Lazygit is a free, open-source terminal UI for Git built in Go that turns interactive rebases, hunk staging, cherry-picks and worktree juggling into a one-keystroke affair. With 77,000+ GitHub stars, it has quietly become the favourite Git workflow of CLI-loving developers.
Lazygit is a free, open-source terminal UI for Git, written in Go, that wraps the most painful day-to-day Git workflows — interactive rebases, hunk staging, cherry-picks, bisects, worktrees — behind a keyboard-driven, multi-pane TUI. We rate it 92/100 — for any developer who already lives in a terminal, it is the single biggest quality-of-life upgrade you can make to your Git workflow this year, and it costs nothing.
Lazygit was created by Australian developer Jesse Duffield and first released on . It is licensed under MIT, written entirely in Go on top of the gocui terminal library, and runs as a single self-contained binary on macOS, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Termux/Android. The most recent stable release as of is v0.61.1, shipped on , which polished the new GitHub pull-requests integration introduced in v0.61.
It targets a very specific person: the developer who is fluent enough in Git to know the commands but tired of typing git rebase -i HEAD~10, opening a TODO file in their editor, swapping commit lines, exiting, resolving, and continuing — every single time. As of this review the project has crossed 77,000 GitHub stars, 2,788 forks and is on v0.61.1; notable sponsors include Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke and Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson.
space on a line, v to start a range, or a for a whole hunk. No more editing arcane patch files by hand to split commits.i to start, then squash (s), fixup (f), drop (d), edit (e), or move commits up and down with ctrl+k/ctrl+j — no editor TODO file required.shift+c/shift+v), bisect (b) and amending an arbitrary historical commit (shift+a).w — finally a UI for the most underused Git feature.z to undo your last action and shift+z to redo. It silently uses the reflog so you can roll back a botched rebase or a stray drop without panicking.shift+G.
Sentiment in 2026 is overwhelmingly positive. The Hacker News thread "Lazygit Turns 5" remains one of the most enthusiastic developer-tool threads of the past few years, with hundreds of commenters describing it as their permanent replacement for the raw git CLI. Bartek Plotka's recent deep dive on bwplotka.dev calls out the tool's command log — which shows the actual git commands being executed under the hood — as the reason it has become his "main git tool after a short try". Dev.to writers consistently report being measurably faster within a week despite years of CLI fluency.
The most common complaints are honest and worth knowing: the keyboard-shortcut surface area is large (the cheat sheet runs to dozens of bindings) and there is real cognitive overhead in the first hour. On the tig vs. lazygit vs. gitui Hacker News thread, several long-time tig users argue Lazygit can feel "busy" with five panels visible at once, and prefer the simpler, more focused tig for browsing history. A small but vocal minority on GitHub Discussions also note that very large monorepos (50k+ files) can make the file panel feel sluggish on cold open.
Lazygit is fully free and open-source under the MIT license. There is no paid tier, no "pro" version, no telemetry and no required account. The project is funded entirely through GitHub Sponsors; if you use it daily, sponsoring Jesse is the closest thing to a price.
| Plan | Price | Key Limits |
|---|---|---|
| MIT Open Source | $0 forever | Every feature, every platform, no usage limits, no telemetry, no account required. |
| Optional GitHub Sponsorship | From $5/month | Funds maintenance and gets your avatar on the README — no extra features unlocked. |
Best for: Terminal-first developers who use Git daily, anyone who regularly does interactive rebases or splits commits by hunk, Vim/Neovim users who want a Git UI that respects modal keyboard navigation, and DevOps engineers SSHed into remote machines where a GUI is not an option.
Not ideal for: Developers who already do all their Git inside a heavyweight IDE like JetBrains or Visual Studio and are happy there, beginners who have not yet learned what an interactive rebase is (Lazygit assumes you know the underlying Git concepts), and people who want a polished mouse-driven GUI on the level of Fork, Tower or GitKraken.
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? open as a cheat sheet for the first week.The most common alternatives are tig (older, simpler, history-browser focused — great for code archaeology, weaker for editing), GitUI (Rust-based, even faster on huge repos, smaller community) and full GUIs like Fork, Tower and GitKraken (mouse-first, paid, much heavier). For raw editing power inside a terminal, Lazygit is the modern default.
For any terminal-comfortable developer, Lazygit is one of the highest-leverage free tools you can install today. The 92/100 rating reflects an exceptionally polished, actively maintained, completely free product that meaningfully changes how you interact with the most-used tool in software engineering — held back from a perfect score only by its keybinding learning curve and busy default layout. If you have ever sworn at git rebase -i, install it tonight; if you live in JetBrains and never leave its Git panel, you can safely skip it.
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