COMPARE
Gitnetix, GitKraken, Fork or Sourcetree?
Four good desktop Git clients. Three of them draw your commit graph. Gitnetix draws your releases. Here is what each one does well, and what it costs.
Written by the Gitnetix team, so we tried hard to be fair. Checked against each vendor's site on .
THE SHORT VERSION
Gitnetix
- Price
- Free
- Runs on
- macOS · Windows · Linux
- Shows
- Branch tree
Best for: You ship from release branches and run coding agents on them.
GitKraken
- Price
- Free for public repos, paid for private
- Runs on
- macOS · Windows · Linux
- Shows
- Commit graph
Best for: A team that wants the most complete graph client, with GitLab and Bitbucket built in.
Fork
- Price
- $59.99, once
- Runs on
- macOS · Windows
- Shows
- Commit graph
Best for: A native app you pay for once, with strong rebase and history tools.
Sourcetree
- Price
- Free
- Runs on
- macOS · Windows
- Shows
- Commit graph
Best for: A free, classic client close to Bitbucket, and still the one for Mercurial.
SIDE BY SIDE
Feature by feature.
- Yes
- Partly, or with limits
- No
| Gitnetix | GitKraken | Fork | Sourcetree | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The basics | ||||
| Price | Free | Free for local and public repos. Private repos need a paid plan. | $59.99 once. Free to evaluate. | Free |
| macOS, Windows, Linux | All three | All three | macOS and Windows | macOS and Windows |
| Use it without an account | Sign-in asked at setup (GitKraken account) | Sign-in asked at setup (Atlassian account) | ||
| Manage it from your phone | Any browser, paired by QR code | |||
| How it shows your repo | ||||
| Main view | Branch tree: main, then releases, then features and fixes | Commit graph | Commit graph | Commit graph |
| Knows which release a branch belongs to | Even after a squash-merged pull request | |||
| Shipping | ||||
| One-click release | Dates the changelog, fast-forwards main, tags, pushes | Git-flow finish: merge and tag | Git-flow finish: merge and tag | Git-flow finish: merge and tag |
| Changelog written for you | AI adds each branch to Unreleased | |||
| AI and agents | ||||
| AI commit messages | Paid plans | Through Claude or Cursor | ||
| AI conflict resolution | Proposed per file during a rebase | Paid plans | ||
| AI pull request descriptions | Paid plans | |||
| Coding agents on branches | Built-in agent chat per branch, in its own worktree | Agent Sessions run your CLI agent in a worktree | Worktrees, no agent runner | |
| AI provider | Your signed-in CLI or API key: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Copilot, Ollama | GitKraken AI credits in paid plans, or your own key | Your Claude or Cursor CLI | No AI features |
| Other agents can drive it (MCP) | Every action is a tool | GitKraken MCP server | ||
| Everyday Git | ||||
| Stash, cherry-pick, tags, submodules | ||||
| Worktrees | ||||
| Stage single lines or hunks | Whole files only | |||
| Interactive rebase | Rebase onto the parent only | |||
| Merge conflict editor | AI proposal you review, no 3-way editor | Built-in merge tool | Built-in resolver | Mine, theirs, or an external tool |
| Blame and file history | ||||
| Git LFS | No UI for it | |||
| Clone from the app | Open a local folder | |||
| Team tools | ||||
| Pull requests in the app | GitHub and Azure DevOps. GitLab and Bitbucket not yet. | GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps (some on higher plans) | ||
| Tickets | Jira, Trello, Asana | Jira, Trello | Issue links in commits | Issue links in commits |
Something wrong or out of date? Open an issue and we will fix it.
WHICH ONE
Pick the one that fits how you work.
Gitnetix is not trying to be a better commit graph. If the graph is how you think, one of the others will suit you better.
Pick Gitnetix if
- You ship from release branches and want to see what goes out next, not a wall of commits.
- You want one click to date the changelog, fast-forward main, tag and push.
- You run coding agents and want one per branch, each in its own worktree.
- You want it free on macOS, Windows and Linux, private repos included, no account.
- You want AI to bill only your own provider, or run free on Ollama.
- You want to check on releases and agents from your phone.
Pick another client if
- You stage single lines or hunks, or reorder commits with interactive rebase. Fork, GitKraken, Sourcetree
- You need blame, file history or Git LFS inside the app. Fork, GitKraken, Sourcetree
- Your pull requests live on GitLab or Bitbucket. GitKraken
- You think best with the full commit graph in front of you. Any of the three
- You want a tool with years behind it. Gitnetix shipped its first release on October 17, 2026. Any of the three
- You still work in Mercurial. Sourcetree
Try it on your own repo.
Free on macOS, Windows and Linux. Keep your current client next to it.