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Stop hopping Auth ↔ Storage ↔ Firestore across Google pages

The tax nobody tickets

Firebase work rarely stays in documents.

You open a user in Auth to check a custom claim. You jump to Storage for the upload that user owns. You bounce back to the collection to fix the document that pointed at the wrong path. Three product pages. Three mental resets. Same afternoon.

That hop is not a “feature gap” on a slide. It is ten minutes before every support dig.

What “one window” actually means

AppoBase is a local Firestore GUI for macOS and Windows. Billing and IAM stay in Google’s console. Daily Database, Auth, and Cloud Storage sit in one multi-tab window.

  • Auth: search users, custom claims, next to the docs you are already editing
  • Storage: Folder / Tree / Grid / Table views, signed URLs, previews — same place as the collection tree
  • Firestore: query builder (filters or JavaScript), history with replay

You are not building an admin panel framework. You are keeping the three surfaces you touch every day in one desktop client.

Honest scope

This is not “Firebase, but ours.” Project settings and billing stay where they are. Other desktop GUIs exist; AppoBase’s public comparison table is the source for feature claims. Spelling: AppoBase.

Pricing (truth only)

Free to start (1 project). Pro $6.49 / month. 3-day trial. 14-day refund from first payment.

Download: appobase.com

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