Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac




Tower is described as 'Native desktop Git client for macOS and Windows with Pull Requests, Interactive Rebase, Image Diffing, Undo, and quick actions, integrating with all major code hosting services' and is a popular Version Control system in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Tower for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and Flathub apps. The best Tower alternative is GitHub Desktop, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Tower are SmartGit, Sourcetree, GitKraken and Fork.




Bit is an experimental modernized git CLI built on top of git that provides happy defaults and other niceties:




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

A standalone local web based user interface for git repositories
It comes with history and tree browsing. You may also use it to commit as it comes with an UI to review local changes and the ability to stage / unstage code.



This is a passion project of mine where I wanted a cross-platform git client, which would tackle some of the pain-points of existing solutions. Namely, conditional strategies to handle larger repositories (i.e. Kubernetes, Linux kernel, etc.







GitX-dev is a fork (variant) of GitX, a long-defunct GUI for the git version-control system. It has been maintained and enhanced with productivity and friendliness oriented changes, with effort focused on making a first-class, maintainable tool for today's active developers.

Glint is a graphical user interface for Git with heaps of functionality packed into an intuitive and friendly interface. Both powerful and easy-to-use, Glint lets you break free from the command line and manage your repositories in an easier, more visual way.




Pragma-git is a friendly pragmatic git control app, fully compatible with other git client softwares.

gitin is a minimalist tool that lets you explore a git repository from the command line. You can search from commits, inspect individual files and changes in the commits. It is an alternative and interactive way to explore the commit history.
