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Top 20 MySQL GUI clients

Open-source apps to browse and edit a MySQL or MariaDB database

Updated · GitHub stars (stars)

Why these 20

Ranked by GitHub stars: how many developers bookmarked the project. Stars measure attention, not quality, so each row also shows forks, licence, the last push and the section of the community list it sits in. Tools in the same list that have no public repository (MySQL Workbench downloads, Navicat and other paid clients) can't be ranked here.

  1. 1

    dbeaver/dbeaver

    Free universal database tool and SQL client

    52,151 stars 4,427 forkslast push 2026-10-20JavaApache-2.0

    Also in: #1 database GUIs and IDEs for any database#1 DuckDB GUIs and SQL clients#7 open-source databases#1 PostgreSQL GUI clients and admin tools

  2. 2

    ILLA Cloud

    Low-code internal tool builder integrated with Mysql, can be used as GUI for Mysql.

    12,332 stars 1,223 forkslast push 2026-05-27TypeScriptApache-2.0

  3. 3

    mycli

    A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.

    11,984 stars 699 forkslast push 2026-10-20PythonBSD-3-Clause

    Also in: #2 database command-line clients

  4. 4

    phpMyAdmin

    A web interface for MySQL and MariaDB.

    7,956 stars 3,609 forkslast push 2026-10-20PHPGPL-2.0

    Also in: #7 database GUIs and IDEs for any database

  5. 5

    Adminer

    Database management in a single PHP file.

    7,918 stars 1,182 forkslast push 2026-10-16PHPNOASSERTION

    Also in: #8 database GUIs and IDEs for any database#8 PostgreSQL GUI clients and admin tools

  6. 6

    Sequel Ace

    MySQL/MariaDB database management for macOS.

    7,554 stars 340 forkslast push 2026-10-19Objective-CNOASSERTION

    Also in: #9 database GUIs and IDEs for any database

  7. 7

    HeidiSQL

    A lightweight client for managing MySQL, MSSQL and PostgreSQL, written in Delphi.

    6,300 stars 593 forkslast push 2026-10-19PascalGPL-2.0

    Also in: #11 database GUIs and IDEs for any database

  8. 8

    TablePro

    Native macOS client for MySQL and many other databases with inline editing, SSH tunneling, and AI assistant. Free and open-source.

    6,282 stars 421 forkslast push 2026-10-21SwiftAGPL-3.0

  9. 9

    OmniDB

    Web tool for database management.

    3,283 stars 481 forkslast push 2023-02-01JavaScriptMIT

    Also in: #14 database GUIs and IDEs for any database

  10. 10

    pspg

    PostgreSQL Pager.

    2,743 stars 91 forkslast push 2026-10-20CBSD-2-Clause

    Also in: #6 database command-line clients

  11. 11

    SQLyog Community edition

    SQLyog Community edition. For Windows, works fine under wine in Mac and Linux

    2,345 stars 335 forkslast push 2026-08-25C++GPL-2.0

  12. 12

    LibreDB Studio

    Browser-based SQL IDE for MySQL and nine other engines, deployed as a container or Helm chart next to the database.

    1,244 stars 265 forkslast push 2026-10-20TypeScriptMIT

    Also in: #10 DuckDB GUIs and SQL clients

  13. 13

    Percona Monitoring and Management

    Free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring databases performances

    1,113 stars 235 forkslast push 2026-10-21GoAGPL-3.0

    Also in: #2 database monitoring and performance tools#11 MongoDB tools

  14. 14

    MySQL Workbench

    provides DBAs and developers an integrated tools environment for database design & modeling; SQL devleopment; database administration.

    1,003 stars 356 forkslast push 2026-04-23C++NOASSERTION

  15. 15

    StackRender

    Free and open-source database schema design and SQL migration generator for MySQL.

    554 stars 52 forkslast push 2026-10-04TypeScriptAGPL-3.0

  16. 16

    WebDB

    Web-based and open-source "efficient database IDE". Provides ERDs, data generators, an AI assistant, a NoSQL structure manager, a time machine,...

    330 stars 21 forkslast push 2025-06-10TypeScriptAGPL-3.0

    Also in: #19 MongoDB tools

  17. 17

    squix

    SQL command-line client with query management and interactive results.

    275 stars 21 forkslast push 2026-09-22GoMIT

  18. 18

    MySQL Shell

    Advanced client and code editor for MySQL that supports development and administration for the MySQL Server and MySQL InnoDB cluster (AdminAPI) with an...

    225 stars 82 forkslast push 2026-10-20C++NOASSERTION

  19. 19

    Ocelot GUI

    GUI client for MySQL or MariaDB, including debugger.

    64 stars 15 forkslast push 2025-11-06C++GPL-2.0

How it is measured

Every tool in the GUI section(s) of the community list shlomi-noach/awesome-mysql on GitHub that has a public repository, ranked by GitHub stars from the GitHub API; archived repositories are left out. Refreshed every 6 hours.

References

  1. shlomi-noach/awesome-mysql: GUI, GitHub community list (list text per repository licence; star counts from the GitHub API). Checked 2026-10-21 00:46 UTC.
  2. shlomi-noach/awesome-mysql (GUI), GitHub community list, 19 tools with a public repository.

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