Top 35 on Product Hunt launch day · Native macOS MySQL Client

The MySQL client
your databases
deserve

Name: SQL Gnome
Price: 79.00 USD
Author: Gnorman

A fast, no-BS SQL client for people
who actually work in databases.

Opens instantly. Handles big tables. Doesn't get in your way.

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macOS 14+·14-day free trial·One-time purchase

Normalize first. Denormalize with receipts. EXPLAIN first. Heroics later. Backups are theory until you restore one. If it needs luck, it needs a LIMIT. NULL is not false. It is chaos with paperwork. Every migration deserves a rollback plan. Friends do not let friends DELETE without WHERE. A slow query is just a missing index in disguise. Third normal form is tidy. Fourth is a personality test. If the JOIN feels cursed, check the cardinality. Primary keys keep the village census honest. Transactions are cheaper than apologies. OFFSET is proof that patience is not a strategy. If the dashboard is slow, ask the query, not the moon. One source of truth beats seven sync jobs. A schema should age like oak, not yogurt. Normalize first. Denormalize with receipts. EXPLAIN first. Heroics later. Backups are theory until you restore one. If it needs luck, it needs a LIMIT. NULL is not false. It is chaos with paperwork. Every migration deserves a rollback plan. Friends do not let friends DELETE without WHERE. A slow query is just a missing index in disguise. Third normal form is tidy. Fourth is a personality test. If the JOIN feels cursed, check the cardinality. Primary keys keep the village census honest. Transactions are cheaper than apologies. OFFSET is proof that patience is not a strategy. If the dashboard is slow, ask the query, not the moon. One source of truth beats seven sync jobs. A schema should age like oak, not yogurt.

Why SQL Gnome

Built for the work you
actually do every day

No bloat. No Electron. Just a sharp, native tool that stays out of your way and lets you move fast.

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Saved Connections

Group, color-tag, and drag-reorder your servers. Favorite databases per connection. Passwords live in the macOS Keychain. SSH tunneling and TLS included.

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Table Content View

Browse with paging and sorting. Filter rows with a proper filter builder. Add, edit, delete rows. Copy as JSON or INSERT statements.

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Query Workspace

Multiple tabs, autocomplete, multi-statement scripts, query history, saved queries, and a safety LIMIT so you don't wreck production on a Monday.

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Structure Editor

Inspect and edit columns, indexes, foreign keys, triggers, procedures, and more. View generated CREATE TABLE SQL in one click.

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Import & Export

CSV import with preview and duplicate handling. Export as CSV, JSON, or INSERT statements. SQL dumps for tables and databases.

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Production Safeguards

Per-connection safeguards preflight destructive queries with row-count estimates. Always warns on DROP, TRUNCATE, and UPDATE/DELETE without WHERE.

SQL Gnome does less — on purpose.
Speed matters more than features.

Not for

✗

Enterprise multi-database teams

If you're managing Postgres, Oracle, and MySQL across 12 environments, you need something heavier.
✗

ORM-first workflows

If you never write raw SQL and let your ORM handle everything, you won't get much out of this.
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Cloud-integrated dashboards

No Slack bots. No AWS Console integration. No AI copilot that rewrites your queries uninvited.

Built for

✓

Developers who live in MySQL

You write queries, browse data, and debug schema. You want a fast, native app that gets out of your way.
✓

Mac users who hate Electron

Native SwiftUI. Launches instantly, scrolls smoothly, respects your battery. Feels like it belongs on macOS.
✓

Solo devs and small teams

One-time purchase. No seats, no subscriptions, no pricing tiers to argue about. Yours forever.