Fork alternatives for Mac
Fork — GIT client — is installed 828 times a month through Homebrew. These are hand-picked alternatives that occupy the same slot, ordered by how comparable their user base is.
Run
brew install --cask fork to install Fork itself.- Tower8.0× smaller user base
- Atlassian SourceTree1,048 installs/mo
- Insomnia813 installs/mo
- DBeaver Community Edition11.9× the installs
- httpie10.2× the installs
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code44.1× the installs
- Postman11.0× the installs
- Zed10.7× the installs
Full comparison
| Fork | Tower | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | GUI app | GUI app |
| Category | Developer Tools | Productivity |
| Open source | Not declared | Not declared |
| Licence | Not declared | Not declared |
| Apple silicon | Universal | Universal |
| Latest version | 2.70.2 | 18.0,564,dc219b7f |
| Dependencies | 0 | 0 |
| Installs (30 days) | 828 | 104 |
| Install command | brew install --cask fork | brew install --cask tower |
How we picked these
The list comes from a hand-maintained set of same-purpose apps, not from keyword matching. Alternatives are removed automatically when Homebrew no longer carries them. Ordering reflects 30-day install volume, not paid placement. Data updated 2026-10-26.