When comparing Tower 3 vs Fork, the Slant community recommends Fork for most people. In the question“What are the best GUI Git clients for Mac?” Fork is ranked 2nd while Tower 3 is ranked 15th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Clean and easy-to-use interface
Pro Native OS X UI
Pro Integration with a variety of remote repositories
GitHub (and Enterprise), GitLab (and Community), Bitbucket (and Server), Visual Studio (And TFS), Perforce GitSwarm and BeanStalk.
Pro Pull Request management
On some repos.
Pro Fast and easy to use
Pro Comfortable when staging line-by-line changes
This feature is superior to the one that is implemented by SourceTree as it does not reset the file scroll view to the top of the file after each stage.
If you do feature-specific commits after some time of development - it's very important to be able to easily compose the commit from different line-based changes.
Pro Smart Diff is very handy
Pro Tabbed interface
Several repos can be open at once in individual tabs, so it's trivial to switch back and forth between them.
Pro Overall aesthetic
The GUI components are flawless on the Mac. It is expected to be a similar experience on Windows. Once you realize that you can filter by branch, your appreciation for the product will go up dramatically.
Pro Dark theme support
Pro Highlights the difference within a line
Pro Merge Conflict Resolution is great
Pro Comfortable keyboard shortcuts
Pro Repositories with uncommitted changes have a * next to their name
This is an update from previous versions.
Cons
Con Paid subscription model
Con Slow
Dog slow for large repos. If you have a lot of files you want to stage, you're out of luck. You have to use the command line. UI is slow with large repos.
Con Still a young client, thus not as feature rich
This git GUI client is quite young compared to industry old-timers like git-tower 2 or SourceTree. So it's not as feature rich as you'd like. Still a very capable client for a simple day-to-day work.
Con No Linux version
This git client is not compatible with Linux making the life harder for the developers that work on both, MacOS and some Linux distro.