Git Extensions
Shares rank 13 of 18 Git clients by recommenders
Free Windows Git GUI that people prefer to TortoiseGit; it maps closely to git commands and stays easy to discover.
Free Windows Git GUI that people prefer to TortoiseGit; it maps closely to git commands and stays easy to discover.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Free Windows Git GUI
“which are free and are super convenient for staging”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “.gitignore Everything by Default” “my favorite Windows git UI”
Comment from 10 Nov 2025 in “The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need”
Other Git clients people recommend
The four most recommended other Git clients, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magit | 120 | 20 | 86% | 12 | 10 yrs6 owners | Approved |
| Sublime Merge | 22 | 1 | 96% | 10 | — | Approved |
| GitButler | 21 | 19 | 53% | 6 | — | — |
| Fork git client | 17 | 2 | 89% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Git ExtensionsThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“which are free and are super convenient for staging”
“seemed pretty decent and possibly a nicer GUI paradigm than TortoiseGit”
“It maps pretty much 1-to-1 to the git CLI and is still discoverable.”
“One of the main things I like about it is that it does _not_ auto refresh.”
“my favorite Windows git UI”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.