--- 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: '2026-07-12' 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. Intuitive Tool for Source Control **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohit J. | Associate Staff Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** The mapping of different commits in history, branches, and repos. The variation of UI provided to developers ranging from GUI and command line. Provides different solutions for JIRA, VS Code. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** It can sometimes be a little complicated to read because of the complex color schemes used to map and relate different commits and branches. The UI is intuitive but can be cumbersome at the same time. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Source control of repositories of different applications. Managing code commit user history. Managing branches and repositories. Integration with IDE and other tools to manage commits directly. ### 2. Good GUI for Git **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sumanta S. | Sr System Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** 1. It offers a graphical interface for Git 2. Ease to use 3. GitKraken makes it easy to merge two branches 4. It allows you to make quick edits 5. GitKraken's diff tool helps you to compare two files and see what has changed in side by side view 6. Merging conflicts is easy with GitKraken **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** takes up a lot of your computer system resources - consumes a lot of RAM and could get show for large projects **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** For beginners Git Kraken was helpful to familiarize with Git and running and committing code. ### 3. A Quick Review for GitKraken **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kareem e. | Software Test Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** The best thing I like about GitKraken is that I can work with my team in a very easy way, and we can build our products simply. It is very functional and can manage our commits and branches. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Actually, I have nothing to dislike regarding this product. This product is perfect for me and my work needs. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem I solved by using this product is to create Kanban boards and releases timeline for my applications ### 4. Simplify pull and push using GitKraken **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aakash P. | Web Department Head, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** GitKraken really simplify the git actions by making them completely graphical operations rather then using the command line. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** GitKraken have a tendency to crash or freeze, also GitKraken is insanely slow on larger repository. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** Understanding the git actions can be a complicated process, if you are someone who wants a speedy development with proper team management requirements then gitkraken is for you. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Typing everytime to make a commit or check out a branch takes a lot of time, GitKraken simplifies by allowing to visually perform this operations, i can easily see timeline to track what changes and when they have been made which makes our team productive. ### 5. The best Git client I've ever used **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** If you're looking for a GUI-based Git client, look no further. GitKraken is, without a doubt, the best one I've used. I'm a huge fan of the UI. The history graph is sleek and intuitive, especially when dealing with a complex commit history. One of the more notable features is the "merge conflict warnings," which tell you which of your teammates are editing which files, and will alert you of potential conflicts. I've never encountered a feature like this before, but it's amazing. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** The pro version is a bit expensive, in my opinion. Fortunately, my company pays for this, so it's not a significant issue for me. Every once in a while, I need to resort to the Git CLI, particularly when dealing with a complex and messy history. However, this is rare. Most of the time, GitKraken meets or exceeds my expectations. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitKraken helps me and my team prevent mistakes. Its collaboration features empower my team to move quickly and commit more code without messing up the history. ### 6. My experience with GitKraken **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahzad K. | WomenTech Global Ambassador, Influencer, Country Leader, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** - It is a nice GUI on top of Git - Allows you to handle all related works on various repositories in the place in your laptop - It is a nice replacement for people who are not comfortable working on the command-line interface **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** - The GUI is not very intuitive. There is a learning curve, and I remember the first time I used it, we had a team member preparing guidelines and videos for the whole team to speed us up. - If you are an expert in GIt and have a good amount of experience with it, then I do not really see any point in using GitKraken. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** If you have a lot of employees new to Github and Git. GitKraken can be very useful. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were pushing our changes to our codebase and contributing to ongoing effort for our ML algorithm. ### 7. A solid Git client that makes my life much easier! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** Git kraken makes it super easy to clone projects, sign into private repo accounts, pull in changes from master, etc. The visualization of your branch structure is super handy too. Having a UI for complicated git procedures is a lifesaver! **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Figuring out how rebasing and cherry-picking from different branches works is a bit complicated at first. The menus don't make it clear which branch you are actually targeting, but with some practice it is firgure-outable. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gitkraken truly makes it easy to manage many repos at once with tabs, pull in latest changes, write commits without the terminal and much more. The biggest thing is it helps get Git out of the way of my workflow so I can focus on development and not constantly have to lookup cli commands. ### 8. The best tool for managing multiple git repos **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmed A. | Staff Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** GitKraken has a very friendly user interface and enables you to have lots of repositories, and pull/push code very easily **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** GitKraken was free to use when it started, not there is no free option except for students **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most of our projects use a microservices architecture, and we therefore may have up to 20-30 repositories per project. Managing these repos is very tideous without a tool like GitKraken ### 9. A very efficient and reliable Git client **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** - Works perfectly on different operating systems (I discovered GitKraken a year ago when I had to abandon SourceTree due to its limitations on Linux) - I really like the GUI: maybe it could not seem very simple at a first look, but it's very complete and professional - The free version includes basic features that may be enough for many, but the price of the Pro version is very affordable **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** - The GUI learning curve may be too long for those unfamiliar with similar Git clients **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** If you are looking for a great git client with a powerful GUI that supports Linux environments, GitKraken might do the trick. Don't worry about the learning curve. Many video tutorials can help you in using all the features. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main advantage for me is to work with a very powerful and detailed GUI. It is very useful to have a clear view of the different branches of a project, as well as being able to find a single commit in a few seconds and identify it in the timeline. Each operation, simple or complex, is managed in a visual way with always clear feedback, and this allows you to be safer in complex projects with many branches, increasing productivity and reducing the time spent with the terminal. ### 10. This helped me tremendously to understand git **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2022 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** The UI is properly sized so the maximum amount of info is displayed. Love the dark theme as well. Love also how we can view files as a tree, this is not something we see elsewhere much. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** I think we need to be able to hide a branch from the history graph directly. I would really appreciate a little improvement on the tree view on the files change right tab (collapsed paths when there are no edited files in between folders --> ex : folder/subfolderwithnofileschanges/folderwithfilechanges --> filechanged.ts) **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visual people need visual tools such as GitKraken for very complex vcs operations. I think this really improves the quality of my commits and git history ### 11. Use GitKraken for Happy git **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashutosh D. | S, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** The best tool available at a single place which is great **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Support can be good and flow and integrations can be improved **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** Yes can be used but integrations can be improved **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it on daily basis for git flow management ### 12. Good UI Based Git client **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cord S. | Cloud Engineer/Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** Visual representations of git operations make everyday actions extra easy. I also think the customizability is pretty nice to get things dialed in for your workflow. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Hard to set up/test with private repositories, especially bitbucket. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** No specific problems, just doing Git operations. I have benefitted through streamlining processes. ### 13. Best git client after SourceTree **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajni S. | S, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** One thing I like most Very easy to resolve conflict on GitKraken than other Git clients I had used before. Other things I like about this tool is - Linux support - Drag and drop functionality in tool itself **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** The pricing structure is the only thing I dislike about this great tool. I understand pricing compare to other tool but it also gives us more features that justifies. - Due to UI sometimes this software lag as well. Not sure it would be because of the system I'm using but when large number of files are involves it used to hang the system and run the slow. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** I would say If pricing is not a concern for your usage in your work or organization, then you should be using this excellent git client software. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Because of the very user-friendly UI than other Git clients, we are now able to resolve any conflict very quickly and easily. It also provides the linux support, which we were not getting from the previous tool we were using. - It has reduced the time takes on managing the version control of the repository we are currently working on. ### 14. Best user interface for the Git **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankush s. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2022 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** No need to write the command for push and pull the code and also trace all commits with no time. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** There is nothing to dislike the GitKraken. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't need to write the separate command for the code upload and download, easily check the updated file and also the latest commits without any hassle. ### 15. Good UI to manage git repositories and review commits **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yeou Sunn L. | Sr. Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** Easy use and understandable UI for easy navigation. It is a productive tool for managing git repositories. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** It is a paid tool to access the full feature, like managing private repositories. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** One of the best tools to manage git repositories out there. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** To commit, pull, and push code to the git repository. ### 16. A Good Way to Visualize and Manage Complex Git Environments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas H. | Senior Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** It gives you good visualizations about your branches and how they interact with one another on a repo. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** It's not really useful if you're working on a large number of small repos. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** Worthwhile for complex branch management. Simple environments may not find it worth the time to set up. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us see multiple branches at once, and where they've branched off from one another. It's a good branch management tool. ### 17. Good way to keep track of your code & website **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** Simple To use, even for a none coders, you can let your GFX designers even use it to make changes in a website hosted on AWS / Git and keep everything very orginiazed. I like the GUI of GitKraken better the others softwares on the market **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Setting up is a little bit tricky; sometimes the files don't update automatically without you forcing a refresh on the files folders. but that might be something that i did wrong **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** i work with several freelancers remotely, needed to make sure we are all working on the same project and seeing the changes on the go. once everything configured to your Git Project you can keep working fast without any worries of missing an update or change in code / art etc... ### 18. developer friendly source control **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sushant r. | software engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** the user interface is amazing to work with, dark mode looks great **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** the download package for windows is greater than 100 mb, it would be great if we could get installer package of 1 mb **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** this is one the best source control and version control application, most developers prefer git cli but using GUI in gitkraken is an amazing experience as compared to other app **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** after switching to git kraken i have abundance of pc resources which was a scarcity when i was using another source control app. ### 19. GitKraken is good but GitHub still reigns king **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** I like that it's an alternative to the other version control cloud hosts like GitHub, BitBucket, or GitLab. It's very seamless if you have used any of the others; it works pretty much the same, so you don't have to learn anything new. It just works. So that is good. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** I am not a fan of the price. I think it's an excellent tool to see what else is out there, but BitBucket and GitHub are still very much the ones that I typically choose. They are also the ones the companies I have worked with or work with use. So it makes it a bit hard to decide on using this when so many companies don't right now. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was trying to solve a problem with using GitLab and its paid for services. I wanted to see if GitKraken was worth the price vs. GitLab. I concluded that there were the same. Neither offered anything different over the other, so it boiled down to what we already use or paid for a separate program to do what the previous one already did. ### 20. Git Kraken Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omar D. | IT Technician, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** The GUI, it really streamlines how things are done and simplifies it. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** There is not much I dislike, other than having to pay for extra features. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** It is the best thing I have used so far for Git. It works well, especially for collaborative projects. I recommend it to everyone. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are resolving the issues that come up with coordination remote development. It allows us to work independently, but in concert with each other. ### 21. Best Git UI tool for Ubuntu **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** Initially, I was working in Ubuntu and was not fully aware of the git CLI. And then, I found the best UI tool for git command, which helped me increase my efficiency time, and I loved this. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** We know we have a CLI option faster than any GIT UI tool, so I face the most significant issue that it will use a lot of your system resources which creates performance issues with other applications. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is easy to use as it provides a better user experience that helps developers understand git operation without using git CLI, which is not easy in the initial phase for any developer. For ubuntu, this is the only tool on which I worked initially. ### 22. One of the best tools to use with Git **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brett D. | Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** It is a tool that allows a user to interact with Git. A user can easily create PRs and manage stashes. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** I can't think of anything wrong. It is a great tool! **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to use Git is a very easy tool to use. It makes Git easier to use. ### 23. Experience using GitKraken **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akash S. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** UI/UX of the software is pretty good, making using git a lot easier. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Nothing as such, but the free version should have at least some more features. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** A small piece of advice, if you are a student, is to get GitKraken from Github Student Developer pack for free. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides a very intuitive GUI for version control; also, reviewing PRs has become a charm. ### 24. Very impressive UI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** UI for GitKraken is one of the coolest tools I have ever seen. You can see everything at once in one place. You can connect issues to existing project management tools. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** The application seems a little bit slow. when you click around. The application needs more performance improvements. Will be happy if they more themes available. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** Make it faster **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability have links to issues to multiple projects, have terminal handy. Looks cool anyway! ### 25. Version Source Control Never been Simpler! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amr S. | Lead Quality Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** The best thing I like about Git Kraken is the User Interface and how easy you can navigate through different commits and checkout the commits Graphical Tree. Also, you can resolve Code Conflicts in a very simple way. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** I think the only downside is when you have many repositories open at the same time, you won't be able to navigate through them with ease as you cannot see their tab name. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly it made resolving code conflicts easier, which in return made merging code faster. This is one of the tools that help us as a team deliver faster. ### 26. Solid visual branching view **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jim Y. | Managing Director, Engineering & QA, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** The ability to see visual depictions of the different branches and the commits/engineers responsible. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** It can sometimes be hard to keep the branches/commits straight on more complicated builds. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving the problem of getting a quick view of commits and a more straightforward method of troubleshooting Git issues. Beneficial for looking back historically for commit history. ### 27. My experience with GitKraken **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fernando G. | Bi consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** It has a simple, more relaxed interface, better to the eye than Github by far. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** As Github, it is hard to understand its functionalities at first. So many functions and branches can get confusing to newcomers as I started sharing my code with my peeps. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** Check tutorials on YouTube on how to work with this tool before you start using it; it can get very confusing at first, especially if you are not acostumed to code with versions. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** You are sharing code with colleagues far more quickly than before with Github. The interface lets you track how the merges have been done and who has a complete version of the same code. ### 28. Git Kraken: UI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** I think it helps give a better understanding of commit history and also I love the fact that I can do rebases and merges so easily! Everything is pretty intuitive! **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** I think the Color's are sometimes not too awesome, sometimes there are too many and it's just too overwhelming! **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** In general the app helps just get a better understanding of what's going on with your code. Also helps with productivity because I know what happened and when! ### 29. The best GIT tool with amazing UI. Easy to switch projects **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** Fantastic UI, Easy to switch between multiple projects, Pull option is rapid fast, simple 3 step commits. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Pop stash option may run into issues sometimes, ended up deleting and cloning repos to start fresh. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** I would recommend it over any other tools, including GIT Desktop **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use a combination of GitKraken and sublime text to pull code from VC to my local, make changes and then commit. Changed lines can are displayed before a commit. ### 30. A simple and clean version control platform for developers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit Venkat Gandhi M. | GIS Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** The Visual interface which is simply extraordinary. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Could have been more beginner-friendly, but it needs a bit of training. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** For solving complex version control problems. Helps to provide a clear and concise code repository history, commits and tracking. One of the best and must needed products for developers working in a large team. ### 31. Great tool for git beginners and pros **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabriel L. | Game developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** The easy learning curve for new git users makes this tool the perfect one to teach my junior devs and students the best practices about collaboration. Plus, it is also a really powerful tool for the most experienced users, allowing us to do complex setups and keep things clean. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** After thinking this for a while, there pretty much nothing I dislike about the tool. When a bug comes up, it gets identified right away by the community and the developers and is fixed extremely fast on a patch. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** If you are thinking of using git for collaboration for the first time, no better option than gitkraken. If you are already a git CLI pro and looking for a UI tool, no better option than girkraken. In a sentence, if you use git at work, you should implement gitkraken. It will make your life easier and your repos more organized. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** During my teaching classes, it's the perfect tool for my students to collaborate without going to an in-depth course of git CLI. Also, I have been able to organize the commits from my developer team, which makes it way easier to evaluate them, maintain the code and even troubleshoot. ### 32. One Word - Flawless. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohan T. | Breakout Space Ambassador, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** I've been a long term user of Git GUI based platforms and GitKraken is one of the best in the market. Constantly evolving the concept of software and project management at a global scale. 10/10 would recommend new Git users check this platform out before diving deep with an unstructured workflow. Working on a solo project? Give the FREE version a shot, there is no going back then. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** FREE version restricts commercial use case which I personally would suggest working with bigger teams, opt for the PRO version. Requires optimization in the context of memory and storage usage. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to manage my workflows, switch easily across various repo branches and seamlessly develop my research project. ### 33. It takes the crown **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Duane C. | Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** I love the user interface of this beast. I had a hard time using git from the command line when I started learning about it, but with GitKraken I could easily utilize the power of git. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** I wish it was free to use for private repositories, but still, it's not expensive so I'm happy anyway. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** I tried a bunch of other git clients and I always went back to GitKraken. Try it for free on a public repository and see if you like it yourself. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collaborating with other devs is now a breeze. I even use GitKraken in solo projects because I love how it keeps all my progress organized. ### 34. Probably the best UI among all available Git clients **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bruno L. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** - Clean UI/UX - Great "Compare" mode - Easy 1-click connection to Github, Bitbucket & other solutions - Affordable **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** - Upgrading can be tedious, especially on Linux - Updates are a bit too frequent **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Collaborating with others efficiently - Tracking changes - Handling code conflicts ### 35. Git kraken helped me increase my productivity **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammed Ashiq A. | Head of Programming Department, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** The simple and intuitive interface of git kraken is what I liked the best **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** It crashed on few occasions while I was using it and private repos are not free in free version **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Git kraken helps me execute git commands and operations faster saving a lot of time and increasing productivity. The visualisation helps a lot ### 36. Nice tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitesh K. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** GitKraken will get you up-to-speed faster so you can be productive from day one. Integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps make it simple to add remotes. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Connecting to the SSH server is lil tricky and hard. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can visualize the git workflow. ### 37. Makes Git Easy! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** GitKraken brings a lot of powerful features to the table while making Git easy to use. The graphical display of branches also makes it easy to **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Nothing to dislike! Works flawlessly, is simple to use and packed with useful features. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitKraken makes it easier to deal with Git repositories when compared to the CMD or GitHub Desktop. It is more fully featured than GitHub Desktop while still being easy to use. ### 38. Is a beautifull strong client git GUI control to manage you gitflow and braches **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** Is a beautiful, strong client git GUI control to manage your gitflow and braches **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Easy way to manage the branches, create commits and merge branches, and compare with previews branches is easy. The integrations with a different repository like bitbucket, Github is excellent and quick. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy commit, history commits from the branches, integration with a git hosting like GitHub, GitLab, azure devops is excellent, so you don't have issues integrating your source code to this tool. Eventually, we want to incorporate with Jira ### 39. Visual tool for version control **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Caree Y. | Regional Director of Dallas/Fort Worth, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** It makes complicated git problems visual. Particularly helpful for hairy re-bases and other change history issues, comparing changes, and so on. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Price point is fair, but it can be hard to get support for it across a whole engineering team. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fewer accidental changes, faster merges and resolutions to conflicts. The whole team sees these benefits and it speeds up our team and has increased understanding of complex changes among the team. ### 40. Great solution for storing and versioning your codebase! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Clayton O. | Lead Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** I love the ability and ease of use for this product, it allows very seamless integration. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** There could be a little more control over user's access rights and how we merge code **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're versioning our internal SDKs with this tool and its allowed us to move quicker in the dev lifecycle. ### 41. GitKraken **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vance S. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** I like how GitKraken visualizes the commit graph. I also like how you able to easily browse various commits. GitKraken is also a very visual and beautiful looking app. Another good feature of GitKraken is the milestone features. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Unfortunately for GitKraken, Visual Studio and Azure DevOps have many of the same features. Because of this, it is getting harder to justify the expense for .Net developers. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** I would choose GitKraken if you need a visual git client. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitKraken really shines when working through a merge conflict or some other git snafu. Also, GitKraken is probably the best git GUI client that is available. ### 42. Going from student to professional with gitkraken **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** The interactivity of gitkraken. It has a powerful and intuitive UI that allows me to understand and maange the branches and history of repositories well. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** The application is a memory killer. My computer hangs up sometimes when I'm running it parallel to some other appliations. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work in team projects so I use it to manage the history and commits to the projects I work on, both personal and professional. ### 43. One of the easy to use Git GUI app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohan J. | Senior Data Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** I like how it takes care of all the Git activities from GUI without having us deal with anything complex **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** So far, no downsides faced perfectly fine app **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have saved a lot of time on manual check-ins and merges and maintaining branches ### 44. Great tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julio L. | Salesforce developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** I can change easily between repositories with different accounts. I can have different profiles related to the kind of work I'm doing Commits are really easy to make and I can see all the changes that I or anyone on the team has been making. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** There are repositories where I require a token and that is something painful when I don't have the access to get one. The different pricing tiers are difficult to understand. The tool should give hints related to what you're doing. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Changing between multiple git accounts and projects. It's really easy, before I have to change some configuration, or have different tools with a different user on each so I wouldn't have to go through the trouble of reconfiguring 1 tool ### 45. Excellent but take some time to get used to **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** - Supports multiple git providers including self hosted got servers - Timeline view for changes to repository - Great conflict resolution mechanism - Attractive and easy to navigate user interface **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** - slow to switch between repositories - sometimes doesn't fetch latest update from got server (one has to quit and relaunch to fetch) - No hints or tooltips for complicated git operations such as rebase, stash (may hinder users new to git to try out new functionalities) **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Managed open source and internal projects for my organization - Have found pretty solid tool for power users, hence saving hours of time in conflict resolution, staging etc. ### 46. It was easy to merge conflicts, manage history and package management using GitKraken **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** Solving Merge Conflicts Package and module management Managing file history **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** UI could be a bit simpler. I mean, it's not entirely tricky, but comparatively, it's a bit complex to get used to it. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working with Nodejs and Csharp projects, and the main feature I used is to create releases and manage standard packages. So GitKraken makes my job easy here ### 47. Powerful git ui tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** It is more powerful than the average git user interface. There is nothing that you cannot do with this tool. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** The main drawback for me is that you have to pay for the software if you want to use it with private repositories **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for my public git repositories. I commit and push the changes to the remote repository using this tool. ### 48. best tool for managing git branches **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** If you are using Git Flow as a branching methodology, Git Kraken is the best tool to use. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Project Management board has a complex UI/UX. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** When project has more than 2 branches, it helps to visualize the overview of project. ### 49. Great for people unfamiliar with Git **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob M. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** Simple, and super easy to use. Very intuitive for the intricacies of Git. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Some of the features hide the actual work flow of git for someone who wants to transition to the command line **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitKraken solves the confusion of Git. It's very easy and understandable ### 50. Clean UI for Git **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pascal L. | Release Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about GitKraken Desktop?** GitKraken is giving a super view of a repo and its current state it has. **What do you dislike about GitKraken Desktop?** Some feature need a GitKraken Pro account. Otherwise, it is a pretty solid UI for git. **Recommendations to others considering GitKraken Desktop:** The free version is pretty solid for a solo usage. **What problems is GitKraken Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitKraken is helping with the difficult visualization of a git repository. 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