Free MySQL Workbench Alternatives

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.

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.

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.

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.

A high quality, visual, open source database management tool for SQLite databases. With DB Browser for SQLite, users and developers can create, search, and edit databases. DB Browser for SQLite uses a familiar spreadsheet-like interface, and complicated SQL commands do not have to be learned.

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.

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.