Tower for Mac
Version control with Git made easy.
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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:
- Undo (⌘+Z) for nearly any Git action
- Powerful drag-and-drop for merge, rebase, push/pull, cherry-pick, apply stash, create branch, and more
- Remote services integration: GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket, Bitbucket Server, GitLab.com, GitLab CE/EE, Azure DevOps, Azure DevOps Server, Beanstalk, Perforce GitSwarm
- Pull request management (create, review, and close without leaving Tower)
- AI Commits — generate commit messages with built-in or custom prompt presets
- Stacked branches and stacked pull requests, including Graphite integration
- Custom Git workflows — git-flow, GitHub Flow, GitLab Flow, or your own
- Automatic branch archiving, with 'Stale' and 'Fully Merged' detection that catches squash and rebase merges
- Worktree support
- Commit templates and commit message autocomplete
- Single-line staging (per-line committing) and discard chunks/lines
- Interactive rebase, cherry-picking, and a visual conflict wizard
- File history, Blame view, and syntax coloring for nearly 200 languages
- Submodule and Git LFS support
- SSH commit and tag signing, with 1Password as SSH agent
What's new in version 17.0
New
- Fully Merged Detection: Tower now matches your local branches against merged pull requests from your hosting service — reliably catching squash and rebase merges that plain Git can never see! PR detection is available as a free Preview and will become part of Tower Pro in an upcoming release.
- Fully Merged Detection: Three further checks complete the picture: Git's own merge detection, merge commit analysis (branch name and matching timestamps), and deleted remote tracking branches.
- Fully Merged Hint: The redesigned hint shows exactly which checks matched, with direct links to the merge commit or pull request — so you can verify before deleting. Prefer to keep a branch around? Hide the hint for that branch via "Don't Show Again".
- Branch Cleanup: Branch cleanup hints now include an Archive action.
Improved
- Submodules: Updating submodules is now significantly faster — Tower gathers each submodule's Git data concurrently instead of one at a time, especially noticeable in repositories with many submodules.
Fixed
- Services: Fixed GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps accounts possibly sending API requests to an outdated server address.
- Worktrees: Fixed the "Skip Hooks" option being hidden when committing from a linked worktree that had configured hooks.
- Diff View: Fixed a freeze when rendering large, interleaved diffs.
- History: Fixed the Compare Branch toggle not switching the history list.
- Worktrees: Fixed spurious warnings when deleting a locked worktree.
- Worktrees: Fixed a worktree unnecessarily re-opening when double-clicking the current HEAD branch.
- AI Agents: Tower no longer runs AI agent binary validation while the feature is disabled.
Tower for Mac
$69.00
In English
Version 17.0
What users say about Tower
Ease of use: 5.0
Of all the GIT GUIs I've tried (GitKracken, ToirtosieGit, Sourcetree, Terminal - not a GUI, but still, etc), I find Tower the most intuitive ans easy-to-use.
Features: 5.0
I would consider myself a mid-level user; not a newbie, but let's just say: I don't have a PhD in Computer Science either... ;-) And, for me, Tower has everything I need, from basic Git transactions to more advanced merge requests.
Other user ratings:
Value | 5.0
Reliability | 5.0
Customer support | 5.0
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User Ratings
Apr 26, 2021
Version: 6.4
The best GUI git client for Mac OS. It is free for students :-)
Apr 9, 2021
Version: 6.4
It's by far my favorite git client for the Mac!
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.
