GitHub Reviews

by Teknowhore

I truly want to like GitHub but the bugs that have been around since I first used it are driving me crazy. Every time I add a new favorite it’ll disappear from my list a few minutes later, sometimes right before my eyes it’ll remove itself from my list. On top of that, the search functionality is atrocious, and way too limited. We can’t even search our own repos! The search functionality we do have for the rest of the site leaves a lot to be desired and doesn’t even return the same results as the website. We should be able to search our starred repos, our own repos as well as choose how our own repos are filtered, this is bottom of the barrell functionality that should be a no brainer. If its possible on the website, it should be possible in the application. Im honestly shocked at how little functionality GitHub offers as the official this app client.

lastly, iOS 14 required now? you cant be serious. time to write a good this app client on my own I guess, supporting iOS 13 isnt difficult and theres absolutely nothing earth shattering offered in the 14 SDK that this app needs to function. id be embarassed if i wrote an app this shoddy for such a high profile company.

by QThomas33

I would like to know how I can correct the illegal actions that others have done to me and my family members. I have Been working for over a year now. Since I am not a coder or programmer it has been very challenging, to Say the least. The people who have been doing this to my family members do not and have not had the best interests to use your platform in a way that is for the greater good of humanity. I would appreciate if u could assist me with my account information, correcting every account that is not correct. Over a year of work is long enough, I know the details I would appreciate for you to send out a few updates to help me out ASAP thanks for the information

by Completely Original Nickname 249673

Multiple tabs, bookmarking, sharing links, Handoff between devices, a history of everything you’ve looked at… these all features you get for free by using this app in a web browser, but things you aren’t allowed to do in GitHub.

Even worse, GitHub eats all this app links so you can’t even view a this app page in a browser if you want to.

I would rather have the web version of this app be more responsive and full featured at any screen size than have limiting platform-specific apps. This isn’t 2009 when the iPhone first came out, you can’t get away with having a limited “mobile” version of your website and a basic app with a limited subset of functionality anymore.

by Rcuza

This is definitely useful, but I would not use the mobile app to do PR reviews regularly. Too easy to miss critical context or information on the small screen. Also too much is presented at once.

GitHub could be improved by better managing the intention of the person using it. Deliberately switching modes of inquiry and having the UI adjust is probably better than being able to do anything at anytime. MS Word does this with their toolbars and that’s okey for a word processor. It is burdensome in a mobile app where thoughtful review and clear communication is the end goal.

by AmyR1101

GitHub is so glitchy. There are, of course, certain things that you can’t do or access on GitHub , but that’s to be expected, it’s not supposed to act as a literal fully functional desktop app (that being said, being able to see insights would be a very useful feature). But. OMG. The bugs. GitHub will suddenly quit constantly for the simplest things like viewing a repo or seeing an organization, it’s become such a pain that I barely open GitHub nowadays because I know it’ll take so long with all the quitting that it’ll be faster to just open up my computer and see what I’m looking for. Overall, GitHub has a lot of potential. Until these bugs get fixed, though, I wouldn’t recommend using it.

by GroovinChip

I really like what this app has done with their mobile app, but it is missing one very crucial feature in my opinion: an activity feed. You can follow users, repos, issues, etc on this app, and on the website you can see the activity feed of what you follow, but this is completely missing from the mobile app. I believe this feature is very important and should be added to GitHub.

by Adora16

I love being able to keep up with all my issues through my phone. The user interface is clean and it’s easy to search for repositories. However, there is a feature I would like implemented. I would like the ability to view releases in GitHub . It’s annoying when I go to a notification for a release and tap on it, only for it to send me to the website. And, if I click a link to the releases of a repository in my web browser, it opens the repository in GitHub but doesn’t show me the releases. Overall, great app, and if that one feature was added, I would be glad to give this review five stars.

by Mikha'el28

this app web has made an incredibly amount of improvements since being acquired by Microsoft, such as the AMAZING and innovative web editor they launched a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, the iOS team has not kept pace. That being said, the web experience is good for reading through Issues, reviewing some PR’s, but ultimately the web experience is better in many ways on my iPad (especially with the web editor). On a phone, can’t beat it - 5 stars (by default) but 3 stars on iPad. So I will round it out to 4 stars, but quite disappointed in the iPad app.

by Ballmatic

I have one for personal (which is a pro account) and one for work. My employer does not want me using a personal account and I completely agree. Both are this app accounts so I cannot be logged into both at once. Would be much better if I could since I’m doing one thing during the day and another at night.

by N'googy

Update: This seems to be more of an issue with Safari. I tried so many things to get this working I’m not sure why it finally worked, but the last thing I did was completely close ALL apps (including Settings), disable Safari cookies, close Settings, reopen Settings and enable cookies. I had tried so many versions of this and more trying to sign in it’s anyone’s guess as to why it worked this time.

“Cookies must be enabled to use this app.” Safari cookies are enabled and I can’t sign in, just keep hitting the cookies message. Logging in directly with Safari works. There are several other reviews stating the same.

by Dr. Houstom

I’m a non-technical founder who was thrusted into a product management role unexpectedly.
I was more than pleasantly surprised, I was blown away at the amazing user interface and the ease of use, especially for someone like me who is not familiar with this technology, I also really love the mobile app as I was able to test and put issues in on the go, very impressive, I appreciate what you guys have done.

by Lpr03

GitHub works great for the most part! Although currently I am trying to view a particular file in a PR with 30 files that have been changed, but I cannot view anything beyond the first 20 that are listed. Scrolling to the bottom does not load more files and I cannot find a way to search for the file name of interest directly.

by Mobilemind

this app for iOS works great for me to view my repos, manage issues, manage pull requests & merges.

I’ve been using git for a long time, and GitHub since it was released. For about 2 weeks I had an issue being able to view some of my repos. The this app team came through with ~3 releases with improvements and new features during that period, AND fixed the issue viewing some repos. Fantastic!

by Zelphar YT

Overall, GitHub is great. It allows for easy parsing of this app repos and creating issues. The only idea for GitHub is a search filter. Already, you can search public repositories, but you are unable to filter your results farther than repos vs profiles vs companies, such as being able to limit your results to just repositories that are made with JavaScript.

by A_Gwin21

I have enjoyed every much being able to go to this app and get help with updates on my phone and the people who work there are kind and respectful i Apologize but I don’t enjoy my APIS at google but the service a quality is worth every thing I wish I would have known about them before I did my developer and beta certification program
I would like them to know how grateful I am to have them and the help that they have given me and

by JosephTLyons

Most of what I wanted, but was missing, has been added! Ability to view commits and change branches were my most required items and they are now here! Thank you so much! The only thing I personally would love to see in GitHub is the ability to edit files / commit. At that point, I could delete all my other this app client apps and never need anything else again.

I’m going to go ahead and 5 star this for all the excellent work! Thank you!

by Outoffase

The bug was promptly fixed. Thanks for tracking these reviews likes hawk, y’all are doing great with GitHub and it runs way faster than the webapp!

Updated from 2 to 5 stars.

Old review: When I start to type using the on-screen keyboard in a comment, if I type quickly, the panel dismisses and I have to reopen it to type. This is the most aggravating bug in the history of bugs. I will happily change my rating once this is fixed.

by Mm279

I love how quickly GitHub loads and how easy it is to look at issues, PRs, etc. It’s also a very lightweight app in terms of memory. It doesn’t try to do anything that would be too complicated on mobile either which is nice.

One constructive criticism: I don’t know if I just missed this feature, but I would LOVE to get push notifications about updates to repos I’m watching. I haven’t been able to find this feature anywhere on this app, and it’s definitely a must for GitHub.

by Penguin Heroics

I am a novice developer and a recent CS college grad. This feels like such a natural transition for this app as a whole. I don’t know if anything will ever beat the desktop/laptop experience, but using this on my iPhone X has been a pleasant experience. GitHub does not advertise or make any false promises. It does exactly what it says it wants to do (it would be pretty horrendous if it didn’t given the developer). Being able to keep up with notifications is what mobile is all about. I can only imagine how much better this is on an iPad, especially an iPad Pro.

by Doctordeek

Well this app promises to be better than most.

I had to clean up my emails so today I just deleted them all from my past go to account ...all 967 thousand of them.

Many were from an app called Google plus...oh 5 or 6 years ago. We loved that app...we were young , restless. On Google plus us wanna be acclaimed scientists would theorize on the basis of gravity , the universality of relativity and what not.

Instead today I mostly anticipate the final burn, seeking some satisfaction along the way. I’ve been immersed into this world of hackers , cyber crimes , network insecurity , constant uncertainty and you know what....

I’m starting to enjoy it. My antagonists know one hellava lot about networks and I’m determined to..... oh I really don’t know what I’m determined to do but I kinda enjoy sparring with these unseen contestants.

We will see ...

I’m now determined to share what I’ve learned and I thing this app is where I’ll do it.

I just am completely lost in finding a way to start ...
But I will ....SOON

by JonPaul2

I’ve enjoyed the beta, is no commit history a feature or a flaw? Also, this is the mostly pointless for us that need the full capacity and capability of the cli. Thanks Microsoft & GH for the efforts, but this is completely missing the mark. Working copy is an example to follow.

by Jahumabit

GitHub overall is nice. Not having projects, though, is a deal breaker. The mobile web UI does a decent job handling it so I’ll continue using it until GitHub has project support.

by Flojoto

A good start. The mentioning experience needs some improvement. And what I really need is support for this app projects. We use this app for our whole sprint management and the lack of a mobile support for projects is one of my main grievances.

by Sinist3r2

Finally I can respond to requests and search repositories on the go. There are a lot of this app iOS apps out there. Although this one seems promising. I am still checking out the features but, this seems to do well.

by Jwu

Been waiting years for the convenience of a this app native mobile app, way more secure then using a third party app. Excited to m use this more often to track updates.

by ErikGall

All users have been waiting for this for a while. You guys blew all expectations out of the water. Congrats to the GH mobile team for all of their hard work finally paying off!!

by TrevorFFFFF

Being able to get push notifications on pull request updates has already been huge for my productivity. Really solid app and would absolutely recommend to any developers who heavily use this app already!

by Robster9790

Does everything I would expect on a mobile interface and it all feels buttery smooth. Thanks for the much desired app!

by JakeValenzuela

I really like GitHub so far!

My only recommendation would be to allow for repo deletion/transfer/etc. on GitHub . Currently, we aren't really able to manage the repo at all.

by Calvinbrodice

Just noticed this was available and after a quick tour, it is quite good and has a nice clean interface.

by Explosivecows

After months of waiting, it’s finally out. And it works great. Wouldn’t expect anything less from the this app team.

by PythonMan_lacu

Better than expected but takes too long to sign in

by La'tarian Milton

Browsing this app on a mobile phone used to be a pain, now it’s a lot easier.

by Aj2301

Sweet baby Jesus GitHub is nice. Responsive, logical layout, and pretty decent features for a first version.

Hey Microsoft! I’d love to see a built-in editor (VS Code-like) in future versions! Keep up the good work!

by Vluedevil

I’ve been waiting for this moment for a while and I’m excited for what’s to come. GitHub is a great way to view repos quickly. Very excited to upcoming features.