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Don't know if the person who posted this has an affiliation, I do not, but I'm a huge fan of TablePlus so feel it's still worth it for me to comment about this.

Don't know if the person who posted this has an affiliation, I do not, but I'm a huge fan of TablePlus so feel it's still worth it for me to comment about this. It offers so many features that seem so natural. Quick editability which in some cases saves a ton of time. Tabs for different tables, plain text editing for queries with highlighting for ease of reading. There are other database interactors, that do the same thing, but really for me, I've found the UI/UX looks and feels so much better than others, and as a user, that really is a huge part of it. As for the licensing price, I started by trying it out in the free, two tab version. I then stepped back and thought about how for me, the benefit it gave me was well worth $60. Again, I have nothing to do with them, but for how nice it's been for me, I feel it deserves a shoutout.

te_chris 6y ago
Best thing about the editing is the staging mode, allowing you to preview a few changes then flush them at once.
jacurtis 6y ago
I've been using TablePlus for a long time now as well. I don't have any affiliation but started with their mac app. It was easily the best DB GUI out there. I like that you can use the same GUI for PostgreSQL, MYSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and SQLite (there are even more than this, but these are the ones I use). It is awesome to have one very powerful and well-maintained program for all my database needs. I can get proficient at one tool and use it for everything. In addition, I can pay 1 licensing fee and get access to a powerful tool for working with all of these databases, instead of needing a separate tool for each one (which was the case in the past). The pricing model is EXTREMELY FAIR in my opinion. First of all, it is free to use in its entirety forever, with only a small handful of limitations. New devs will easily be satisfied with the free version. You can upgrade to support them and to remove the few limitations in the free version for just $60. This is well worth any developer's time as it accounts for only an hour or two of their wages most likely. I also like that it is a perpetual license, so you don't need to "subscribe" if you don't want to. You do need to renew if you want newer versions, as the $60 license only covers 1 year of updates. But i think that this is a great balance between being fair (it is perpetual at the version + 12mos that you bought it at), while also incentivizing and allowing to support further development. Finally offering a generous free version supports newbies and the dev community. Lastly I need to point out an often-overlooked reason to consider TablePlus. They offer tools on every platform (Mac, Windows, Linux). And MOST IMPORTANTLY, this isn't an electron application. Each version is maintained by a seperate team (from my understanding) within their business and it is built on the native language and frameworks for that platform. About 1.5-2 years ago I started a discussion on their forum about bringing a version to Linux (at the time it was only Windows and Mac). The forum post quickly started gaining momentum from other Linux users who discussed how there is quite literally NO good DB GUI on Linux (other than the CLI). Let alone something as easy to use and powerful as TablePlus. The team eventually committed to a Linux version, and after a year of development updates I was invited to the beta and had been using it ever since. This team really is great and I highly recommend trying their tool for free and upgrading to the paid version if you find it useful, which I think any developer will.
- elamje 6y ago
  That sounds impressive, if not unbelievable, they have 2 employees listed on their LinkedIn, and only 3 listed on their website. Maybe they are using offshore developers for a lot of the heavy lifting, but I honestly don’t see how they could have native apps for 3 platforms that have this much functionality with that many employees. Anyone else have insight?
  - nicoburns 6y ago
    Why not? Two full time developers is plenty if you don't have the overhead of management processes, and everyone has a unified vision. Sublime Text was a one-man show until relatively recently. It's a single cross-platform codebase, but he built the cross-platform abstraction layer himself! Presumably this has the underlying database logic in some kind of shared library.
  - nimchimpsky 6y ago
    I mean its a db client, its not rocket science.
  - 40four 6y ago
    The 3 native code bases are impressive. Early on it was very Mac centric, the Windows client used to lag way behind in features. The last time I checked, Windows had all the features I expected from the Mac version. The new Linux client might be a good example of where the Windows client was a year/ year and a half ago. It works, but lacking a lot still. I’m confident they will continue to iterate and get it up to speed soon. Big fan of Table Plus here. I like the ease of use and the clean UI. It’s everything you need, and nothing you don’t. Very smooth workflow.
  - wdb 6y ago
    In the end you only need to implement UI layer when the business logic is separated out. Not that the business logic on the different platforms can't be tricky but I think most time is spend on the native UI implementation. That's how I would go about it. I am glad it's not Elektron. I am also using TablePlus and enjoying it a lot!
- 6y ago
sys_64738 6y ago
It's a really nice app. The best of the bunch on the Mac IMO.
ohmaigad 6y ago
I have been testing the free version and there are a few things which i find annoying: 1. Importing large SQL files into DB is slow, SequelPro seems to be much faster; 2. No option to add/delete connection when you choose "Show connections"; 3. Maybe it is a free limitation but almost every time i want to open a table it wants to create a new tab; 4. It doesn't want to reconnect to the server (even when cmd +r) if it lost connection - must close and open server again; 5. I have noticed that 2 different databases which are exact copies (structurally) have different column order so doing simple cmd + c in one DB and then cmd + v will mess up the data as the column order is different.
- elbear 6y ago
  I noticed their issue tracker is on GitHub: https://github.com/TablePlus/TablePlus https://github.com/TablePlus/TablePlus In case they're not watching this thread, I think they would appreciate your feedback.
aarbor989 6y ago
Back about a year and a half ago I was having some issues with the fuzzy search being laggy and submitted a feature request. The dev responded and had a beta for me to try out within a day or two. Overall it’s a great product. Definitely one of the best db clients out there. Only reason I stopped using recently is because my team got an all access IDEA license so I switched over to datagrip

te_chris 6y ago

Best thing about the editing is the staging mode, allowing you to preview a few changes then flush them at once.

jacurtis 6y ago

I've been using TablePlus for a long time now as well. I don't have any affiliation but started with their mac app. It was easily the best DB GUI out there. I like that you can use the same GUI for PostgreSQL, MYSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and SQLite (there are even more than this, but these are the ones I use). It is awesome to have one very powerful and well-maintained program for all my database needs. I can get proficient at one tool and use it for everything. In addition, I can pay 1 licensing fee and get access to a powerful tool for working with all of these databases, instead of needing a separate tool for each one (which was the case in the past). The pricing model is EXTREMELY FAIR in my opinion. First of all, it is free to use in its entirety forever, with only a small handful of limitations. New devs will easily be satisfied with the free version. You can upgrade to support them and to remove the few limitations in the free version for just $60. This is well worth any developer's time as it accounts for only an hour or two of their wages most likely. I also like that it is a perpetual license, so you don't need to "subscribe" if you don't want to. You do need to renew if you want newer versions, as the $60 license only covers 1 year of updates. But i think that this is a great balance between being fair (it is perpetual at the version + 12mos that you bought it at), while also incentivizing and allowing to support further development. Finally offering a generous free version supports newbies and the dev community. Lastly I need to point out an often-overlooked reason to consider TablePlus. They offer tools on every platform (Mac, Windows, Linux). And MOST IMPORTANTLY, this isn't an electron application. Each version is maintained by a seperate team (from my understanding) within their business and it is built on the native language and frameworks for that platform. About 1.5-2 years ago I started a discussion on their forum about bringing a version to Linux (at the time it was only Windows and Mac). The forum post quickly started gaining momentum from other Linux users who discussed how there is quite literally NO good DB GUI on Linux (other than the CLI). Let alone something as easy to use and powerful as TablePlus. The team eventually committed to a Linux version, and after a year of development updates I was invited to the beta and had been using it ever since. This team really is great and I highly recommend trying their tool for free and upgrading to the paid version if you find it useful, which I think any developer will.

elamje 6y ago
That sounds impressive, if not unbelievable, they have 2 employees listed on their LinkedIn, and only 3 listed on their website. Maybe they are using offshore developers for a lot of the heavy lifting, but I honestly don’t see how they could have native apps for 3 platforms that have this much functionality with that many employees. Anyone else have insight?
- nicoburns 6y ago
  Why not? Two full time developers is plenty if you don't have the overhead of management processes, and everyone has a unified vision. Sublime Text was a one-man show until relatively recently. It's a single cross-platform codebase, but he built the cross-platform abstraction layer himself! Presumably this has the underlying database logic in some kind of shared library.
- nimchimpsky 6y ago
  I mean its a db client, its not rocket science.
- 40four 6y ago
  The 3 native code bases are impressive. Early on it was very Mac centric, the Windows client used to lag way behind in features. The last time I checked, Windows had all the features I expected from the Mac version. The new Linux client might be a good example of where the Windows client was a year/ year and a half ago. It works, but lacking a lot still. I’m confident they will continue to iterate and get it up to speed soon. Big fan of Table Plus here. I like the ease of use and the clean UI. It’s everything you need, and nothing you don’t. Very smooth workflow.
- wdb 6y ago
  In the end you only need to implement UI layer when the business logic is separated out. Not that the business logic on the different platforms can't be tricky but I think most time is spend on the native UI implementation. That's how I would go about it. I am glad it's not Elektron. I am also using TablePlus and enjoying it a lot!
6y ago

sys_64738 6y ago

It's a really nice app. The best of the bunch on the Mac IMO.

ohmaigad 6y ago

I have been testing the free version and there are a few things which i find annoying: 1. Importing large SQL files into DB is slow, SequelPro seems to be much faster; 2. No option to add/delete connection when you choose "Show connections"; 3. Maybe it is a free limitation but almost every time i want to open a table it wants to create a new tab; 4. It doesn't want to reconnect to the server (even when cmd +r) if it lost connection - must close and open server again; 5. I have noticed that 2 different databases which are exact copies (structurally) have different column order so doing simple cmd + c in one DB and then cmd + v will mess up the data as the column order is different.

elbear 6y ago
I noticed their issue tracker is on GitHub: https://github.com/TablePlus/TablePlus https://github.com/TablePlus/TablePlus In case they're not watching this thread, I think they would appreciate your feedback.

aarbor989 6y ago

Back about a year and a half ago I was having some issues with the fuzzy search being laggy and submitted a feature request. The dev responded and had a beta for me to try out within a day or two. Overall it’s a great product. Definitely one of the best db clients out there. Only reason I stopped using recently is because my team got an all access IDEA license so I switched over to datagrip