Porcelain Git vs Grit for GitLab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Porcelain Git
A fast, native Git client for iPhone and iPad. It offers a full Git engine, file management, commit history, and branch control. Securely clone and manage repositories directly on your device.
- Full Git engine powered by libgit2
- Clone repositories via HTTPS
- Create and edit files
- Unified diff viewer
- Commit history graph
- Branch management
- Fetch, pull, and push
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Porcelain is a clean, native, and fast Git client designed for iPhone and iPad. KEY FEATURES: • Full Git engine powered by libgit2 • Clone repositories over HTTPS, signing in with a personal access token • Anonymous clone for open-source repositories • Preview the web page in your repository: one tap opens index.html with its styles, scripts, and links working • Open that preview in a browser on your Mac or any device on the same Wi-Fi • Create and edit files, and rename files and folders • Stage and unstage individual files • Unified diff viewer with hunk headers and color-coded changes • Commit history graph • Branch management: create, list, and switch branches • Fetch, pull, and push with safe divergence handling • Secure credentials stored exclusively in your device's Keychain • Direct access to repository files via the iOS Files app • Built for iPhone and iPad, with split view on iPad
Grit for GitLab
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Grit for Gitlab is a native client for accessing GitLab on the go. Browse GitLab source repositories anytime, anywhere as long as you've got an internet connection. Grit visualizes your source code repositories, MRs, build pipelines, and review discussions in a beautiful UI that adapts with accessibility features in the app settings and the modern Liquid Glass interface(s). Grit is entirely open-sourced, available freely for auditing, forking, or contributing to help make the GitLab community better together! Grit was built with love to help bring the power of GitLab making GitLab more accessible to everyone. That being said, Grit for GitLab contains a number of useful features and functions to help you be productive on the go. From within this app, you have the functionality to: - Browse Public GitLab repositories - Browse your personal GitLab repositories - Merge open merge requests - Comment on Issues and open merge requests - Create new Issues - Mark issues as complete - View build pipelines (latest and historic) for repos that you have access to - View user profiles and contributor profiles for repositories - Follow other users, and view ongoing activity within Gitlab and projects you care about Grit for Gitlab is entirely and 100% free to use was you'd like. There is a tip jar, but please do not feel pressured, unless you want to contribute to development in that way. In any case, thank you for your support and I sincerely hope this app will be helpful to you and your everyday projects. Finally, Grit has been built with Apple's latest Foundation models included. This feature is entirely optional, disabled by default. When enabled, however, will provide you with an easily summonable assistant to help with summarising repositories, ask questions about source code, and summarise MRs that maybe are a bit challenging to understand. Note that this feature in particular is still a little experimental, and continual improvement to the hooks for the foundation models to work are still being worked on!
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Verdict
Porcelain Git and Grit for GitLab are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Porcelain Git | Grit for GitLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 96.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Seokhyeon Nam | Nathaniel Bunch |
In-app purchases
Porcelain Git
No in-app purchases
Grit for GitLab
No in-app purchases









