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Nori vs Fork: two native clients you buy once.
Fork and Nori share a philosophy: a native app, a single payment, no subscription. Fork has years of Git features behind it and runs on Windows too. Nori is newer and Mac only, and puts pull request review and CI checks inside the app.
Price
Fork is $59.99 once for one user on up to three machines, with a free evaluation. Nori is US$40 once for two Macs, every update included, after a 14-day trial.
Measured side by side
On the same Mac, both stay around 100 MB at rest and near 0.1 % CPU. Nori loaded both large repositories in 1.7 s, Fork in 3.2 s; Fork was lighter on git/git.
Pull requests
Fork creates GitHub pull requests and shows GitHub notifications. Nori also reviews them, on GitHub and GitLab: comments on lines, approvals, CI checks with re-run, and merge.
Git coverage
Fork has submodules, Git LFS with locks, worktree creation, bisect, the reflog and Git-flow. Nori has none of these yet.
Feature by feature
| Nori | Fork | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | US$40 once for 2 Macs, every update included. 14-day free trial. | $59.99 once, 1 user on up to 3 machines, Mac and Windows with the same key. Free evaluation. |
| Platforms | Mac only: macOS 26 or later, Apple silicon. | Mac and Windows. |
| Built with | Swift, SwiftUI and AppKit. Diffs render in the system’s WebKit; no bundled browser engine. | Native: Swift and Cocoa on Mac, .NET and WPF on Windows. |
| Staging | Files, folders, hunks and single lines. | Files, hunks and lines. |
| Interactive rebase | Yes, with a plan editor: pick, reword, edit, squash, fixup, drop. | Yes, including --update-refs. |
| Merge conflicts | Built-in three-way resolver with the result in view, and AI suggestions per conflict. | Built-in merge conflict resolver. |
| Undo | ⌘Z after a commit, a branch deletion, a stash drop or a discard, with a 30-day operations log. | Not documented. |
| Blame and file history | Yes, blame and file history that follows renames. | Yes. |
| Worktrees | Lists, opens, finishes and removes worktrees, and shows the agent working in each. Creating one is not offered yet. | Create, check out a remote branch as a worktree, delete. |
| Submodules | No. | Yes. |
| Git LFS | No dedicated support. | Yes, with locks and image diffs. |
| Pull requests | Reviewed in the app: read the conversation, comment on lines, approve or request changes, follow and re-run CI checks, merge. | Create GitHub pull requests; GitHub notifications. Reviewing in the app is not documented. |
| Forges | GitHub, GitHub Enterprise and GitLab. | GitHub and GitHub Enterprise; GitLab, Bitbucket Server and Gitea integrations. |
| AI | Commit messages, explanations, conflict suggestions and pull request descriptions through the agent CLI you already use (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor). No API key. | Commit messages through Claude, Codex or Cursor; Claude Code review of a branch. |
| Analytics | No product analytics in the app; it contacts Nori only for trial and licence checks. | Not documented. |
| Account | None. An email starts the trial and holds the licence. | Licence key. |
Nori vs Fork, measured
Same Mac, same repositories, median of three runs, measured on 7 October 2026. How it was measured
git/git
- Nori99 MB
- Fork85 MB
microsoft/vscode
- Nori83 MB
- Fork97 MB
git/git
- Nori1.7 s
- Fork3.2 s
microsoft/vscode
- Nori1.7 s
- Fork3.2 s
git/git
- Nori0.1 %
- Fork0.1 %
microsoft/vscode
- Nori0.1 %
- Fork0.1 %
- Nori31 MB
- Fork106 MB
Choose Fork if
- You need Windows, an Intel Mac or a macOS older than 26.
- Your repositories use submodules or Git LFS.
- You use bisect, the reflog, Git-flow or create worktrees from the app.
- You want three machines on one licence.
Choose Nori if
- You review pull requests: line comments, approvals, CI checks and merge on GitHub or GitLab, in the same window as the history.
- You want undo for commits, branch deletions and discards.
- You want AI that also explains commits and suggests conflict resolutions.
- You switch between large repositories often: Nori loaded them in about half Fork’s time in our measurements.
Switching from Fork
Nothing to import or convert. Nori opens the repositories already on your Mac with your own Git, its configuration, hooks and SSH keys, so you can keep both apps on the same folders while you try it. Fork users will recognise the layout: the commit graph in the middle, branches on the left, the working copy beside them.
Sources
Fork facts come from its own website and documentation, checked on 7 October 2026. Nori facts are for Nori 1.8.0.
Fork is a trademark of its owner. Nori is not affiliated with Fork or its owner. Something out of date or unfair? Write to [email protected] and we will correct it.