Love Postgres but hate pgAdmin?

Do a search for pgAdmin on Twitter, all we can see is that people are screaming for an alternative, yet here we see very little restraint in the criticism. It’s hard to find any piece of open source software being disparaged as bad as PgAdmin 4. All indications are that pgadmin 4 has been failing hard for at least a year now.

pgAdmin4 is nicer to look at than to work with.

The problem with pgAdmin is that it’s worse than pgAdmin 3 in every possible way. PGAdmin 3 was simple and worked flawlessly. PGAdmin 4 is basically broken and unusable. The developers seem to have abandoned native applications in favor of a web-based approach, which makes it slow, clunky, bug-ridden, and really annoying to use. Even the natively installed versions seem to simply be wrappers around a web client. It freezes and crashes all the time. It lacks tons of features already available in pgAdmin 3. It doesn’t bring anything new to the table other than being rewritten as a web app.

That was a major concern for a tool used to administer databases.

It's over

It’s time to move on

You’d like to have a lightweight alternative to pgAdmin4 to talk with PostgreSQL that fits there requirements:

  • Built native
  • Intuitive Design
  • Actively developed

Then TablePlus is what you’re looking for.

Table Data

TablePlus is a modern, native tool with an elegant UI that allows you to simultaneously manage multiple databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server and more.

It has everything you need for a PostgreSQL GUI Tool.

  • Need high performance? TablePlus was built on top of Swift, Objective-C, C/C++, Perl to deliver the native experience that can be able to run fast and deal with heavy operations without being sluggish.

  • Need an intuitive design? TablePlus made it easy to work with the database with a simple and clean UI that focuses on the most important functions of a database tool. It includes a spreadsheet-like view that easily work with tables and schemas, multiple data filters, a handy query editor with smart code completion system, highlight syntax, split panes, favorite & history, and much more.

  • Need active development? We response almost immediately to the bug reports, feature requests. We listen to all of our users, put their opinions into consideration and finally deliver a new update every week. See from our issue tracker.

Seems interested in?

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Some quick previews of TablePlus

Spreadsheet-like view to work with Data Table and Database Structure easier (Dark them available):

Dark theme

Multiple Data Filters:

Quick Data Filter

Edit Database Structure:

Database Structure Editor

Smart SQL Query Editor:

SQL Query Editor


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