GitHub 4+

Can’t switch account

The app seems pretty nice thus far but I wrongfully logged into another account and now it seems that there is no way to change it. When I sign out and sign back in, I’m only prompted to give permission for the initial account (also, why is asking for authorization every sign in?). Doubt that this is how is intended probably a bug? Would reconsider review once I can properly use it with my account.

Update:
As expected the switch account was unintentional and now is back to normal. So far I had no problems and I love having a proper app layout rather than the mobile version (that wasn’t bad at all btw). You could argue that now you have yet another app to keep checking for notifications but hey.. it is what it is.

Developer Response ,

Sorry for the confusion! We're working on making this experience better. In the meantime, to login with another account, go to GitHub.com in Safari and logout. Then you should be able to login with another account in the app.

The possibilities are endless

I am a novice developer and a recent CS college grad. This feels like such a natural transition for GitHub 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. The app 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.

Basic functions unavailable, better tools out there

There are so many better tools out there, at all levels: for free, freemium and premium. This app is garbage. Basically just a dumbed-down mobile website viewer, without the additional benefit of "view desktop" like you would have with Firefox and even Safari these days.

Missing standards:
- Forking repos
- Significant edits of repos
- Renaming, security, etc settings for repos
- FaceID integration
- Ability to set timeout for login on phone (currently once in, always in)

Missing features (you'd expect with this coming from the GitHub/MS team directly):
- Generation/management of keys for GH account
- Ability to save/store keys to phone
- Generation/management of private codes (for app dev)
- Ability to save/store keys to phone
- Ability to set certain private repos with additional password features on phone
- App to App integration with TOTP verification
- Enterprise tools/upgrades that come with your enterprise level account
- Ability to create custom (non-templated) build sheets in app (not on web and then clicked on in app

Go with something like Working Copy, or Gitwork Plus or Terminus or even GitHawk vs this nonsense! Or, better yet still, switch to bitbucket via Atlassian!