diff --git a/kdevplatform/vcs/dvcs/ui/branchmanager.h b/kdevplatform/vcs/dvcs/ui/branchmanager.h
--- a/kdevplatform/vcs/dvcs/ui/branchmanager.h
+++ b/kdevplatform/vcs/dvcs/ui/branchmanager.h
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@
     void mergeBranch();
     void diffFromBranch();
     void diffJobFinished(KJob* job);
+    void updateBranchFilter();
+    void updateBranchRemoteFilterIcon(bool checked);
 
 private:
     QString m_repository;
diff --git a/kdevplatform/vcs/dvcs/ui/branchmanager.cpp b/kdevplatform/vcs/dvcs/ui/branchmanager.cpp
--- a/kdevplatform/vcs/dvcs/ui/branchmanager.cpp
+++ b/kdevplatform/vcs/dvcs/ui/branchmanager.cpp
@@ -73,11 +73,23 @@
     m_filterModel->setFilterWildcard(QString());
     m_filterModel->sort(0, Qt::AscendingOrder);
 
+    // Icon to filter branches
+    m_ui->branchFilterEdit->addAction(m_ui->actionRemoteBranches,
+                                      QLineEdit::ActionPosition::TrailingPosition);
     //Changes in filter edit trigger filtering
     connect(m_ui->branchFilterEdit,
             &QLineEdit::textChanged,
-            m_filterModel,
-            &QSortFilterProxyModel::setFilterWildcard);
+            this,
+            &BranchManager::updateBranchFilter);
+    connect(m_ui->actionRemoteBranches,
+            &QAction::toggled,
+            this,
+            &BranchManager::updateBranchFilter);
+    // Update icon in filter line edit when clicked
+    connect(m_ui->actionRemoteBranches,
+            &QAction::toggled,
+            this,
+            &BranchManager::updateBranchRemoteFilterIcon);
 
     m_ui->branchView->setModel(m_filterModel);
 
@@ -105,6 +117,36 @@
     delete m_ui;
 }
 
+void BranchManager::updateBranchFilter()
+{
+    QString filter = m_ui->branchFilterEdit->text();
+    // if remote shall be filtered prepend 'does not start with remotes/'
+    if (m_ui->actionRemoteBranches->isChecked()) {
+        if (filter.startsWith(QChar::fromLatin1('^'))) {
+            // if expression starts with ^ we need to remove it. There shall only be one!
+            filter.remove(0,1);
+            filter.prepend(QString::fromLatin1("^(?!remotes\\/)"));
+        } else {
+            // allow for almost arbitrary text between start and user input
+            filter.prepend(QString::fromLatin1("^(?!remotes\\/).*"));
+        }
+    }
+
+    m_filterModel->setFilterRegExp(filter);
+}
+
+void BranchManager::updateBranchRemoteFilterIcon(bool checked)
+{
+    // no idea how to this other than how it is done here https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kwidgetsaddons/html/kpasswordlineedit_8cpp_source.html
+    if (checked) {
+        m_ui->actionRemoteBranches->setIcon(QIcon::fromTheme(QString::fromLatin1("password-show-off")));
+    } else {
+        m_ui->actionRemoteBranches->setIcon(QIcon::fromTheme(QString::fromLatin1("password-show-on")));
+    }
+}
+
+
+
 void BranchManager::createBranch()
 {
     const QModelIndex currentBranchIdx = m_ui->branchView->currentIndex();
diff --git a/kdevplatform/vcs/dvcs/ui/branchmanager.ui b/kdevplatform/vcs/dvcs/ui/branchmanager.ui
--- a/kdevplatform/vcs/dvcs/ui/branchmanager.ui
+++ b/kdevplatform/vcs/dvcs/ui/branchmanager.ui
@@ -148,6 +148,9 @@
     <layout class="QVBoxLayout" name="verticalLayout_2" stretch="0,0">
      <item>
       <widget class="QLineEdit" name="branchFilterEdit">
+       <property name="toolTip">
+        <string>&lt;html&gt;&lt;head/&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filter branches using regular expressions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See QRegExp for further information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
+       </property>
        <property name="text">
         <string/>
        </property>
@@ -166,6 +169,20 @@
     </layout>
    </item>
   </layout>
+  <action name="actionRemoteBranches">
+   <property name="checkable">
+    <bool>true</bool>
+   </property>
+   <property name="icon">
+    <iconset theme="password-show-on"/>
+   </property>
+   <property name="text">
+    <string>Show remote branches</string>
+   </property>
+   <property name="toolTip">
+    <string>&lt;html&gt;&lt;head/&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;p&gt;Show remote branches.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Silently prepends ^(?!remotes\/) to regular expression.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
+   </property>
+  </action>
  </widget>
  <resources/>
  <connections/>