--- 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: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Source Code Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/source-code-management --- # GitLens Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by GitLens but has limited features. Are you part of the GitLens team? [Upgrade your plan](https://my.g2.com/gitlens/upgrade?utm_campaign=s3&utm_medium=claim-popup&utm_source=g2) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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? 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[Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## GitLens Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") GitHub ](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) Show More ![Yash D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Yash D.") YD Yash D. Senior Software Engineer II Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/11/2026 "GitLens in VS Code: Instant Blame, Clean AI Commit Messages, and a Great Commit Graph" 4.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Organic ![Piyush R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Piyush R.") PR Piyush R. Software Development Engineer-1 Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/24/2026 "The saviour for debugging and know the mischievous owners of code." 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Luca P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Luca P.") LP Luca P. Chief Operations Officer DEQUA Studio | Formerly CTO in MarTech Marketing and Advertising Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/5/2025 "GIT Supercharged" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 IconCurrent UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Hemanth C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hemanth C.") HC Hemanth C. Information Security Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/4/2025 "Excellent git management extension in VSCode for developers" 5/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you? As far I used I didn't see any big problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Hussain R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hussain R.") HR Hussain R. Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/11/2024 "Comprehensive Review of GitLens: A Powerful Git Extension" 4.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Vivek Kumar S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vivek Kumar S.") VS Vivek Kumar S. Associate Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/17/2024 "GitLens Unveiled: Enhancing Visual Studio Code with Intuitive Commit Insights and Navigation" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about GitLens? Some time i face some minor bug while integrating gitlens and It does not have autocomplete feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Karmavir J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Karmavir J.") KJ Karmavir J. Co-Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/28/2023 "Best VSCode Git Integration on the marketplace" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/21/2022 "Impossible to function without Gitlens" 4.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about GitLens? I have been using GitLens for over three years, and I cannot complain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/16/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Devin S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Devin S.") DS Devin S. Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/19/2023 "Great tool for fast 'git'-ing." 4.5/5 What do you like best about GitLens? it makes collaboration and version control easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you? speeds up the version control process & collaboration using git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![Sudhanshu C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sudhanshu C.") SC Sudhanshu C. Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/8/2022 "Git lens ( To view the author of code)" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering GitLens: The best tool to know the author of code with the time of commit with commit-message Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about GitLens? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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