Tower

Tower is a Git client for Mac and Windows that gives developers and designers a visual desktop interface for version control. Over 100,000 developers and designers use Tower to be more productive with Git, and the product's stated aim is to make Git easy without giving up any of its power. Instead of typing commands, users drag and drop branches to merge them, undo their last action with a single keyboard shortcut, generate commit messages with AI, and create and review pull requests from inside the app. Tower 18 for Mac adds a terminal-focused improvement: the Tower Command Line Tool can now take you straight to any view in Tower — History, Blame, the Working Copy, Branches Review, and more — with a single command. The problem Tower addresses is not a lack of Git capability but the friction of reaching it. Git is an extremely powerful version control system, yet its command-line workflow can make everyday operations slower than they should be and advanced operations easier to get wrong. Tower's own users describe the trade-off it resolves. Chris Coyier, Co-Founder at CodePen, calls Tower "the perfect level of abstraction away from command-line Git usage — a simple and powerful UI, but without hiding what makes Git powerful." Frances Coronel, Software Engineering Mentor at Thinkful, says that "what took me minutes in the command line now takes seconds with Tower and that's why I'm never looking back." Tower's answer is a visual client that keeps the underlying Git model intact, so users gain speed and clarity without losing access to the operations that make Git valuable. The first pillar of the product, presented as "Git Made Easy," covers the daily operations that most often interrupt a developer's flow. Drag and Drop lets you merge a branch by dragging it onto another branch, replacing a command sequence with a direct visual action. Undo Everything (⌘+Z) reverses your last action with a single keyboard shortcut, which lowers the cost of experimentation because a mistaken operation can be rolled back instead of reconstructed by hand. Stacked Branches support displays a stack of dependent branches side by side, so you can see how the branches in a stack relate to one another. AI Commits generates a commit message from the staged changes, removing the step of writing one manually. Automatic Branch Management handles branch-related housekeeping so that attention stays on the work rather than on branch administration. The second pillar is "All of Git's Power (And None of the Pain)," which makes sure the convenience of a GUI does not come at the cost of Git's advanced capabilities. Pull Requests can be created and reviewed without leaving Tower, keeping the review step inside the same tool where the changes were made. Single-line staging lets you stage individual lines of a changed file, so a commit can contain exactly the change you intend rather than everything in the file. Interactive Rebase lets you reorder and squash commits. The Conflict Wizard walks through resolving a merge conflict step by step. Tower also supports Submodules, Git LFS, Git-Flow, File History, Blame, and Cherry-Pick — the operations that most often send users back to the terminal when a GUI falls short. The third pillar, "Software With Productivity in Mind," is about removing repeated navigation and setup work. Quick Actions lets you search for a Git command, and Single-click cloning clones a remote repository in one click. Quick Open jumps straight to a repository, which matters once you work across many projects. Worktrees lets you manage several Git worktrees of a single repository, and Workflows lets you configure a branching workflow so that the team's conventions are defined once in the app. Automatic stashing & fetching handles stashing and fetching without requiring a separate manual step each time. Tower's overall approach is to sit on top of Git as a desktop client for Mac and Windows while explicitly refusing to hide what makes Git powerful. Rather than replacing the command line, Tower connects to it: in Tower 18 for Mac, the Tower Command Line Tool can take you straight to any view in Tower — History, Blame, the Working Copy, Branches Review, and more — with a single command. That means a user working in the terminal can jump directly into the corresponding visual view instead of navigating the app manually. The same philosophy shows up in the way Tower handles advanced Git concepts such as Stacked Branches, Worktrees, and configurable Workflows, presenting each as a visible, manageable structure inside one application. The stated outcome for users is speed and confidence with version control. Frances Coronel's testimonial frames the benefit directly: what took minutes in the command line now takes seconds. Chris Coyier's testimonial frames the benefit in terms of balance — a simple and powerful UI that does not hide what makes Git powerful. Esteban Torres, Engineer at SoundCloud, highlights that "the new Tower adds a lot of great features that help me go on with my day faster; like the ability to create pull-requests directly from the tool." Daniel Schutzsmith of Amnesty International describes the broader effect: "You should use Tower. It changed the game for me and made Git much more visual for me to understand." Across these accounts, the recurring outcomes are less time spent on routine Git operations, fewer trips outside the app, and a more visual understanding of what is happening in a repository. Concrete workflows follow from those capabilities. A developer merging a feature branch drags it onto the target branch instead of running a sequence of commands, then uses ⌘+Z if the result is not what was intended. Someone preparing a commit stages individual lines of a changed file so the commit contains only the relevant change, then lets AI Commits draft the message from the staged changes. When a merge produces a conflict, the Conflict Wizard guides the resolution step by step instead of leaving the user to edit conflict markers unaided. A developer who wants to clean up history reorders and squashes commits through Interactive Rebase, and a reviewer creates and reviews a pull request without leaving Tower. Someone working across several branches of one repository manages them as Worktrees, and a user in the terminal jumps straight to History, Blame, the Working Copy, or Branches Review with a single command. Tower is also used for both design and code work: Jesse Bilsten, Principal Designer at GoDaddy, says "I utilize Git in both design and development environments — and Tower is the only tool that empowers me in both," and Koen Bok, CEO at Framer, notes that "Tower is a pleasure to use while it retains the full power of Git. I enjoy using it every day for both design and code work." Tower is built for developers and designers — a population the product describes as over 100,000 users worldwide — who want a visual Git client without losing Git's underlying power. It is available for macOS and Windows, with separate Windows downloads for x64 and ARM. Pricing is trial-based: users can download a free trial and try Tower "Pro" for 30 days without limitations. Tower also publishes free email courses, "Learn Git with Tower" (8 emails) and "Tips & Tricks for Tower" (10 emails), alongside a blog covering releases such as Tower 18 for Mac and Tower 14 for Windows. In summary, Tower's value proposition is a Git client for Mac and Windows that makes version control easier and faster to operate without simplifying away what makes Git powerful. It combines drag-and-drop and undo for everyday actions, AI-generated commit messages, full access to advanced Git operations such as interactive rebase, submodules, Git LFS, Git-Flow, file history, blame, and cherry-pick, productivity features like quick actions, worktrees, and workflows, and — in Tower 18 for Mac — a command line tool that takes you straight to any view in Tower with a single command.