Fork vs Sublime Merge
Both are bought outright, both sit in dev tools, and both are bought by people leaving Tower, GitKraken Pro. Here is what actually differs — including what each price does not buy.
The short answer
- Fork costs $59.99 against $99 — 39% less.
- Fork has the cleaner licence: buy once, own forever, against own this version forever for Sublime Merge.
Side by side
 Fork$59.99Perpetual |  Sublime Merge$99This version | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | fast native git client, one key for three machines | git client that shows you the command it just ran |
| Price | $59.99 | $99 |
| Licence | Buy once, own forever | Own this version forever |
| What you get | One payment. Updates included, indefinitely. | One payment buys this major version outright. The next major version is a separate purchase, if you want it. |
| The catch | Nothing on the site promises free major upgrades, so a paid version 3 is possible | Updates stop after three years; your version keeps working but newer builds need a paid upgrade |
| Macs per licence | 3 | not established |
| Account required | no | no |
| Works offline | yes | yes |
| Apple Silicon | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| On Setapp | No | No |
| Minimum macOS | not established | not established |
| App Store rating | not established | not established |
| Last updated | not established | not established |
| Price checked | 2026-09-22 | 2026-09-22 |
Apple’s public API reports a rating for only a small minority of Mac apps, and returns zero for most of the rest even when the store page plainly shows reviews. A blank here means we could not read a number, never that an app is unrated or disliked.
In their own right
Fork
A native git GUI for macOS and Windows with a readable commit graph, interactive rebase and a merge conflict resolver. One $59.99 licence key covers one person on up to three machines on either platform.
Sublime Merge
A git GUI from the Sublime Text team that treats git as git: every action displays the command behind it, staging works line by line, and the diff view runs on the same engine as Sublime Text.