# Git Tower Reviews **Vendor:** Tower **Category:** [Version Control Clients](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-clients) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 187 ## About Git Tower Tower is a beautiful, native Git client designed to make Git easy (and actually enjoyable!) to use. With its best-in-class features and seamless integration with popular code hosting platforms such as GitHub or GitLab, Tower grants you all the power of Git in an intuitive interface. Available for Mac and Windows. ## Git Tower Reviews ### 1. “A Reliable and Intuitive Git Client for Streamlined Version Control” **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manan B. | Innovation Trainee ( AI developer ), Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2025 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Git Tower provides a clean and intuitive interface for managing repositories without constantly relying on the command line. I really like how it simplifies complex Git operations — like rebasing, resolving conflicts, and branching — into clear visual actions. The integration with GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab works seamlessly, and the commit history view makes tracking changes much easier. It’s a huge productivity boost, especially for managing multiple projects efficiently. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** There’s not much to dislike, but sometimes it slows down with really large repos. The pricing can be a little steep for solo users, and I wish there were more customization options for diff and merge views. Still, those are minor things compared to how much smoother it makes version control. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Git Tower saves me from dealing with complex Git commands in the terminal. It turns version control into a visual process — from committing and branching to resolving merge conflicts. This makes it easier to manage multiple projects and collaborate with teammates without errors. It’s especially helpful when reviewing history or rolling back changes, which used to take much longer manually. Overall, it’s made my workflow faster, cleaner, and more reliable. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for the kind words, Manan! We're glad to hear that Tower has improved your workflow and that you appreciate its simplicity and visual aids ✌️ ### 2. Powerful Git client that simplifies complex workflows **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Xavier S. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2026 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Git Tower makes complex Git workflows much easier for me to understand and manage. The visual commit graph, the clear diff and merge views, and the interactive rebase and cherry-pick tools help reduce mistakes compared to using the CLI. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Some advanced workflows still require dropping down to the CLI, and performance can degrade slightly when working with very large repositories. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** It reduces the overhead of managing branches, rebases, and conflict resolution, which in turn lowers the risk of breaking history. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thanks for the kind words, Xavier! We're glad you find Tower useful. Recently, we implemented some performance improvements for large repositories, so it should feel smoother now. In many cases, the performance impact is simply a result of Git. We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower! ✌️ ### 3. Git Tower Simplifies My Workflow **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Radhika R. | Junior Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2025 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** I like Git Tower because it makes using Git so much easier. The interface is clean and user-friendly, so I can manage branches, commits, and merges without needing to remember complex commands **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I don’t like that Git Tower can feel a bit slow at times with large repositories. Also, some advanced features are only available in the paid version, which can be limiting **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Git Tower solves the problem of handling Git through complicated command-line steps. It gives me an easy visual way to manage commits, branches, and merges. This saves time, reduces mistakes, and helps me focus more on coding instead of remembering Git commands **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your feedback, Radhika! We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower! ✌️ ### 4. The ultimate Git client for Mac **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juraj K. | Web Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2026 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Tower has been a part of my daily workflow for about five years now. As a software engineer, I’m comfortable using Git in the terminal, but Tower is simply much nicer to work with day to day. It’s fast, looks great, and is easy to use. It also includes some genuinely handy features – like the ability to undo anything. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Sometimes I miss a small feature, but the support is great – and most of the time they're already working on it. I also wish it were a little more affordable. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tower makes working with Git much more enjoyable. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for the awesome review, Juraj! Here's to the next 5 years! 🥂 ### 5. Good UI and code differentiation with integration support for Bitbucket **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2026 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** It's UI, display of code changes and differences and integration with bitbucket **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Sometimes the error message is not very helpful or there is not enough detail. It would be good if it could provide suggestion. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its used for version control of our code and collaborative working. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for using Tower! We're glad to hear that you're enjoying the Bitbucket integration. If you ever encounter an error message that is difficult to understand, please reach out to support@git-tower.com. ### 6. my experience with Git Tower **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** du y. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2025 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** it is a handy git cli for multi platform **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** sometimes it takes time to check commit log by searching keyword patterns **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am software engineer, I often need to check in/out, commit code to git repo. frankly I am a user boudning to git, and everyone knows git has thousands of git command options to get thing done, and ti is boresome to remember them and recall them when typing in console. so here is we have Git Tower, I do not need to remember them any more, I can focus on my routine daily job, and leave the git task to Git Tower **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your review! We're glad to hear that Tower allows you to focus on your daily work while we handle the Git tasks for you 😎 ### 7. Effortless Multi-Task Management with a Seamless GUI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nick H. **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2026 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** I like how I can batch delete multiple branches and the convenience of having a GUI to change git commits. It's nice being able to drag and drop branch merges and squash commits if desired; it makes things really easy. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I don't like the update isn't part of my current license and would have to change my license to upgrade. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Git Tower to push my code and batch change multiple files. The GUI makes it nice and easy to manage git commits. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your kind words, Nick! We're glad to hear that Tower makes your life easier 😎 ### 8. The BEST Git GUI Client Out There. Period. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eran K. | Director Of Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2026 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** An intuitive, simple UI that gives me great visibility into the Git log and lets me easily perform operations on it. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Nothing more to add—it's the best Git GUI out there. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Git Tower is the best Git GUI out there. It helps me manage Git operations with clear, helpful visibility, instead of relying purely on CLI commands. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you so much for the kind words, Eran! 🥳 ### 9. Its a powerful tool that simplify your git experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sebastián V. |  iOS Senior Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2025 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** The simplicity with which it works with Git is sublime. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** The price may seem expensive; it's an annual fee that can be a bit hard to manage if you don't have a discount. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me a lot in my day-to-day work, connecting with my GitHub account and creating the branches to open PRs at my job. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for the kind words, Sebastián! We're thrilled to hear that you find Tower easy to use and that you're benefiting from our GitHub integration 😎 ### 10. Get the most out of Git **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** René K. | Developer, Maintainer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** - Helps to compose meaningful commits with confidence – even/specially in situations where things got wild - Git was never so clearly arranged - Works equally well for small projects and huge monorepos - GitLab integration and branches review feature 👻 - Super clean UI – as you expect it from a #1 macOS citizen - Full keyboard navigation - Plays well with Git on console (switch from console to Git Tower and back seamlessly) - Door-opener for new Git users, productivity-booster for experienced Git users - Great customer support - Helped me to become a better Git user **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** - Actually I'm super happy with Git Tower **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** No matter whether you're working on your own on a small project or if you're maintaining a huge monorepo with many projects and contributors: Git Tower will boost your productivity. It will even improve the quality of your code as it makes it easy to review your changes before comitting and to compose meaningful commits. As other Git clients, Git Tower makes Git accessible for new users. But the true secret of Git Tower is, that it is a loyal companion even for experienced Git users. In fact it helped me to understand Git better and to become a better Git user – also when using Git on the console. Git Tower is one of the few tools I really use every single day. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you so much for your kind words, René! We’re thrilled to hear that Tower is one of the few tools you rely on every day, and that it makes working with Git easier for you! ✌️ ### 11. The Ultimate Git GUI for Mac Power Users **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bartosz K. | iOS Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** As a long-time user of GitTower, I can say it's the gold standard for Git GUI clients (I've tried most of them haha). This stellar native macOS app has been my go-to for nearly eight years, from my college days to my professional career. The seamless integration with GitHub and GitLab is a standout feature. It's so efficient that I've completely forgotten what the web interfaces for pull requests look like. For power users, the well-designed keyboard shortcuts are a productivity game-changer. GitTower's customer support is exceptional. They're always available and have consistently provided great experiences over the years. Perhaps most importantly, GitTower has demystified Git for me – there's no feature I'm afraid to use anymore. If you're looking for a robust, user-friendly Git client that grows with your skills, GitTower is the way to go. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I miss support for stacked pull requests, but that feature is already in development! **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Git Tower makes working with git more approachable. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your support throughout the years, Bartosz! We are honored to have Tower acknowledged as the gold standard of Git clients by you 🙏 We are actively working on Stacked PR support, and Tower 12 will introduce some features related to it. We hope you find them helpful! Here's to 8 more years! 🥂 ### 12. Gave me git superpowers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lee W. | Senior iOS Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** • Eliminates all the mental load from complex git actions. • Teaches me things I never knew that you could do with git. • Super simple to use. • Absolutely beautiful product. • Regular updates, continuously improving the product. • Incredibly reasonably priced. • Use it every single day, and wouldn't want to go without it. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Honestly, nothing. Can't fault it in any way. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes git repositories easy to navigate, understand and update. It make version control a delight, meaning it's easy to follow best practices and keep our businesses and products built to the highest standards. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for this glowing review, Lee! We're so glad to learn that Tower plays a part in your everyday life! We love to make Tower users feel like superheroes 🦸 ### 13. The best GUI for Git. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex C. | iOS Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Tower has been my go-to Git client for over a decade now. When I was early in my career, tower helped me under stand git concepts very quickly, as I am more of a visual learner. I've never turned back. I've recommended it to many colleagues over the years. The most used/useful feature for me has to be stash management. I use this feature daily, and it helps keep an easy/visual record of work I've done while switching branches. I also love their merge conflict tooling. I've always just used the default firemerge integrationand its great. I love how easy it is to see difs and choose what you want to keep. Tower makes me feel like a Git power user. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** There are a few cases where I can't do operations within tower, for instance, the company I work at uses nix-shell to do some dependency management (including git hooks) and there's no way to tell tower to execute commands within that environment (at least that I'm aware of). **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Git is a complex piece of software. There's lots of commands to memorize and can be hard to parse visually. Tower makes all of that very simple. I spend less energy thinking about git and more energy on solving problems and building software. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Wow, a decade! That's so nice to read, Alex! 🤩 Thank you for the kind words — we're delighted to learn that we've made Git easier to use! If you enjoy using stashing, you might also appreciate one of Tower's exclusive features: Snapshots, which were introduced in Tower 9 (https://www.git-tower.com/blog/tower-mac-9/) ✌️ We appreciate your support, Alex. Here's to another 10 years! 🥂 ### 14. Objectively the best Git client out there **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fred P. | Senior Android Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Great shortcuts including amazing CMD+Z support, proper rebase support, so easy to do basic things like amend, squash, fixup, commit or message edits, HEAD reset, etc, and it's just a very solid piece of software, always reliably delivering value. This is basically the first software I get every time I join a new company. I've been using it for ~10 years and it's been amazing to see how the product consistently evolved over time. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** The only downside is that you have to pay for it, but it's always pretty easy for me to convince my company to pay. Plus, they have a great free trial and they'll extend it for you if you need it! **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes dealing with Git an easy and pleasant experience, regardless of how deep your Git knowledge is — and if you're still learning Git, it's a great tool to help you with that as well. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > "Objectively the best Git client out there" — oh, we love that tagline! 😍 Thank you so much for your kind words and support over the years, Fred! We are thrilled to know that we hold such a high place on your list! Here's to 10 more years! 🥂 ### 15. My favourite Mac Git client **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron H. | Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** I've been using Git Tower for the last 2 years and I couldn't see myself ever not having it in my toolbox now - I use it almost every single day. It 99% of my git usage seemless, easy and the UI is exceptional. I recommend it to all of the developers I speak to! Not to mention on the very few times I've needed to contact customer support, they have always been super quick and helpful! **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Honestly? I cant think of a single thing I dislike! **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Makes handling all my git repos effortless **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Wow, thank you for your kind words, Aaron! It's truly heartwarming to read that Tower is a part of your daily life! Here's to many more years ahead! 🥂 ### 16. Simple yet powerful Git client for everyday tasks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lukas K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Git can be super complicated. You can read dozens of books on it in order to master it. Or, you can use an easy-to-use GUI client like Git Tower. I am using it on macOS, where it integrates beautifully. It especially makes managing branches, merge conflicts and stashes very simple. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I have not found any big issue in my day-to-day work, just the GitHub integration un-configured itself once (which was easy to fix though) **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Git Tower makes managing and switching between different git branches easy and clear. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > “You can read dozens of books on it in order to master it. Or, you can use an easy-to-use GUI client like Git Tower.” Wow, we should use your quote for Marketing! 🤩 Thanks for the kind words, Lukas — we're glad you find Tower much easier to use! ### 17. Best Git app for Mac **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Davor P. | Lead Frontend Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Packed with tons of features, but all very cleverly placed to easy and intiutive interface. Easy to switch between different accounts when working for different projects. Even I use CLI also, I preffer Tower for changes review and staging and all branching tasks, it gives me more security in what I want to do then doing it in cli. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** There aren't many, I would maybe say that Hooks tasks could be maybe improved, especially pre-hooks that work natively in other editors here require little work to get them working. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Worry free work in a big team of people with lots of branches and commits. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your kind words, Davor! We're glad to hear that you find Tower useful in your Git workflow ✌️ We will look into ways to improve the Hooks integration. ### 18. One of the best tools an engineer could ask for **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh W. | iOS Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Git Tower has been one of my go to tools for the last ~8 years or so now. I've played around with other apps over the years, but always end up coming back to Tower. The UI is extremely fine tuned and intuitive, while also enabling advanced tooling and handling of extremely complex setups, whatever your project calls for! **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** The only thing i've ran into recently, and this very likely is something to do with the project i've been working in, is i've randomly seen some interactive rebases get into a weird state where I have to jump into Terminal to fix the process. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** At the start of my career, Git was just something that did NOT come to me naturally. It enabled me to learn while tackling complex rebase/merge issues while also just being nicer to look at. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your support over the years, Josh! We're glad that you appreciate Tower's intuitive and clean UI 🥳 Here's to another 8 years! Cheers 🥂 ### 19. Tower makes me feel like a git wizard **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Makara S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** - Easy to see stage or discard individual lines - Easy to see what's going on - Auto stash/restore when switching branches - CMD+Z is a godlike feature - Rare operations are a lot more intuitive than GIT flags - Reflog explorer (but you really don't need it unless you really F up) **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Nothing at all, but I dislike developers for looking down on people that uses a GUI for handling GIT. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Easy to see stage or discard individual lines - Easy to see what's going on - Auto stash/restore when switching branches - CMD+Z is a godlike feature - Rare operations are a lot more intuitive than GIT flags - Reflog explorer (but you really don't need it unless you really F up) **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thanks for the kind words, Makara! We're thrilled to hear that you find so many of Tower's features useful! 😎 ### 20. Intuitive git GUI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** While it's important to know git command line basics, having a good GUI to visually see your working directory and changes is valuable to me. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** If you're not an organization that qualifies for a discount, you might find the yearly subscription hard to swallow, especially when there are other comparable options out there without cost. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some may say command-line git isn't that difficult, but sometimes it's nice to have a visual GUI representation of what you're working on. Tower provides an intuitive interface for git that makes it easy to see what you're working on, inspect your commit history in a graph, and do a lot of general git things that make it a pleasure to use. It even handles some more advanced git things relatively well, but for complex git commands, you'll want to use the command line. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your review! We're glad that you appreciate Tower's intuitive and clean UI 🥳 We would appreciate it if you could let us know which advanced Git operations you still rely on using the CLI for (support@git-tower.com)! ### 21. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If you're not using GitTower then you should be! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Philip M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** I've used GitTower for as long as I can remember and I don't know where I'd be without it. It makes cumbersome command line tasks a breeze, being able to visually see your changes at a glance and keep and discard code at line level with just a few clicks makes using version control enjoyable. Don't be a command line hero, help yourself get hours of your time back and just install GitTower! **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Honestly, I don't have a bad word to say about the software. I've never had issues with it that weren't just user error! **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps save time by focusing on the task in hand as opposed to battling with the command line. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your support, Philip! We're thrilled to hear that Tower is making your life easier! 🥳 We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower for many more years to come ✌️ ### 22. The Absolute Best and Simplest - Elegantly Designed **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan L. | iOS Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** I love the simplicity and ease of use. I use it daily in my development workflow. It's fast and easy, making any git task simple and streamlined. I love the drag and drop cherry-pick feature and within two clicks, I can have a new branch. The GUI and visuals are spot on and really make managing a repo a dream. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I really don't have a downside. I have enjoyed everythign about Tower and will use it forever. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ease of manging a git repo and any task that I could do from terminal, I do in Tower. The GUI makes it super simple and the speed. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > “I will use it forever” — Wow, Nathan, thank you so much for your feedback and support! 🤩 ### 23. The best git client for mac **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Benjamin B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Makes reviews and branch management super simple and clean. Covers 99% of your general git useage. Been many years since I've had to do anything of note from the command line, and I've never really missed it. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Can be a little slow when reviewing very large diffs. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Makes browsing and navigating commits super fast and requires very little effort to learn or use, especially if you are familiar with the cli interface. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for the kind words, Benjamin! 🤩 Here's to many more years without having to use the Command Line! 😁 ### 24. Tower is the best Git client by far **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tamás D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Tower is the best Git client bar none - the speed, the reliability and the exceptionally great functionality (both in the features and their UX) just makes it a no-brainer purchase and use. I honestly believe anyone who's not using it is missing out on major productivity gains. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I wish sometimes there'd be more easier integrations with my editing tools, and file explorer - to quickly get to a repo or file I want to do something with. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** source control **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for the kind words, Tamás! We are delighted to hear that you enjoy Tower's features 🥳 Regarding the integrations you suggested, which we appreciate: you can use Tower's Quick Open (⌘ + ⇧ + O) to quickly navigate to different repositories and Tower's Quick Actions (⌘ + ⇧ + A) to quickly look for project files and open them with your preferred external editor (among many other actions). We hope you find these tips useful! ✌️ ### 25. Outstanding application for working with git **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oskar H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** I'm an experienced software engineer (20 years) and are fluent in git using the terminal. This is still my daily goto application for a number of reasons. - Overview of all my local git repos - Quick overview of all branches and the state of them - Resolving conflicts (using external tool) is awesome - Setting up tracks, pushing to selected remotes etc is super easy - The diff view is fast and easy to use **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** No downsides at all. Happy to pay for this. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes working with git much faster. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your review, Oskar! We're glad to learn that Tower is your go-to Git client 🤩 We hope you will continue to enjoy using Tower for many more years to come! ✌️ ### 26. My daily driver for any git related work **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Armin T. | Director, Platform Bioinformatics , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Git tower just works. Adding my yubikey to sign my commits, done. Rebasing complex branches, in a breeze. Checking out a remote branch, one double click away. I've been using git tower for years and convinced many team members to use it too. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I wish I could easily jump between projects without openening another tab, something like a cmd+p as in vscode to open a known project. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't need to recall all the CLI commands to rebase, fixup, squash, or changing the commit message. Everything is one click away. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for the kind words, Armin! I'm glad to know that you trust Tower enough to recommend it to your team 🙏 Regarding your suggestion, which we appreciate: we actually have a Command Palette. You can use Quick Open (CMD+SHIFT+O) to quickly navigate to a different project. And you can use Quick Actions (CMD+SHIFT+A) to perform operations such as switching branches, inspecting files and commits, or even changing themes. We hope you find these tips useful and that you continue to enjoy using Tower ✌️ ### 27. User friendly interface now available for GitHub **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan Y. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** This is an amazing tool that brings all of GitHub's functionality to an extremely user friendly interface. I started coding not too long ago. GitHub is clearly the industry standard for version control, and it is extremely powerful, however using the command line for GitHub has been extremely daunting for someone with not so much experience. Git Tower brings all the possibilities of GitHub to an interface that just makes sense. I'm able to update code and create branches and look at all of my changes extremely easily before checking them into my main branch and sharing them with the people with whom I'm programming. I Highly recommend Git Tower for any programmer, especially Junior programmers like myself. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I'll update this when I find something negative about it. So far I haven't. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily see all of the changes I've made to a file, line by line. Git Tower highlights all deleted lines of code in Red and all added lines in green, making it easy to see every change I've made since my last commit and review them before committing and pushing them to the main branch. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your review, Jonathan! Glad we made Git and GitHub easier to use 😎 Good luck with your coding journey! We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower for many more years to come! ✌️ ### 28. Tower: A clean and simple Git client with a lot of features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** What I like best about Git Tower is its exceptional user-friendly interface, along with its robust feature set. Among these features, I particularly appreciate its smooth branch management, rebasing, efficient stashing, and so much more. These capabilities, combined with the clean and intuitive UI, make my daily work as a software developer incredibly productive and enjoyable. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Nothing I really dislike about tower. Maybe I would like a feature to quick fix merge conflicts. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tower provides me with a clean and organized view of my Git branches and activities across all of my projects. The ability to create folders and organize my projects is a significant advantage, enhancing the overall project management experience. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your support! We're glad that you appreciate Tower's intuitive and clean UI 🙏 We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower ✌️ ### 29. The best Git UI app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin T. | Lead Developer and AI integrations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** I use the app maybe since I use Git, in one screen I have everything visually that I will need to have my work done. Easy to use all my GIT applications like BitBucket, Githb GitLab, and many more in one place. Also extremely helpful to resolve large merge conflicts, I think I can't merge them if not in Tower **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I dont dislike anything in Tower, why there is a character min here? **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** There is no another program where I can resolve large merge conflicts. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your review, Martin! We are delighted to have captured your attention since you started your journey with Git ✌️ ### 30. Excellent GIT GUI for both beginners and power users **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nic W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Makes it easy to manage git repos and workflows. It's nice on the eye, REALLY quick, and super stable. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Not much - I likely don't use all the power features, but it covers my daily use 100% **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Make it easier to manage git repos, less chance of messing it up. I use the CLI too, but it's easier to get things right with the GUI **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for the kind review, Nic! We're glad to hear that you appreciate Tower's speed and beautiful interface 🤩 We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower ✌️ ### 31. Best GIT client for Mac out there **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** The UI is clear, clean and efficient. The keyboard shortcuts are easy to learn and use. Can't think of a feature that is missing. Super stable and updated often **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Really hard to come up with something negatibve about Git Tower. I would say that I am a fanboy :) **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Way easier to use then command line GIT. Easier to learn for beginners in GIT but at the same time powerfull enough for advanced users **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your review! Glad we made Git easier to use 😎 We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower for many more years to come! ### 32. Easy to use and robust git client **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karmavir J. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** i have been using git tower for quite a while and this is one of the best git clients available. great and simple user interface. easy to use. excellent features like auto fetching, merge conflict resolution in the client itself , great visuallizations for the commit tree make it my goto tool. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** nothing i can think of till date. havent even encountered a bug on the GUI. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** i onboarded my team to use git tower mainly because of the reason that merge conficts can be resolved visually and auto fetching so no conficts are raised. the best thing is i can onboard new trainees with little to none experiance to use git tower with a small learning curve. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thanks for the kind words, Karmavir! I'm glad to know that you trust Tower enough to recommend it to your team, and that the simplicity of Tower is something you value 🙏 We hope you and your team continue to enjoy using Tower for many more years to come! 😎 ### 33. Git Tower - Next Level **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael H. | Founder, Developer, Designer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Many years ago, understanding what Git was and how to use Git correctly was confusing. There are Git clients, and many people prefer using their own terminal. However, there are some amazing features Git Tower has to offer. I love that it is easy to learn, and the more you use it, the more you will realize how much more Git can help improve your workflow by showing you commands and teams... and allowing you to see how the commands work as you are using the IDE. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Sometimes, Git Tower has a bit of an overkill in features, making it a little intimidating for new Git users. I think they should have a much lighter version depending on your level of Git experience. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing more users at the College who are unaware and intimidated by learning proper workflows, including version control. I am surprised how many companies, public or private, who cowboy code their work... **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for the kind words, Michael! We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower ✌️ ### 34. Simple and powerful Git client **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron M. | Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** My favourite Git client that I've used daily for the last four years. Keeps daily tasks very simple while giving you a great overview over the commits you're making. The app is well documented and they also offer docs on Git itself. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Nothing, really happy overall. I would appreciate a good integrated merge conflict editor however. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Makes clean code commits easy without getting in the way. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for the thoughtful review, Aaron! We'll see what can be done regarding the integrated merge conflict editor. We appreciate the suggestion! Here's to another four years! Cheers! 🥂 ### 35. Review on git tower **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prateek G. | Senior Analyst, Banking, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** The best part I like about git tower is its high productivity. You can easily clone and create repository within a click. You can easily restore old version, revert back your commited changes or even you can recover your deleted commited changes. It provides drag and drop feature along with multiple projects can be opened in parallel. You can also download the projects in background while you are doing your work. You can save your current work easily. You can easily work with azure devops using git tower. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** The only thing which I dislike about git tower is its high cost which took me into consideration whether I should use this service or not. There is nothing much information provided on cost optimization. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very useful as there is no command line interface and I do not have to remember the git commands. It's Gui is awesome and makes my life easier in managing the work. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your review, Prateek! We're glad to know that you're benefiting from Tower's features, such as drag and drop and Azure integration 😎 We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower ✌️ ### 36. Best and most easy to use Git Client **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SATYAM G. | Developer Mentor, E-Learning, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Git Tower makes it very easy to get both a concise explanation of the instructions and a predetermined amount of time in which to carry them out, both of which are necessary for me to attain the highest possible level of productivity. It is far easier to use than git, which needs users to memorize a huge number of command-line tool parameters, everything has been made simpler in terms of functionality, making it considerably easier to use than git. Everything has been made easier in order to accomplish this goal. Git Tower frees me from the burden of having to commit git instructions to memory or struggling with too complicated software, which enables me to concentrate on the process of actually building software rather than getting sidetracked by other concerns. The creation of duplicate repositories may be accomplished with the press of a single button, and merge conflicts can be handled with the use of graphical tools. It offers a straightforward user interface that enables users to navigate the history of the repository and move between different branches in a straightforward manner. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** There is no way for either feature requests or bug reports to be reviewed, and there are no plugins that can be installed. There is also no way to utilize plugins. The cost of using GitTower is one of the factors that makes me hesitant to make use of the service. The website in question does not provide any kind of product onboarding or a guided tour of the software that consumers are able to access. The resolution of disagreements that surface as a result of the combination of two companies is seldom easy. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Because everything has been simplified in terms of functionality, it is much simpler to use than git, which requires users to know a large number of command-line tool options. Every possible effort has been minimized to make this a reality. I no longer have to memorize git commands or struggle with too complex software thanks to Git Tower. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for writing this detailed review, Satyam! Regarding product onboarding, we suggest you take a look at our Git Video Course (https://www.git-tower.com/learn/git/videos) or this 10-minute video that quickly introduces you to 40 powerful Tower features (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OChAwMBLjnY). We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower for many more years to come! ### 37. Best and Only macOS Git GUI client for my workflow **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel M. | Senior Software Engineer Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** * gittower cli opens GUI to specified working directory inheriting GIT environment variables. I utilize direnv to populate env variables for setting GIT_AUTHOR and other applicable git configuration settings automatically. I rely on this functionality to satisfy the client's git configuration settings such as separate SSH keys, GIT_AUTHOR. * GUI is macOS native and offers integration with github for pull requests once your service account is linked. * Provides an intuitive interface for navigating and searching commit history and branches. * Integrates with external DIFF tool. I use Araxis Merge for detailed diffs and have this configured in Tower.app. * Support provides feedback when contacted. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** * There is no plugin, applescript library or API for interacting with the tower.app. * There is no way to view feature or bug tickets reported on Tower.app * In some cases the environment variables inherited when a new tower window instance is launched from the gittower cli do not update. I am able to work around this issue by quitting the application GUI and then opening the repo with gittower cli forcing the environment variables to inherit from that session. * There is no way to change gittower cli behavior regarding opening a new repo window or reusing an active repo window. The default is to reuse the existing window. I can work around this issue by opening an empty GUI window with "command-n" switching focus to this window and then using the gittower cli to open the repo. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** * As a consultant I work on many client and organization repos on various git services such as Github, Bitbucket. I organize my client repositories in directories under their organizations so that I can leverage direnv for setting various organization level environment variables and configurations automatically when entering the directory in the terminal for the client. The problem it solves: * As mentioned it inherits environment variables when opened with gittower and uses the native git client and its supported environment variables which I need for client repo contribution requirements. * See other bullets outlined in what I like best. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for writing this detailed review, Daniel! Also, thank you for sharing your workflow and providing suggestions on how Tower can improve. We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower for many more years to come! ### 38. Tower is a powerful, elegant, and mature piece of software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steve H. | CTO **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** I like how Tower makes tedious git tasks easy. Things like drag and drop in the interface to push branches to remotes are a nice touch. I enjoy the user context switching which allows me to switch my git profile on a per-project basis to have the correct email address and GPG key associated with my commits. Finally, I love that it's a native application on macOS as opposed to just another Electron app. It's a stable and well-maintained piece of software. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Tower can't do much in the way of managing issues on GitHub but I didn't expect it to. Tower's focus is to make working with git as frictionless as possible. Some people may be looking for a more complete solution to manage projects but for a mostly solo developer like myself, it's more than adequate. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem Tower solves for me is to keep me from having to execute sometimes complicated CLI commands in my Terminal. It gives me a nice GUI dashboard of all my coding projects that I keep in SCM. Git commands are quick and easy in this interface. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for the kind words, Steve! We're glad to know that you're benefiting from Tower's features, such as drag and drop and user profiles 😎 We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower ✌️ ### 39. Best GUI Git Client I've used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ian S. | Principal Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** I'm able to not only do what's available on the CLI, but certain things like CMD+Z for undo and such that are not available when just using the terminal. Being able to visualize and quickly move through the commands is a big deal to me and really helps me feel productive. The command palette is excellent and the app is a *native* Mac app, so it feels very nice and snappy. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I don't have any serious complaints. The only minor thing that's annoying is the app can get bogged down if you don't remember to include a gitignore before trying to view the working tree and you're using composer/node_modules. But that's hardly a fault of the app itself. I suppose it might be nice if there was a way to automatically not list/index certain folders, maybe there is one and I'm not aware of it. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am faster and more confident with Git. Prior to using Tower, I felt like I was always fumbling around with Git especially if I needed to do connections to cloud Git Hosts or anything that wasn't basic. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your review, Ian! We're glad to know that you're benefiting from Tower's advanced features, such as Undo or Quick Actions, our Command Palette 😎 We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower ✌️ ### 40. Most Productive Git Client **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John V. | Senior DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Tower was one of the main reasons I purchased my first Mac. At the time the tool was not available for Windows (is now though!) and I knew it was a tool I wanted to add to my process. Here's my list of favorite features of Tower: - Visually able to review each change BEFORE committing it. This has helped me to catch silly errors like extra spaces or testing code before creating the commit. - Ability to dismiss certain blocks of changes without having to revert the whole commit - Constant improvements and features. I have to admit I was not a huge fan of having to switch to a subscription model but the quality of the software and features is well worth the price in my opinon. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I only have nitpick dislikes to be honest. Tower does a good job of getting out of the way and allowing you to quickly speed through tasks with intuitive menus and keyboard shortcuts. But if I must name a few: - From the UI when you're on a single repo, some of the icons at the top are forced to be at the right-hand side whereas most of the interactions with branches and tags are on the left. So it makes mouse navigation a bit far on larger screens. Would be nice to be able to move those icons over to the left or closer to the middle. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** For me Tower allows me to quickly get code changes out both from a speed perspective and from a quality perspective by assisting me in the everyday task of committing code to git. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for the amazing review, John! We're very honored to learn that our product was one of the reasons to purchase a Mac 🙏 We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower for many more years to come! ### 41. The Best git Client for macOS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Collin A. | Sr. Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** I use Tower throughout my workday, and often for personal use as well, and I've found it to be far and away the best git client for macOS. It has the most Mac-like UI of any of the git GUIs I've tried, and it has the stability and feature set I need. In a time when many Mac apps are sacrificing feature-rich Mac-like UIs to gain cross-platform compatibility, Tower manages to bring both without compromises. It feels right at home with other powerful Mac apps, and doesn't have a reduced feature set or overly minimalist UI -- all the features are there, and in the right places. When it comes to features, switching branches, merging, rebasing, resolving conflicts, pushing and pulling, saving and applying stashes, and comparing branches are all made very easy compared to remembering the myriad git command line tool arguments. While some may relish remembering all those incantations, I work faster, more comfortably, and more confidently with Tower. And though you can easily do a command-line diff with git, the fact that Tower shows you the diffs while you stage files for commit gives me an extra opportunity to catch anything I might have missed, reducing mistakes. In all, I appreciate the attention to detail that makes Tower a great Mac app and how it helps me get my work done with minimal fuss. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** - I can never remember which toolbar icon is Save Stash and which is Apply Stash, and recent macOS design changes makes using "Show Icon and Text" in toolbars unappealing to use. - Integrating with GitHub and GitLab Issues would be a very welcome addition. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting my daily work and hobby projects done without having to resort to cryptic git command line arguments. I rarely, if ever, need to break out the git command line tool. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you so much for the incredibly detailed review, Collin! We're delighted to have you on board 😎 ### 42. Git Tower - UI for Git **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Priyanshu K. | Software Engineer (Android), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Git tower provides UI for version controlling the code. Merge conflicts can be easily solved via a virtual wizard. Repositories can be cloned in a single click and operations like cherry-picking can be easily done with its help. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** The thing I dislike about GitTower is its pricing as I believe its pricing is on a bit higher side. Also, one improvement I can suggest is that there can be a filter basically with the help of which one can go directly to dates to see the commit history of that date. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** I will recommend developers, especially those who are working on iOS development to give Git Tower a try as there is no tool which visualises Git as easily as Git Tower does and has all the features that are required for a day to day life of a developer. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Writing git commands can be a real pain if you use git almost daily and frequently. With the help of Git Tower, we are operating git via a User-Interface and doing all the version controlling with the help of drags and drops and single clicks. The benefit I have realised is that it makes developers' life easy to compare and push code. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your review, Priyanshu! Regarding your feature suggestion, which we appreciate: this has already been implemented. Please go to the "History" view and on the top right corner, start typing a date and run the search. You can then define if this is yours "Since" or "Until" date. To get the commits added on that day, you can then tweak the filter, setting it as a "Date is in range" with the same end date. I hope this makes sense! Please contact us at support@git-tower.com if it doesn't. ### 43. Review on git Tower **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Md. Rezowan T. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Creating pull request directly from this tool. Very powerful and organized tool. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** There are not that much downside except switching between branch a little twisting. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating, merging, pulling repository. Mostly used it our company for daily usage. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your review! Glad you enjoy Tower 🙏 You can use our Quick Actions command (CMD+SHIFT+A) to quickly search for/checkout other branches. Just type the first characters of the branch you're looking for — this also works for tags or files in your working tree :) ### 44. The perfect GIT client for Mac! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** George B. | Senior Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** As a web developer, I've been using Tower for 4 years to manage all of my GIT repositories. Being a native Mac app, it's fast and has a familiar UI - making it easy to do everything I need: committing, managing branches, merging, rebasing, stashing and working with remotes. Even though I'm a confident CLI user, I still find myself using Tower for even the simplest of tasks. The software is well supported with regular updates. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** This might be asking a lot - but I wish there was a built-in tool for viewing (&possibly resolving) merge conflicts. It would also be nice to be able to jump to a specific date / month when browsing commit history. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's an easy-to-use GIT GUI that speeds up my workflow for daily tasks. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your kind words, George! We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower for many more years to come 🙏 You can view the commits made in a specific period by adding a "Date is in range" filter. Regarding Merge Conflicts: we plan on improving merging soon, so stay tuned! 🙂 ### 45. The best git client out there! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen J. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** I have been using Git Tower for years and it is hands down the best Git client on the market. We use it on our development team and it is worth WAY more than we pay for it. Git Tower lets me focus on the task of development instead of remembering git commands or using tools that are difficult to use. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Honestly, there is nothing that I dislike with Git Tower. My only complaints are with a few minor features of git itself, but there is nothing I dislike about Git Tower. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Git Tower is the best git client on the market. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** I want a git client that makes it easy to work with my development team. It needs to be easy to commit, branch, merge, tag, etc. And it must make managing our code and branches easy. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for the kind words, Stephen! We hope you continue to enjoy Tower for many more years to come 🙏 ### 46. Best Git client out there **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryne O. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Tower provides a comprehensive, simple interface to perform basic and advanced Git commands. Managing repositories are easy with the many Git service integrations such as Bitbucket and GitHub. The GitHub integration is great since you can manage PRs through the UI. The integration simplifies code reviews if you want to do everything through Tower. The project branches and commits are easy to see. There is also a helpful search feature that provides the ability to search via keywords, author, commit hash, etc. The company also routinely updates the product to keep up with Git features. They also implement advanced Git features, making it more accessible than using the Git command line. There is an auto fetch feature which is helpful to ensure that your work is up to date. By ensuring that you are aware of the latest changes, this may reduce conflicts and improve collaboration among peers. Another convenient aspect of Tower is the many keyboard shortcuts for Git commands. After memorizing a bunch of commands, using Git will become much faster reducing button clicks. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Discovering new or advanced features of the Tower Git client is not easy. There is no product onboarding or walkthrough through the application. At most, there is a changelog that displays new features when the application has a new update. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Research alternative Git clients and see what works best for your team. Git Tower supports Windows and Mac, which covers most users. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Git on the command line can be tedious and requires knowledge of the various commands and options. The command line interface for Git is quite error prone for novice users. The Tower UI greatly simplifies Git usage, reducing errors and increasing productivity. If your team uses Git flow, you can activate it in Tower with a simple button click to turn on the feature. Tower bundles the Git client ensuring that your software is up to date. It also provides the ability to select another Git installation if desired. Bundling the Git software ensures consistency and improves consistently among team members. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your thoughtful review, Ryne! We’re happy to learn you appreciate our range of advanced features, such as auto-fetching, advanced search, and the integration with Git Hosting platforms! 😎 Regarding Tower’s new features: when we release a new version, we update the “Highlights” section on our Release Notes page (https://www.git-tower.com/release-notes) and usually write a blog post (https://www.git-tower.com/blog/). This should bring you up to speed, but we will also try our best to improve the onboarding process inside the app. We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower! ### 47. A tool that makes daily git flows enjoyable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** André W. | Senior Fullstack Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Tower makes it easy to check in the code you work on daily while enabling you to focus less on how git works and more on doing things. You don't need to be a total master at git, which mostly is not required anyways for day-to-day work. I love that you can easily stage single chunks/lines, stash work in progress code and manage your commits easily. It certainly improves my daily work with git to the point where I rarely use the command line - probably if I would learn the inside out of Tower, I may not even need to use the command line at all anymore. I've once stumbled across their knowledge base, which I probably will read through more in-depth soon - the fact that such a knowledge base exists is another big plus. The UI is beautiful and follows apple's human interface guidelines, making it easy to navigate other than the points mentioned below. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Switching between repositories feels a bit counterintuitive, but I cannot quite nail down what would be necessary to make it a better experience - may be that the back and forward buttons are not what I'd expect at first. Tend to forget it always. Perhaps it's also because the navbar, in general, only consists of icons which sometimes are required to hover on understand what actions they trigger. Not much of a dislike but rather a feature request to improve navigation: tools commonly nowadays have some command palette, usually triggered by CMD+K - such tool could allow to search, jump to branches, switch views (going to working copy or other places, commit or any other shortcut that you may not want to learn via keyboard shortcuts. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Just try using it and you will see. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** As mentioned above, Tower enables me to be efficient with git while enjoying using git as most visual tools lack certain features. Having a dedicated app for managing your repositories with git makes my life easier, as it also allows me to keep track of the general git state of the app. Built-in git integrations are okay to use but feel too cluttery or limited to specific platforms. Further more with Tower, I can use one tool for different accounts from different git providers without needing to keep track of it myself or by messing with the terminal again. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for the thoughtful review, André! We're delighted to have you on board 😎 To quickly navigate to other repos, you can use Quick Open (CMD+SHIFT+O) and type the name of the project you are looking for. You can learn more here https://www.git-tower.com/help/guides/faq-and-tips/tips-and-tricks/open-quickly/ To navigate to a different view, branch or commit inside a project, you can use our very own Quick Actions (CMD+SHIFT+A), which is very similar to the Command Palette feature you were suggesting ☺️ You can learn more about Quick Actions here: https://www.git-tower.com/help/guides/manage-repositories/quick-actions/ ### 48. One of the best tools to manage Git repositories on Mac **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** I like how easy it is to manage the repositories, branches, etc. I can create a branch, commit code, revert commits, undo deleting branches, etc. I don't have to remember the complex git commands like reflog. I can also manage multiple repos under my organization. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** It is not easy to manage merge conflicts. It is hard to manage PR standards, like having a standard for commit messages and PR templates. The UI design is also not sleek (maybe my personal opinion). **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** You can definitely consider it. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manage code, commits, daily code tasks. The UI makes it easy to push code and improve productivity. I don't have to remember complex git commands and using this is improving my productivity **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your recommendation! We're glad to have you with us! 🥳 ### 49. The best Mac git UI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Les P. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** It's the clearest git UI interface I have been able to find for Mac, and it's very reliable with no surprises and seldom any bugs. My co-workers who still insist on a terminal or other apps tend to complain about switching branches or having to do various git commands. For me, it's no problem to jump around all the time because Tower does all the heavy lifting. I hope some day they come to their senses... **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Minor issue: I have trouble distinguishing the store/apply stash buttons from each other, and I don't like to have text labels on toolbar buttons. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tower is amazing for solving merges with lots of conflicts. I can't imagine using anything else for that. It lets me solve messy situations without introducing bugs. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your kind words, Les! We hope you continue to enjoy using Tower for many more years to come 🙏 ### 50. Utilizing Git capabilities on a MAC seamlessly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Swati R. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** - When our team switched to MAC laptops , we worked on getting the tools friendly with MAC. -One of those tools was Git tower which we use in integration with Gitlab. - Git tower has been giving us the best experience by providing us the client which is intuitive , has a good intellisense and gives undo feature. - It also has a great UI with which we can manage our gitlab repos easily. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** - Sometimes, the pre-commit check fails, and then we need to go back to command-line utility. - A --no-verify option would be helpful. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Do lookout for GIT Tower to avoid the hassles of using GIT Clients. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** - The opaqueness of the GIT command-line is not a problem anymore. - The Git CLI works well with windows systems but has glitches in MAC.Switching to GIT Tower has resolved it. - Being the admin of Git in my org, I can work on multiple groups and repos simultaneously using GIT Tower. - Tracking the changes & watching GIT pipeline progress has become easier. **Official Response from Bruno Brito:** > Thank you for your feedback, Swati! 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