Gitframes
Ranked 5 of 5 terminal Git clients by recommenders
Useful terminal tool for reviewing git diffs and exploring repos, with a video demo people found impressive. Critics find the README dense and the name borrowed from git.
Useful terminal tool for reviewing git diffs and exploring repos, with a video demo people found impressive. Critics find the README dense and the name borrowed from git.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 8
- approval share
- 47%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not 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: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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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.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
README too busy and dense
“The readme is too busy, but the video showcase is impressive”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Gitframes” “Info-dense, completely unreadable README.md file.”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Gitframes” Name piggybacks on git
“By your logic, every software project that uses git could have git in its name.”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Gitframes” “seems like a confusing name, trying to piggyback off git popularity”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Gitframes” README reads like LLM text
“Stick that in front of your wall of LLM text”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Gitframes” “I doubt the "author" even read that README”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Gitframes”
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14 of the 16 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I think I have the very same functionalities within my VSCode”
“I doubt the "author" even read that README”
“I also made a point of mentioning that it seemed like a useful tool.”
“It's a good idea, but my naive thought is that it will be more work and more expensive to use this tool/process if you have strict requirements”
“the launch video sample (aside from needing an epileptic warning), is just not very good.”
“By your logic, every software project that uses git could have git in its name.”
“The readme is too busy, but the video showcase is impressive”
“Stick that in front of your wall of LLM text”
“Definitely using it for my next promo-site which is for event that comes in one month.”
“you set the bar extremely high, and open yourself up to (totally fair!) criticism”
“there's no way to see these running in the browser?”
“seems like a confusing name, trying to piggyback off git popularity”
“Info-dense, completely unreadable README.md file.”
“now I will have to install npm (and all of the vulnerabilities) to dick around with LLMs via a bunch of APIs”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.