Free and MIT licensed, private repos included.
No account, no telemetry. Linux, Windows and macOS.
Features
A Rust core reads with gitoxide and writes through the git command line. Every action is in the command palette (Ctrl+P), and every shortcut is listed in Help (Ctrl+/).
Code review
Comment on a line or a range from the diff's gutter, in every diff mode and on a rendered Markdown diff's blocks; collect the comments as drafts in a pending review, then send them with Comment, Approve or Request changes. Suggested changes show as a diff of the lines they replace, and Apply puts one in your working copy. GitHub.com and GitLab, self-managed included.
Worktrees
Each worktree with changes has its own WIP row in the graph, with its name and change counts, linked to the commit it has checked out. Switch the tab to another worktree from that row, the sidebar or the toolbar, without reopening the repository, or open one in its own tab. Each keeps its own undo history and commit message draft. Create one from any commit or branch.
Menus
Related actions share one row as buttons: Reset with Soft, Mixed and Hard, Copy SHA with Short and Full. A destructive row arms in place: it turns red and says what a second click does, so you confirm without moving the mouse, with any option (such as also moving the branches stacked on it) as a checkbox right under it. A greyed-out row says why. Submenus open as soon as the pointer reaches them, a diagonal move into one doesn't close it, and every row and button works from the keyboard. Rows name what they act on, such as both branches of a merge or a rebase.
Diffs
Read a changed .md file as rendered Markdown, inline or side by side, with the changed words highlighted, inside table rows too, and rows added or removed lined up against a gap. GitHub- and GitLab-flavoured: tables, task lists, footnotes, front matter shown as a table, Mermaid diagrams, syntax-highlighted code, the repository's images and videos, emoji shortcodes, issue and MR/PR references, and sanitized inline HTML such as collapsible <details> sections.
Diffs
Side by side, swipe, onion skin, and a pixel difference view with an Amplify slider, so near-identical images show where they differ. Zoom to fit or up close with crisp pixels, put a checkerboard, black, white or grey background behind transparency, and match two different sizes so every mode compares the same pixels. Each side shows its dimensions; an SVG can switch to its source and any image to a hex dump, and Copy Image puts it on the clipboard. PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, BMP, ICO and SVG.
Previews
HTML pages render in a sandbox, CSV and TSV files show as tables with their rows diffed, and PDFs as pages, old and new side by side. Audio and video get a player for each version, and a font shows its name, sample text and glyphs. A hex view is there for any file.
Safety
Each worktree keeps a journal of its last 50 operations, and it survives restarts: commits and amends, checkouts, branch and tag changes, merges, rebases, cherry-picks, reverts, resets, stashes, discards and pulls. Staging has its own undo too.
History
Besides pick, reword, squash and drop, GitVolt has fixup and edit (the rebase stops so you can amend that commit), predicts which commits will conflict before you start, and lets you move, add or delete branches on the rewritten commits in the same step.
Forges
Create a whole stack of merge or pull requests at once, push and rebase the stack, and have the next one retargeted after a merge, on GitHub and GitLab (self-managed included).
upstream/main) with your main. You can pick another branch or turn it off.!12, #12 or its link), a forge's commit or file page, a file path with its line number, or a branch or tag.
Compare
If you've used GitKraken, GitVolt will feel familiar: the lane graph down the middle, the branch and remote sidebar, the commit details on the right. GitVolt is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by GitKraken / Axosoft.
| GitKraken | GitVolt | |
|---|---|---|
| Graph and workspace | ||
| Commit graph with lanes, branch/tag chips and avatars | Yes | Yes |
| Main branch pinned to the left | Partly When you pin one | Yes Automatic, with its remote branch and, in a fork, the original project's; can be changed or turned off |
| Tabs, multiple repos, worktrees | Yes | Yes Also tab groups |
| Hide and solo branches | Yes | No Not there yet |
| Command palette and keyboard shortcuts | Yes | Yes Every one listed in Help › Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+/) |
| Themes | Yes | Yes Many built in, with per-lane graph colours |
| Profiles | Yes Multiple on paid plans | Yes |
| Changes and history | ||
| Staging files, hunks and lines | Yes | Yes |
| Undo / redo | Partly Last action only | Yes Last 50 operations, across restarts |
| Branches, tags, stashes, cherry-pick, revert, reset | Yes | Yes |
| Merge and rebase | Yes | Yes |
| Interactive rebase | Partly Pick, reword, squash, drop | Yes Also fixup, edit, conflict prediction and branch moves |
| Merge conflict tool with an editable result | Yes | Yes |
| Push, pull, fetch, remotes, adding a fork as a remote | Yes | Yes |
| File history and blame | Yes | Yes |
| Commit signing | Yes | Yes Through your git config |
| Signature verification | Yes | Yes |
| Submodules | Yes | Yes State in the file list; update, sync and open in a tab |
| Git LFS | Yes | Yes Real files in diffs and history, download, pull, track by extension |
| Git Flow | Yes | No Not planned unless there's demand |
| Diffs and files | ||
| Diffs: inline, split, hunk, word-level | Yes | Yes |
| Image diffs | Partly | Yes Side by side, swipe, onion skin, difference |
| File previews | No | Yes CSV/TSV tables with row diffs, PDFs side by side, sandboxed HTML, audio, video, fonts, and a hex view |
| Rendered Markdown | Partly Files only | Yes Files, diffs and MR/PR threads |
| Mermaid diagrams in Markdown | No | Yes |
| Reviews and forges | ||
| Pull/merge requests: list, view, create, comment, approve, merge | Yes | Yes Also auto-merge, and updating a branch that's behind |
| Inline code review comments | Yes GitHub | Yes GitHub and GitLab: lines and ranges, a pending review, suggested changes you can apply |
| Stacked pull/merge requests | Partly GitHub.com only | Yes GitHub and GitLab |
| Forges | GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps; self-hosted on paid plans | GitHub.com and GitLab, including self-managed |
| Issue trackers (Jira, Trello, …) | Yes | No Not planned |
| Beyond Git | ||
| Integrated terminal | Yes | No Not planned |
| AI commit messages and summaries | Yes | No Not planned |
| Cloud workspaces and team features | Yes | No Not planned |
| Platform and privacy | ||
| No account needed | No Sign-in required | Yes |
| No telemetry | No Collects usage analytics | Yes |
| Windows and macOS | Yes | Yes (macOS: Apple Silicon only) |
| License | Proprietary; free for local and public repos | MIT |
GitKraken is a trademark of Axosoft, LLC, mentioned only to compare features.
Privacy
Your repositories and tokens stay on your machine. The webview can't reach the network on its own; the Rust core makes every request.
No analytics or crash reporting. The update check is the only request GitVolt makes on its own that isn't about your repositories or accounts.
A strict Content Security Policy, and Chromium can't resolve any host name but localhost: the Rust core makes every network request.
Images from hosts other than your forge load only after you click them.
Forge tokens stay in the system keyring, never in a file or a log.
Writes go through the git command line, so your hooks, config and credentials behave as they always do.
No cookies, no analytics, no third-party scripts. The demo runs in your browser and sends nothing.
Downloads
Free and MIT licensed, private repos included.
x86-64
GitVolt_0.7.0_amd64.deb.deb↓Fedora 40+, openSUSEGitVolt-0.7.0-1.x86_64.rpm.rpm↓Arch LinuxGitVolt-0.7.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zstArch↓
Updates install through your package manager, with pkexec.
752b125c3ca399d19e2e1330ed50617eb720185459f61ad6dc310c5c878e55b8 GitVolt_0.7.0_amd64.deba8d42b0f29880da3468df25ae2c37f71e914b5c2139ff11897eaf79d2a9981dc GitVolt-0.7.0-1.x86_64.rpm03456bc7e4c957a9d920e95756e6d1ef6f25aebd0fc0e9a5face345c0ba40285 GitVolt-0.7.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst12 or later, Apple Silicon
GitVolt_0.7.0_aarch64.dmg.dmg↓
Ad-hoc signed, not notarized: the first launch asks you to allow it in System Settings › Privacy & Security.
f27ead7b4d495e904ce322514b03f4bc30a30ac329ab0e984c97bef95a09b83e GitVolt_0.7.0_aarch64.dmg10 and 11, x64
GitVolt_0.7.0_x64-setup.exe.exe↓MSI, for all usersGitVolt_0.7.0_x64.msi.msi↓
Not code-signed yet: SmartScreen warns once, More info › Run anyway.
e25a4388d97a5645e9fac071c4bca7964b760d05205b369c27c70bbf29380e20 GitVolt_0.7.0_x64-setup.exe5762a0599efae4b37fea135388b3aa84051e5ae553840e0f690452737c19a745 GitVolt_0.7.0_x64.msiVersion 0.7.0. Needs Git 2.40 or newer on your PATH. SHA256SUMS lists each file's checksum. After that, GitVolt updates itself.