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  5. BrowserSync vs GitKraken

BrowserSync vs GitKraken

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Overview

BrowserSync
BrowserSync
Stacks127
Followers140
Votes0
GitHub Stars12.3K
Forks754
GitKraken
GitKraken
Stacks725
Followers909
Votes290

BrowserSync vs GitKraken: What are the differences?

What is BrowserSync? Reload all your browsers, every time you hit save. BrowserSync makes your tweaking and testing faster by synchronising file changes and interactions across multiple devices. It’s wicked-fast and totally free.

What is GitKraken? Git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux built on Electron. The downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Cross-platform, 100% standalone, and free.

BrowserSync can be classified as a tool in the "Live Reloading" category, while GitKraken is grouped under "Source Code Management Desktop Apps".

BrowserSync is an open source tool with 10.7K GitHub stars and 689 GitHub forks. Here's a link to BrowserSync's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, GitKraken has a broader approval, being mentioned in 43 company stacks & 38 developers stacks; compared to BrowserSync, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

BrowserSync
BrowserSync
GitKraken
GitKraken

BrowserSync makes your tweaking and testing faster by synchronising file changes and interactions across multiple devices. It’s wicked-fast and totally free.

The downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Cross-platform, 100% standalone, and free.

Interaction sync;File sync;URL history;Remote inspector;UI or CLI control;Build-tool compatible;URL tunneling;Free to run and reuse
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Statistics
GitHub Stars
12.3K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
754
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
127
Stacks
725
Followers
140
Followers
909
Votes
0
Votes
290
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet
Pros
  • 60
    Dark theme
  • 34
    Best linux git client
  • 29
    Great overview
  • 21
    Gitflow support
  • 21
    Full featured client
Cons
  • 4
    Extremely slow when working with large repositories
  • 4
    Hangs occasionally (not as bad as sourcetree)
  • 4
    No edit/fixup in interactive rebase
  • 3
    Do not allow to directly edit staging area
  • 3
    Not as many features as sourcetree
Integrations
Grunt
Grunt
gulp
gulp
Git
Git

What are some alternatives to BrowserSync, GitKraken?

SourceTree

SourceTree

Use the full capability of Git and Mercurial in the SourceTree desktop app. Manage all your repositories, hosted or local, through SourceTree's simple interface.

Fork

Fork

Manage your repositories without leaving the application. Organize the repositores into categories. Fork's Diff Viewer provides a clear view to spot the changes in your source code quickly.

Tower

Tower

Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive.

Sublime Merge

Sublime Merge

A snappy UI, three-way merge tool, side-by-side diffs, syntax highlighting, and more. Evaluate for free – no account, tracking, or time limits.

GitUp

GitUp

GitUp lets you see your entire labyrinth of branches and merges with perfect clarity. Any change you make, large or small, even outside GitUp, is immediately reflected in GitUp's graph. No refreshing, no waiting.

CodeKit

CodeKit

Process Less, Sass, Stylus, Jade, Haml, Slim, CoffeeScript, Javascript, and Compass files automatically each time you save. Easily set options for each language.

Prepros

Prepros

It is an interface tool which handles pre-processing, and other front-end tasks. Its greatest strength is the incredible ease with which it allows you to use pre-processors of various kinds, be they for CSS, HTML or JavaScript.

LiveReload

LiveReload

LiveReload monitors changes in the file system. As soon as you save a file, it is preprocessed as needed, and the browser is refreshed.

SmartGit

SmartGit

SmartGit is a powerful Git GUI client with support for GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab and Azure DevOps. SmartGit runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

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