--- title: GitHub Reviews meta_title: 'GitHub Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 2378 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how GitHub works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.7 review_count: 2378 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: Source Code Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/source-code-management --- # GitHub Reviews **Vendor:** GitHub **Category:** [Version Control Hosting Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-hosting) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 2,378 ## About GitHub GitHub is where the world builds software. Millions of individuals, organizations and businesses around the world use GitHub to discover, share, and contribute software. Developers at startups to Fortune 50 companies use GitHub, every step of the way. ## GitHub Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value **exceptional collaboration and version control** features, making GitHub essential for code tracking and development. (124 reviews) - Users value the **ease of use** that GitHub offers, enhancing collaboration and version control effortlessly. (102 reviews) - Users value the **seamless team collaboration** on GitHub, enhancing project transparency and workflow automation effectively. (102 reviews) - Users value the **seamless collaboration** GitHub offers, enabling efficient teamwork and project transparency for developers. (97 reviews) - Users value the **seamless version control** in GitHub, enhancing collaboration and simplifying code management throughout projects. (97 reviews) - Repository Management (90 reviews) - User Interface (74 reviews) - Code Review (69 reviews) - Code Management (65 reviews) - Integrations (65 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **learning curve and complexity** of advanced features like GitHub Actions challenging for newcomers. (45 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve steep** , facing challenges with complexity and configuration in GitHub Actions. (42 reviews) - Users find the **learning difficulty** of GitHub challenging, especially for beginners unfamiliar with Git workflows. (41 reviews) - Users find the **complexity for beginners** challenging, especially with CI/CD workflows and permission management in GitHub. (40 reviews) - Users find the **steep learning curve** of GitHub challenging, especially when configuring workflows and managing permissions. (34 reviews) - Difficult Learning (32 reviews) - Users find **limited features** in GitHub, leading to challenges in using resources effectively and finding necessary tools. (30 reviews) - Missing Features (29 reviews) - Expensive (26 reviews) - Confusing Interface (25 reviews) ## GitHub Reviews ### 1. Public & Private Repos Plus a Wide Range of Useful Tools **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2026 **What do you like best about GitHub?** It offers both public and private repositories, along with a wide range of other tools. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Nothing specific to mention. I don’t have any comments on this one. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped improve collaboration, version control, automation, security, and overall developer productivity. ### 2. Best platform for version control and collaborative coding **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** GitHub makes it simple to manage code with Git, collaborate with teams, and contribute to open-source projects. I like its pull requests, issue tracking, and actions for CI/CD. The integration with editors like VS Code and AI tools like Copilot make it even more powerful. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** The interface can feel overwhelming for beginners learning Git concepts. Free private repositories have some limitations compared to paid plans. Also, resolving merge conflicts directly in the web editor can sometimes be tricky. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitHub solves the problem of distributed collaboration in coding. It allows me to keep my projects version-controlled, work with teammates, and back up code safely in the cloud. It has also made contributing to open-source projects much easier. ### 3. GitHub Actions Makes Variable Management a Breeze **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajeev C. | Software Engg, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2026 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Github actions is best thing i like along with its variables maintenance for actions. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Nothing specific for github I dislike. Just on suggestion it should have better bug tracking tool. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** It his helping me to maintain my codebase with ease and making it secure and allowing features like cherry pick and rebase. ### 4. A must-have tool for any developer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MOHAMMAD S. | Software engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2023 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Makes it easy for devlopersbto share code file and collaborate with fellow devlopers on open source project. It's us **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Sometimes I find the UI a bit confusing, especially when I started out. Also, some features like GitHub Actions or security settings could use better tutorials or in-app guides. But overall, it's been a great experience. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitHub makes it really easy to contribute to open source projects. Almost every project I’ve worked on or seen in the community uses GitHub to manage code, track issues, and collaborate with others. The best part is that it’s completely free for open-source projects, which helps me learn and grow as a developer without any cost. ### 5. Github experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashin Marin T. | Software Development Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** GitHub's primary strengths lie in its ability to facilitate collaboration, version control, and project management for software development. This can be used to showcase one's projects during interviews or other events. It has excellent customer support. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** The code commit sometimes breaks, confusing which active chain someone is working on. The commands can be occasionally difficult to understand and use. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a version control software. It keeps track of the changes and return back to the previous source code at any point of time, without losing the data in it. It's more than just file sharing. One can view the history of each git commit, different branches of the same codebase, an issues tab to manage bugs, pull requests for the merging of code from one branch to another and plenty more ### 6. Easy Collaboration with Powerful GitHub Actions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andy N. | Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2026 **What do you like best about GitHub?** easy collaboration and github actions are very powerful CI tools **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Occasional outages will sometimes block us **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows our development team to move fast ### 7. Life saver github **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** PRATEEK M. | Tech Trainee, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Wonderful experience with github, my code is always safe with way more features for stash ,merge, compare and with multiple branches i can make multiples projects in same repo. Once i got used to github it made my life easier. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** If someone found access to your github and deleted the repo. You are finished **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Banch management and code pushing in github so that it can be accessible to my team. Banking problems age getting solved in my firm with github currently by managing multiple branches on hithub ### 8. The best software collaboration and storage tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2023 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Easy to use and the most widely-used software in the industry. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** I can’t access a repository through a private link and there is no easy onboarding for non-coders to design their profile on Github. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control at work and for personal use. CI/CD actions and deployment of websites using Github pages. ### 9. The Ultimate Platform for Seamless Collaboration and Efficient Development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** GitHub is an exceptional platform for developers and teams of all sizes. Its user-friendly interface makes collaboration seamless, allowing developers to efficiently share and contribute to projects. The integration with Git makes version control effortless, ensuring that all changes are tracked and organized. GitHub’s powerful features like pull requests, issue tracking, and continuous integration enable smooth workflows and better project management. The platform's vibrant open-source community offers an invaluable resource for learning, sharing, and networking. Additionally, the availability of GitHub Actions and integration with various third-party tools enhances the development process, making GitHub an indispensable tool for developers around the world. Highly recommended for both beginners and experienced developers! **What do you dislike about GitHub?** I don't think there is any downsides for Github. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitHub enables developers to track every change made to a project, providing a clear history of all modifications, which makes it easier to understand what has been altered and why. ### 10. Great for PR Management, Needs Better Slack Integration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janish S. | Head Technical Program Manager, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Accessibility, ability to see the PR changes, reviewing and approving the PRs, merging the code **What do you dislike about GitHub?** need some external add-ons with Slack to notify developers in a more efficient way **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to peer code, transparency, leaving comments for each PRs and addressing those comments ### 11. Github is user interface that makes it easier to use Git. Git is a version control system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zaki B. | Business Administration, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Github makes it simple to compare versions of a file or directory.One of its key features is the ability to compare how files or directories have changed over time — this is essential for tracking changes, debugging, or collaborating on code. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** One of Github weaknesses is that it doesn't handle large binary files very well. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Github build automation in front end with npm package such as jimp and leverage gulp and the flexibility of JavaScript to automate workflows. ### 12. Great for Team Performance Overview, but Pricey for Larger Teams **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos S. | CPO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Easiness to use and to have an overview of team performance **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Price, its a bit expensive if the time is big, or if you want to create only visibility team members **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control + history and collaboration ### 13. Great for IT training **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Benjamin C. | Teacher, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** I have used GitHub for a college course and it was a great to that lead to my success. Highly recommend **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Not a thing. It was easy to use and I love the interface **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** It help get resources from professor to me the student ### 14. Helpful tool to manage the code repo and multiplatform easy utility **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohit K. | Senior Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** The code repo and the different cloud native tools helm managed repos which are of great use to directly implement, manage and deploy readily available app. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** With the easy access of Azure git within the Microsoft's azure environment, the GitHub has lost the charm though being a great git management tool **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** I look up GitHub mainly to do the versioning control and to look up for latest version updates to the cloud native tools that maintains the repo on GitHub. Also to raise the query and issue on the repo for the bug. ### 15. Impressive Repository Capacity and Outstanding Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kendal P. | Self, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** The sheer number of repositories and projects that GitHub can accommodate is truly impressive. Alongside this, their support team is excellent. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** I think some repositories could be a bit quicker. It seems like their speed could be improved. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Whenever I need to check out a suspicious website or look for potential malware, I find that Github is useful in these situations. ### 16. The esencial software to work with code **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis Patricio R. | Senior Backend Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** - All well distributed without problems - Fast and secure - Easy to implement in every company - Many features **What do you dislike about GitHub?** - Some features are only paid for small personal projects, but for a company, it's perfect **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Help to integrate all the process of coding, reviews and CI/CD ### 17. We're using it for repositories storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Camilo M. | Sysadmin, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** We like the simplicity and the ease of administration **What do you dislike about GitHub?** The thing I didn't like is that when we moved from bitbucket to Github, it didn't bring overthe PRs or the pipelines **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** It made the AI integration easier, because in bitbucket it's a bit more complex ### 18. I managed to streamline all our code and improved its quality **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lautaro S. | Full Stack Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** All my work as a Developer has changed since GitHub came into my life. I never worry about accidentally deleting or deleting critical code. If something goes wrong, I just go back to an earlier version and that’s it. When I need to test something without changing the main code, the ability to deal with branches has saved me more than once. By using code reviews and pull requests, we can keep our workflow organized, make changes in real time, and comment on individual lines. Reviewing, commenting and suggesting changes to my coworkers' code directly on pull requests is a fantastic example of team collaboration. Thanks to GitHub, I no longer have coding errors and the quality of our code has increased. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** For those who are not familiar with Git, at first, the learning curve can be a bit high. I still remember the first time I tried to set up a workflow using GitHub Actions, at that point programming was not my priority; I spent more time reading documentation. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our entire development process now runs on GitHub. We can communicate without accidentally overwriting files, all changes are well documented, and the code is never lost because we use it. We can locate the source of a production issue because GitHub recorded every change we made. Without any drama, we simply examine the confirmations, identify the problem and solve it. It has also been very helpful for our security, we guarantee that there are no safety failures or defects in production, we do code reviews for each extraction request. The advantages outweigh the disadvantages considerably, despite some minor problems such as learning curve and limited integrations. ### 19. Best for collaborative work giving it 9 because it need some minor bug fixing. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishvjit S. | Backend Developer Intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** I like how easy it is to use. Its integration with the cursor and VS Code is top-notch. I like everything about GitHub, especially how easily I can operate it with my Ubuntu terminal. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** It's merging needs some improvement. For example, there is a minor bug in which when you merge your branch through the GitHub dashboard, it shows a conflict, but when you merge it locally through VS Code, it will merge without any conflict. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is making my and my teams work easy by its collaborative features like Pull request code reviews. ### 20. GitHub brings our team together **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike W. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Allows our team to have one place for all our code. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Navigation sometimes is a little tough to figure out **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows all our devs to be on one platform. Our Customer relations managers are able to submit tickets. ### 21. Source code is secure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ruan d. | Senior Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** I have been using GitHub for 10+ years and it is the best source control that I have ever used. It is user friendly , easy to integrate and makes my life easier when it comes to versioning and source control **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Fixing merge conflicts :-) is the one thing that I hate the most. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Github is solving the whole Source Control thing for me. It is globally accessible and easy to use. ### 22. Best tool for seamlessly manage and merge code **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajat B. | Technical Resource Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** I personally use Github in my company to save the Customer's custom code review by my manager and push the changes in the Git Repo. This is best in this scenario because it also distinguish the change like what was the code before and what changes you made in the code. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** I personally don't dislike Github because it works well in my professional experience. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Github solves my problem like we made some changes in the client's Production approx 7-8 months before and then suddenly we recieved the client's mail that somethung went wrong, So we know what exactly change we did at that time and in which class or triggers we made changes so we revert those changes and write the new code, so all this possilbe bacauase we merge out code into as a Git Repo. ### 23. Clear and clean **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anilkumar R. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Organise code and setting all requirements ready to deploy maintain the codes Also github action makes it another level And also works with any kind of cloud platform and software development **What do you dislike about GitHub?** As matter of fact there is no dislike but sometimes it's getting delayed in update like micro seconds **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lot of benifits and also making easy with keep track of bugs and clean code Makes me more understandable about the product development. Prod and Dev level code maintainance Many more.... ### 24. Great value for effective, reliable source control and CI/CD solutions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dane B. | VP of Product and Technology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** It just works. It's super easy to use, can be implemented in no time, and has a good set of features built in. Other features can be added through the plethora of available integrations. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** It can be a bit overwhelming trying to understand all the settings and hidden functionality, particularly when running configuring builds. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitHub solves problems that all software teams have: Where you do you host your code and how do you build it? It used to be that many/most companies that used git were using self-hosted source control servers and build servers. Github tackles both of these by putting these services in the cloud and making it really cost effective: You can pay for a dozen users or more for what it would cost you to set up your own servers and maintain them. ### 25. Best version control management with automated deployments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhruv N. | Senior Software Engineer, Health, Wellness and Fitness, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** The Github actions, the easiness to implement it. Plus the boilerplate script given for workflows for each and every languages. Such as python, ruby etc. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Nothing as much, I have mostly used it for my development processes. No cons as of now because it gets every on of my task done. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collaboration with team members in a monolithic architecture. Plus our all developments is being tracked with GitHub. ### 26. Boost Your Team's Productivity with GitHub's Intuitive Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kyle J. | Head of Customer Success, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** GitHub has great collaboration features that allow our development team to work on the same project together. From code reviews and discussions, it dramatically streamlines our ability to push great code to our customers. It also offers excellent version control through Git, keeping our team updated on code changes. It's easy to start with their free hosting, so it's a no-brainer for students wanting to learn to code. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** The learning curve can be a bit steep for beginners. Once you understand the core concepts like branching, merging, and resolving conflicts, it gets much more straightforward. Large binary files and large media content can slow repository performance and storage costs. Free private repositories are limited in features and size. If you have multiple private repositories, get ready to pay. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** I would say the two main problems GitHub solves for me is code collaboration, and version control. Code collaboration allows our team to track changes across our various projects. We have a clear history of our projects, so we don't waste time communicating through various other channels because we have one source we can all collaborate in. Version control can be very complex, especially with large projects. GitHub simplifies this process by allowing you to create branches for experimental features. If something goes wrong with a code release, rolling back your code is easy. Since every code change is recorded, you can see every change. ### 27. All you need for version control **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** The best thing about GitHub is the way it keeps all the version history. Also, its very easy to commit and push your changes. As it is literally used by everyone so it is integrated very well with all the IDEs. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** I don’t think there is anything there to dislike about Github. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Github helps to keep the history of all the code changes that you have done until now and presents it in a very organised manner. Its used by my team to hold the codebase including the CICD pipelines. ### 28. Great for Collaborative Repository Management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2026 **What do you like best about GitHub?** The ability to maintain repositories for collaboration. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** I don’t really find anything I particularly dislike. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to keep code repositories organized and available for collaborative work. ### 29. Best version control system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kamesh M. | Asp .Net Developer , Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** We can create private and public repositories also people can collaborate to any project. Helps to track every single change set from every user easily. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** I don't have anything to dislike. It has everything to manage VCS. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seamless integration with git for tracking changes in code, easy to maintain readme file for instructions regarding project. ### 30. Proficient in managing projects, collaborating on code, and leveraging GitHub’s tools **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** I like GitHub’s seamless collaboration features, version control reliability, and the way it integrates with CI/CD tools to streamline development **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Sometimes the search and navigation could be better, and big repos can feel sluggish **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitHub solves the challenge of coordinating work across teams by providing a central platform for version control, code review, and collaboration, which helps me work more efficiently and maintain high-quality code ### 31. Github Review from aws database specialist perspective **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher T. | Lead of cloud engineering , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Everything, all the code version control features like branches and specialy it's security features, It's great for terraform too, **What do you dislike about GitHub?** nothing, it's great. Maybe thatthere are limited trainning options. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Terraform code versioning and colaboration ### 32. i love github **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** deva r. | Admin support, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** i love copilot and many more about github like the guithub **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Subscription model pro or free version poor support system **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** github have copilot i love it help to maage my code ### 33. Good product until you starts to upgrade to Github Enterprise **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay Y. | Head of Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Most of my engineers are already familiar with Github as a version control platform. Customer support is good. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Github Enterprise sales and pricing is very opaque and arbitrary. In two companies I have engaged with 3 people on their sales team. They can offer discounts from 15%, 40%, up to 60%. You end up with different deals depending on who you engage with. This time, we dealt with an AE Nick, and a Senior Director Karen J. Karen kept offering deals/terms worse than the one from Nick, who is from her own team! And I had to point it to her. It shows how uncoordinated and arbitrary this is. It is very frustrating process to deal. So we stopped our expansion plan on Github (Advanced Security and Github Actions). We may even consider swtiching to Gitlab altogether. There are just so many strong alternatives on this market for security and CI. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. We use it mostly as a version control system. We are still using Github for this purpose 2. For Github Advanced Security, we tried but the sale demo was lacking, the pricing was not at all competitive, and we stopped after the 1 month trial. We went for a bundled deal with Wiz.io instead, which is a company focused on security and offers a central dashboard for security. ### 34. A fantastic version control for your project **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ritik S. | Full-stack Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** 1. Very simple to setup, as you login every command is provided to help you go through basics. 2. I like the one thing about github rebasing is that it does not collapse the code, as I faced such problems in Bitbucket. 3. Repository sharing feature is just the best. You get to shine the profile for your open source projects. 4. Since backuped by Microsoft, I have no trust issues regarding security and performance. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** 1. Github has been amazing, all my repos are still there and I use it. Why do not many companies use it, such an amazing productive tool. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Github has been very crucial tool for managing my code projects. It helped a team of developers to work in seameless manner on a code project without worrying of versioning, merging and managing your lines. ### 35. An amazing version management tool and platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Varun R. | Full Stack Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** What I like is it makes version control and collaborating with team members lot more convinient. Also it has pros like pull requests, code reviews, and branches that make it easy to work on projects with a team and debug issues faster. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** One thing I feel is that it can be a bit overwhelming for newer developers who have a little to no knowledge about version control. The featuresa are powerful and well designed but could be very intimidating if you are a beginner. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** For me personally it adress a lot of problems that I had with other platforms like bitbucket and gitlab like version control, collaboration, and code management along with a beautiful dashborad design. Other that that we have powerful pull requests and integration tools that make a life lot easier especially for me. ### 36. Together to deliver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aditya V. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** The best thing about GitHub is obviously its ability to help people connect with each to work on a project and keep track of the collective progress. It is the reason individuals like I and big organisations use it as well. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** The only gripe I have with GitHub is that it doesnt allow live code updates, it only shows the changes when somebody pushes it and doesn't show dynamic changes. Since we can have our own branches we should get this feature on seperate branches. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** It can solve the problem of collaboration between multiple teams from multiple locations on a large scale project and streamline the process of application delivery. It can also solve the privacy problem of confidential projects as it provides with multiple steps of protection. ### 37. Very helpful Integration for Vanta! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mehmet C. | Senior Business Development Manager & Compliance Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Identified Vulnerabilities, missing configurations or settings in Github are shown in Vanta. This helps enormously in daily working life to remain compliant **What do you dislike about GitHub?** I have not identified any disadvantages yet. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Any bug or issue identified by the IT-Engineering team or client, can be interpreted as a problem. ### 38. Great tool for data storage and collaborative tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chinmay G. | Data Science Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Ability to store share codes, scripts, configs and easy to collaborate across teams Anyone can access and edit remotely and version control efficiency is great **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Sometimes a bit complex to beginners or non technical guy if he wan to access repositories Large repositories may be slow to operate **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a data scientist we have designed and scheduled multiple etl scripts to execute daily Github helps as a repository to store the data and store code versions we can easily add new scripts test those versions without changing entire code easy to collaborate across teams ### 39. GitHub. Will help your journey in several ways **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rishabh D. | Self-employed, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Everything. Simply everything. GitHub is a daily part of life of developers and engneers. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Could have some more free trials of all GitHub features for new startup founders or people who cannot spend money at the beginning. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a developer working with different people, GitHub is solving 50% of my problems in all means. ### 40. No alternatives. Just the de-facto standard. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** UX, experience, system, accessibility. All baked In **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Not sure there's something i can think of, it's a very well known and established product. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Versioning and managing repo with other devs ### 41. The most comfortable version control I have ever used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alfredo P. | QA Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** I have been using it for more than 3 years, it is practical, it has all the necessary features to make me feel comfortable, it is easy to use and safe with the projects I manage. As for customer support, I have used it and have had good results. Once I had problems with my git actions and they helped me solve it and also gave me guidelines to use it in the best way. I have implemented it in the desktop and web versions and added it to IDEs that I have worked with, such as visual code or android studio. My frequency of use is daily, I keep my projects there. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** I don't like that in the web version when I merge with another branch the changes are passed to both branches, this is usually counterproductive. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Previously we did not have a CD/CI with which we could deploy our projects automatically, with GitHub we were able to solve this. ### 42. Github: The Best collaborative working platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul M. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Version control in my opinion is the most useful feature since it helps simple code tracking and collaboration. It encourages collaboration through pull requests and branches.Workflow automation is another benefit. Github's advantages are its scalability, security, and ease of usage. centralises the exchange of code Additionally, it can provide educational opportunities via public repositories. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Discussing a few drawbacks: Beginners usually have trouble using GitHub because of its complex features Also it has limited features for the free plan. You need a reliable internet connection to access it. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitHub's ability to help collaborative code development and make change management simple using pull requests and branches is its greatest strength. It also helps in the most effective, safe, and straightforward deployment choices. ### 43. Github Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chamindu U. | Team Player, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** What I love most about GitHub is how easy it makes collaborating on code. The version control with Git is super reliable, and features like pull requests, code reviews, and branch management help teams work smoothly, no matter where they are. The community vibe is also a big win—you can explore many open-source projects, contribute, and connect with other developers. Plus, GitHub Actions is awesome for automating things like CI/CD right from your repo, saving time. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** I dislike GitHub because its interface can feel a bit overwhelming at times, especially for newer users. With so many features and options, it can take a while to get comfortable navigating everything. Also, managing large repositories or handling conflicts in pull requests can sometimes be a hassle, especially when the tools feel a bit basic for complex workflows **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitHub solves a lot of key problems when it comes to coding and collaboration. ### 44. Amazing coding assistant with Github **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashutosh P. | Software Development Engineer in Test, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Github is very easy to use and we get any support in github very easily as it has a very large community forum online. Github has a very amazing coding assistant that is Github co-pilot which help a lot in refactoring code within Github, resolving error and many more **What do you dislike about GitHub?** We can host our code with the help of github pages but it does not support dynamic codes or backend codes. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Github in our org for Version Controlling of our apps. We also use Github to save our code of different environment in single place with all the history and commits of code by fellow developers. This helps us to manage our code as a team. ### 45. Reviewing the Platform for Developers .i.e. Github **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SAKSHI B. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** By using GitHub, I can create, store ,share and manage the code files easily. It also provides various collaborative tools allowing me to collaborate with other developers. It provides public and private repositories for storing code files. We can easily integrate GitHub with other IDEs or any third party services. They also provide README files in which whole documentation of the project can be displayed. It is very user friendly platform. They also provide a great customer support. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** GitHub has a file limit size of 100 MB per file and for repository it is 1GB. So sometimes I face issue of exceeded file size. They should increase the size limit. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before using Github, I was facing issues of collaborating the code with each other. By using this platform, i can now easily collaborate on code. The next problem was the difficulty in storing code files. By using this platform, I can now easily create a repository and store,manage and share the code. ### 46. A well structured application for deployement and progress tracking **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** the thing i like the most about github that we can track that how many days we have visited the github. we can commit the changes in someone's code and contribute to open source code. The ease of implementation for first time users is great. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** That there should be more features should be implemented and ui/ux feature could be more dymanic that can attract users. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** the main problem that github is solving that if any updates comes and if any one want to make the changes in the code he or she can commit the changes or can fork the changes so that administrator be aware of that and make the changes. this simplifies as it provide us as an open source code environment and various security features. ### 47. Github a popular repository **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarat Kumar M. | Asst Vice President, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2025 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Very popular , easy to use and supports various features like Copilot as code assist , Collaborative tool for code review via Pull requests. great integration support for CI/CD tools . Open source for public repository . Well maintained by open source community . **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Price for enterprise features and support . **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distributed Version control for software . Its helping for better collaboration on software development ( like code reviews , parallel development) . ### 48. Github improves collaboration in a technical writing team **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dipender Kumar S. | Senior Technical Writer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** GitHub is an excellent open-source tool that streamlines the documentation process through effective tracking, and collaborations. I follow the docs-as-code approach, store my docs in the Github repository, and create a PR in case my documentation needs review. It keeps track of the docs changes, allowing you to incorporate feedback and track revisions effectively. Since I use VS code as a text editor, GitHub seamlessly integrates with VS code to manage documentation workflow. And also it is open-source. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** GitHub has many features and fields that might be overwhelming for freshers. However, a day or two working on Github might help. Features like creating a pipeline, or creating a doc site where GitHub pages need a bit of experience. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** These are the few items that my organization is using GitHub for and why I recommend: 1. You can create either public or private respository to store documentations 2. Effectively documentation feedback through pull requests 3. Generate doc site via Github pages 4. Cost effective since GitHub is open-source. ### 49. GitHub : where coders connect and collab **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anzar U. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Most helpful feature for me is version control as it helps in easy tracking and collaboration on code. It promotes teamwork with branches and pull request.it also helps in automating workflows. The upsides for giithub can be: It is user-friendly, secure and scalable. Centralizes coding collaboration It can also help with learning opportunities through public repositories. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** Talking about some of downsides : Beginners often struggle while working with GitHub Limited features for free plan For accessing it you need a stable internet **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest problem GitHub solving is collaborative working on codes and helping to manage changes easily with branches and pull request. It also helps with best,secure and simple deployment options. ### 50. The best version management tool at the moment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chaitanya P. | Associate Information Technology Consultant - Grade IS2, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2024 **What do you like best about GitHub?** Best part is collaboration and also we can easily integrate with the help of webhooks given by them so that our CICD is automated. Debugging is made easy with the help of logs. **What do you dislike about GitHub?** There is nothing mush to dislike abou github only thing I would say is diffculty to learn for freshers and also they can enhance their alert mechanism. **What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Github is helping me by providing a platform to store my code and collaborate with the people with whom I can share and edit changes as per my requirement and also helping me to integrate with jenkins. Version control is also used with the help of this. ## GitHub Discussions - [What is GitHub used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-github-used-for) - 8 comments, 5 upvotes - [How to do proper versioning in the system? 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