# Page 9 | GitHub Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 9 - Is GitHub the right Application Development solution for you? Explore 6166 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/reviews --- GitHub 4.8 (6166) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated April 16th, 2026 # Page 9 - Reviews of GitHub ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 201-225 of 6166 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Waleed B. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "github's version control and user-friendly interface" October 1, 2023 5.0 easy to understand and has a really big communities with so many projects to look at and learn from the software may be to big and require a lot of time to learn but it's very important for the overall work of developers Pros \*teamwork and collaboration making coding experience much better and faster during development\*version control to minimize bugs and errors for users during updates that happens in production\*userfriendly interface and most importantly can integrate with other applications such as visual studio code, jira, jenkins making the CI,CD Process seamless and automated Cons \*learning github may require a lot of work and time\*sometimes some team members may work on the "main" repository making changes they are not suppossed to make of which it could cause severe issues for the organization "making a smart notification that notifies the developer that the code he is changing may cause severe outcomes is a good idea" Review Source Matías Sebastián O. CEO Design Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Using GitHub for Innovative Web Development" March 10, 2024 4.0 My overall experience with GitHub has been highly positive. It has become an essential tool for Prisma, allowing us to maintain high standards of code integrity and collaboration among our development team. Pros What I appreciate most about GitHub is its robust ecosystem for collaboration and version control. As the owner of Prisma, a web development agency, the platform's intuitive interface and extensive repository management capabilities have been instrumental in streamlining our workflows. The ability to review code, manage projects, and collaborate on software development projects in real-time has significantly enhanced our productivity and quality of output. GitHub's integration with various development tools and its strong community support are invaluable for staying at the forefront of web technology trends. Cons While GitHub offers an extensive range of features, its learning curve can be steep for newcomers, particularly for those not familiar with Git commands or version control concepts. This aspect can slow down the initial adoption and integration into a team's workflow. Additionally, for private repositories and advanced features, the cost can escalate quickly for smaller agencies or individual developers, making it less accessible for those with limited budgets. Review Source Przemek P. Lead, Infrastructure Specialsit Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My scripting corner" November 14, 2023 5.0 Working with GitHub is very pleasant at this stage. Developed projects are reported on an ongoing basis and developed in the right direction. GitHub currently provides very good AI tools for working on code for less experienced people, which is especially useful in my case. Pros I really like the opportunity to work on a project with the involvement of more people. This makes it very easy to communicate and exchange current experiences while creating code. Additionally, GitHub contains a huge amount of open-source code that can be used in commercial projects. I'm also very excited about AI innovations that make it possible to generate ready-made code. Cons When working with GitHub, I had negative experiences only when configuring and creating new dashboards. It was difficult for me to find the options and solutions I was looking for in the interface. I needed a lot of help to start working with GitHub on my own, but it was worth it. Review Source JB Joshua B. Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Github is the standard that all others measure against." April 8, 2024 5.0 Couldn't live without it. For personal projects I have tried some other version management tools, but I always come back to github. Pros Cost is low, for small projects it is free. You need version management, and this just works. If you want more you can go deeper into actions and CI. Cons Github actions can take a bit to get setup. If you are running CI and making lots of commits you might want to turn it off, or only turn it on for PRs. Review Source Nitin J. Technical Director Computer Games Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Github Best Tool For Source Control" March 15, 2024 5.0 Overall experience with Github is still amazing. We rarely face any challenge relate to there service. Never face down time. Pros User Friendly , Ease To Setup , Customer Support, Code Review System. Cons Pricing, Art Asset Management, Unity Engine Specific Support Alternatives considered [GitLab](https://www.capterra.com/p/159806/GitLab/)[Bitbucket](https://www.capterra.com/p/233341/Bitbucket/) Reason for choosing GitHub Rich Community Support , Very Good Code Review System Review Source NP Nimisha P. Frontend Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### " An Indispensable Oasis for Streamlined Development, Innovation, and Reliable Code Management." December 15, 2023 5.0 GitHub user-friendly interface and powerful features make code management efficient and reliable. It has made team collaboration more easier. Pros Collaboration that is easy, version control that is clear, and Continuous Integration that works without a hitch. The way GitHub is designed encourages new ideas and makes managing code easy and reliable. Cons Complex UI for complete beginners, occasional slow performance. Documentation updates could be more intuitive. Limited private repositories for free users. Review Source JR Justin R. Founder Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Github - The Go-To Source Control Management System For Serious Devs" April 23, 2024 5.0 Pros Github is the "glue" that holds my entire DevOops flow together. It's solid as a rock and offers endless integrations that make it possible to connect Github upstream and downstream in local and remote development flows. I can't recommend the platform highly enough. Cons Overall, I think highly of the platform. I was not wild about the Microsoft buy-out, but I have not identified any impact to the availability or functionality to the platform since the acquisition that would give me cause to criticize the new leadership team. Review Source Ara A. Software development team lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best VCS" May 30, 2023 5.0 GitHub's powerful version control system, built on Git, is one of its standout features. It allows developers to easily track changes, manage branches, and merge code with confidence. The ability to revert to previous versions or create separate branches for experimental work is invaluable, ensuring a safe and efficient development process. Will recommend it to all. Pros GitHub provides an exceptional environment for collaboration among developers. Its intuitive interface allows for seamless communication, issue tracking, and pull request management. With features like code reviews, team discussions, and project boards, it fosters a collaborative spirit and enables developers to work together effectively. Cons While GitHub is a powerful platform, it can be overwhelming for newcomers, especially those unfamiliar with version control systems. The concepts of branches, pull requests, and forking may require a learning curve, which might discourage some beginners. More comprehensive documentation and guided tutorials could help mitigate this issue. Review Source Wes P. Principal Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "GitHub is the Best Code Sharing Software Platform! Hands Down." April 1, 2024 5.0 GitHub is an indispensable platform, for which there is no substitute. Pros It's free and very easy to use; Plus it's supported practically everywhere. Cons None I've identified. Pleasantly surprised Microsoft didn't ruin it after acquiring it. Switched from [SVN MultiSite Plus](https://www.capterra.com/p/78748/SVN-MultiSite-Plus/) GitHub emerged as clearly the superior solution. Review Source JP James P. Student Computer Hardware Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Mastering Software Development: Navigating GitHub's Pros, Cons, and IDE Integration" March 26, 2024 5.0 Overall fantastic, but with a few recommendations for use: leverage GitHub with IDEs like VSCode for seamless integration. This simplifies access control issues through IDE management and streamlines the process of saving to local repo and pushing to central repo. Pros Industry-leading software product management. Excellent code repository system. Safe core development maintenance. Efficient distribution of work through forking. Easy merging of contributions. Robust version control with detailed history. Cons Specifically on command line, Challenges in setting up local repositories from the central repo. Issues with the access control system. Complications with key generation and management Review Source BN Braden N. Student Primary/Secondary Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "GitHub - A great tool for handling application development within a team project" May 18, 2024 5.0 I would highly recommend this tool for any teams that need to collaborate together to make code changes and review each others work. Pros I like that GitHub allows multiple people on a team to work collaboratively together when doing coding development. I enjoy the friendly user interface and it makes collaborative coding work organized. Cons At first it took a bit to get the hang of but once you get familiar with the process it’s a great tool. Review Source Tommy W. CTO, Senior System Designer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "GitHub is one of the tools you just need" March 19, 2024 5.0 Works great, high quality and never loose any work. Check in often in busy collaborative environments, otherwise use the merge tools, no biggie. Pros It works. Fast and on Mac OS, Windows and Linux. Integrated nicely into both Visual Studio Code (PC, Mac) and Visual Studio (PC). Code compare. Merge. No problems. Cons It starts to eat disk space and 50Gbyte gone the other day. Some more integrated cleaning would be great. Alternatives considered [Azure DevOps Server](https://www.capterra.com/p/177262/Team-Foundation-Server/) Reason for choosing GitHub Actually, we're using both and GitHub is kind of the basis for both. Review Source Rajat C. student Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Student on GitHub" October 18, 2023 4.0 Pros Firstly when i entered the website it was full of animations and it gave me goosebumps i was really appreceating the developers of the website that worked on making it look so cool.I later opened my own repo of a course i got enrolled in, it is easy with github to manage all my source code projects at one place . Cons For a new user like me sometimes it get difficult understand how it works. There are new terms which i was not familiar with in the ealier time period, but with time it got comfortable and now i have more things to do on GitHUb Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Junior nodejs developer Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Efficient Code Management Platform" March 25, 2024 4.0 Pros GitHub is an exceptional platform for code management, offering an intuitive interface and robust features. Its standout version control system, powered by Git, enables seamless collaboration and simplifies the development process. The issue tracking system fosters community engagement, while powerful code review tools streamline feedback and ensure code quality. With extensive integrations with popular development tools, GitHub enhances productivity and customization. Overall, GitHub is an indispensable tool for developers and teams, catering to projects of any scale. Cons To mush High price please make it free for college students at least 4 years Review Source AS Alejandra S. Student Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "GitHub is good!" April 18, 2023 5.0 It is excellent and it has an active community of users who rely on it for their development needs Pros I like GitHub because is a powerful and user-friendly platform that offers a wide range of features for developers to manage and collaborate on their code. Cons I think that the commands for control the versioning of code through its CLI with Git is a little bit complicated to use but with pratice you can put all under control. Review Source AD Ashutosh D. Full Stack Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best online hosting solution for your git repositories . " August 10, 2022 5.0 I am really happy that someone created this simple and powerful tool for everyone's use. Me and my organization use GitHub in a daily basis and we are really love GitHub. Pros First of all I love the fact how beginner friendly GitHub is. When I started using GitHub, I immediately got used to it. The commands are pretty simple and straightforward. You can easily create multiple repositories without paying a penny. Cons I don't really like complaining about a software that provides such great feature without any fee but there are some downsides as well, for example sometimes the pull requests fail if the user doesn't have a decent internet speed, the same goes for push. Review Source Dylan C. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Simply indispensable. Github is where developers live. " January 23, 2024 5.0 I couldn't live without Github. As a developer, I spend 50%+ of my day interacting with their tooling and it makes my day-to-day so much easier than any other tooling I've used. There is very little functionality locked behind a paywall, whether you're a small business or a solo developer, you get an awful lot of runway out of the free tier, you may even never have to enter the paid tier. Their ecosystem is vast, and they keep bringing out new tooling like Dependabot, Github Actions, Github CoPilot and more that just keep on making my life better. Pros Github makes it incredibly easy to perform all the daily tasks I need to do as a developer. The quality of life on Github vs any other version-control platform I've ever used is second to none. Cons I honestly can't think of anything, I use Github for every line of code I've ever written and interact with it daily and I can't think of a single gripe off the top of my head. If there's a con, it's so minor that I doesn't even register. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer AM Program Development Used the software for: 2+ years ### "La mia esperienza con GitHub" March 25, 2024 5.0 Io non cambierei assolutamente GitHub e non ne potrei fare a meno. Nessun competitore per me è ai suoi livelli per ora Pros GitHub ti permette di lavorare su un progetto personale o lavorativo con il proprio team in modo rapido ed efficiente. Ti permette di risalire a versioni precedenti in caso di cambio di prospettiva di sviluppo o di debugging. Permette la sicurezza sugli accessi, dando all'amministratore il potere di scegliere chi tra i partecipanti può visualizzare o modificare il codice, grazie anche alle richieste di push. Se si lavora in autonomia si può anche lasciare il progetto opensource e permettere ad altri utenti dio effettuare modifiche e consigliartele. Veramente un prodotto indispensabile Cons L'unico aspetto negativo è la potenza maggiore se usato da CLI che può essere un pò difficile da imparare per i nuovi utenti Reason for choosing GitHub Per la sua immensa comunity cresciuta in tantissimi anni Review Source Sai Meghana D. Application Development Analyst Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Collaborative Coding Made Simple by GitHub" April 6, 2024 4.0 Pros GitHub is its robust version control system, facilitating seamless collaboration among developers. Additionally, users value its extensive community support, integrated issue tracking, and versatile workflow management features, making it a go-to platform for software development projects of all scales. Cons Have complexity of its user interface for beginners, occasional performance issues during peak usage times, and the need for more streamlined project management tools within the platform. Additionally, there have been concerns raised about GitHub's pricing structure for organizations with larger teams or specific feature requirements. Review Source Ravikumar K. Head IT Facilities Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Github Review" November 22, 2022 5.0 Its a good solution for ur project management Pros Project tracking and dashboards on the progress are very important. Ofcours its very cost effective Cons I like the features that we are using and the least is its UI Reason for choosing GitHub It has all the features that are required for project management and its cost effective Review Source Miguel C. Desarrolador de Soluciones Program Development Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Control de Código Fuente sin igual." March 22, 2024 5.0 Github le ha permitido a mi empresa, administrar correctamente los aportes de código al software principal, y las implementaciones de nuevas características que hubieran sido muy complejas de implementar sin un software de control de versiones. Las funciones de revision y la de "unión de ramas" características de GitHub, son imprescindibles ahora para cualquier tipo de revisión e implementación Pros Si bien al principio es un poco difícil de entender la lógica del uso del programa, luego resulta imprescindible para organizar proyectos con grupos de trabajo o incluso proyectos previamente creados. Además, permite el uso de una consola, que los desarrolladores senior apreciamos bastante. Cons Es un poco difícil de entender al principio. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Infrastructure Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best source code management tool" November 2, 2022 4.0 GitHub makes my life easier, I can easily clone the repo, make the changes and commit the changes without any dependency of team members. Earlier I used to ping or tap my team members to submit their code but now there is no such hassle. Also GitHub provides CI features, using GitHub actions we can write workflows which can do continuous integrations for us, GitHub is a complete package which almost removes the dependency of third party services for CI/CD. You can create tonnes of private repositories free of cost and can do practice. GitHub provides one more feature that is secrets, if you don't want to expose your credentials in code then you can replace those credentials with github secrets in this way GitHub provides privacy and security of code. Push, pull ,fork, commit is pretty easy in GitHub. If you want to take review from your colleagues or leader then you just need to create pull request and put them as reviewer and ask them to review, approve and merge the pull request. GitHub is a remarkable code hosting application. Pros The best thing which I like is GitHub.io which allows users to deploy their application, also GitHub provides lot of documentation which helps alot to learn more about GitHub. It is distributed version control system one can easily host their ode on GitHub. In one sentence I can say GitHub provides all the essential features needed for code development. Cons GitHub is not as easy to learn, sometimes it's confusing for freshers, also the GitHub UI is not much used friendly and I can't see changes in its UI from past couple of years,that's the only thing which can be improved. Review Source Aneury P. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great tool platform that help people share Software and Project" March 10, 2022 4.0 Github is one of the good chose tool for sharing my software project in order to keep everything seclude and customizable from Git source control to Github page that allow you to share documentation for end users. I really like to use this software because I can save the product I'm building and at the same time I could create release package for end users and organization that need it, not only that I could automate almost if not all of the step of the lifecycle of software this without losing security concern because I know GitHub has good quality of the private and enterprise project configuration, this makes a good choose for me. in addition of that I could share Open Source project that let other people to get involve and share. Pros \- Share source code in different manner(public, Private). - create Pull Request, Issues. - Protect with Enterprise security. - Continuous Integration. - Continuous Delivery. Cons there are a some configuration that require certain knowledge level of expertise on third party protocols like SSH, Yaml. Alternatives considered [GitLab](https://www.capterra.com/p/159806/GitLab/) Reason for choosing GitHub Github offered me a great solution and integration API for my business and enterprise groups. Review Source sS saurav S. python django developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Can't Imagine Coding without Github" January 14, 2023 5.0 I have been using this tool since 2+ year and i like github. I haven't encountered any issue. it's great and must have tool for all developers and geeks. Pros firstly, this is free to use. yes, it have paid features, but you get a lot of premium things in free version too. I like how easy it becomes to collaborate with many developers at the same time to one codebase. also github provide feature to host your static website for free which is also great. there are other lot of features which makes it nice. Cons so far, i didn't find any negative thing about gitHub. I have been using this since 2+ year & it have been a great experience. Review Source EW Edmund W. Paralegal Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Buy this fantastic product!" June 14, 2022 5.0 Solved the confusion in the office and allows for instant feedback with colleagues. Pros GitHub makes life easy for me and helps to minimize the stress in my ife. It helps me to add thoughts to open source projects. I love how documentation becomes easier due to this fantastic software. In a law firm, I work with lots of documentation. GitHub makes things easy for me because I can file and maintain order easier with the software. With the software, I am able to show my work to my coworkers and my supervisor who is an attorney. Getting instant feedback. Cons The only think that concerns me is the security. All with a login are able to view things. It's best to possible just place high valued intellectual property in another private restricted database. 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