How to Effortlessly Manage Multiple Accounts in GitHub Desktop (macOS)

** Disclaimer: ** This guide and the accompanying scripts were generated with the assistance of AI. While the workflow has been tested, please double-check all terminal commands and scripts before running them on your own system! If you use GitHub Desktop, you probably love its clean UI and seamless conflict resolution. But if you are a freelancer, an agency developer, or just someone juggling personal and work repositories, you’ve definitely hit its biggest limitation: GitHub Desktop does not natively support multiple accounts. While there is a massive official feature request for this that has been active for years, the maintainers unfortunately have it tagged as not-planned for the foreseeable future. If you want to switch from your personal account to a client’s account, you have to manually sign out, sign back in, and re-configure your Git identity every single time. After getting frustrated with this, I built a fully automated terminal workflow for macOS that lets you swap GitHub