Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Check It Out - Open Source

A Git CLI tool to simplify checking out git branches/refs

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Check It Out - Open Source launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
GitHub CLI▲408
GitHub’s official free and open source command line tool
2020 · cli.github.com · its alternatives →
2
GitUp▲275
The Git interface you've been missing all your life
2015 · gitup.co · its alternatives →
3
git:logs▲176
The definitive list of open source resources on Github
2016 · franksohakune.com · its alternatives →
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Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust▲334
What works now: user signups, org creations, private/public repos, and importing GitHub repositories (both as read-only mirrors and full migrations). So basically, you can create, push and pull to a repo, but we don't have many features quite yet (issues, PRs, CI). What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust and 2) the website is a little odd. Its design is inspired by CLIs (e.g., fzf, broot, vim) instead of web apps, and as such, lacks some affordances that you might typically expect in favor of keyboard-driven instant navigations (we have the very ambitious goal of an FCP of…
Jun 2026 · gitdot.io · its alternatives →
5
Git Begin▲236
Start contributing to open source projects with ease
2024 · gitbegin.theenthusiast.dev · its alternatives →
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git-peek – git repo to local editor instantly▲114
git repo to local editor instantly. Contribute to Jarred-Sumner/git-peek development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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"Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming▲252
I've always wanted a better way to explore the authorship data embedded in a Git commit log. I'm having fun building a CLI tool to do this. It's a bit like the "Contributors" tab on Github that shows you how many commits each contributor has made but much faster and with many more options. If you get a chance to try it out, please let me know. I'd love to hear feedback and suggestions. Thank you!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Keep – GitHub Actions for your monitoring tools▲181
Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GitSpo▲112
Measure & engage your open-source community
2020 · its alternatives →
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GitHub Reader▲109
A quick way to browse GitHub issues and pull requests.
2018 · git-issues.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Gomp – a tool for comparing Git branches▲92
GOMP (Git cOMPare) is a tool for comparing branches. - MarkForged/GOMP
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
Gut▲98
An easy-to-use git alternative to version-control your code
2023 · gut-cli.dev · its alternatives →
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Random Git – Refresh to discover another open source library or tool▲26
2014 · randomgit.org · its alternatives →
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DEV CLI▲132
Access dev.to right from your terminal
2019 · teamxenox.github.io · its alternatives →
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Sourcetree▲137
Simplicity and power in a beautiful Git GUI
2019 · sourcetreeapp.com · its alternatives →
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git0▲8
💻⚒️ CLI tool to search Git, download source & releases
2025 · git0.js.org · its alternatives →
17
github-pewpew▲174
Pew pew needless GitHub repos, clean up your repos via CLI
2022 · adrianmato.com · its alternatives →
18
Flipt v2▲178
Hey all, I'm the founder of Flipt, an open-source (https://github.com/flipt-io/flipt) feature flag tool that I (and others) have been working on for the past few years. About a year or two ago we added support for serving flag state from various non-relational declarative stores like Git, OCI, Object Store, etc. Many of our users came to love the git-backed storage, as it allows them to keep their feature flags close to their code in there organization's repos. But they had one (rather large) ask, and that was the ability to use the UI to manage flag state changes and…
Oct 2025 · flipt.io · its alternatives →
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Tempo▲118
Replace the Git CLI with a clear UI and AI assist
2024 · maoyama.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Statistical tool for analyzing a Git repository▲120
▁▅▆▃▅ Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository. - git-quick-stats/git-quick-stats
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
21
GitItBack▲117
See how your company stacks up against competitors on GitHub
2017 · netguru.com · its alternatives →
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Gita – a CLI tool to manage multiple Git repos▲79
Manage many git repos with sanity 从容管理多个git库. Contribute to nosarthur/gita development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Gitgpt – Natural Language Git▲108
Hey folks, Here's a quick and dirty tool to use natural language to get git to do what you want. Example: $gitgpt create a new branch called feature/test add all the files and commit with msg creating feature test then push to origin I haven't put it through the wringer yet, however it's worked well with some pretty straight forward day to day git usage.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ReGit – A Tiny Git-Compatible Git Implementation▲96
ReGit: A Tiny Git-Compatible Git Implementation. Contribute to WithGJR/regit-go development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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