--- title: GitKraken Desktop Reviews meta_title: 'GitKraken Desktop Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 201 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how GitKraken Desktop works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 201 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Source Code Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/source-code-management --- # GitKraken Desktop Reviews **Vendor:** Axosoft **Category:** [Version Control Clients](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-clients) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 201 ## About GitKraken Desktop Millions of developers and teams around the world choose GitKraken Desktop to make Git work for them. It makes Git more visual and accessible with an intuitive UI, the flexibility to switch between a GUI or a terminal, and a seamless experience across operating systems. Integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps make it swift and simple to clone, fork, and add remotes. You can even create, view and manage pull requests. Download it today for free at https://gitkraken.com/git-client ## GitKraken Desktop Reviews ### 1. Terrible Support, performance and stability **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen K. | Project Lead Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2020 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** I like the build in merge and diff features and how it integrates with the rest of the app. Jira integration worked well and was a great nicety. Its support for having a single user across multiple systems is nifty when having to switch between different operating systems and beta operating systems where many would require a new license per os. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** The support is terrible and treats you like an idiot, they refuse to assume responsibility for issues and always assume its your repo and they suggest canceling your subscription if you do not like it. They do not care if in any repo when you try to merge or rebase branches with more than a couple hundred file changes it can take hours or never complete when in tools like source tree it works fine and takes seconds and not hours. Basic operations even with 10 files changed can take a minute when all of these operations are instant in terminal or source tree. It also broke my repo many times when switching branches or rebasing. Also Git krakken sitting idle uses 50% of one of my cpu cores and will suck 100% if you do anything in it. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** Only get this product if you are familiar with Git terminal commands as you will need them to fix your repo and do rebasing. Also amke sure your project is relatively small and you will never have 1000 files needing to be changed. Especially do not use with Git LFS as it becomes unusable with my repo (Although I do have 8k LFS files, source tree and gcl handles it beautifully). **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a good integrated merge tool with a decent graph and diff tools. We were able to save some time in many cases when doing smaller operations or just rebasing to keep our branches up to date with the main branch. ### 2. Lost very important work, Had to write code again **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** Very bad UX, no prompting for push/pull. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Very bad UX, no prompting for push/pull. I don't know who wrote this software, but the work was permanently lost. All the changes appeared, however, I did not even know if just clicking on the other code version it would permanently delete all my changes 7 files, and lots of lines of code. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** Avoid using it, even during the trial period proved to be useless **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It causes problems rather than solving them. Do not Buy use freeware software instead. ### 3. Great functionality but old code **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian Z. | Director, Finance & Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2020 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** The layout is great. Visually, it is one of the best softwares for Git I have used. The workflow is good, easy to follow and not hard to find your next steps from commit to push. The opening interface is great, Modern, to the point and very user friendly. The easy access to working with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket covers the most common services out there. The features of Boards and Timelines is great. This can help by eliminating the needs for additional softwares. There are some great templates to use to get you started, and the interface is easy to use. The Settings are comprehensive and well integrated. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** 1) You need to pay to use private repos. While I understand this is free for non commercial purposes, when you have numerous public and only a few private, it is really inconvenient to switch softwares. Especially when those private repos are private because they contain information that cannot be public without creating a security risk. The code is outdated. As of the time of writing this, the Electron is quite out of date, and there are depreciated elements that I would not expect to see in a software that is a paid product. I have used a few times on my system, Ubuntu 18.04.5, and it will not recognize my GPG. I have no issues with any other software,... Atom, VSCode, GitAhead, GitHub Desktop, Evolution, LibreOffice, etc. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** Look at your other options, such as GitAhead and SmartGit. If you use in your IDE, look at VSCode and Atom. Make sure that it works for your needs before attempting a purchase, or even deciding to use the free version. The fact that it cannot recognize GPG is an issue for me, it may not be for others, so do check on this. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have really no benefits from using this software. I have used it numerous times, but can find no tangible benefit compared to the alternatives. The software does it's job, just at a lesser level than the alternatives. ## GitKraken Desktop Discussions - [Why Git-Kraken doesn't have a proper documentation?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/why-git-kraken-doesn-t-have-a-proper-documentation) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [Can you guys please make the git basic version payment free please?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/can-you-guys-please-make-the-git-basic-version-payment-free-please) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View GitKraken Desktop pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/axosoft-gitkraken-desktop/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=1§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+12%3A55%3A45+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ab585002-2e7a-46bc-a5d0-a17a1b0b8d71&secure%5Btoken%5D=35070f728ae02df1c9f6f70e9046ac2ebef60d76e4ed94f27649a3ccbddfc414&format=llm_user) ## GitKraken Desktop Integrations - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) ## Top GitKraken Desktop Alternatives - [SourceTree](https://www.g2.com/products/sourcetree/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (372 reviews) - [Git Tower](https://www.g2.com/products/git-tower/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (190 reviews) - [Google Cloud Source Repositories](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-source-repositories/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (64 reviews)