Magit AlternativesGit Clients & Version Control Systems like Magit

Magit is described as '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' and is a Git Client in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Magit for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Flathub and Flatpak apps. The best Magit alternative is TortoiseGit, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Magit are git-gui, git-cola, Thermal and lazygit.

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  1. TortoiseGit icon
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    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.

    73 TortoiseGit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • TortoiseGit is the most popular Windows alternative to Magit.

    • TortoiseGit is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Magit.

    • TortoiseGit is Free and Open SourceMagit is also Free and Open Source
    • TortoiseGit is LightweightMagit is not according to our users
  2. git-gui icon
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    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.

    46 git-gui alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
     
    • git-gui is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Magit.

    • git-gui is Free and Open SourceMagit is also Free and Open Source
  3. Thermal icon
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    Thermal is a free, open-source, cross-platform Git GUI built by developers for developers. It's a desktop application built with Electron & Vue.js, allowing you to manage your Git repositories at one place by providing a simple to use graphic interface with built-in...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Node.JS
     
  4. Commit icon
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    Commit is an editor that helps you write better Git and Mercurial commit messages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Flatpak
     
  5. Guitar icon
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    Git GUI Client. Open Source, Free Software (GPL v2). Run on Windows, macOS and Linux. Written in C++. Powered by Qt 5.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Qt
     
  6. Giggle icon
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    Giggle is a graphical frontend for the git content tracker (think of gitk on GTK+).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. EGit icon
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    Eclipse Team plugin for the revision control system git. Allows you to check in files, mark files as tracked/untracked, and view history. Not all git operations are supported.

    21 EGit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Eclipse
     
  8. gitti icon
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    Gitti is a Git Client for Mac OS X designed to help users never have to touch the command line. With a highly modular and organized interface, Gitti logically separates each step in your Git workflow to maximize your efficiency.

    38 gitti alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Git GUI client for Linux desktops inspired by Magit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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