Best alternatives to GitUI in 2026

Raw git commands are precise but slow to use for everyday tasks like staging individual hunks, browsing commit history, or managing stashes — you end up memorizing flags or switching to a separate GUI app that breaks your terminal workflow. GitUI is built to close that gap: a terminal application that gives you GUI-like visual git operations (staging, stashing, branching, log browsing) while staying fully keyboard-driven and fast, powered by asynchronous Git operations that stay responsive even on large repositories. GitUI supports staging, unstaging and reverting individual files or hunks, commit inspection and amendments, full stash management (save, pop, apply, drop, inspect), push/fetch, branch management, searchable commit log browsing, submodule support and GPG commit signing, all controlled entirely by keyboard with context-sensitive help. It's written in Rust for speed, MIT-licensed, and has 22.4k GitHub stars with very active development (2,630+ commits), though it's still officially in beta and doesn't support Git LFS or sparse checkouts.