Gitea AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Source Code Hosting Services

The best Source Code Hosting alternative to Gitea is GitHub, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Gitea and many of them are Source Code Hosting Services so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Source Code Hosting Service alternatives to Gitea are GitLab, Forgejo, Codeberg and SourceForge.

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  1. GitHub icon
     1734 likes

    Git hosting service offering version control, collaboration, and project management tools. Provides issue tracking, code review through pull requests, wikis, and deployment workflows.

    104 GitHub alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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    Comments about GitHub as an Alternative to Gitea
    jsadoski
    Negative
    4

    Gitea is a software solution to run your own Git server. GitHub is an online service for Git.

    GitHub icon
    GitHub icon
    • GitHub is Freemium and ProprietaryGitea is Freemium and Open Source
  2. GitLab icon
     745 likes

    Provides a robust platform for on-premise or hosted Git repository management, integrating seamlessly with various dev tools, facilitating efficient workflow through offerings like issue tracking, code reviews, continuous integration, CI/CD pipelines, and option for unlimited private repositories.

    111 GitLab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Cloudron
     
  3. Forgejo icon
     54 likes

    Beyond coding. We forge. Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

    54 Forgejo alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
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    Comments about Forgejo as an Alternative to Gitea
    dirtydraft
    Positive
    4

    Community led and not controlled by a for-profit. Forgejo is the successor to Gitea.

    Douze
    Positive
    1

    Forked from Gitea in late 2022 (when Gitea was acquired by a private company). It aims to maintain and improve the already fantastic solution that was Gitea, protected and driven by a non-profit. Best used with Codeberg.

    Tetrapod
    Negative
    0

    Forgejo is NOT independently developed, but takes (FOSS) work from the Gitea developers and removes any credit to the original authors. The forgejo 'team' is essentially white-labeling the honest open-source efforts of the Gitea developers. This might be legally allowed for open-source code, but it's morally despicable. [https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/251](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/251)

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    • Forgejo is Free and Open SourceGitea is Freemium and Open Source
    • Forgejo is CustomizableGitea is not according to our users
  4. Codeberg icon
     107 likes

    A free Git source code hosting service with the objective to give the open-source code that is running our world a safe and friendly home, and to ensure that code remains free and secure forever.

    50 Codeberg alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. SourceForge icon
     340 likes

    Centralized open source platform providing code hosting for 502,000+ projects, version control, analytics, project wikis, software reviews, and access to a business software directory listing over 50,000 titles, serving millions of downloads and users monthly.

    74 SourceForge alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Bitbucket icon
     406 likes

    Provides Git repository hosting with integrated issue tracking, wiki for documentation, pull requests, code review features, support for public and private repos, CI/CD integration, branch permissions, team collaboration, notification tools, and API access.

    79 Bitbucket alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. Gogs icon
     135 likes

    The easiest, fastest, and most painless way of setting up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done with an independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and ARM.

    42 Gogs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Cloudron
     
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    Comments about Gogs as an Alternative to Gitea
    6543
    Negative
    2

    gogs has less features than gitea -> https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/comparison/

    jsadoski
    Positive
    1

    Gitea is forked from Gogs. Gogs is the upstream project. While Gitea is more featured, Gogs is lightweight and can cover basic needs. Both are equally easy to set up and run (same steps).

    valerie
    Positive
    0

    the feature set of gogs is limited compared to gitea's

    [https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/comparison]

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    • Gogs is Free and Open SourceGitea is Freemium and Open Source
  8. Radicle icon
     14 likes

    Peer-to-peer, open source stack built on Git enables decentralized, censorship-resistant code sharing and local-first data control, employing cryptographic verification, extensible collaborative objects, modular interfaces, and seamless data migration with no central entity.

    75 Radicle alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  9. RhodeCode icon
     25 likes

    Fast and powerful management tool for SVN, Mercurial, and GIT with a built in push/pull server and full text search and code-review. It works on http/https and has a built in permission/authentication system with the ability to authenticate via LDAP or ActiveDirectory.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Phorge icon
     7 likes

    Phorge is an open source, community driven platform for collaborating, managing, organizing and reviewing software development projects.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Solaris
     
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