Top 19 Database GUI tools for developer in 2023.

Native, lightweight and fast

With native build, simple design and powerful features, TablePlus makes database management easier, faster & more efficient for you.

Database security at its best

It’s equipped with many security features to protect your database, including multi-step authentication support, native libssh and TLS to encrypt your connection.

Customizable appearance

Need a dark theme? You don’t need to go for Mojave, TablePlus has it all. You can customize the appearance & configurations that best match your personal taste

An intuitive GUI client

Browse, query, edit your data and database structure in a simple and clean spreadsheet-like editor.

A smart query editor

We've built the best practices for SQL Editor into default to help you boost your productivity.

Free Trial

The free trial is limited to 2 opened tabs, 2 opened windows, 2 advanced filters (filters are not available on the free TablePlus Windows) at a time. We can change the limitations without any notifications in the future releases.

Basic $79 / license

• 1 Mac/Windows device
• 2 TablePlus for iOS
• Unlock all Premium Features
• Best for Indie Dev

Standard $99 / license

• 2 Mac/Windows devices
• 4 TablePlus for iOS
• Unlock all Premium Features
• Save 40% off

Custom License $49/ device

3+ Mac/Windows devices x2 TablePlus for iOS Unlock all Premium Features Best for Team/Company

Connect Through Firewalls

Encrypt your connection with SSL, or tunnel through SSH. Save a connection password and Beekeeper Studio will encrypt it.

SQL Auto Completion

Our built-in editor provides syntax highlighting and auto-complete suggestions for your tables so you can work quickly and easily.

Open Lots of Tabs

Open dozens of tabs so you can work quickly without having to switch windows. Table DDL and data views get their own tabs too!

Save SQL Queries For Later

Easily save and organize commonly used queries so you can use them again and again across all your connections.

Edit Table Data

Fast and simple table editing with the ability to stage changes.

Edit Table Schemas

Create, edit, and delete table columns, indexes, and relations using an intuitive interface.

Export Data

Export a table to CSV, JSON, JSONL, or SQL with just a few clicks. Optionally apply filters to export only the data you need.

Ultimate Edition $99 first year

• 20% discount for renewals.
• Perpetual fallback license.
• Includes team workspace access.
• Unlimited devices.
• Support and software updates

Community Edition

Beekeeper Studio Community Edition is open source and free, no account or payment required. Buying an Ultimate Edition license is the best way to support continued development of the Community Edition. You can

Volume discounts available

Design

MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design, model, generate, and manage databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, forward and reverse engineering, and also delivers key features for performing difficult change management and documentation tasks that normally require much time and effort.

Develop

MySQL Workbench delivers visual tools for creating, executing, and optimizing SQL queries. The SQL Editor provides color syntax highlighting, auto-complete, reuse of SQL snippets, and execution history of SQL. The Database Connections Panel enables developers to easily manage standard database connections, including MySQL Fabric. The Object Browser provides instant access to database schema and objects.

Administer

MySQL Workbench provides a visual console to easily administer MySQL environments and gain better visibility into databases. Developers and DBAs can use the visual tools for configuring servers, administering users, performing backup and recovery, inspecting audit data, and viewing database health.

Visual Performance Dashboard

MySQL Workbench provides a suite of tools to improve the performance of MySQL applications. DBAs can quickly view key performance indicators using the Performance Dashboard. Performance Reports provide easy identification and access to IO hotspots, high cost SQL statements, and more. Plus, with 1 click, developers can see where to optimize their query with the improved and easy to use Visual Explain Plan.

Database Migration

MySQL Workbench now provides a complete, easy to use solution for migrating Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Sybase ASE, PostreSQL, and other RDBMS tables, objects and data to MySQL. Developers and DBAs can quickly and easily convert existing applications to run on MySQL both on Windows and other platforms. Migration also supports migrating from earlier versions of MySQL to the latest releases.

Free

A complete set of powerful building blocks

All internal tools are made up of the building blocks: Tables, Lists, Charts, Forms, Wizards, Maps and so on

Connect to anything

Connect to most databases or anything with a REST, GraphQL or gRPC API. Retool empowers you to work with all of your data sources seamlessly in one app.

Read or write data with queries

No need to worry about storing isFetching in Redux or handling errors from your backend. Retool manages all the hard stuff

Built for developers

Retool is highly hackable, so you’re never limited by what's available out of the box. If you can write it with JavaScript and an API, you can build it in Retool.

Customize components

If you can build it in React, you can use it in Retool. Define your custom component via JS and use it in any Retool app.

Import any library

Import JS libraries via a URL and use them anywhere. Retool ships with Lodash, Moment, and Numbro already installed.

Debug with a model browser

View all available query, component, and environment properties like current_user, as well as query dependencies.

Free

• Build unlimited web apps
• Connect apps to any database or API
• 100+ production-ready UI components
• Save, share, and reuse unlimited queries with the Retool Query Library
• Use custom React components

Team $10/user/mo

• Everything in Free, plus...
• Configure Staging and Production environments for your resources
• Assign Admin and Editor roles to control org access and settings
• Create and manage releases for your apps
• Revert to any previous version of an app with version history

Business $50/user/mo

• Everything in Team, plus...
• Unlimited development environments
• Custom permission groups for granular control over app access
• Built-in audit logs to track queries and user events
• Unlimited modules (reusable groups of components and queries)

Enterprise - Custom

• Integrate with Okta, Active Directory, or any other SAML or OpenID SSO provider
• Sync user groups between your IdP and Retool
• Git-based source control
• Add custom branding to app navigation and headers
• Develop custom integrations with a Retool engineer
• Build, troubleshoot, and plan with dedicated support

Self Hosted

Available for Self hosted too

IntelliShell

Auto-complete queries in a built-in mongo shell that highlights syntax errors as you type and saves your query history.

Visual Query Builder

Perfect for MongoDB beginners, a time-saver for pros. Use a drag-and-drop UI to build complex find() queries and filter array elements.

Aggregation Editor

Break down aggregation queries into manageable steps and build them stage by stage, for easier debugging and querying.

SQL Query

Put your SQL skills to good use. Query MongoDB with SQL using SELECT, DISTINCT, GROUP BY, INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, and more.

Free

available for basic usage

Basic $199/user/year

• Visual Query Builder
• In-Place editing
• IntelliShell
• Tasks
• Task Scheduler
• Visual Explain
• Read-only lock
• Aggregation Editor
• Table, Tree and JSON view

Pro $399/user/year

• Everything in Basic
• SQL Query
• Query code
• SQL Import / Export
• Data Compare and Sync
• Schema Explorer

SQL? Really?

Yes, SQL. It is an elegant and powerful tool that makes working with multiple APIs simple. SQL levels the playing field for your team, easily integrates with other systems and accelerates delivery.

Explore, connect and join data.

Painlessly join live cloud configuration data with internal or external data sets to create new insights.

The cloud is a live database.

Stop building and maintaining out-of-sync lists and point-in-time environment snapshots; Steampipe's live tables give you the current view of any resource right now.

Review Board

All-in-one SQL review board to provide a holistic view of the database change

GitOps Workflow

Point-and-click GitHub and GitLab integration to enable GitOps workflow for changing database.

Multi-Tenant Rollout

Help SaaS provider to manage database changes across

SQL Review Lint

Automatically check SQL anti-patterns. Also available as GitHub Action and API.

All-in-one SQL Editor

Inspect records, explore schema, sharing SQL scripts, and more.

Free

• Community support
• Schema and data change review workflow
• SQL Editor
• Database backup / restore
• IM integration (e.g. Slack, Discord and etc)

Team plan (beta) $79/instance/month

• Email support
• Everything in free plan
• Owner, DBA and Developer roles
• GitLab login
• Advanced SQL check and anomaly detection
• Review and backup policy

Enterprise (Early access)

• Start from $199 Per instance / month
• SLA support
• Everything in team plan
• Multi-Region / Multi-Tenancy deployment
• More to come...

• Usability is the main goal of this project, program UI is carefully designed and implemented.
• It is free and open-source (ASL).
• It is multiplatform.
• It is based on opensource framework and allows writing of various extensions (plugins).
• It supports any database having a JDBC driver.
• It may handle any external datasource which may or may not have a JDBC driver.
• There is a set of plugins for different databases and different database management utilities (e.g. ERD, data transfer, compare, data export/import, mock data generation, etc).
• It has a great number of features.

Free

Exploring your databases

DataGrip is a multi-engine database environment. If the DBMS has a JDBC driver, you can connect to it via DataGrip. It provides database introspection and various instruments for creating and modifying objects for the supported engines.

Working with data

Databases are all about data. Use DataGrip to handle all the data manipulations: edit, search, import and export.

Writing SQL

Just as any decent IDE should do, DataGrip provides smart code completion, code inspections, on-the-fly error highlighting, quick-fixes, and refactoring capabilities. It saves you time by making the process of writing SQL code more efficient.

Running queries

The query console in DataGrip is a basic necessity for any SQL developer. You can use it to create multiple consoles, each with its own schema context and query options.

Working with files

Many developers store their queries scripts in files. DataGrip provides many features to handle them.

Free 30-day trial

Many databases, one tool

• per user, first year - US $229.00
• second year - US $183.00
• third year onwards - US $137.00

All Products Pack

Get 11 IDEs, 3 extensions, 2 profilers, and a collaborative development service – all in one subscription.

• Includes 17 tools
• per user, first year - US $779.00
• second year - US $623.00
• third year onwards - US $467.00

FULL MYSQL SUPPORT

Sequel Pro is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.

PERFECT WEB DEVELOPMENT COMPANION

Whether you are a Mac Web Developer, Programmer or Software Developer your workflow will be streamlined with a native Mac OS X Application!

FLEXIBLE CONNECTIVITY

Sequel Pro gives you direct access to your MySQL Databases on local and remote servers.

EASY INSTALLATION

Simply download, and connect to your database.

Free

• Collaborate on data with your team
• Build your own data catalog
• Easily share insights
• Modern SQL editor
• Get the whole team writing SQL

Free

$0 Just the basics for an individual

• 1 editor
• 10 saved queries
• 2 database connections

Premium

$199 per month Collaborative SQL editor for your team

• Unlimited queries
• Unlimited database connections
• Shared queries and folders
• Version history
• Query variables
• Search
• 5 editors ($25 per additional editor)

Business

$499 per month Business intelligence for your company

• All Premium features
• Charts
• Dashboards
• Scheduled queries
• 10 editors ($30 per additional editor)

Enterprise

Contact us Tailored for the needs of your organization

• All Business features
• Teams and granular permissions
• Git integration
• Data catalog
• SSO + advanced security
• Scheduled Run Approval Flow
• Audit logs
• Priority support
• On-premise/self-hosted

Native and cross-platform MongoDB manager

Whatever platform you use today — Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo) is available for you. Distributed as a native application, fast and snappy Robo 3T uses very little of your machine resources.

Innovative and inspiring project

Since it was launched, Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo) has provided an open source MongoDB tool that provides innovative functionality to meet the needs of enthusiasts and the wider community.

Free and open source, forever!

It doesn't matter whether you want to use Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo) for education, your hobby project or for commercial use — Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo) will always be free and open source.

A modern, robust and community-driven MongoDB management tool

Open source and free

Open source

• Multiplatform
• Designed for multiple PostgreSQL versions and derivatives
• Extensive documentation
• Multiple deployment models
• Many addition tools
• Routine maintenance
• Create, view and edit all common PostgreSQL objects
• Multibyte support

free

Interact with data using our versatile GUI

Implement updates, find data, and complete other key operations — all from a single user interface.

Get the data you need — fast

Search your documents and collections directly from the Compass query bar.

Drag and drop aggregation pipeline builder

Create pipelines from 200+ operators — and export in your preferred language to use within your app.

Access the MongoDB Shell directly in Compass

Control your deployments by running commands in the embedded MongoDB Shell.

Import and export data as needed

Compass enables you to easily import and export JSON and CSV files to and from your collections.

Visualize, validate, and analyze schema

Understand the structure of your documents. Create, update, and enforce schema across collections.

Assess query performance in granular detail

Inspect individual queries — and break down multi-stage ones — with the Visual Explain Plan.

Optimize queries with index analysis

View index utilization and add or remove indexes to improve query performance.

Free

• Real-time online collaboration
• Creating teams
• Powerful permission management
• Public application publishing in Cloud and Self-host modes
• Supports natural language generation of SQL statements
• Supports Hugging Face / EndPoints
• Well-designed Components: table, List, Chart, Container, Form, Meu, Upload File, Page, Text area, icon, video, and pdf
• Connected Database and data sources: Mysql, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, TiDB, Redis, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Firebase, Supabase DB, Clickhouse, DynamoDB, Snowflake, and Microsoft SQL Server, Appwrite.
• API Integration: REST API, Amazon S3 (General S3), SMTP, GraphQL

Free

• Up to 5 members
• All components
• All resources
• Historic version keep & recovery for 7 days

$10/editor/month

Team

FREE for unlimited viewers Unlimited members

apps

• All components
• All resources
• App public
• Unlimited plugins
• AI SQL Generation
• Remove watermark

Security & support

• Historic version keep & recovery for 30 days
• Develop environment
• Backup and restore

Data Viewer

View, update, and delete records with our built-in editors, you can facilitate your edits in Tree View, JSON View, and the classic spreadsheet-like Grid View. Navicat gives you the tools you need to manage your data efficiently and ensure a smooth process.

Object Designer

Our Object Designer provides you easy and fast access for managing database objects. Navicat breaks down query writing into tabs through a convenient UI. Allow you to write complex SQL with greater confidence and accuracy at every step.

SQL Edit/ Debugger

Visual SQL Builder will help you create, edit and run SQL statements without having to worry about syntax and proper usage of commands. Code fast with Code Completion and customizable Code Snippet by getting suggestions for keywords and stripping the repetition from coding. Also, you can quickly locate and correct PL/SQL and PL/PGSQL coding errors using our debugging component such as setting breakpoints, stepping through the program, viewing and modifying variable values, and examining the call stack.

Migration

Data Transfer, Data Synchronization and Structure Synchronization help you migrate your data easier and faster for less overhead. Deliver detailed, step-by-step guidelines for transferring data across various DBMS. Compare and synchronize databases with Data and Structure Synchronization. Set up and deploy the comparisons in seconds, and get the detailed script to specify the changes you want to execute.

Model

Convert your databases into graphical representations using a sophisticated database design and modeling tool so you can model, create, and understand complex databases with ease. Simplify the task of creating complex entity relationship models and generate the script SQL with a simple click.

Charts

Our Charts feature lets you create visual representations of large data sets and help you to gain deeper insights from your data. Explore and unearth patterns, trends and relations between data, and create effective visual outputs to present your findings in dashboard for sharing.

Import/Export

Use Import Wizard to transfer data into a database from diverse formats, or from ODBC after setting up a data source connection. Export data from tables/collections, views, or query results to formats such as Excel, Access, CSV and more.

Data Generator

Provide a comprehensive range of functions to generate a large volume of quality testing data. You can rapidly create realistic data sets with referential integrity based on business rules and constraints.

Increase Productivity

Our powerful local backup/restore solution and intuitive GUI for MongoDump, Oracle Data Pump and SQL Server Backup Utility guides you through the backup process and reduces the potential for errors. Set an automation for repeatable deployment process like database backup, MapReduce job and script execution at a specific time or day. No matter where you are, you can always get the job done.

Schema Analyzer

Discover and explore your MongoDB schema with our built-in schema visualization tool. Analyze your documents and displays rich structures within your collections, so you can understand your data’s schema, find schema anomalies, and inspect outliers easily.

Collaboration

Synchronize your connection settings, queries, models, snippets, chart workspaces and virtual group information to the cloud service so you can get real-time access to them, and share them with your coworkers anytime and anywhere. Learn more >

Secure Connection

Establish secure connections through SSH Tunneling and SSL ensure every connection is secure, stable, and reliable. Support different authentication methods of database servers such as PAM authentication for MySQL and MariaDB, Kerberos and X.509 authentication for MongoDB, and GSSAPI authentication for PostgreSQL. Navicat provides more authentication mechanisms and high-performance environments so you never have to worry about connecting over an insecure network.

Dark Mode

Set dark theme to protect your eyes from the traditionally blinding whiteness of computer. No behavior changes with how pages look when you are in dark mode.

Cross-Platform Licensing

Cross-platform licensing is now available. Whether you’re operating on Windows, macOS, or Linux, you can purchase once and select a platform to activate and later on transfer your license.

Enterprise

Non-Commercial

• Intuitive web interface
• Support for most MySQL features:
• browse and drop databases, tables, views, fields and indexes
• create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, fields and indexes
• maintenance server, databases and tables, with proposals on server configuration
• execute, edit and bookmark any SQL-statement, even batch-queries
• manage MySQL user accounts and privileges
• manage stored procedures and triggers
• Import data from CSV and SQL
• Export data to various formats: CSV, SQL, XML, PDF, ISO/IEC 26300 - OpenDocument Text and Spreadsheet, Word, LATEX and others
• Administering multiple servers
• Creating graphics of your database layout in various formats
• Creating complex queries using Query-by-example (QBE)
• Searching globally in a database or a subset of it
• Transforming stored data into any format using a set of predefined functions, like displaying BLOB-data as image or download-link

Open source and free

Start your local database server in a finger snap

With a simple design, lightweight size, and multiple drivers support, it’s easier than ever to install and manage local database servers within a click.

No dependencies

Just one click to start the server from the app without any dependencies

Multi versions & ports

Quickly setup and manage multiple database servers with multiple versions and ports.

View your database with an intuitive native GUI

One click from the server control and your database is ready for designing, querying, browsing and modifying with a modern, native, and friendly GUI Client.

DBngin is 100% free with active development & support.