Tower
Tower overview
Tower is a Git client for OS X that makes using Git easy and more efficient. Users benefit from its elegant and comprehensive interface and a feature set that lets them enjoy the full power of Git.
Tower abstracts Git's complexity in an easy-to-use interface. For example, lots of actions can be performed simply via drag-and-drop, and mistakes can be undone easily. Advanced users can increase their productivity with features like single line staging, submodule support, or the file history.
Features:
- git-svn support
- File history
- git-flow support
- Submodule support
- git-lfs support
- Blame view
- Single-line staging (per-line committing)
- Cherry-picking
- Discard chunks/lines
- Direct Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab, GitSwarm, Beanstalk, Visual Studio Team Services, Team Foundation Server and Rhodecode integration
- Support for Bitbucket team accounts
- Support for full-screen and Retina displays
- Many powerful drag-and-drop features include merge, rebase, push /pull to/from remote, apply stash, create new branch, etc.
What’s new in version 9.3
Updated on May 09 2023
New
- Merge Wizard: The Merge Wizard now shows all commits that actually changed the file on each side, instead of just showing the - often unrelated - commit at the tip of the branch or revision for a conflict side. This provides helpful context information about the conflict and shows who modified the file on each side and when.
- Merge Wizard: The last modified timestamp is now displayed for each side, making it easy to determine which version is newer.
- Quick Actions: You can now execute the "Fast-Forward" command on a non-HEAD branch that has changes.
Improved
- Merge Wizard: Each conflict side is now labeled with the branch name or revision that the version originated from, making it easier to understand which side belongs to which branch or revision.
- Merge Wizard: Branches are also more accurately displayed, identical to the Merge Status view.
- Merge Wizard: All merge cases are now properly displayed, including merging arbitrary commits or merging into a detached HEAD.
- Merge Wizard: A loading view is now displayed if loading the merge conflict takes longer than a certain threshold.
- Diff Tool: The --no-symlinks option is now passed to diff tools by default.
Fixed
- Branches: Renaming a pinned branch within Tower will now preserve its "pinned" status.
- Working Copy: Creating a snapshot that includes untracked files now works as expected.
- Working Copy: A crash that occurred when searching for files using tree view has been fixed.
- Diff View: The diff view would incorrectly display "Diff contains only whitespace changes" while loading a large diff. This has been replaced by a loading indicator.
- Stashes: If the list of stashes was filtered by a search, dragging a stash to the working copy to apply it would apply an incorrect stash. This has been fixed.
- Branches Review: The compare branch context menu action now opens the compare dialog with a pre-filled text field.
- History: After turning off GPG verification, the ref badges would be shown on an old commit as well as on a new one after creating it. This has been fixed.
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App requirements
- Intel 64
- Apple Silicon
- macOS 10.15 or later
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Apr 26 2021
Version: 6.4
The best GUI git client for Mac OS. It is free for students :-)
Mar 17 2021
Version: 6.3
The ability to undo mistakes by just hitting cmd-Z stands for the philosophy of Tower: Making the use of Git easy, intuitive and accessible for noobs. In the time I am working with Tower I had never the need to run Git in the terminal – and that’s great.
Jun 25 2020
Version: 5.0
Super happy with version 5. It finally allows to ignore whitespace changes in the diff view!! diffs for untracked files is also much appreciated. Btw. even if you don’t use Tower check out their learning platform. They offer free video tutorials, books, cheat sheets etc. - mainly around Git (even on the command line), but also other topics for developers.
Jun 17 2020
Version: 4.5
Tower is a fundamental part of my workflow. I couldn’t work without it. The undo feature alone is worth the price. They ship new updates frequently and the support goes out of its way to help (even with questions unrelated to Tower). If you develop software professionally, I can really recommend it.
Jun 12 2020
Version: 4.5
I've used Tower for a couple of years. I prefer the single cost of purchasing Tower in the beginning, but now I can enjoy the full Tower experience as a student.
It is a good GIT client, with a nice GUI, easy and straightforward to work with.
The montly subscription as a non student is in my terms a little bit to high
Mar 23 2020
Version: 4.2
Tower is arguably still the most mature GUI git client out there: it has a vast array of features, super stable, excellent documentation, and presented in an UI that has been copied by many. I would give it 5 stars, but unfortunately, the subscription business model the company chose to adopt is universally hated - and it is extremely pricey. At $70/year for an individual developer, or $100/user/year if you work in a team, they are severely limiting their user-base. Tower is a solid tool, and most regular users wouldn't mind paying these prices for a lifetime license - or might even be willing to put up with a subscription model, if the pricing was about a quarter of what it is now. But at these prices, people will be constantly looking for 'something better' - and now, with tools like Fork, GitFinder and Sublime Merge, there are a growing number of options. Loose 1 star for subscription model, another star for being overpriced.
Feb 20 2020
Version: 4.1
Tower is now free for students, teachers and universities/schools (used to be 50% off).
Feb 6 2020
Version: 4.0
Check out Fork. Not sure where MacUpdate recommendations thing went.
Sep 16 2019
Version: 3.5.0
I've used Tower since 2011, seen it grow, mature and it no doubt implements quite an intuitive UI on top of git. However, unless you're really using every single feature on a daily bases, the price tag is just to hefty in the light of the countless alternatives. To add just two more to the list: Both git support in Atom as well as the Fork git client (both free) are under constant development and falls short in less and less situations. Nonetheless, I would have stayed with Tower if they hadn't switched to subscription and I might switch back should they decide to drop it again. So only one star – not for poor implementation but for the pricey subscription model.
Jan 19 2019
Version: 3.2.1
Ridiculous pricing... Good app though, but overall value/price just bottomed.
Oct 11 2018
Version: 3.2.0
$99 a year to push PRs to my self-hosted git repo when there are capable alternatives for free? $70 for version 2 was already at the upper end for this type of software and I happily paid it. I'm using version 2.6.6 still and it works fine. $99 a year for version 3 is not something I can justify to my employer when my co-workers are using SourceTree or VSCode for free.
Oct 7 2018
Version: 3.2.0
As a long timer customer of Tower 2 im sorry to say that Tower 3 is not worth a penny as i REALLY HATE subscription based models. Will never again buy anything from this company.
And you can use git for free and there are already better alternatives out there with nice GUIs.
Sep 11 2018
Version: 3.1.1
Simply and truly the best Git client out there. The new features are absolutely awesome: Pull Requests lets me create and manage my GitHub PRs right from the desktop; and I can finally use Interactive Rebase without breaking my head, just using drag and drop. Love the app!
Aug 29 2018
Version: 3.1.1
Long time user since V1. The new pricing model in V3 is insane so I will stay with v2. I use IntelliJ more than Tower, and it cost the same price as Tower. Once you stop paying the annual fee, you fall back to last version though. It seems this is a decision from a bunch of stupid sales.
Jul 25 2018
Version: 3.1.0
Just… no.
I used this app when it was in 2.x, and I must say I liked it quite a bit. Mostly the UI, I guess. The functionality and under-the-hood conditions were less enjoyable, and the dev would prioritize whatever sold copies (at least on paper?…), rather than fixing core issues with app's performance. Version 3 was a chance to remedy a lot of such things, but instead, after I'd say pretty short beta period (and I believe just 2-3 beta releases before final) - the app was released, and now it's subscription (liked the release notes pretty much saying - "well, you guys probably expected that, right?"). And the core performance issues still not fixed. And there's STILL not ETA (the tickets for that were up for 2 years).
So I thought… well, I just vote with my wallet and NOT support this dev anymore.
That said, in a quest for a replacement, I found a really nice app which is mentioned below - called Fork. The UI is a bit less polished, but it still is good in its own way. The app is very performant (no need to wait for seconds OR MINUTES for Tower to update my larger repos status), is very easy to use and seems to be made by someone who actually knows how write good software that's good not only on the surface and it pretty much is all I need.
What's more, it's free. But I'd happily pay. Not subscription happily, but a good "standard" dev tools price.
Bad move, fournova…
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