Why siGit
Why siGit
If you never leave your desk, you probably don’t need this. That’s worth saying upfront.
siGit is a mobile Git client. It exists because developers don’t always have a laptop nearby, and sometimes things can’t wait until you do.
The actual use cases
A hotfix at the wrong time
You’re away from your desk — weekend, evening, on a train — and someone reports a bug in production. The fix is one line. You know exactly what it is. Without a mobile Git client, your options are to find a laptop, borrow one, or wait. With siGit, you clone the repo (or switch to an already-cloned one), make the change, commit, push. Done.
That’s the main reason this app exists.
Reviewing work on the commute
Reading a diff on your phone isn’t as comfortable as a large monitor. But it’s better than not reading it at all. If a pull request is waiting and you have 30 minutes on the subway, you can go through the changed files, see what was modified, and arrive already knowing where you stand.
Checking what’s deployed without opening a laptop
Sometimes you just want to know the state of a branch. What’s the last commit on main? Did that deployment go out? You don’t need a full IDE for that — you need to see the log. siGit lets you browse commits and file history from your phone.
Deploying from your phone when you’re on call
siGit integrates with smbCloud. If your project is set up there, you can trigger a deploy with one tap from the app. For people who are occasionally on call or manage production systems, this is genuinely useful.
What it isn’t
It’s not a replacement for working in a proper terminal or IDE. You’re not going to write an entire feature on your phone. Syntax highlighting makes the code viewer readable, but it’s still a phone screen.
siGit handles the operational side of Git — cloning, committing, pushing, pulling, branching, merging — and it handles it well. But if you’re doing deep development work, you want a keyboard.
Who it’s for
Developers who occasionally need to do Git operations away from a laptop. That might be a few times a week or a few times a month. The frequency doesn’t matter much — what matters is whether those gaps are a problem for you.
If you’ve ever been stuck waiting to get back to a computer to push something that was already done, or to check something you already knew, then you’ve felt exactly the problem siGit is built around.
Available on iOS, Android, and Windows. Made by Splitfire AB, Sweden.