GitHub Alternatives

GitHub is described as 'Web-based Git hosting service facilitating collaboration, with features like issue tracking, social networking, and wikis for project management' and is a leading source code hosting service in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to GitHub for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Linux, Mac and Windows apps. The best GitHub alternative is GitLab, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GitHub are Gitea, Codeberg, Bitbucket and SourceForge.

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GitHub alternatives are mainly Version Control Systems, but if you're looking for Source Code Hosting Services or Project Management Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Europe, Self-Hosted, EU, Open Source, Free + Source Code Hosting and Android. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to GitHub.
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  1. Azure DevOps icon
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    Continuous Delivery Services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software – for any language, all in a single package.

    64 Azure DevOps alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  2. DioHub icon
     6 likes

    DioHub is an open-source unofficial GitHub mobile client, that aims to deliver the ultimate GitHub experience on mobile devices.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  3. 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
     
  4.  5 likes

    sr.ht is is the hosted instance of SourceHut and provides paid services to its users.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    sr.ht vs GitHub Comments
    Jakub01
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    1

    Easy to use, no tracking, work without JS, lightweight and customizable.

    • sr.ht is Freemium and Open SourceGitHub is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. Mantis Bug Tracker is a free and open source, web-based bug tracking system. It is written in the PHP scripting language and works with MySQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL databases and a webserver. MantisBT can be installed on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, OS/2, and others.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Free private Git repositories, pull requests, and code search. Get unlimited private Git repository hosting and support for TFVC that scales from a hobby project to the world’s largest repository.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Azure DevOps
     
  7. Tuleap icon
     49 likes

    Tuleap is the first fully libre and open source software (GPL licence) for Enterprise Application Lifecycle Management. Tuleap is provided by the Enalean company and the community members.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. NotABug.org icon
     18 likes

    NotABug.org is a free Git source code hosting service, much like GitHub & GitLab.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    NotABug.org vs GitHub Comments
    Personal Information
    Positive
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    I like notabug, it's an alternative to big complex git servers like github, where most of the features I don't need. If you use git server only for a git, notabug is a good option.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Design is very similar to GitHub

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Somnath Travels
    Positive
    -1

    GitHub is the best. I like the features. The only thing we need to tell is support php, Java ertc

    • NotABug.org is Free and Open SourceGitHub is Freemium and Proprietary
  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. Apache Allura icon
     15 likes

    Apache Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs, and more for any number of individual projects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  11. JitHub icon
     3 likes

    JitHub is a third party UWP client for github.com. You can use JitHub to manage the code, issues, pull requests, commits and much more in your repositories.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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