HeidiSQL Alternatives for macOS

DataGrip is a commercial IDE for databases and SQL developed by JetBrains. With DataGrip users can write SQL code faster and safer due to context-sensitive code completion that is aware of tables structure, foreign keys and pivot tables. DataGrip PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle Database, SQL Server, Azure, Amazon Redshift, SQLite, MariaDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Apache Hive and many more databases.

Beekeeper Studio is a well-designed and easy to use SQL client for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server, and a variety of other relational database management systems. The software allows you to connect to databases normally or encrypted with SSL, or tunnel through SSH to ensure maximum security while still providing choices. With Beekeeper Studio, you can manage multiple tabs and multitask across operations, while providing auto-complete suggestions for tables and queries. Commonly used queries can be saved and orginized into workspaces, that can be used across connections and projects. Beekeeper Studio is both free and open source and released under the MIT License.

Sequel Pro is an incredibly fast, easy-to-use database management application for macOS. The software is designed from the ground up to work with MySQL & MariaDB databases natively on the mac. Sequel Pro provides a neat UI that can be used to manage and adding schema or data for your local development database or connect to servers remotely.

Valentina Studio is a data management tool for database administrators. With Valentina Studio you can manage MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Valentina DB on macOS, Linux and Windows. For enterprise features a Valentina Studio PRO license is required.

PopSQL is an collaborativ SQL editor for macOS, Linux and Windows. PopSQL is used by data analysts, product managers, customer success, operations, and anyone that wants to write SQL. As it allows them to write queries, visualize data, and share your results with their co-workers and team.

MySQL Workbench is a free and commercial open-source tool for managing MySQL databases visually through a GUI. MySQL Workbench provides features like data modeling, sql development, and comprehensive administration tools. MySQL Workbench is developed by Oracle Corporation and is a successor to DBDesigner 4. The community edition of MySQL Workbench is released under the GNU General Public License, while the enterprise edition is released as a commercial proprietary software.

Postico is a free, modern PostgreSQL client for macOS. The client makes PostgreSQL more approachable by providing an easy to use interface that is liked by beginners and specialists alike. With Postico you can leverage the power of Postgres databases without using the CLI.

With Navicat you can explore and manage MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQLite, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases through a GUI. Navicat is a commercial-grade, graphical database management that meets the demands of database administrators, developers and company executives.

PSequel provides a clean and simple interface for you to perform common PostgreSQL tasks quickly. PSequel PostgreSQL GUI tool specifically developed for macOS. While offical tools like pgAdmin are great and provide a wide range of features, they lack the simplicity of PSequel.

The software pgAdmin is the most popular free and open-source administration panel for PostgreSQL. With pgAdmin developers can manage their database and also use it as a tool that is part of the development process. The software is released under the PostgreSQL/Artistic licence and can be used on macOS, Linux, Unix and Windows to manage PostgreSQL 9.2 and above.

pgModeler is an open source software for modeling PostgreSQL databases. It merges the classical concepts of modeling using entity-relationship diagrams with specific features that only PostgreSQL implements. With pgModeler you can create and edit database models easily with a simple and intuitive interface. pgModeler allows you to design your database once with dynamic code generation, and export to multiple versions of PostgreSQL ranging from 9.x to 13.x.

DBeaver is an open-source SQL client and a database administration tool. With DBeaver you can manage any relational databases that has support for JDBC driver, in a well designed GUI. The software is released as two separate versions, DBeaver Community Edition and DBeaver Enterprise Edition. DBeaver Community Edition is freely used and distributed under the ACL license. While DBeaver Enterprise Edition is sold at a monthly subscriptions, and supports NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, InfluxDB, Redis, Amazon DynamoDB, Google Bigtable and CouchDB.