About
Fork is a Git client for Mac and Windows built by Dan and Tanya Pristupov, a husband-and-wife team who write the Mac version in native Swift and Cocoa. That heritage shows: it launches fast, the commit graph is genuinely readable, and staging individual lines feels as natural as selecting text. Interactive rebase becomes a drag-and-drop affair, the merge conflict resolver puts both sides and the result in one view, and image diffs, blame and repository history are all a keystroke away.
Git-flow, LFS and GPG signing are supported for teams with heavier process. Updates land steadily. A licence costs $59.99 and covers up to three machines, Mac and Windows alike, one payment rather than a subscription, with an unrestricted free evaluation so you can settle in before paying.
Alternatives
- GitHub Desktop
Pick GitHub Desktop if you want a free, open source client: it costs nothing, runs on Mac and Windows, and works with GitHub and other Git hosting services.
- Sublime Merge
Pick Sublime Merge if you also work on Linux: one $99 personal licence covers Mac, Windows and Linux with 3 years of updates, and the evaluation has no enforced time limit.
- Tower
Pick Tower if you want pull request and cloud hosting integrations built in: it is a yearly subscription per user, with a free 30-day trial and free licences for students and educators.
At a Glance
- Requires
- macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later
- Price
- $59.99 one-time, with a free evaluation; one licence covers up to 3 machines, Mac and Windows
- Also On
- Windows
- Get It From
- git-fork.com
Curator's Note
“The client I point people to when the command line has burnt them once too often.”
Theo, Mac Dept.