--- title: GitLens Reviews meta_title: 'GitLens Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 28 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how GitLens works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.7 review_count: 28 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-15' parent_category: name: Source Code Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/source-code-management --- # GitLens Reviews **Vendor:** GitKraken **Category:** [Version Control Clients](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-clients) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 28 ## About GitLens GitLens is the most popular Git extension for Visual Studio Code. It supercharges the Git capabilities built into your IDE. GitLens unlocks the untapped knowledge within each repository to help visualize code authorship by leveraging CodeLens and Git blame to expose your Git history at every line of code. Seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and unleash the full power of Git without breaking your development flow. While GitLens is powerful and feature-rich, it is also highly customizable to meet your specific needs. Find code lens intrusive or the current line blame annotation distracting? No problem, it is quick and easy to turn them off or change how they behave. ## GitLens Reviews ### 1. GitLens in VS Code: Instant Blame, Clean AI Commit Messages, and a Great Commit Graph **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yash D. | Senior Software Engineer II, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2026 **What do you like best about GitLens?** - This is a lifesaver. Being able to see who modified a specific line of code, along with the commit message, directly in the editor saves me from constantly jumping back to the terminal or GitHub. - I’ve started using the AI Commit Explanations to draft my commit messages. Since I work across Python and JS, it’s nice to have a consistent, descriptive summary of my changes generated automatically, which I then just quickly polish. It keeps our Git history much cleaner for the rest of the team. - It is easy to integrate this using the GitLens extension in the VSCode IDE. - With the Commit Graph UI, I can visually trace how a feature branch was merged or rebased without leaving VS Code. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** Regarding performance, the commit graph sometimes takes a few extra seconds to index several thousand commits, which can feel a bit laggy. Aside from that, I don’t have any complaints. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the context-switching problem. Instead of jumping between the terminal, GitHub, and my IDE, everything is centralized in one place. It’s especially helpful for collaborative code reviews, because I can see the intent behind a line of code immediately. For our team, it has improved our development speed since we spend less time manually tracing Git history and more time actually shipping code. ### 2. The saviour for debugging and know the mischievous owners of code. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Piyush R. | Software Development Engineer-1, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2026 **What do you like best about GitLens?** I have been using gitlens when I started my development journey. It is a very useful tool, when it comes to checking the time, the owner of a particular code piece. It saves a lot of time by showing the entire commit graph of a repository. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** At times, gitlens, takes time to show the owners of some code chunks, and I have to blindly wait to try to guess the code pieces. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** The owners of code are displayed at every step, which helps in adding new code and also debugging, I know exactly the commit and the person and the timeline when was a particular code piece was added. ### 3. GitLens ftw! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2026 **What do you like best about GitLens?** Gitlens really helps to visualize how the version control systems store things and progress in a certain workflow. It enhances the built in git features in the IDEs I use everyday. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** If the repo history is too large, it can cause a bit of a lag which is detrimental to the coding experience. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's good to know who wrote what and who to call if you want to interact with said code, Inline Blames are amazing in this regard and help to pinpoint that in a few keystrokes. Powerful visualizations really help to know how it's all set up and where you stand. The whole experience feels more integrated with it. ### 4. GIT Supercharged **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luca P. | Chief Operations Officer DEQUA Studio | Formerly CTO in MarTech, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2025 **What do you like best about GitLens?** • Deep Git Integration: GitLens provides advanced Git capabilities directly within Visual Studio Code, including in-editor blame annotations, rich hovers, and CodeLens features. This integration makes it possible to see who last modified a line or block of code, when it was changed, and the commit message associated with each change. • Commit and File History Visualization: The extension offers interactive visualizations such as commit graphs and timeline views, making it easier to trace the evolution of files and repositories. Navigating through commit history and comparing file changes is straightforward, supporting both granular code review and broader project analysis. • Contextual Annotations: GitLens overlays contextual information directly in the code editor, such as inline blame and status bar details, giving immediate insights into authorship and recent changes without leaving the editing environment. • AI-Powered Features (Preview): Recent updates have introduced AI-assisted workflows, including automated commit message generation, pull request description drafting, and changelog creation. These features are designed to reduce manual overhead for repetitive Git tasks. • Collaboration Tools: GitLens supports team workflows with features for code review, merge conflict resolution, and integration with remote repositories. The Home View acts as a workflow hub, consolidating issues, pull requests, and code tasks in a single panel to minimize context switching. • Branch and Stash Management: Visual tools for branch graphing and stash management simplify complex version control scenarios, making it easier to handle multiple workstreams and experimental changes. • Customizability: The extension is highly configurable, allowing adaptation to personal or team preferences for annotations, workflows, and UI elements. • Open Source and Widely Adopted: GitLens is open source and has a large user base, with over 18 million installs and 120 million downloads, indicating a mature and well-supported tool. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** On very large repositories or with extensive annotation settings enabled, I have noticed occasional slowdowns or increased memory usage in Visual Studio Code, particularly when rendering complex commit graphs or loading extensive file histories. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitLens has become an essential part of my development workflow in Visual Studio Code, offering a comprehensive suite of Git tools that streamline code management, foster collaboration, and provide deep insights into project history. ### 5. Excellent git management extension in VSCode for developers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hemanth C. | Information Security Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2025 **What do you like best about GitLens?** We can compare the different branches or commits of the code from GitHub and can see the history,blame,changes and author of that changes **What do you dislike about GitLens?** Sometimes the option will not be visible to check and while comparing also I will feel little bit confusion but if you are developer mostly you can able to figure it out **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** As far I used I didn't see any big problems ### 6. Comprehensive Review of GitLens: A Powerful Git Extension **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hussain R. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2024 **What do you like best about GitLens?** Whenever I click on a line of code, GitLens provides details about the author and the date it was written. Additionally, it offers insightful annotations and code history, making it easier to understand the evolution of the codebase. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** Recently, it encountered some bugs, such as writing the author and commit date to every line of code. I had to reinstall the extension to resolve the issue. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitLens enhances the visualization of the repository, showing branches, tags, and stashes, which makes it easier to manage and navigate complex repositories but this seems difficult to understand at times, currently i saw some improvments in it. ### 7. GitLens Unveiled: Enhancing Visual Studio Code with Intuitive Commit Insights and Navigation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vivek Kumar S. | Associate Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2024 **What do you like best about GitLens?** According to my opinion gitlens is very useful when i want to know who written this code and we get all history regarding that code and we can also get pull request on github. GitLens excels at providing detailed line-by-line blame annotations that unlock your Git history. It also goes above and above; if you hover over these annotations, a detailed view with interactive links opens, making it easy to interact with pull requests, issues, and Git references. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** Some time i face some minor bug while integrating gitlens and It does not have autocomplete feature. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Gitlens it is very helpful when i want to know history of that code and using gitlens i can easily track the person and also get pull request regarding that code and it help so much helpful. ### 8. Best VSCode Git Integration on the marketplace **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karmavir J. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2023 **What do you like best about GitLens?** Gitlens is amazingly simple to use. The visualizations for the commit tree are great. Inline hover feature for getting the commit details really help a lot when debugging. File blame , heatmaps and worktree features are prefect. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** some minor bugs in extenstions and no integrations for Jetbrains IDE are drawbacks.But it is perfect for vscode users. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using gitlens pro for quite a while now. it really increased productivity and developement speed , now need to switch out of VScode. It also provides valueble insights that help in the management of the project. ### 9. Impossible to function without Gitlens **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** The feature that delivers the most impact is the in-line blame and when we hover over the blame, it shows more details about that commit. In addition to this we can visualize file blame, file history and evolution over time, commit history, commit graphs, etc. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** I have been using GitLens for over three years, and I cannot complain. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps developers manage code repositories, check commit/file blames, and provides a way to visualize and sync with the team better. ### 10. Perfect for working in a team **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura C. | Solutions assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2023 **What do you like best about GitLens?** The function I use the most is to know who and when any of the lines of code in VSCode were modified. It is very easy to install, hardly consumes any resources, and is very easy to use. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** One of its important features, the Commit Graph, is paid. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps my team and me to know who made the last change to a line of code and when it was done to keep track of the code. ### 11. Great tool for fast 'git'-ing. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Devin S. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2023 **What do you like best about GitLens?** it makes collaboration and version control easy. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** not much to dislike. i would prefer if there was something that showed you the actual commands as you ran it, so you can learn while you used. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** speeds up the version control process & collaboration using git. ### 12. Git lens ( To view the author of code) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sudhanshu C. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** Git lens is the best tool to know who is the author of the code which you are looking at and the commit message of that code. I have used it in many places, we can install the extension in VScode and after its installation when we click on any piece of code it will show the name of the person, and the time when it was written. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** Honestly, I haven't seen any demerits of it yet but it adds valuable information, to make it better they can show more information about the person who has written the code. **Recommendations to others considering GitLens:** The best tool to know the author of code with the time of commit with commit-message **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** In a version control system, multiple developers are included who are writing code for same product. So, to see which developer has written which line we can see it easily. It shows information in every line with the time when it was written, the name of the person and the commit message of that code. ### 13. Git lens review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sudhir p. | Senior Technology Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** It will allow us to see the latest changes in the branch. We can compare the latest changes with last code. Direct options given once you start using git lens like - merge code , stash code , add code , commit code. It helps to resolve the merge conflict. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** Sometimes we are not able to stop the command by using ctr+c or any other shortcut. There is no feature to clear the cache of last branch. It does not have autocomplete feature. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to collabrate with team while working on same project. It is very time efficient. I does not have to remember the command or writing the commands again and again as it has buttons for this commands on UI. ### 14. GitLens is a powerful feature and open source extension for visual studio code. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neha K. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** The most fantastic feature of GitLens is quickly glimpsed into whom, why, and when a line or code block was changed. In addition, it highlights changes so perfeclty that we can make our code changes live without any hesitation. The current and previous commit comparison feature is also unique! **What do you dislike about GitLens?** I have not found any major drawback in GitLens so far! But I have observed it is a heavy extension that slows down the VS code editor. Of course, it can be improved with all more git features. But overall, it is a lovely extension that I use in VS Code. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitLens Extension of VS code Editor helped me quickly compare my old and new code changes and commits by providing almost all the features of git in the same working editor without any mess. This always makes my task faster and more accurate. ### 15. Rich visualization perfect to find the culprits **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Utkarsh j. | Research Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** A friend told me about it. It's a perfect visualization tool to see authorship within the editor, and that too in many ways which is really good. It has a very good feel, also the Visual File History is a great tool to see the scope of changes. Boots my producitvity a lot. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** It's a great tool, but for beginners, it can be very overwhelming, especially when they are new to git. The pricing barrier might send some people away, but it's all worth it. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** By Integrating it with VScode, we can Easily analyze changes in code, view the development process, and compare features, all visualized really well in graphs and annotations. A great tool to read code, and find out errors. ### 16. Very useful Visual Studio Code extension **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adelaida G. | Software Developer Microsoft Dynamic NAV/Dynamic 365 Bussines Central, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** It is an open-source extension, ideal for working with more people on the same code. It has the function of providing specific information about changes in Git. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** To work on this extension as a team, it is necessary to do it in a very coordinated manner, as some changes can "override" those of a colleague if not done properly. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows you to use Git optimally and work on code as a group, plus you can know who has made changes to the repository's code and the date they did it. ### 17. Gitlens Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhavesh N. | Senior Software Developer - IT, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** Really helps to compare the code, giving insights to the whole timeline of even a single stack, line or even letter of code changed. Helped me in understanding and for peer review through it. Code versioning also becomes easy through it. Very helpful tool/extension for budding software developers to understand others code. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** Should include more git options like staging and commiting through it. It could be more intuitive in terms of IDE support. Oftens becomes confusing to comare how it pops up in screen respective to IDEs. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gitlens is helping to maintain my code and also to compare code of peers to projects . Really helpful to get insights on timeline of code written and modification ### 18. One of the best extension to use daily **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manikandan B. | Senior Frontend Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** Its very helpful when we code. Gitlens will tell who changed a particular line and can also navigate to the PR. So I'll be able to understand why a line was written. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** Its pro features are excellent. But it is paid. The visualisation feature could have been free. Sometimes it takes some time to load. Apart from that, Love the extension **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** It integrates well with Vs Code and our GitHub repository. So it always helps us to find a particular commit and backtrack things. Also visualisation is one of the best features. ### 19. Best assistant **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saranyan Sankrith S. | System Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** I have been using GitLens extension in my VScode for the past month and it has helped me a lot and avoided me to go back to the commit history to check when and who wrote a particular line of code **What do you dislike about GitLens?** Nothing to dislike, it a must have if you are using VSCode like Tools to make your work easy. It is really helpful to understand large code bases quickly and the contributors work to the code **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduces the hassle to go into the commit history to understand who wrote which part of code, improves productivity, improves the understanding of the code base we are working with ### 20. GitLens extenstion review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** Very helpful extension for developers using VSCode Editor. Easy to trace last commit details. You can preview the last changes in each line within the file with a single click. On hover, you can see the last changes made by whom with their name & DateTime. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** Sometimes when you update a code while you move the cursor, on hover the details are really frustrating to focus on. On some machines, it works differently due to compatibility issues. **Recommendations to others considering GitLens:** It's really time-saving extension who often use VSCode as a developer for an organization or as a freelancer. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps to reduce the switch between Git login. Don't need to change to Gitlab/Github webpage to review recent/previous changes done. It helps to trace everything in a single Editor view. It helps to trace the last person changes made which helps to track the person's code with a single click. ### 21. A must have add on for VSCODE or whatever IDE YOU USE (if you use git ofcourse) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhineet K. | Full Stack Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** Using it helps you visualise various important things. You get to see blame (who committed that line and what was the commit name) as soon as you click on a line. Secondly you can visualise the entire commit tree. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** Nothing to dislike about it but there are certainly some improvements that can be made. Can be made visually more appealing and also if it could incorporate the conflicts that may arise when merging to master branch prior to when we actually merge **Recommendations to others considering GitLens:** Go for it, its light weight and free. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** makes git's insights readily available which if needed would take multiple commands in command line to fetch but with gitlens, its accessible with just a single click. ### 22. Best free git client for VS code **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel M. | Software Designer - .NET Developer - Scalable Platform, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** It is very simple to use, especially with VS code extension. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** Some graphic aids would be helpful for some functionalities. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** A free git client that helps to manage source control. ### 23. Git users must try gitlens **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aniket G. | Lead Operations and Supply, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** Most handy way to sneak peak into your git insights. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** You will have to trust them by their words, the information we are dealing with is very sensitive. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** If you simply want to know who changed a particular line in code and which commit was it, good luck finding it on GitHub, gitlens shows it all as soon as you click on the line. ### 24. I love this Extension. It is very useful when handling any git repository **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Venkatesh Kumar S. | Frontend Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** The only thing we need to do is just install this extension in VSCode. All this will take care of by itself. It shows the history of every line of code. who did that, when did that, why did that ... **What do you dislike about GitLens?** I simply love this extension. it is flawless from my perspective. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using GitLens during the development of projects in my company. It helps me track each and every line of code. ### 25. Makes VSCode very powerful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashish P. | associate director - product, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** Excellent UI , gives lot of history on code changes **What do you dislike about GitLens?** flawless , no issues at all. I love using it. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** History of code changes- Who did what and when ? right from VSCODE ### 26. Friendly and usefull tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** It's just the best tool for reviewing past commit and make comparison with old versions or different branch **What do you dislike about GitLens?** It was a little difficult to understand at the beginning but it's pretty straight forward once you play with it a little **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hand to hand comparison with other commit and most of all undo commit in simple way ### 27. Best tool to take control of Git **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** It helps me to demonstrate file history, work trees, line blaming etc. Using different branches simultaneously helps me a lot to take speed and finish my projects before the deadlines. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** It would be better if we could demonstrate branches visually. In this way, I need to switch between multiple tools, which leads to time losing time and concentration. **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** I love switching between branches by using Git Lens. In addition, it shows who wrote which line at which time with the help of Git Blame feature. Therefore, our business performance increased. ### 28. Beginner friendly, cross platform GIT UI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jan D. | Chief Technology Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLens?** It's an amazingly convenient way to visualize what's going on each repository. **What do you dislike about GitLens?** At one point it was a bit slower, but they resolved that really fast! **What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?** Becoming more efficient as a software engineer, doing code reviews easier. ## GitLens Discussions - [What is GitLens used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-gitlens-used-for) - [View GitLens pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlens/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-16+14%3A52%3A20+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a2384040-c7f9-4ad9-acce-fdac9ae2475a&secure%5Btoken%5D=b0a68535b50a9d4fda93d1ce96c508d438aa49ae0f455f4f0af96dc137c54813&format=llm_user) ## GitLens Integrations - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - [GitHub Copilot](https://www.g2.com/products/github-copilot/reviews) - [GitHub Inc.](https://www.g2.com/products/github-inc/reviews) - [Visual Studio Code](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio-code/reviews) ## Top GitLens Alternatives - [GitKraken Desktop](https://www.g2.com/products/axosoft-gitkraken-desktop/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (196 reviews) - [SourceTree](https://www.g2.com/products/sourcetree/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (372 reviews) - [Git Tower](https://www.g2.com/products/git-tower/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (186 reviews)