When comparing GitAhead vs GitFiend, the Slant community recommends GitAhead for most people. In the question“What are the best visual git GUIs?” GitAhead is ranked 10th while GitFiend is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose GitAhead is:
Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Multi-platform
Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Pro All basic Git features included
Branches, Pull, Push, Fetch, Cherry-pick, Stash, Revert, Rebase...
Pro It is now free and open source
No longer requires an account.
Pro Qt-based
This means it is fast, looks great on any platform and integrates especially well with KDE.
Pro Fastest on Linux
Not based on web technologies and fastest to start and work with, yet featuring all required features.
Pro Designed to support repository exploration
Pro Can link to most used git cloud providers
Link to gitlab, github and bitbucket accounts.
Pro Cross platform
It has native Linux, Windows and Mac clients.
Pro Free
As of version 0.38.2 there is no paid features or license.
Cons
Con GitAhead is no longer under active development
GitAhead is no longer under active development. Low-level maintenance and bug fix releases will be made as necessary for the forseeable future, but no new features or major changes are planned at this time.
Con Limited features
As it is in a new application in development it has a limited feature set if you are a power user.
Con Not open-source
Developer has shared the UI components to GitHub but not the source code of the application.
