How to uninstall GitKraken on Windows

Your repositories are ordinary Git folders wherever you cloned them, and removing GitKraken does not touch them. What the app keeps for itself is your profiles, preferences and integration state, mostly under a .gitkraken folder in your user profile. Push or commit work you care about, and back up that folder first if you might reinstall. This guide covers GitKraken installed per-user from the Axosoft.GitKraken winget package.

Quit GitKraken first

Commit, stash or push work in progress, then close every GitKraken window. GitKraken runs several helper processes alongside the main app, so check Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) for any gitkraken.exe still listed before you uninstall.

Remove the app with its own uninstaller

Go to Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find GitKraken, and choose Uninstall, or run:

winget uninstall --id Axosoft.GitKraken

Back up before you remove data

Copy %APPDATA%\.gitkraken to keep your profiles and preferences, and %LOCALAPPDATA%\GitKrakenCLI if you use GitKraken's bundled gk command line tool, before you clear either one.

Where the data lives

Location	What it holds	What to do
`%APPDATA%\.gitkraken`	Profiles, preferences, integration state and logs	Back this up first; the uninstaller does not remove it
`%LOCALAPPDATA%\GitKrakenCLI`	GitKraken's bundled copy of the `gk` command line tool	Remove it with the app unless you still run that copy
`%APPDATA%\GitKraken`	The app's local storage and Electron caches	Back up or note anything you need first; safe to remove for a clean start
`%USERPROFILE%\.gnupg`	Your GPG keys, shared with Git and every other signing tool; GitKraken may create it on first run	Never remove it as part of this uninstall

Check the result

Run these read-only commands after the uninstall finishes:

Get-Process gitkraken -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
winget list --id Axosoft.GitKraken
Test-Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\gitkraken"
Test-Path "$env:APPDATA\.gitkraken"
Test-Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\GitKrakenCLI"

No output from Get-Process only means this query observed no matching process; a suppressed error leaves the running state unknown. A listed process means the app or a helper is still open.
A completed winget list query with no match means the package record is gone; a matching row means the uninstall did not finish.
The first Test-Path returning False means the program folder is gone; True means files remain there.
Test-Path "$env:APPDATA\.gitkraken" returning True means your profiles and preferences are still there, which is expected unless you removed them yourself.
Test-Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\GitKrakenCLI" returning True means the bundled gk copy is still there; remove it yourself once you have checked whether you still use it.

If you installed it with winget

winget uninstall runs the same uninstaller Settings › Apps uses and removes the same program files; it does not touch %APPDATA%\.gitkraken, %APPDATA%\GitKraken or %LOCALAPPDATA%\GitKrakenCLI on its own.

Account and subscription

Uninstalling does not cancel a GitKraken subscription or delete your GitKraken account. Handle those in your GitKraken account settings.

What Mole lists

For GitKraken installed per-user from winget:

The program folder and the Start Menu folder are selected by default.
%APPDATA%\.gitkraken is listed but not selected; the logs folder inside it is a separate row and is selected by default.
%LOCALAPPDATA%\GitKrakenCLI is listed but not selected.
%APPDATA%\GitKraken is listed but not selected; the Chromium cache folders inside it, such as Cache, Code Cache and GPUCache, are separate rows selected by default.
A gitkraken:// link registration, if it still points at the removed program, is listed and selected by default, backed up to a .reg file first. Right-click menu entries GitKraken adds under folders are handled the same way.
%USERPROFILE%\.gnupg and your repositories are not listed.

What this test covered

Tested with GitKraken 12.4.0 installed through winget, per-user scope. Every row was ticked and removed in this test. %USERPROFILE%\.gk, which GitKraken's gk command line tool uses for workspace lists, is not one of the rows Mole lists today; remove it yourself if you used gk and want a clean start. Not verified: a signed-in account, local Workspaces.