Git Tower Reviews & Product Details

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Sometimes, the pre-commit check fails, and then we need to go back to command-line utility.

- A --no-verify option would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its clear interface simplifies getting started with Git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only real downside is that Tower can’t take the place of a basic, fundamental understanding of Git. Which isn’t Tower’s fault. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The app is very comfortable and easy to use. You can quickly access every feature you need. I used other software like Fork or Github Desktop, they're overly simplified and do not offer some crucial features. Tower is both easy to use yet full of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing that I dislike. Everything is perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Git Tower is a beautifully crafted Mac application, with the power to go with it. I know my way around the command line and I could achieve the same results using it, but why waste time? Everything is easier using Tower, rebases are a breeze, the undo implementation is superb, repository management is much easier. And it even supports Git-flow! All in all, an amazing application, and a must have for me, to the point that I pay for from my own pocket. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't think of any real downsides other than relying on it means you can get a bit rusty with the command line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best part is that we have option to run our Git command through git tower ui and it helps to resolve merge conflict and commit history. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no proper place to see latest release and product onboarding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Git Tower looks and feels like a native Mac application, because it is one. Further than that, the UI actually makes sense and works well. It's fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a couple of features I'm missing from my personal workflow (good support for git pair/duet, allowing --no-verify on push), and sometimes you have to drop back to the command line when a pre-push or pre-commit hook fails—but you always can, because it doesn't do anything funny, its job is to translate low-level git commands into a usable GUI without any magic and it does it well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.