SourceForge vs. Sourcetree

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SourceForge
Score 8.1 out of 10
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SourceForge is a software discovery platform featuring over 4000 thousand software categories and over 600,000 software listings. Businesses and individuals looking to buy or download software can visit SourceForge to compare software, read reviews, and learn about the software choices available to them. Developers use SourceForge to upload code and software to SourceForge’s open source directory. With verified user reviews, SourceForge is used by software companies and software developers to…N/A
Sourcetree
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Sourcetree, by Atlassian, is a free version control client for Mac and Windows that works with Git and Mercurial repositories. It's distributed version control allows developers to visualize code, review changesets, stash, cherry-pick between branches or commit with a single click.
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per month
Pricing
SourceForgeSourcetree
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SourceForgeSourcetree
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
SourceForgeSourcetree
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(26 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SourceForgeSourcetree
Likelihood to Recommend
SourceForge (Slashdot Media)
I recommend SourceForge to anyone or business that needs both commercial and open source software. This platform has a wide variety of software with many categories that allow easy search for any project, in addition to the fact that searches can be done separately (commercial and open source software) so as not to have mixed results which go with different purpose. In addition to the fact that the community of this platform is quite active and that there are always times to discover new projects that can be useful for a company or individual person.
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Atlassian
Sourcetree is a great tool for any Git user. Whether you're well versed using Git commands in the terminal or a newbie, this tool wonderfully supplements your workflow. A quick glance at the UI and you know where your project stands. I find it most helpful when I need to determine what changed in a particular file in past commits. Having a visual graph of branches helps me to understand the big picture. Even though I'm comfortable operating Git most often in the command line, I always have Sourcetree open to check my work and see where my colleagues are.
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Pros
SourceForge (Slashdot Media)
  • Commercial software and FOSS projects are available.
  • FOSS projects have advanced profiles such as software hosting for download as well as download metrics. As well as the released versions.
  • Commercial software profiles show detailed features, what it offers, price, frequently asked questions and a vast amount of user reviews.
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Atlassian
  • Allows to manage GIT repositories in an intuitive and simple user interface
  • Visually represents complicated workflows and branching
  • Integrates with most well known GIT repository managing services
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Cons
SourceForge (Slashdot Media)
  • The overall design that SourceForge has really leaves a lot to be desired, although the entire platform works perfectly, I think that the design should be much more attractive.
  • There is currently no feature to save your progress on a review you are writing, so if you are writing a review and the browser is closed for some reason, all progress of the written review will be lost.
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Atlassian
  • I really cannot find any. For 5 years I am using it, I haven't missed anything
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Likelihood to Renew
SourceForge (Slashdot Media)
Souceforge was very straightforward and easy to manage. The leads worked for us so there is not a lot else to say about why I'd use it again. This isn't some complicated software product, it is a simple inbound marketing channel that is meant to generate leads and help us with brand awareness and it did exactly that.
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Atlassian
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Usability
SourceForge (Slashdot Media)
SourceForge offers so many features for a technology review platform. They have some really unique ones that let potential new customers search for your product in really personalized and innovative ways. When you first load the edit screen, it may be a bit overwhelming at first because there are so many customizable fields, but their documentation and support is good and each field provides a ton of value.
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Atlassian
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Reliability and Availability
SourceForge (Slashdot Media)
We've never had any issues or downtime with SourceForge. Since we've been a user, the platform has never been down. Or at least never that I've noticed.
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Atlassian
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Performance
SourceForge (Slashdot Media)
SourceForge loads extremely quickly whether you're using the front end or administrating your product listing on the back end. All pages are snappy to load--no issues with page speed whatsoever.
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Atlassian
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Support Rating
SourceForge (Slashdot Media)
I hardly ever use the support on SourceForge, as I have not needed it. Their product works well for me. One time I had to email them and they got back to me the same day, but that's my only experience.
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Atlassian
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Online Training
SourceForge (Slashdot Media)
When we first signed up, they pair you with a campaign manager who trained us on how to use the product properly. The product is simple so the training was only about 30 minutes and after that we understood all the features and how to make the most of it. Most of the work came with making a custom landing page and building a follow up process for our sales team.
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Atlassian
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Implementation Rating
SourceForge (Slashdot Media)
Easy to setup, we just needed to update our page and send them UTM tracking links. Most of the effort came with setting up our follow up process for our sales team.
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Atlassian
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Alternatives Considered
SourceForge (Slashdot Media)
G2 has a larger commitment time upfront and for a more expensive rate, which wasn't the best option for our team as we were just exploring the resources that existed out there at the time. We preferred Sourceforge as well due to its subscription service, making it easier to commit from the start.
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Atlassian
I tried GitHub Desktop for a couple of days, but it is just not visual enough for me. It has no graph display for branches. Too much clicking is required to get info that the Sourcetree UI shows by default. Sourcetree gives you that "Big Picture" dashboard. GitHub Desktop seems unfinished to me due to its lack of this overview screen.
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Scalability
SourceForge (Slashdot Media)
SourceForge has been plenty scalable for us. Our marketing department is able to edit listings and our executives can also log in to the platform if need be for leads and reporting information. SourceForge offers multiple user access and role permissions, so it's pretty scalable and easy to use for our entire team.
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Atlassian
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Return on Investment
SourceForge (Slashdot Media)
  • It allowed us to learn more about the features and functions of some software that we currently use.
  • It allowed me to improve my decision-making for the software we use in the project area.
  • It helped us to replace several programs that were used in our company. We made several replacements, for much more optimal alternatives.
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Atlassian
  • It seriously decreases the time required to set up a new or existing project
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