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Nicolas Hervé

I would add dbeaver as a free alternative to TablePlus in the database category.

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Jason Leow ~ plugins.carrd.co

Not seen dbeaver before. How is it different/better than TablePlus?

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Nicolas Hervé

Dbeaver is free. It supports a lot of databases and has all the functionalities I need.
Except that, from the screenshots of tableplus I would say that tableplus is prettier.

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Junior Hernandez

I currently use TablePlus as a replacement for Sequel Pro, which sadly they no longer keep updating. Before TablePlus use several clients, including Dbeaver and Datagrid. Those apps seemed too bloated to me compared to Sequel. In addition, TablePlus supports Postgres, MySQL, CockroachDB, Redis and SQLite, the databases I work with most commonly, which far exceeds the old Sequel.

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Jason Leow ~ plugins.carrd.co

Yeah that's what i like about tablePlus! 🤜🤛

 
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Jason Leow ~ plugins.carrd.co

Yeah tableplus looks cleaner, less cluttered it seems. I like that there's premium features I can upgrade to if I need. The software dev behind tableplus feels taken care of...

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Nathan Doyle • Edited

I've been using Beekeeper as of late: beekeeperstudio.io

If you want simple and don't need all the power it might be worth a look.

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Jason Leow ~ plugins.carrd.co

As in Beekeeper over TablePlus? Interesting.. what's some features that Beekeeper do better?

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Nathan Doyle • Edited

I can't comment on TablePlus, as I've never used it. I have used DBeaver but, it's been awhile. I remember it worked fine at the time but, it's a bit of a mess UI wise; that's what I recall anyway, maybe it's changed? I don't know.

I'm not living in the DB, day in and day out, and only need to do a few operations here and there, which is why I said, "it's simple and if you don't need all the power", so that's the only comparisons I think I'm making if referring to DBeaver and what I'm seeing of TablePlus.

To clarify what I mean by "power": they have a ton of features that I don't currently need or use. If I did then I'd consider something more full featured, like the others but, since I don't need much and Beekeeper is free, elegant (opinion) and has the features I do need, it works well for me. Of course, to each their own. Really just sharing something I recently stumbled upon.

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Jason Leow ~ plugins.carrd.co

Thanks for sharing your point of view! :)