edge front-end technologies, such as HTML 5, CSS, Sass, Less, Stylus, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Emmet, and JavaScript, with refactorings, debugging, and unit testing available. See the changes instantly in the browser thanks to Live Edit. Perform many routine tasks right from the IDE, thanks to the Version Control Systems integration, support for remote deployment, databases/SQL, command-line tools, Docker, Composer, REST Client, and many other tools.
    Starting Price: $199 per user per year
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    Azure Repos

    Azure Repos

    Microsoft

    Get unlimited private Git repository hosting and support for TFVC that scales from a hobby project to the world’s largest repository. Support for any Git client: Securely connect with and push code into your Git repos from any IDE, editor, or Git client. Web hooks and API integration: Add validations and extensions from the marketplace or build your own using web hooks and REST APIs. Semantic code search: Quickly find what you’re looking for with code-aware search that understands classes and variables.
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    Gitea

    Gitea

    CommitGo, Inc.

    Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD. Its backend is written in the Go language. It is published under the MIT license. Gitea runs anywhere Go can compile for Windows, macOS, Linux, ARM, etc. Choose the one you love! Simply run the binary for your platform, ship it with Docker, or get it packaged. Gitea has low minimal requirements and can run on an inexpensive Raspberry Pi. Save your machine energy! Join us by contributing to make this project even better. Don’t be shy to be a contributor!
    Starting Price: $19/month/user
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    Plastic SCM

    Plastic SCM

    Codice Software

    Unity Plastic SCM is a version control and source code management tool built to improve team collaboration and scalability with any engine. It offers optimized workflows for artists and programmers, as well as superior speed in working with large files and binaries. Plastic SCM offers tons and tons of features that make a developer's life much easier. Good branching and merging is key for "task-driven development" , feature branches, and good release management. Using Plastic, you'll branch fast even with huge code bases. You'll be able to diff refactored code with the new built-in semantic diff plus the "analyze refactors" feature. It can find refactored code across files for C#/Vb.net, Java, and C. The built-in 3-way merge tool Xdiff/Xmerge lets you resolve even the most complex merge conflicts since it features language-agnostic refactoring support. Plastic includes our SemanticMerge product.
    Starting Price: $6.95 per month
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    CodePorting.Native Cs2Cpp
    CodePorting.Native Cs2Cpp is a C# to C++ source code porting framework, best suited for organizations who are keeping their source code in C#. If you want to release the same version of your application with C++ source code to cover more platforms, CodePorting.Native Cs2Cpp is for you. It can simplify & automate the source code conversion process, allowing you to publish apps on additional platforms with every new release. Available as a command line tool as well as with a GUI, Cs2Cpp Porter reproduces the internal classes and routines in the same way as they are implemented in the original C# code. Once the code is successfully ported from C# to C++, the code can be built for any of the supported target platforms.
    Starting Price: $8,997 per year per user
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    Google Cloud Source Repositories
    Google Cloud Source Repositories is a single place for your team to store, manage, and track code. More than just a private Git repository: Design, develop, and securely manage your code. Collaborate easily on a fully featured, scalable, and private Git repository. Extend your Git workflow by connecting to other Google Cloud tools, including Cloud Build, App Engine, Pub/Sub, and operations products such as Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging. Fast code search: Use powerful regexp to search across multiple directories. You can use regular expressions to refine your search or perform a single targeted search across projects, files, and code repositories. Improve developer productivity: Get fast feedback on your code changes with built-in integrations for continuous integration. You can easily set up triggers to automatically build and test using Cloud Build when you push changes to Cloud Source Repositories.
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    CodeScan

    CodeScan

    CodeScan

    Code Quality and Security for Salesforce Developers. Made exclusively for the Salesforce platform, CodeScan’s code analysis solutions provide you with total visibility into your code health. The most comprehensive static code analysis solution supporting Salesforce languages and metadata. Self hosted. Check your code for security and quality with the most extensive database for the salesforce platform. Cloud. Get all the benefits of our self hosted service without the need of servers or internal infrastructure. Editor plugins. Plug in codescan to your favorite editor and get real-time feedback while you code. Define code standards. Maintain the quality of your code according to best practices. Control code quality. Enforce your coding standards and minimize code complexity throughout the development process. Reduce technical debt. Track your technical debt to improve your code quality and efficiency. Increase development productivity.
    Starting Price: $250 per month
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