--- title: TortoiseHg Reviews meta\_title: 'TortoiseHg Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 42 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how TortoiseHg works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.9 review\_count: 42 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Source Code Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/source-code-management --- # TortoiseHg Reviews & Product Details TortoiseHg is a Windows shell extension and a series of applications for the Mercurial distributed revision control system that includes a Gnome/Nautilus extension and a CLI wrapper application to be able to used on non-Windows platforms. * * * Seller [Bitsy](https://www.g2.com/sellers/bitsy) Discussions [TortoiseHg Community](https://www.g2.com/products/tortoisehg/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/tortoisehg/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![SourceTree](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SourceTree") SourceTree 4.3/5(376) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sourcetree/reviews) [ ![GitKraken Desktop](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "GitKraken Desktop") GitKraken Desktop 4.5/5(201) ](https://www.g2.com/products/axosoft-gitkraken-desktop/reviews) [ ![Git Tower](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Git Tower") Git Tower 4.7/5(191) ](https://www.g2.com/products/git-tower/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/tortoisehg/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 42 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Christian H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Christian H.") CH Christian H. Product Engineer 2 - New Product Introductions, High-Speed Optical Modems Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/30/2016 "Good version control software when compared to subversion" 4/5 What do you like best about TortoiseHg? Nice interface, integrates with Windows Explorer and looks very similar to SVN which is useful for teams that are really rooted down in SVN Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about TortoiseHg? Slightly more complicated than SVN to set up and less widely used than Git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg: Good piece of software if you are using Mercurial for version control. With that said, Git is much more common and is generally more widely supported so if you have the choice between the two, I would consider using Git if possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you? Used for versioning but specifically for tracking test data and reports which tend to be updated often. Sharepoint would have likely been a better solution but it was not possible to use it in this instance due to IT restrictions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Josh S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Josh S.") JS Josh S. Senior Consultant Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/28/2017 "TortoiseHg used for subversion with a small team" 5/5 What do you like best about TortoiseHg? Tortoise is easy to simple. Fairly easy to setup and configure locally. As the title mentioned, we used for SVN purposes for web code and training materials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about TortoiseHg? It's simple. No frills. When locks occur they are a pain to figure and release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg: This shell is not plug and play. There's configureable required on both your server and local machines accessing svn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you? This tool provide our team subversioning which was needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about TortoiseHg? 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. [ Ask about TortoiseHg ](https://www.g2.com/products/tortoisehg/discussions/new) GU Guest User • Last activity about 4 years ago What is TortoiseHg used for? 0 Upvotes 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-tortoisehg-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/tortoisehg/discuss) ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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