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GitHub Desktop vs Desktop Plus: catalog facts
GitHub Desktop	Desktop Plus
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence. A GitHub account is only needed for…	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows, macOS	Windows, macOS, Linux
The common Git workflow without any command line Signs into GitHub and opens pull requests from the app	Commit search and commit graph in the History tab Multiple accounts across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Codeberg and Gitea
No official Linux build; only a community fork Hides the advanced operations rather than exposing them	Depends on keeping pace with upstream GitHub Desktop Simpler than full-featured clients for complex history rewriting
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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