GitExtensions vs GitKraken Client

It's totally free
And its written and thought by developers who really know what you need as a developer. Open to contributions by everybody.

GitExtensions typically displays all commands that it carries out in a separate window. The user can also open the Gitcommand log (under Tools) and view the git commands as they interact with the program.

Instead of using HTTPS and authenticating every time they are pushing their code remotely, plenty of developers prefer to use SSH to communicate with the remote server and authenticate using secure key pairs.

Staging/unstaging files and/or lines of code, ammending, overriding commit's author, commit templates.

Complex git commands such as resolving a rebase conflict or performing a subtree merge are made much easier by a helpful UI.

GitExtensions has a simple layout, all usual functions being available without navigation menus. The branching and merging are clear and easy to follow.

GitExtensions is a lightweight and fast application.

Easy to save, view & pop stashes.

Can either be set up as a shell extension, standalone tool of Visual Studio plugin, allowing developers to choose the way that suits their workflow best and is easier for them to get into.

Can be used as a Visual Studio plugin for developers who use it as their IDE, or as a standalone tool. Both are easy to use even for users not very familiar with git.

Powerful submodule support, also when working with multiple cloned SuperRepos.

Includes Gitflow, also has a delete obsolete branches feature which is very useful to get rid of those old branches that have already been merged. There are also other options to clean overall clutter in repositories.

This makes running custom git commands quicker.

The settings window on first run helps you set lots of required settings such as your commit email address.

Makes working with repos using different languages and support tools much easier.

There are several out-of-the-box plugins installed with standard setup. Additional behavior customization is possible with new plugins (written in C#).

It's modern and beautiful, it looks clean and refined.

It's simple: the most used features (pull, push, branch, stash, commit) are accessible in one click, and are the only buttons. The other features aren't in complicated menus nor in hundreds of buttons, but rather displayed when you right-click on something.

It gives more space to the commits, i.e. the most important things. In fact, you can collapse or reduce the other menus/windows.

It displays the current path (project, branch) on an horizontal (clickable) bar at the top. It's just a matter of taste but I prefer this to the traditional "tree" view.

It has undo and redo buttons on the main window.

It supports some drag-and-drop gestures (for example: drag-and-droping the local branch to the remote one pushes it).

A lot of care has gone into trying to make GitKraken as easy and intuitive as possible and it show. Every action is quick and painless with no more user interaction than necessary. For example, switching to another branch is as easy as a double-click on the sidebar.

Built on top of Electron, so it runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

GitKraken has simple undo/redo buttons that work the same way you'd expect in any other software.

GitKraken can be connected to Github, Gitlab, or Bitbucket accounts through OAuth. From that point onward most if not all actions that are related to these services can be done inside GitKraken. Things like: cloning or forking a repository, adding a remote, pushing to a remote repository hosted on these services can be done inside the app.

You can even manage pull requests inside GitKraken for example. All pull requests for a certain branch for example are shown on that branch's graph.

There are both pro and free versions available. The free version is pretty complete feature-wise for day-to-day operations.

A quick glance at GitKraken's release notes shows how frequently it's updated. Updates are released on a 2-4 week cycle and each one brings new features and bug fixes.

Supports GitFlow out of the box.

GitKraken has a fuzzy finder to switch between repos/files.

GitKraken is easy to use and is brilliant for the beginner developers.

No more eyestrain staring at white screens - GitKraken has a lovely dark theme.