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Tower

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Tower is a native desktop Git client for both macOS and Windows. The app gives developers, designers, and non-technical people easy access to the full power of Git with features such as Pull Requests, Interactive Rebase, Image Diffing, Quick Actions, Undo and much more.

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  • Mac  macOS 10.11+
  • Windows  Windows 7 SP2 or newer
4.5 / 5 Avg rating (14)
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  1. GitHub icon  GitHub
  2.  Git-flow
  3. Azure DevOps icon  Azure DevOps
  4. GitLab icon  Gitlab
  5. Git icon  Git
  6. Bitbucket icon  Bitbucket

Features

  1.  Drag and Drop
  2.  Dark Mode
  3.  Pull requests
  4.  Interactive Rebase
  5. Git icon  Git Support
  6.  User Profiles
  7.  Rebase merging
  8.  Native application
  9.  Git LFS 2.0 support
  10.  Support for GitHub API
  11.  Tree view

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Tower information

  • Developed by

    fournova Software GmbH
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $5 and $10 per month.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.5 (14 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    60 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 15 comments and reviews about Tower, and it has gotten 60 likes

Tower was added to AlternativeTo by walle on Nov 30, 2010 and this page was last updated May 8, 2024. Tower is sometimes referred to as gittower, git-tower, git tower.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: Tower is generally praised for its intuitive user interface and functionality, particularly in visualizing Git processes with features like drag-and-drop rebase. It enhances productivity, making Git usage accessible even for beginners by providing a graphical UI. Users appreciate its stability and responsiveness. However, some criticize its high cost, slow update cycle, and lack of Linux support. While there are concerns about UX and lost stashes, users note fast and helpful customer support.
mcmarc76
  
Top positive commentOct 1, 2019

Great tool - very stable and intuitive. I use that too everyday and I don't want to miss it - keeps things simple. I use it on windows and mac. Don't get me wrong - I really love git in the terminal - but for a lot of reasons a GUI makes absolutely sense...

The support team is great. Fast response times and very committed to their job! thanks

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maximeleb
  
Top negative commentApr 19, 2019

I bought a year license and I use it at work everyday.

It is sexy from the outside, but it's just not simple to use and not well thinked.

  • The PR feature is not working
  • Sometimes I lost stashes (it told me it was saved, but no)
  • The search feature is aweful (you have to select if you look for a git message, an author or a file... Yes, this 70$ app isn't able to guess it for you !)
  • To select a branch, you have to select it on a simple dropdown without any kind of search field. When using it professionally in a gitflow, that means having to seek for your branch among hundreds of branches.
  • It asks for a lot of shit when you change your branch (Do you want to stash ? How do I call the stash ? Did you notice this unversionned file that I will not destroy anyway because it's fu**king not versionned...)

Long story short : sexy ui, aweful UX. I won't say I gain time with it - and it doesn't make git easier in my professional life. Better investing in learning git commands, you'll have to learn them to fix Tower errors anyway...

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Account314
  
Positive commentMar 7, 2023

Perfect for student. It's completely free for 1-year and if you still need it, you email them and they renew your subscription for free.

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Guest
  
Positive commentJun 20, 2022

Fast, intuitive, has all the features I need !

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Guest
  
Positive commentMar 24, 2021

This is a very great piece of software which helps me and my colleagues a lot in our collaborative model development.

Plus, the Tower team is super-friendly and has always replied to my emails very fast. I wish, all app developers would be like that!

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Guest
  
Positive commentMar 17, 2021

The ability to undo mistakes by just hitting cmd-Z stands for the philosophy of Tower: Making the use of Git easy, intuitive and accessible for noobs. In the time I am working with Tower I had never the need to run Git in the terminal – and that’s great.

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mint_shows
  
Positive commentOct 14, 2020

I've been keeping up with Tower for almost 10 years now. I found an email from back in December 2010 where I sent the beta to a friend of mine. It was only about 3 or 4 years ago that I finally broke down and bought it. I'd been using several free git clients for a while and they did work fine, but after trying a demo of Git Tower, things just clicked. It made managing my team's large git repository a breeze and was generally a joy to use. The client itself mostly stays out of your way and allows you to get your work done without difficulty.

I'm a happy paying customer and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.

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What is Tower?

Tower is a native desktop Git client for both macOS and Windows. The app gives developers, designers, and non-technical people easy access to the full power of Git with features such as Pull Requests, Interactive Rebase, Image Diffing, Quick Actions, Undo and much more.

Tower offers seamless integration with industry-leading services like GitHub, Atlassian Bitbucket, GitLab, Microsoft Visual Studio, or Perforce - both online and behind the firewall. And since Tower uses pure Git under the hood, it works with any other code hosting service, too.

Tower comes with a built-in diff viewer. However, you can also use your favorite tool instead - like P4Merge, Meld, Beyond Compare, Code Compare, Araxis Merge, KDiff 3, Ultra Compare, WinMerge, and many more.

You can use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive. Tower helps you master version control with Git.

A free 30-day trial is available for download.

Tower is FREE for students, teachers, and educational institutions such as universities, schools, coding bootcamps etc.

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