# Gogs Reviews **Vendor:** Gogs **Category:** [Version Control Hosting Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-hosting) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About Gogs Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service that runs virtually anywhere with little overhead. ## Gogs Reviews ### 1. Best Git Tool Ever Created **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Piyush G. | Programmer Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Gogs?** As I developer I really like how it is to use Gogs because of there user-friendly and rich interface. It lightweight and lightining fast. It supports all the essential Git features you would expect, such as creating and cloning repositories, managing branches, merging, and handling pull requests but the best part it's cross-platform availablity I use mac for work and windows for my personal work it available for both the platform. **What do you dislike about Gogs?** As of now I have not encountered anything to be disliked about Gogs. It's an open source software they're the best. **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gogs is helping developers by offering a lightweight, self-hosted Git service that simplifies version control. It empowers individuals and small teams to manage code repositories privately and securely, ensuring complete control over their data. With its user-friendly interface, developers can easily create, clone, and collaborate on projects without extensive setup or resource demands. Gogs' customization options and integrations facilitate seamless workflows, while its offline accessibility ensures continuity even without an internet connection. Being open-source, Gogs benefits from a vibrant community, receiving ongoing support, bug fixes, and enhancements. Ultimately, Gogs streamlines the development process, fostering productivity and enabling efficient version control for all. ### 2. Simple, stable and self hosted Git service ever **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul P. | Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Gogs?** The most likeable thing about Gogs aka Go Git Service is it's multi-language support and user friendly interface, making it accessible to a global users. It is lightweight and most trust worthy software as Gogs allows you to host our own Git repositories thats provide full control over our data and control. So, no need to concerned about data security and privacy anymore. **What do you dislike about Gogs?** As of now no such things to dislike I have encountered. It is an open source and mainly self hosted Git service software with very good efficiency. Just go for it. **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** As Gogs is user friendly software, so when working as a team it has collaboration feature which keeps updated the database with complete data security. It also provide build in code review feature which facilitate collaboration among team members. ### 3. Gogs is best tool to store you repositories **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaushik M. | Frontend Team Lead | UI/UX Designer | Freelancer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Gogs?** It is very easy to use and managed your repos. And a plus point is it's totally free ofcourse. Gogs provides command lines of how to create & push your word to Gogs.Thank you Gogs !! **What do you dislike about Gogs?** Nothing to dislike, Just work on user interface & color combinations **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gogs help me to store my repositories. It is very easy to use & manage your projects with your team members. We can create pull requestes & all that. Thank you Gogs!! ### 4. Best Repository management tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajesh K. | Electrical Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Gogs?** Best collaboration function so that the data can be easily share among team members. It is compatible with all the OS and is easy to use with less attention. Simply wecam say it is not too bulky. Easy to install and the user interface is very friendly. **What do you dislike about Gogs?** Nothing much to dislike the software. But Searching from inside of the reports or data is a bit difficult. At times it fails and crashes but is not frequent. If the using OS is good then it won't crash. **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** When working as a team, it's collaboration feature is very excellent and it keeps updated the database so that the information or the input data is available at the very instant to all the team members. Multiple languages are supported. ### 5. Simple effortless Git hosting, great for backups **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhruv B. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Gogs?** Gogs is small, lightweight and super easy to set up because it supports Docker. I used it to keep a backup of my Git repositories in addition to my primary workstation. **What do you dislike about Gogs?** Gogs does not contain any system for CI or PR checks which makes it unsuitable for my workflow that involves a lot of jobs being run automatically by the Git-host's CI system. **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gogs provides a small and lightweight alternative to GitHub for people who like to self-host their services. It has a limited set of features but it's great as a on-site backup for your code. ### 6. Best replacement for github **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kiran B. | Wordpress Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Gogs?** Gogs is free and lightweight. And it has simple UI **What do you dislike about Gogs?** As of now nothing I have dislike about Gogs **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's collaboration feature is good and it support multiple languages ### 7. Gogs implimentation review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajinkya M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Gogs?** it's perfect tool for monitoring & helpful also **What do you dislike about Gogs?** its not good for chain of users alert trigger **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Need to improve the console ### 8. Very good respositry store **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Gogs?** Allows easy collaboration on repositories and seeing what changes have been applied. **What do you dislike about Gogs?** The search could do with improving and the front end doesn't show all repos only recently used **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Management and easy storage of repositories. Allowing collaboration and integration with active directory users and groups. ### 9. Gogs is Super Convenient! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Gogs?** The development team at Gogs has cut thru all the crud and gotten right to the heart of the matter and created gogs as an easy to use "appliance" that you don't have to work at and work at in order to use. It just works and doesn't need a lot of attention to keep it working. **What do you dislike about Gogs?** I'm not so sure there is a whole lot to dislike about it. It really doesn't try to do too much, it just does version control really well without a lot of fuss. **Recommendations to others considering Gogs:** Sure, try other stuff, but if you use gogs once, you will be impressed with the elegance of its simplicity! **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gogs is our central git repo for all our source code. The benefit is that there's really near-zero spin up time for developers to use it. It's super easy to create a repo, and once it's made, gogs just gets out of the way and makes it easy to push code in. In fact, for my own stuff, I personally have a gogs setup at home for things I do on my own. When you find something that works, you just stay with it. ### 10. Gogs a good repository management software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Gogs?** Gogs provides team collaboration function with which I can collaborate with team members to work on same project and this feature allows us to share data with our colleagues. This software is compatible with most of the operating system. We can manage our repositories easily with this software. **What do you dislike about Gogs?** According to me their is nothing to dislike in this software as it is a very light weight and easy to use software to manage our projects. **Recommendations to others considering Gogs:** Highly recommended to everyone it's user friendly interface makes managing our projects more easier. **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gogs provides collaboration function which helps me and my colleagues to complete our projects on time. Gogs provids version control system to manage my API. It compiles most of languages which is amazing. We can integrate it with third-party software. It helps in managing git repositories in an easier way. ### 11. A good repository with complete documentation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David S. | Arquitecto de aplicaciones web, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Gogs?** Gogs is an excellent version tracking application that allows me to share the projects developed in the organization where I work for my collaborators. The best thing is that this platform can be run on Windows, Mac, Linux and others. I like the ease of the interface to load my repositories or make collaborations. **What do you dislike about Gogs?** Your notification system does not work properly. There are colleagues who have made some collaborations in my projects and I have noticed why I enter to make any update to a project and I find that the program did not notify, however, it does not happen all the time. **Recommendations to others considering Gogs:** I recommend using Gogs especially if you want to be part of a fresh and minimalist platform to manage your codes and create repositories for all your projects. On its website you can find quite complete and acceptable documentation so that using this service is easy and pleasant. **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my Github account I have accumulated so many projects that sometimes it is difficult to find one, so my employer suggested that I try Gogs as a version control system to manage my API codes and collaborate with my colleagues. This platform allows me to make confirmations in the branches of the code and resolve dependencies. ### 12. A great free replacement for GitHub on premise **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pascal L. | Release Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Gogs?** - Gogs is lightweight, it can even run on a RasberryPi. - It is free - It is crossplatform, so you will be able to choose where you run it. - User compliant with Docker. **What do you dislike about Gogs?** The main cons that gogs do have, is the fact that there is only a single maintainer of it. So it can take a while between summiting feature and have they added to Gogs. **Recommendations to others considering Gogs:** If you are interrested by Gogs, you might look at Gitea (Git with a cup of tea). It is a fork for Gogs, and maintain by a group of person, instead of a single one. **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gogs allowed us to have access to a self hosted git repository super fast. Without the cost of all the others ### 13. Nice ui for git **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Gogs?** Every simple to install, nice ui, easy learning curve **What do you dislike about Gogs?** Project can get a little stale at times. The fact you can't search from inside a repo. **Recommendations to others considering Gogs:** there are other open source options like gitea. **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storing core code ### 14. i lob the gogs! **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prasiddhi J. | Director Of Transportation, Research, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Gogs?** i like that it is in a partnership with github, which has been really helpful in many projects **What do you dislike about Gogs?** i actually don't dislike anything! this software is amazing **What problems is Gogs solving and how is that benefiting you?** i get a lot of projects done, it compiles many languages which is really helpful ## Gogs Discussions - [What is use of Gitea?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/gogs-what-is-use-of-gitea) - [What is use of Gitea?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-use-of-gitea) - [Are GOGS good?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/are-gogs-good) - [What is GOGS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-gogs) - [What is GOGS application?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-gogs-application) - [View Gogs pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/gogs/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-24+22%3A27%3A44+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=f74f6a53-02c8-4dfe-8c07-6fa4d55aa4e8&secure%5Btoken%5D=fa20d6dfb7effbab4c63aae4553ebaa797552e4c3e32697fecc365e88c6a5f70&format=llm_user) ## Top Gogs Alternatives - [GitLab](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (874 reviews) - [Gitea](https://www.g2.com/products/gitea/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (16 reviews) - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,284 reviews)