A fast, self-contained Git GUI built with Vue 3, Electron and a C++ addon over libgit2.
No git binary required — clone, fetch, pull and push run natively over HTTPS and SSH.
- Visual history — commit graph with a virtualized list, multi-branch filtering, and Monaco-powered diffs
- Tabbed workspaces — several repositories at once, grouped into colour-coded projects
- Integrated terminal — real shell sessions (xterm.js + node-pty) in the bottom panel
- Merge conflicts — side-by-side resolution in its own window
- Remotes — per-host credentials in an encrypted store, plus pull requests and repository statistics
- Themeable — design-token themes with an in-app editor and a community theme registry
- Localized — English, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish
Download the latest build from Releases:
| Platform | Formats |
|---|---|
| Linux | .AppImage, .deb, .rpm, .pacman |
| Windows | .exe (NSIS), .msi |
The AppImage and the Windows installer update themselves from GitHub Releases;
.deb, .rpm and .pacman are updated by your package manager. GitBox bundles
libgit2 and its TLS stack, so there is nothing else to install — a local Git is
not required.
The Linux packages are built on Ubuntu 22.04, so they need glibc 2.35 or newer
(Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+, Fedora 36+, RHEL 9+). SSH remotes (git@…) work on
Linux; the Windows build authenticates over HTTPS for now.
Requires Node.js 20+, npm, a C++ toolchain (gcc/clang or MSVC), CMake, Ninja and Perl.
# 1. Static libgit2 + mbedTLS + libssh2 + OpenSSL (~20 min, cached afterwards).
# On Windows: core/addon/vendor/build-libgit2.ps1
./core/addon/vendor/build-libgit2.sh
# 2. CA bundle for native HTTPS (mbedTLS has no system trust store).
mkdir -p core/addon/certs
curl -fsSL https://curl.se/ca/cacert.pem -o core/addon/certs/cacert.pem
# 3. Native addon.
npm --prefix core/addon install && npm --prefix core/addon run build
# 4. UI + app. `dev` starts Vite and Electron together.
npm --prefix app/ui install
npm --prefix ui/electron install && npm --prefix ui/electron run devPackaging targets live in ui/electron/package.json; the release pipeline is in
.github/workflows.
Read CONTRIBUTING.md for the workflow and coding standards. Third-party dependencies and their licenses are listed in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
MIT — see LICENSE.