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TablePlus (https://tableplus.com/) is better.

Or Sequel Ace (https://github.com/Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace) if you need to interact with MySQL databases, or similar, like MariaDB.

Also, the poster should have linked to Postico 2 — https://eggerapps.at/postico2/



If you only need PostgreSQL, I find Postico much superior to TablePlus. The GUI is nicer, the support for PostgreSQL features more complete, etc.


I prefer the UX of TablePlus as well. As an example, I find the constraints UX in Postico to be dummed down and inefficient. That's an area where I want a very terse, straightforward, and easy to visually organize / parse display of information, and TablePlus using a grid there is far superior imho. There are other examples, but I dislike the injection of eye candy into a tool that I need to be methodical and analytical within.


I use TablePlus on a daily basis and really enjoy it. The one feature it's missing that I really want, and which I sometimes switch over to DbVisualizer for, is spreadsheet-style selection and editing.

If you click and drag vertically in TablePlus, it selects multiple rows of data. In DbVisualizer, the same action selects just one column (or more, if you move the mouse horizontally too) in multiple rows, allowing for quick copying and pasting of just the data you need. (The reason I don't use DbVisualizer as my daily driver is that it's a Java app, so the UI isn't native, which brings some quirks and sluggishness to the app that I avoid when I can. Other than that, it's great.)


Datagrip is better than all of those IMO.


I’ve been using Datagrip more, have you tried PopSQL?


On first glance there are features in Postico 2 that I'd find useful - having SQL queries organised in the UI rather than on the filesystem for one. I'm a daily TablePlus user and very happy with it so I'd need to find real added value.

Oddly, I'd never heard of Postico before although I have used Postgresql.app briefly in the past. I will try Postico 2 out on a test server at some point and track it's progress post beta.


I keep all my queries in Dash (but I’m also a SQL hacker in the sense of piecing it together slowly as I learn the language rather than a native) - I love tableplus, the only advantage I can see from what the splash shows is the ability to create/edit fields (and tables?) in UI, but I’m past that stage of my journey now



I use it now and miss "record view". Where I have data in rows for a particular record.


Too bad nothing still beats SequelPro usability and SequelAce somehow doesn't feel like its predecessor.

TablePlus is good enough for daily use but not too good like data/definition button is way low and small to click on and those minor annoyances but at least it can interact with plenty of DB that I don't need to switch apps for different DB.


Personally, I still haven’t used anything better than the IntelliJ database tools.


Postico 2 is 2x the price of Postico.


it's also actively maintained. utils like this are well worth less than an hour's pay




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