Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux




Guitar is described as 'Git GUI Client. Open Source, Free Software (GPL v2). Run on Windows, macOS and Linux. Written in C++. Powered by Qt 5' and is a Git Client in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Guitar for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and F-Droid apps. The best Guitar alternative is GitHub Desktop, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Guitar are SmartGit, Sourcetree, GitKraken and Gittyup.




GitAhead lets you filter results and performs advanced searches. It shows you exactly what you need to see and makes navigating through thousands of commits a piece of cake.




The native macOS app for effortlessly rewriting Git history. Move and squash commits with drag-and-drop, undo any mistake with cmd+Z, and get crystal-clear context at every step.



Sublime Merge is a fast and intuitive git client built on the same performant platform as Sublime Text.

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.




gitg is a git repository viewer targeting gtk+/GNOME. One of its main objectives is to provide a more unified user experience for git frontends across multiple desktops. It does this not be writing a cross-platform application, but by close collaboration with similar clients for...





GotHub is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Guitar.
DioHub is an open-source unofficial GitHub mobile client, that aims to deliver the ultimate GitHub experience on mobile devices.



Is a tool for creating commits and managing branches. It was inspired by and initially based on gitool. Written in Tcl/Tk. Stable versions are shipped with Core Git since version 1.5.


Magit is a complete text-based user interface to Git. It fills the glaring gap between the Git command-line interface and various GUIs, letting you perform trivial as well as elaborate version control tasks with just a couple of mnemonic key presses.





git-cola is a powerful GUI for git, a distributed revision control system. cola's ingredients include git-python and jsonpickle. cola is released under the GNU GPL v2.

