Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to GitHub Desktop

GitHub Desktop

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Summary

The top open-source alternatives to GitHub Desktop are TortoiseGit, GitHub, and Git. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

TortoiseGit Landing Page
1

TortoiseGit

TortoiseGit is an easy to use client for the Git distributed revision control system.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Git #Code Collaboration #Git Tools 32 social mentions
GitHub Landing Page
2

GitHub

Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #Version Control #Git 2527 social mentions
Git Landing Page
3

Git

Git is a free and open source version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. It is easy to learn and lightweight with lighting fast performance that outclasses competitors.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #Git #Code Collaboration 323 social mentions
Sublime Merge Landing Page
4

Sublime Merge

Fast git client with integrated merge tool from the makers of Sublime Text
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Git #Code Collaboration #Git Tools
GitUp Landing Page
5

GitUp

The Git interface you've been missing all your life
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Git #Code Collaboration #Git Tools 14 social mentions
Gogs Landing Page
6

Gogs

A painless self-hosted Git service written in Go
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #Git #Code Collaboration 30 social mentions
Thermal Landing Page
7

Thermal

All-in-one place to manage your Git repository.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Git #Code Collaboration #Git Tools
Artifactory Landing Page
8

Artifactory

The world’s most advanced repository manager.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #Git #Code Collaboration 25 social mentions
Plastic SCM Landing Page
9

Plastic SCM

Plastic SCM is a cross-platform commercial distributed version control tool.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Git #Code Collaboration #Git Tools 2 social mentions
BitKeeper Landing Page
10

BitKeeper

BitKeeper is an open source distributed version control tool.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Git #Code Collaboration #Git Tools 1 social mentions
Git Large File Storage Landing Page
11

Git Large File Storage

Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Git #Code Collaboration #Development 106 social mentions
GitHub CLI Landing Page
12

GitHub CLI

Official CLI tool for using GitHub from the command-line.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #Git #Code Collaboration 150 social mentions