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Unleash the power of Git with GitKraken, the free Git GUI for Windows, Mac & Linux. With GitKraken you can easily work with repositories hosted on any of these sites. Clone, add remotes, and create/open pull requests without ever leaving the application. GitKraken is an open-source project released as two versions, GitKraken Free and GitKraken Pro. The free version works with major platforms like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket while providing extra features in the pro version to work with GitHub Enterprise, GitLab Self-Managed, Bitbucket Server, and Azure DevOps (VSTS).

Let's face it, Git is not allways easy to use through the command line, especially if you are working across projects and branches. Ungit was created to solve this problem. Ungit is a free and open-source plaform for managing Git visually. Ungit is self-hosted and runs on any platform that supports Node.js and Git. The software also works well with Git platforms such as GitHub and GitLab.

Fork is a fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows. It provides an intuitive and easy-to-use interface for all your git work flow.  Including an advanced diff viewer that provides a clear view to spot the changes in your source code quickly. A repository manager that lets you manage your repositories without leaving the application, and organize them into categories. As well as image diffs support common formats, and interactive rebasing that lets you edit, reorder and squash your commits using visual interface.

A web-based tool for DevOps lifecycle management and source code hosing. GitLab, much like GitHub use the open-source technology Git for repository management and code reversion. On top of that GitLab provide extra services like issue-tracking, wiki and CI/CD pipelines for code deployment. The main difference between GitLab and GitHub is that GitLab is open-source and the whole platform can be self-hosted on your own server. GitLab also provides the same hosted repository solutions provided by GitHub.

Gitea is a free and open-source software package for hosting software development version control using Git The software is written in Go and is a community managed fork of Gogs, released under the MIT license. With Gitea you can host your very own software project collaboration platform that can handle bug tracking, wikis, code review and team communication.

GitHub is a platform that provides hosting for software development version control for open source and closed source projects. The platform utilize the revision control system Git, and build services around this open-source technology. With GitHub developers and teams can collaborate on software projects and build, host, and promote source code of their own open-source projects. GitHub itself is closed-source and was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for US$7.5 billion.