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TablePlus

One native client for most databases, sold as a perpetual licence

Price: $99 once

This versionThe next major is a new purchase

Buy direct Website

Price read on tableplus.com, the page Buy direct opens.

The catch

Updates stop after one year unless you renew; the app itself keeps working

The full picture

The licence is perpetual but the update window is not: one year of updates and support is included, and after that new versions need a renewal. Basic covers a single device, so a desktop-and-laptop setup wants the $129 Standard licence. The free trial is capped at 2 open tabs, 2 windows and 2 advanced filters at a time, which is tight enough that a real evaluation takes patience. It is also on Setapp, so check that list before paying — subscribers already have it.

Pays back in
11 months
Seats
1 MacBasic at $99 covers 1 device; the $129 Standard licence covers 2, and Team is 1 device per seat from 3 seats up.
Developer account
None needed
Buy once$99Rent 5 years$565

$466 kept over five years, and you still have the app.
Against DBeaver PRO at $113 a year, Lite Edition annual subscription, one licence; Enterprise Edition is $255. Also replaces JetBrains DataGrip and Navicat Premium.

What it looks like

TablePlus: Full TablePlus window in dark theme: connection sidebar (tableplus / tools / mysql), Items/Queries/History tabs with the MySQL table list, the green connection bar reading "MySQL 9.7.1 : TLSv1.3 : SSH : mysql : SQL Query", a SQL editor pane with a SELECT statement, the result grid with a highlighted row, and the right-hand Details/Assistant inspector showing the selected row's fields. The single most complete view of the app.
Full TablePlus window in dark theme. Vendor site (tableplus.com homepage)
TablePlus: The SQL editor in light theme, full window: a long multi-line PostgreSQL query with syntax highlighting and line numbers, a live column autocomplete popover (created_at / price / id / name with types), the results grid below showing 16 rows, and the Data / Message / Chart tabs plus Export button in the footer. @2x asset.
The SQL editor in light theme, full window. Vendor site (tableplus.com homepage)
TablePlus: The light-theme window showing a PostgreSQL connection: pg_catalog table tree in the sidebar, two stacked advanced filter rows (relname contains "stats", relnamespace = 11) with Apply/Clear/Apply All, the pg_class data grid, and the Data/Structure/Index tabs with "1 of 415 rows selected".
The light-theme window showing a PostgreSQL connection. Vendor site (tableplus.com homepage)

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What you’re buying

TablePlus is the database GUI people switch to when the one they were using started asking for money every year. It talks to Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SQL Server, Redis and a long tail of others from a single window, which matters if your week involves three engines and you would rather not keep three apps and three sets of saved connections.

It is a real Cocoa app, and it shows in the small things: filtering a large table does not stall, tabs behave like Mac tabs, and editing rows feels closer to a spreadsheet than a form. Connections tunnel over SSH natively, and pending row edits show you the SQL before they are committed, which has saved more than one afternoon.

The licence is the reason it is here: $99 once, described on the pricing page as perpetual with no subscription. The boundary is the update window. You get a year of updates and support; after that the version you hold keeps running without limits, and newer releases need a renewal. Basic also covers one device, so two machines means the $129 tier.

Do not buy it if you only ever touch Postgres — a single-engine client is cheaper. And check Setapp first: TablePlus is on it, and paying twice for the same app is a bad trade.

What owners report

Points that recur across the discussions below. A report of what users say, not our verdict: we don’t review software.

Praised

  • Users arriving from Java- and Electron-based clients repeatedly single out how quickly it launches and filters next to DBeaver, pgAdmin and Navicat.
  • Owners who touch Postgres, MySQL and Redis in the same week say the single client across engines is the thing they are actually paying for.
  • Several report the developer replying to bug reports and feature requests within a day or two, sometimes with a beta build.

Criticised

  • The licence being tied to a machine rather than a person is the loudest recurring complaint: owners with a desktop and a laptop object to buying twice, and some say it sent them to DataGrip instead.
  • Import and export is the repeated weak spot — several compare it unfavourably with Sequel Pro, particularly on large SQL files.

Details

The price in full

Basic $99 per licence for 1 device; Standard listed at $198 and discounted to $129 for 2 devices; Team $79 per seat from 3 seats up. Every tier is described as "Buy once, use forever. Perpetual license (no subscription)" and includes a bonus one year of updates and support, after which the app keeps working with no limitations or you renew for more updates. Also available through a Setapp subscription.

The TablePlus page at tableplus.com
The developer’s own page. tableplus.com, captured 22 Sep 2026
Free trial
Yes
Works offline
Yes
Apple Silicon
Native
On Setapp
Yes
Minimum macOS
not stated
Developer
TablePlus Inc.

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