Free Fork Alternatives

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).

Git is a free and open source distributed version-control system for tracking changes in source code during software development. The tool is created by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, and is used by virtually every software project today. With Git, developer can track changes in any sets of files in a project and coordinate the team to develop in a non-linear workflow to achieve maximum efficiency.

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.

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.

Gitter is an open-source instant messaging and chat room system for developers designed to make community messaging, collaboration and discovery as smooth and simple as possible. Gitter is provided as software-as-a-service and integrates with GitLab and GitHub repositories to make discussion around code even easier. With Gitter, you can can easily create, organise and grow your communities, inviting others to join just in one click. Over 1.5M users across 100K communities use Gitter to discuss code and development progress.

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.

GitBucket is a free and open-source Git platform built on the JVM. GitBucket is written in Scala and released under the Apache License Version 2.0.

Gitly is a free and open-source git-based source code management tool written in V. The software can be self-hosted affordably with a $3.5 cloud instance. Gitly is light, fast and utlize minimal ammount of RAM, and can be deployed as a single <1 MB binary, including compiled templates.