# 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. Tower is a great tool for scientific collaboration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan C. | Associate Professor of Organic-Materials Chemistry **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** It demystifies git, particularly for those of us who do not use git all-day every-day. We use it for Python projects, but primarily for synchronizing LaTeX, for which Tower is fabulous. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** It doesn't run on Linux, so I cannot use it in all of the contexts in which I use git. I also would like an in-built diff tool for quickly resolving minor merge conflicts. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** I particularly like how in handle branches and mergers and the tab layout lets me move between projects / documents very quickly, which is a big part of my workflow and is problematic on the command line. ### 2. The best Git tool on the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Golo R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** When using Git on the command-line, you get power – but not ease-of-use. When using any UI, you typically get ease-of-use, but not power. So the magic is the combination of both, and this is where Tower excels. It gets the balance right between feeling familiar to those who are used to work on the terminal, but also to give an easy entrance to the topic for those who aren't. So, it's not an either-or decision in this case, instead you can still stick to the CLI if you want to, but switch to Tower for more complex cases. What's especially useful here is the way Tower handles branches, including all these things such as merging, branching, comparing, and so on… So, it helps you if you want to, but gets cleanly out of the way if you don't. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** There is not much to say about negative things in Tower, so I assume the only thing I can come up with, is that it only runs on macOS and Windows, but not Linux. For this reason, not everyone at our company is able to use it (some are working on Linux). **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** First of all – no matter, which UI tool you use, first make sure that you understand the basics of Git, and that you get everything right, as this is essential to successfully using Git. Once you've done that, just start to use it for something you find difficult on the command-line, and then go from there. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** As already said, Tower is a great combination of the features of the CLI and the UI, and it integrates nicely with the things you do on the CLI. So you can use the CLI for those things you want to, and get to Tower for the more complex things, if you need to – and all of this without the risk of causing any damage, because you have a UI that assists you in a nice way. In contrast to other products such as GitHub Desktop, SourceTree, and Kraken, Tower does a better job in number of features, and it provides the more streamlined UI. So we typically use Tower for the hard parts, such as resolving merge conflicts, do cherry-picking, rebasing & co., and for everything else we stick to the CLI, which is a great combination for us, and it just works. ### 3. best UI git client **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Timo V. | Software Developer / Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Tower makes it easy to browse Repos, searching commits or changes. The UI is very polished and intuitive. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I wish a proper Diff Tool was integrated, or at least one can choose VSCode without a workaround. The commit time should be displayed in the commit list. Not only the date. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy repo management without having to start the IDE or code editor. It provides a good overview of whats going on. **Official Response from Julian Rothkamp:** > Thank you for sharing your feedback! Regarding diff tools, Tower allows you to write custom diff tool integrations (https://www.git-tower.com/help/guides/integration/custom-diff-tools/mac). Maybe that can be of help. We are also planning to allow more date/time formatting options. ### 4. Weird performance on corporate Windows VDI **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** It is good on my home Mac with SSD for basic Git routines, and it has GUI. Another "shiny object" for your collection. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** - on corporate Windows VDI (which probably uses SAN for filesystem) performance is weird, I did my best to tune it, staging single file takes tens of seconds. Free GIT GUI and SourceTree don't have such issues in same environment. And it happens already for few years and nobody care. I was using my own personal license in corporate environment, upgraded version few times a year - subscription terms: price is close to extremely rich in features IDEs from JetBrains (I use mostly IntelliJ IDEA which includes beautiful GIT GUI!). For comparison, I pay $150/year for *all* JetBrains IDEs (IDEA, CLion, etc). Git Tower Pro charges $99/year without discount for long-time customers, and it is for only 1/100-1/1000 of functionality provided by JetBrains. - I have tens and hundreds projects in my environments and switching from one project to another is pain, it requires many mouse clicks instead of single one and it is not "instant" **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Don't fall into "Another Shiny Object" syndrome **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am contributing to Apache Software Foundation, I am writing code in Java, Scala, C++, Go, and I have direct clients in financial industry and media ### 5. Tower improves your Git workflow by a great deal **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Frank M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** The super clean and intuitive user interface, the connection to my Github and Gitlab accounts, the amazing resources on the company website, the time Tower saves me in my day to day work. Definitely worth the price. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Nothing really, I use it daily and just love it. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Git Tower is a software we use in our daily workflow. It enables us to work super efficiently, solve merge conflicts with confidence and manage our Git commands in a beautiful, intuitive interface. It's a time-saver. ### 6. A seamless Git client for Mac **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick S. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Tower offers most git features in a very clean user interface. It is built as a native application so it offers great performance and familiar OS features, such as tabs for multiple projects and keyboard shortcuts. Tower supports most cloud-based git providers, and on premises ones when used in enterprise environments. It also supports authentication using SSH keys. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I'd like to see a better integration of git submodules in the app. They're correctly implemented in their current state, but i'd like some time-saving features when committing changes across multiple submodules. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** The other apps that we tried had performance issues either with large repositories, large merges, searching through code or commits, etc. These apps could also use over 1GB of memory running in the background. Tower uses minimal system resources in comparison. ### 7. Amazing tool. I'm using it for years as a freelancer and as employee. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jakub P. | Senior Frontend Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Clear and intuitive interface. Integration with multiple platforms. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I don't find and things to dislike. Just nothing. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes helps me to visualize and understand situation in bigger projects. Helps also to show something to less experienced with GIT collegues ### 8. A very old fashioned and clunky software **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harsh S. | Sales and Marketing Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** It makes it easier to make amendments to any projects derived from Github and push all changes in one go rather than doing everything one by one on Github. It is easy to see all the changes that have happened from different users and the timestamp. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** It's very slow, difficult connection process and can have issues when pushing/uploading to Github. Sometimes takes a while to send the update to Github and so you have to wait for the visual update on Github before having confidence that the work you did has been fully uploaded **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** N/A **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to complete multiple tasks for one project in one go rather than doing it one by one on Github **Official Response from Julian Rothkamp:** > Thanks a lot for your feedback, Harsh! You mentioned a "difficult connection process" - we'll be taking a closer look at this topic and see if we can simplify this process even further. Regarding "issues when pushing/uploading to GitHub": we haven't heard that from other users so far. Tower is very robust in these matters (which makes sense when keeping in mind that it is using pure Git in the background). If you have any more information for us, we'd love to hear it via https://bit.ly/towersupport ### 9. My favorite git client **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manuel W. | Digital- und Innovationsberater // Product Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** -easy to use -great ui/ux -quality of Support **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** For my needs and purposes, Git Tower covers everything or offers everything I need. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Super simple squashes and rebases ### 10. Best and simple Git tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Git Tower shows GIT flows in a simple and clean way. Functions like Drag and Drop are very nice! **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I have no points. Improvement suggestions are implemented directly. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualising how my projects in Git work, this has made me much more productive. ### 11. Awesome product for using along with git repos **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Faritha N. | Product Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Very nice UI for managing changes made on working copy of files. Helps in management of multiple Work in Progress Items. Makes maintenance of multiple repos a breeze. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I like everything about Git tower. No complaints. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use tower for aiding development and simplifying version control using Git. Using tower is much easier when compared to using git command line. I would definitely recommend to all developers ### 12. Resolve those GIT conflicts the easy way! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maksim S. | Full Stack Web Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** I really like the visual aspect of Tower. I'm a visual person that hates doing complex operations via command line so Tower is perfect for me. Showing me all commits, conflicts, branches, tags and code, it's really good for working with code, especially in team setting! **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I don't like the lack of built in diff/merge tool that could've been integrated in the software instead of using third party tools. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Tower for all code commits and team work. The benefits of resolving conflicts quickly, keeping track of all branches and pruning branches are all things we use daily! ### 13. Useful tool for git commands **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** The simple user interface that even a beginner can understand and use easily. Ease of tracking the files i have changed. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Nothing that i dislike about it. It is user friendly **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stashing, commiting, merging all my codes using tower. Easy to track what i have been coding. ### 14. Great tool to manage multiple Git projects locally & remotely **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joel H. | JavaScript Web Developer & Consultant | Freelance, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Tower supports all the cloud repository services you could ever want: GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket and more. It prevents me from shooting myself in the foot trying to use git via the terminal. The best part of Tower is that it gives thorough explanations of git operations which may be extremely foreign and difficult especially for new users. The Tower support team has always been extremely responsive and accommodating. They even gave me a discount on the license after extending my trial period more than once in order to better evaluate the software and compare to alternatives. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Sometimes it's difficult to configure multiple GitHub accounts. If you change your GitHub password, for example, it's a huge pain to update it in Tower. For some reason there is no GUI for this. The other drawback is the price: $79 for a single license? They are very proud of their software, but for good reason. On occasion, I will still have to resort to the command-line to solve certain issues, but for the majority of regular git usage, it's perfect. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** It's a great tool, the only drawback being the high price tag. However, great software is worth paying for. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Team collaboration and development with Git is greatly streamlined. It's much more friendly than the command line interface and can perform all same the complex operations with a layman's description of every action. ### 15. Simple and straight forward **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Git Tower displays how Git flows in a simple and clear manner. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I honestly haven't come across anything yet. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualising how my projects in Git work, this has made me much more productive. ### 16. Git tower user review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saiful I. | Graduate Research Assistant, Machine Intelligence, Computer Vision & 3D Lab, IUPUI., Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** For version control, everybody is thinking about Git these days. But some chatter on the street is not enough to justify switching to Git. Here are some hard facts that make Git great. I am explaining all the good reasons here: Work Offline, Undo Mistakes, Sleep Easy, Make Useful Commits, Work in Your Own Way, Don’t Mix Things Up, Go With the Flow. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Git is the source code version control system that is rapidly becoming the standard for open source projects. What a pity that it’s so hard to learn, has such an unpleasant command line interface, and treats its users with such utter contempt. Complex information model, Crazy command line syntax, Crappy documentation, Information model sprawl, Leaky abstraction, Power for the maintainer, at the expense of the contributor, Unsafe version control, Burden of VCS maintenance pushed to contributors. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Although there are dozens of version control systems on the market, some of the world's most renowned projects (like the Linux Kernel, Ruby on Rails, or jQuery) are using Git as their VCS of choice. But It is really nice to use git tower on laptop for version control but you also need to learn the commands. You can also incorporate bash for unix command with it. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** i was working on a group project where i need all my partners to take part in and also work from remote places. The project was a research project coding in c++ so we were thinking of using version control application like git tower on computer. ### 17. Simple to navigate and easy GIT alternative **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris H. | Vice President of Operations & Senior Software Developer, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** The best part about Git Tower is it's simple user interface. I've been a beta tester for the last two major version releases and they consistently are pushing the bar in useful features within the app. I'm not a fan of command line for many tasks and Git Tower makes it extremely easy to use with strong keyboard shortcuts and quick actions to get complex commands done quickly. Git Tower seamlessly integrates with an alternate terminal application as well as your Diff Tool of choice. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** The only thing I don't like about the new version is they altered a frequently used keyboard shortcut to a new command. This is not a game changer but I'm hoping that in the future they do not follow that trend as keyboard shortcuts are the life-blood of my productivity. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest barrier for a new developer I add to my team is the ability to use Git effectively. With Git Tower they no longer have to remember a complex list of commands to get things done. It's all handled in the user interface and we can customize the app's toolbar to accommodate the most important tasks. This has made on-boarding of entry-level developers quicker to be productive in out team environment. ### 18. I am a full stack developer using Tower for more than 2 years now. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Git, the most powerful version control system can be intimidating at times, it has got a steep learning curve, everything in CLI is abstract. Often you will not know what you're doing and may end up in a conflict. The power of TOWER can be summarized in one word - "visualization". With Tower you visualize every task, you have a birds-eye-view of the scene and nothing remains abstract. With this powerful idea of visualization, you will be comfortable with git, like solving a conflict visually, avoid mistakes and be more productive. Also, Tower has its beautiful UI which keeps improving. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Most of the problems I've had are already resolved. When I first started to learn Tower, I had to always rely on my office Mac. I couldn't make use of the free trial, Tower offered, on my personal windows machine. I think the product is highly priced to be used by an individual. Suitable for the office environment. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** If you use and like git then definitely use Tower, you will love it. It makes you more productive, mostly by drag and drops. Now you git for windows as well. The 30 days free trial is more than what you want to learn Tower. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Almost using Tower on a daily basis and my biggest worries of conflict merges are easily handled by Tower. I've been observing my juniors getting more productive. ### 19. The must Git App **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** The reason I prefer to use Git Tower is the simple user interface. Git Tower simplifies managing assorted repos, which can save someone working on many projects a fair amount time. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** The only dislike I have with Git Tower is it took a while to get used to it. Coming from using a command line it as a little learning curve. Many of the issues I had with Git Tower has been resolved over the years. Also, Git Tower is also one of the most expensive Git apps on for the Mac. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** The most significant business problem that we solved when switching to Git Tower is time savings. Git Tower also gives us the ability to have members of the team who are apprehensive about using the command line. It makes the process of having new team members use Git for the first time more accessible. ### 20. Takes the guess work out of your git flow process **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** The graphic interface is simple to use and easy to set up. The ability to follow git flow patterns makes this software one of our most integral parts of our internal process. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I wish it had a better merge tool built in. It now uses a diff tool which I defined in the settings, but it would be nice if it would intelligently walk you through merge conflicts. Otherwise, no complaints! **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** This tool is great! We use it on all of our projects and across multiple teams. I highly recommend it. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Git tower allows us to define a process around our path to product release. We can follow the git flow pattern to define features, hotfixes, releases, and more to establish a context with out branches. It also integrates seamlessly with git which makes working with a team an easy to manage task. ### 21. Git nicer, faster and easier ! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2016 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Tower is the best graphical user interface for git. But wait, I am a geek, and the command line is my best tool... well yes but not when I need to look at git logs, git diffs, git blame, or when I should manage staging partial changes. The nice aspect is that I do not have to choose, I can use Tower and the command line together. And I should admit that Tower is taking progressively the advantage over the command line. The UI is slim and efficient for the purpose. No fuzz. I could have used my IDE for the purpose, and I do sometime, but Tower is far more tailored to the task. The best feature is probably your ability to selectively stage or discard changes. And having a UI similar to GitHub on your desktop for browsing project is a real advantage. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** The search feature in the logs is fast but work like a filter, and what I need is to find that commit in its context. Maybe I missed that feature, but this is very annoying to have a filter in place of search for that purpose. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** If you are using Git, you need Tower ! This tools is force sure tailored to your need. The price might seems expensive, but you will never regret it. Reviewing your commit with Tower is so nice that you will quickly wonder how you work without it. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a developer, I need to dig into project history every day, and Tower allows me to do it better, faster and with more fun. ### 22. Git Tower is a great GUI tool for those who aren't comfortable using the command line. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyler D. | Web Developer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2017 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Git Tower has a user-friendly interface and makes the often complicated git commands a breeze. It simplifies the process of managing several different repos as well, which is a big feature for freelancers who are working on more than one project at a time. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** There are a couple bugs I haven't been able to figure out, namely that the DiffMerge tool doesn't open when I try to solve merge conflicts. I'm not sure why this is and I haven't been able to find a solution. I don't need to use it too often though, so it's more of an annoyance than a huge problem. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Github Desktop, Git Fork **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Git Tower allows designers and developers to get up and running quickly with a git platform (we use Github at our company). Git and the commands involved with git are notoriously tricky, especially since the native way to accomplish anything is through the command line, which many people aren't comfortable with. ### 23. Just switched to Tower and love it! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason W. | Sr Software Engineer, Computer Games, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** No more slowness, no random errors, it just works! Loving it. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I haven't found anything about it that I don't like yet.. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Give it a shot, it's pretty sweet and just works. No errors, no issues, and it's nice and fast. Loving the change! **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Source control! It's replaced sourcetree. ### 24. Git for Mac done right **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** The UI is simple to navigate and use. Branching, merging etc are all easy to do. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I wanted the ability to initiate pull requests, which they just now implemented in version 3.0. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control for our iOS apps. ### 25. My experience with GitTower **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2017 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** It's the best mac app for handling git repositories. It's well integrated into the OS look and feel. It's fast and simple to use. I've bought it 3 years ago and i have been using it ever since. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** It has some bugs. For example, the GitHub integration is a little buggy, and it has some trouble handling big files or files with lots of changes. Either way, overall it's a good experience and i like it a lot. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Do not hesitate, it's the best git client on Mac. While the price is a little bit high, it's worth every penny! **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** I learned git through GitTower. Using this product you can start using git with basically 0 knowledge of the git system. You learn every git feature by using GitTower. ### 26. Great tool to implement for all types of development regardless of the language **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** We're mixed shop of Microsoft and Java and then we have multiple platforms Pega, Sitecore, Azure, etc... it works great for all application development.It's a low cost solution and a licensing structure is pretty simple.It's in the cloud. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Nothing yet, like every tool some configuration type of decisions have to be made up front **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** It's always good to start with a small pilot and see if it works for your environment. It's a low cost solution and a licensing structure is pretty simple. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** One centralized solution for source control and branching ### 27. Nice but not cheap git ui **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** It has an intuitive ui and is a lot faster than other cöients i tried. It is also capaable of handling single line commits **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** The project list seems to be a bit unorganized but works at the end **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Just try it, but there are tons of other good client as well... **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Add some ease to git usage, for some tasks it’s better to have an ui, while we mainly use the xli. ### 28. The best Git client for Mac and Windows, seriusly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor H. | AngularJS / Ruby on Rails developer, Warehousing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2017 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Branching, comparing, pushing, merging everything is perfect, you can manage many repositories easily, also the website tutorials are AWESOME. Let me tell you: if you want to know which is the best git client, is this one. Do not look for something else. Easy to install on Mac, it can be really helpful for new git users who do not know about all the git commands. The interface is simply perfect. The visibility of the options is great. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** The price is too high, it should be more accessible for people around the world, I have used the trial version and it was great but I can not afford it because my currency sucks. I do not know if it's possible to export diffs between branches using PDF reports, but it will be nice to have. I will like to have access to a linux application. I do not like there is no way to run custom git commands on this client. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Please watch the videos online, they teach you everything from creating a repository to manage branches, they are all very simple to understand. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solved my needs on tagging repos and creating branches easily, I also can show the difference between commits to my collaborators. Git Tower makes your daily git process really simple, some times you forgot what are the commands to do some tasks and here comes this app which solves this issue. ### 29. So easy! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2017 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** It did take a while to go from using the terminal to using a physical git tool but I love being able to see all of my repos in one place and handling merge conflicts like a champ. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** It took me a while to get the hang of it. I wish there was a Git Tower 101 documentation, or maybe I just missed that. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Read documentation and test out a few other products like this before buying. They have a pretty long trial too but definitely worth the money to invest in a tool like this! **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Handling merge conflicts is amazing, I like that I can merge things into my branches and it's saved so much time. ### 30. Great Native Mac Git GUI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew M. | Founder, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Tower is built as a native Mac application, first and foremost. Unlike other Git GUI software, such as Atlassian's SourceTree, Tower is built exclusively for the Mac-- and it shows. The UI is completely native and feels as such. Most common Git operations are fairly accessible. As long as you are familiar with how Git operates, you will also be able to use Tower. Some complex Git operations, such as picking specific lines or chunks to stage, are significantly easier in Tower than in the Git command line tool. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Submodule support is existent, though your submodules are hidden slightly in their own submenu. Though this isn't really a big problem, it kind of illustrates the issue with *any* Git GUI application, including Tower: it can obscure some of Git's power and hide certain functionality behind menus. This isn't inherent to Tower itself, but to all Git GUI apps. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is much quicker to stage and commit specific changes using Tower than the regular Git command line tool. This speeds up development significantly. ### 31. Most powerful and awesome Git client I've ever used! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eduard K. | Front-end Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Very neat and stylish design, minimalist interface, and it is super user-friendly. Git-stashing is the best! Gotta stash everything, I can't believe it is so easy and works so great. Basically, only because of Git Tower I have discovered how truly awesome stashing is. Also, love the fact that I can abort conflict merges. These features have been super helpful to me! **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** I wish diff-merge tool was more intuitive, easier to use and worked better in general at solving conflict merges. Seems like most of merge conflicts that arise could be easily solved automatically, I don't think it is necessary to involve users all the time. Most of the time, it is not even clear why there is a conflict and why Tower could not resolve them by itself. Less conflicts means more productive work. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Do not hesitate, just try it it and see for yourself how good it is. In my opinion, this is one of the best Git clients out there. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using it at work every single day for the last year. Since I switched to Git Tower my workflow improved and I became a more productive thanks to some of the best features that Git Tower has like automatic stashing and aborting those horrible conflict merges. ### 32. Tower 2 - My favorite Git client **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Willem D. | Software Engineer, Incubation Team, Health, Wellness and Fitness, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2016 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** The big difference that makes Tower a better choice than other clients is it's ability to solve problems. Anybody who uses git will know the struggle of merge conflicts or somebody misusing the system. Unlike many other clients, Tower has the ability to handle the majority of these problems. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** My only complaint about tower is the lack of a very strong built in dif tool. If you aren't sure of which file to default too, you'll likely have to have find a third party software to compare. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** I'd say that, if you are willing to spend the money, Git Tower is the best git client out there. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping everyone on track and using the same files is always tough, and is why git is excellent. Tower gives the ability to use this tool to those who lack the ability to interact with it in command line. ### 33. Git Tower is the Best GUI git interface there is **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omar S. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2016 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** There are several things that prompted me to give Git Tower a 10 out of 10. The ease with which normal git tasks can be done through the Git Tower interface is amazing. I can sync remote repos automatically (do not worry, you can turn this off if you want), easily track my entire teams branch and commit history and track issues in real time. Coupled with a good diff tool ( I use kaleidoscope ) merge conflicts are a thing of the past. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** The only thing, and its minor is that you cannot automate pull requests or even accept them through Git Tower. I will say this though, thats not that big of a deal. The extra step to submit a pull request provides a bit of relief as pull requests are a critical part of the process that in my opinion should be well reviewed prior to submitting. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** There is a free trial on the main website. You need a nice diff tool as well, I use kaleidoscope which also has a free trial on their website. Both of these are need to realize the full potential of what a nice git GUI can provide. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Git Tower just makes my life easier, I am solid on the command line and have all of my aliases set to make my life easier, but sometimes I still like to go to Git Tower for tracking other peoples work, understanding where we are in a project at a high level and also making sure everyone is on the same page. Finally, Git tower is very helpful when it comes to getting a snapshot of the existing branches and how far they have diverged form our main repo. ### 34. Very well designed Git client **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nate D. | Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2016 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Very well designed, it looks great; being able to see the status of all my repositories visually; connects to various Git hosting services (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, Beanstalk, etc.); can organize repositories into folders; lots of good options in the preferences; can help manage my Git config; refreshes my repositories automatically; the open quickly shortcut feature **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** It's very expensive for a new license, especially when there are a few pretty good clients available for free; I wish it had an undo function, like the GitHub Desktop client; sometimes I wish it could open repositories into multiple tabs instead of having to open a new window for each repo **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** The price is probably the biggest negative to Git Tower. If the high price tag doesn't work for you, try taking a look at Atlassian SourceTree (pretty similar to Git Tower) or GiHub Desktop (a somewhat simplified Git client). I've tried both, but I keep coming back to Git Tower. If you have the money to spend, I think Git Tower is the best Git client that you can buy. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've been using Git Tower as my primary Git client for a couple years now, and so far it's my favorite. It looks great and has pretty much every Git function I need. I almost never have to go to the command line for Git now, and I can visually see everything that is happening in my repositories. ### 35. The Git GUI to end all CLI-lovers rants **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin R. | Global Community Manager, E-Learning, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Not needing to type a whole lot of things I can just click on. Don't get me wrong, I can use the Command Line just fine, but when working on a tight schedule errors do tend to happen... and less mental cycles you have to spend dictating commands to your terminal translates into more attention on the things that matter: which commits to keep while cherry picking, squashing interactively (literally, not kidding), and pushing left and right with no effort. At. All. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** It's not a dislike. It's a want: being able to generate PRs directly from the app. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** if you're using Github Desktop, you are probably dying a bit inside every time. Learn the Command Line way, or get this app. Guaranteed satisfaction. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Git rhymes with grit. Too many moving pieces in something that could be automated, or at the very least made easy. This software does just that. ### 36. Tower makes git pleasant **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick S. | App Designer & Developer, Entertainment, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** Git Tower is a beautiful user experience on top of the notorious git. It means I can focus on doing my job, and not have to memorise many commands, trip over syntax errors, or feel like I’m living in the 1980s. It does a good job of making everything accessible within the content of the UI, they haven’t just mapped each git command to a menu. It integrates well with other software, such as for diffing. I just use Apple’s FileMerge. **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** The UI flow for jumping between Repositories somehow catches me sometimes. And, of course, it doesn’t cover every single command that git offers. **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tower lets me use GitHub and Beanstalk easily, it gives me best practice git usage without having to remember particular flags to commands or set up command line aliases or anything irritating like that. I can just focus on my work, instead of getting caught up in a tool. ### 37. The best Git client for Mac **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darian R. | Senior Designer Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Git Tower?** It took me some time to adjust to git. Most of that had to do with the various terminal commands and other git clients I tried. Switching to Tower made a night and day difference. I have now been using Tower for a couple years and have grown accustomed to using git for all of my projects because it makes the process much simpler. I am a graphic designer and a visual person, so while I can use the terminal it gets in the way of my creative process and kind of stresses me out. Using git is essential to my work so finding a good git client was vital. However, Tower is more than good it is excellent! **What do you dislike about Git Tower?** Most of my dislikes have actually been remedied in the past year as they have added features like syncing with Bitbucket team accounts and so forth. There is very little I don't like about Tower. Sometimes, it just seems to get stuck on a file and you have to close it completely. This may be a git issue rather than specific to Tower because almost every git client seems to have this happen from time to time. **Recommendations to others considering Git Tower:** Atlassian Source Tree **What problems is Git Tower solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control and code branching for distributed codebases. ## Git Tower Discussions - [Why has git tower been made available only for Mac users?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/why-has-git-tower-been-made-available-only-for-mac-users) - 5 comments, 1 upvote - [View Git Tower pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/git-tower/reviews?page=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-01+03%3A34%3A17+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7adef52f-f3bc-4cc6-8051-ffc594214f34&secure%5Btoken%5D=2e4d41866dfc3aca0676abbb07978f31364f9c6e62e95a41ced81d8689177195&format=llm_user) ## Git Tower Integrations - [Bitbucket](https://www.g2.com/products/bitbucket/reviews) - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) ## Top Git Tower Alternatives - [SourceTree](https://www.g2.com/products/sourcetree/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (372 reviews) - [GitKraken Desktop](https://www.g2.com/products/axosoft-gitkraken-desktop/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (196 reviews) - [Assembla](https://www.g2.com/products/assembla/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (125 reviews)