I have a metric ton of projects which I've always had a hard time naming and juggling around, my stack has been the same for maybe 5 years now: - Gitkraken for git, along with its profiles to juggle between work, personal and open source - Termius for SSH connections that work on the mobile as well - Jetbrains Toolbox for quickly opening my projects in IDEs
I lost my job in December 2025, and when the subscriptions bill came through, I saw it and I decided to build my own.
So introducing: BranchBay and BranchShell pretty much.
BranchBay is like Gitkraken on steroids - rust drawn, has tabs and groups for grouping repositories, pretty much like Chrome. You can pull tabs out and split into a new session.
BranchShell is on mobile + desktop as well, it holds all your SSH, Databases, S3, Port forwarding connections in an encrypted vault locally.
Best thing is the tray app which you can quickly press global shortcuts like Cmd+Ctrl+O, and see all the repositories you have, with their profiles, with the groups, and quickly either open it in your favorite IDE or terminal and work with them.
Because I built them for myself, to get rid of my own subscriptions, I've decided to put them online for $20 one time payment for 2 machines. The goal is to basically help devs get out of this subscription hell and save some money in the age of AI.
The programs have been out for a couple of months now, and I'm using them daily.
I'm happy to add new features and take input on them. I wanna build something that actually helps devs both financially and workflow wise.