GitHub Desktop

I use GitHub Desktop alongside the terminal — it's not a replacement, but it earns its place for anything visual: reviewing diffs, staging partial changes, and navigating between branches when I have a few things in flight. The diff view is genuinely better than most terminal setups for spotting what changed at a glance.

I've tried other GUI clients over the years and kept coming back to this one. It's focused, doesn't try to be a full IDE, and the GitHub integration means things like PR creation and branch tracking just work without extra configuration.