# Kepler by GitKraken

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Kepler by GitKraken and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a polished, good-looking option for working with AI coding agents, though reviewers note obvious gaps, limited integrations and clunky workflows.

## Why people recommend it

- Polished, good-looking interface (2 comments): "seemed like the second most polished option I tried, but there are obvious gaps" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299599)) "Good looking tools, but not professional GIS tools." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586480))

## What people warn about

- Limited integrations beyond ticketing (2 comments): "Kepler only knows about GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Trello and Linear" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335102)) "focuses a bit too much on the ticketing integration" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277387))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Conductor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/conductor.md): 58 recommend
- [Superset](https://hackerapproved.com/p/superset.md): 33 recommend
- [AX by Google](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ax.md): 15 recommend
- [ctx](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ctx.md): 13 recommend
- [Zenflow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zenflow.md): 13 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Kepler by GitKraken", https://hackerapproved.com/p/kepler/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).