When comparing GitUI vs GitFiend, the Slant community recommends GitUI for most people. In the question“What are the best visual git GUIs?” GitUI is ranked 25th while GitFiend is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose GitUI is:
No need to memorize a ton of keys or crawl man pages, gitui only Shows you the valid keys depending on your current context.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Context based help
No need to memorize a ton of keys or crawl man pages, gitui only Shows you the valid keys depending on your current context.
Pro Intuitive key shortcuts
Perfect for developers who hate to leave their keyboard.
Pro Very fast even in massive repos
Most alternatives crash or run out of memory when opening 1M+ commits repos line Linux.
Pro Free and open source
Pro Crossplatform
Supports macOS, Linux, and Windows.
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 Terminal is not for everyone
It fills a niche between full-blown GUI apps and the bare git CLI.
Con Lacks some features
It’s still in active development and catches up quickly.
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.
