Tower

What it is for

Tower is a Git GUI desk for Mac + Windows: you stage lib/parts/cart.rb, read the Working Copy diff, and every plan is a seat subscription. Use it when the job is a visual Git client you start at a public $, not when you need Fork’s US$59.99 one-time license first.

Soft-note: billed annually per user — Basic US$69/yr (US$5.75/mo) / Pro US$129/yr (US$10.75/mo) / Enterprise US$12.42/mo — git-tower.com/pricing. 30-day Pro trial. Mac + Windows included. No free-forever plan. Distinct from Fork, GitLab, and Gitea.

What makes it unique: the cover is fournova’s official Working Copy + staged diff still (cart.rb, MAXQUANTITY_PER_ITEM, Staged / Unstaged) — not a wordmark. The cart.rb hunk itself is ops of Working Copy.

Key features

• Working Copy — staged / unstaged file list (cover still; product). One desk. Cover cart.rb sits here.
• Diff hunks — +MAXQUANTITY_PER_ITEM / def add_item on the cover (cover). A hunk, not a $69 meter.
• History / branches — sidebar History / Pull Requests / Branches (cover). A graph, not Get started.
• Mac + Windows — one subscription covers both (pricing). A seat, not a trial tile.
• Pro remotes — self-hosted GitHub Enterprise / Bitbucket Server / GitLab EE/CE / Azure sit on Pro (pricing footnote). A remote, not Enterprise-only by default.
• 30-day Pro trial — full Pro, no credit card (pricing). A trial, not SSO.

Download / Buy are CTAs (not desks). Basic / Pro / Enterprise $ stay in Pricing. There is no AI extra to drop.

Who it's for

Best fit: developers who will finish the 30-day Pro trial then pick Basic US$69/yr — or Pro US$129/yr when they need self-hosted remotes / Pro workflows, not Fork US$59.99 first unless they want a one-time license, and not if they need a free-forever GUI.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from git-tower.com/pricing (JSON on the page: Basic Plan 69.00, Pro Plan 129.00; UI $5.75 / $10.75 / $12.42 per user billed annually). Soft-note: USD as printed on the fetch. 30-day money-back. Students / educators / schools can apply for free — do not invent that as a public $0 SKU.

• Trial — 30 days of Pro. No credit card.
• Basic — US$69/user/year (US$5.75/mo billed annually). 1 user; Mac + Windows.
• Pro — US$129/user/year (US$10.75/mo billed annually). Self-hosted remotes / exclusive Pro features / basic team management.
• Enterprise — US$12.42/user/mo billed annually (printed). Everything in Pro plus enterprise extras on the page.
• No free-forever plan (FAQ). Access ends when the paid period ends.
• The product is not OSS. We omit a GitHub CTA.

Limitations / costs

• No free forever. After the 30-day trial you pay or stop.
• Pro is required for self-hosted remotes (GitHub Enterprise / Bitbucket Server / GitLab EE/CE / Azure — pricing footnote).
• Seat subscriptions, not Fork’s one-time US$59.99. For that license see Fork.
• A Git GUI, not GitLab’s hosted CI. For that forge see GitLab.

Alternatives

• Fork — a Git GUI when you want US$59.99 one-time + evaluation, not annual seats.
• GitLab — a hosted forge when you want Free $0 / Premium $29/user/mo yearly, not a desktop client.
• Gitea — a self-host forge when you want Open Source $0 / Enterprise $9.5–$19/user/mo, not a Mac/Windows GUI.

Official tutorial

We resolved @gittower (HTTP 200; also linked from git-tower.com/mac). We did not oEmbed a single first-party getting-started how-to we could treat as the tutorial. No official YouTube how-to to embed. Written path: git-tower.com plus pricing and Mac product. Channel: @gittower.

Website

https://www.git-tower.com

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is Tower’s official Working Copy + staged diff still (cart.rb). Dollars checked on git-tower.com/pricing (Basic US$69/yr; Pro US$129/yr; Enterprise US$12.42/mo billed annually). No GitHub. No official YouTube embed.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.