Comparison of Subversion clients

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Subversion has its own command-line client. Other clients are available, which are perhaps easier or more intuitive to use in different scenarios. Often, people have several clients installed, and use each for different tasks.

A large list of third-party Subversion clients is available at: http://subversion.tigris.org/links.html#clients

TortoiseSVN is a Windows shell extension, which gives feedback on the state of versioned items by adding overlays to the icons in the Windows Explorer. Repository commands can be executed from the enhanced context menu provided by Tortoise.

Some programmers prefer to have a client integrated within their development environment. Again, visual feedback of the state of versioned items is provided, and repository commands are added to the menus of the development environment. Examples of this approach are AnkhSVN, Unified SCC and VisualSVN for use with Microsoft Visual Studio, and Subclipse for use with Eclipse.

It is common to expose Subversion via Webdav using the Apache web server. In this case, any Webdav client can be used, but the functionality provided this way is limited.

[edit] Subversion clients feature matrix

Name	Programming language / Toolkit	Operating system	Licence	Integration	Multilingual	Network protocols	Current version
AnkhSVN [1]	C#	Microsoft Windows	Apache License	Microsoft Visual Studio			1.0.2
eSvn[2]	C++ / Qt	Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows	GPL	GUI, Standalone (like WinCVS, Cervisia)		http, svn	0.6.12
kdesvn [3]	C++ / Qt	Linux, etc.	GPL	Konqueror	KDE		0.14.4
naughtysvn[4]	C / GTK	Linux, etc.	GPL	Nautilus			0.0.1
NautilusSVN[5]	Python	Linux	GPL	Nautilus			0.11
PushOk SVN SCC[6]		Microsoft Windows	Commercial	Any MSSCCI-compatible program (Microsoft Visual Studio and other programs)			1.4.6.3
Qct (Qt commit tool)[7]	Python / Qt	Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows	GPL				1.5
QSvn[8]	C++ / Qt	Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows	GPL	GUI, Standalone (like WinCVS)			0.6.1
RapidSVN[9]	C++ / wxWidgets	Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris operating system, and many more.	GPL	GUI, Standalone	Unicode, Many		0.9.6
SCPlugin[10]		Mac OS X	X/MIT License	Finder integration			0.7.1
SmartSVN [11]	Java	Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (Any with a 1.4.1 or higher JRE)	Freeware with commercial upgrade	GUI, Standalone		http, https, svn, svn+ssh	3.0.9
Subclipse[12]	Java	Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows	EPL	Eclipse		http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file ^[1]	1.2.4
Subcommander[13]	C++ / Qt	Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows	GPL				1.2.4
Subversive[14]	Java	Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows	EPL	Eclipse		http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file ^[2]	0.7.0.v20080521
SVNCOM[15]	Active-X Control / Com Object	Microsoft Windows	Open Source	IIS / Windows Scripting Host		http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file, com, active-x	1.4.6.0
SVN WorkBench[16]	Python / wxWidgets	Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows	Apache License				1.5.3
svnX[17]		Mac OS X	GPL	GUI			0.9.13
SyncroSVN[18]	Java	Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (Any with a 1.5 or higher JRE)	Paid "Named-User" license required (free trial available)	GUI, Standalone			3.1
TamTam SVN SCC[19]		Microsoft Windows	Commercial	Microsoft Visual Studio .NET			1.x
TkCVS[20]	Tcl / Tk	Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows	GPL				8.1
TortoiseSVN [21]	C++ / MFC	Microsoft Windows (32/64bit)	GPL	Windows Shell (Explorer)	28 languages	http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file	1.4.8
Unified SCC[22]		Microsoft Windows (32/64bit)	Commercial	Any MSSCCI-compatible program (Microsoft Visual Studio and other programs)			1.0
Versions[23]	Objective-C / Cocoa	Mac OS X	Beta, Commercial	GUI, Standalone		http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file
VisualSVN [24]		Microsoft Windows (32/64bit)	Commercial	VisualSVN works with Visual Studio 2003, 2005 & 2008 (all editions except Express)[25].			1.4.2
XCode [26]	Objective-C / Cocoa	Mac OS X	Included with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)	XCode IDE			3
ZigVersion[27]	Objective-C / Cocoa	Mac OS X	Freeware with commercial upgrade	GUI, Standalone	english	http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file	1.2