GitButler: What It Is, Review and Alternatives [2026]

You're in the middle of a feature, your team lead asks for an urgent production hotfix, and your working tree is a graveyard of half-finished changes. Classic Git: you stash, switch branches, stash again, and pray to remember which stash was which. That's exactly the problem GitButler was born to kill — and after using it, off and on, since 2025, I think it solves it most of the time.