Projects like these should be celebrated through donations and this project makes it easy. When’s the last time you’ve seen freeware developer tool for macOS that’s not from a corporation with money to spare?<p>I personally can’t think of anything beyond iTerm (utility), Homebrew (utility), ...aaand that's where my list ends.
It hasn't been updated in a very long time. Constant crashes on Mojave. I have transitioned away to TablePlus and DataGrip. Too bad because it was a very good tool for quick edits.
I loved Sequel Pro and was disappointed when I switched companies and couldn't use it with Postgres. Plug: it's one of the reasons why I built PopSQL (<a href="https://popsql.io" rel="nofollow">https://popsql.io</a>)
SequelPro is amazing and I used it for many many years.<p>Now I’m using TablePlus which is a great paid client ($50 I think) and I love it.<p>I really hope in the new era, we can have paid open source tools with some bounties for important bug fixes and UX improvements.<p>That seems to be a very sustainable way to develop great software.
This is my favorite DB tool, but unfortunately it doesn't support MySQL 8 — <a href="https://github.com/sequelpro/sequelpro/issues/2699" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sequelpro/sequelpro/issues/2699</a>
As others have mentioned, it has not received much love recently from the developer. My guess is that it is due to the pricing model and accepting donations. I have donated $200 back in 2014 but I did not see many supporters back then and none now. There is no incentive for the developer to keep maintaining and enhancing the product. Everyone who used this tool in the past and liked itshould consider supporting it if not with money then with their time and knowledge on github.
I thought they had released the new version... :( crashes on mojave are usual... I know they have fixed them in new builds, but I'm waiting for a stable release.<p>Such a great client!!!
Me and my colleagues have benefitted greatly from Sequel Pro over the years. Recent Mojave complaints aside it's been close to perfect. It's eye opening to think we have paid nothing. Maybe companies should look into implementing 1% turnover to OSS. I'm guessing having bi-annual company votes about how to distribute the funding, and communicating this in the recruitment process might offset some/all of the cost.
I used and loved Sequel Pro for years, but interface limitations and crashes finally set me off looking for a replacement after some stressful production debugging sessions.<p>After trying a few like MySQL Workbench and Navicat, I landed on Querious and haven't looked back since. It's not free in either sense of the word but well worth the ~$50 USD license IMO.<p>Interface-wise I found it to be easier/more familiar to switch to from Sequel Pro, as compared to some of the alternatives mentioned above - more on the light and nimble side, less on the heavy interface enterprisey-feeling side if that makes sense.<p>It's Mac native, performant, and very stable. Some very basic features that felt like a big upgrade from Sequel Pro:<p>- Arbitrary WHERE clause support in the data view, so you don't need to switch to a full manual query as soon as you need slightly more complex conditions<p>- Multiple query tabs - I used to spawn multiple Sequel Pro instances because this was so hard to live without. There's also good management of query history and saved queries.<p>- Robust and performant import/export tools<p>No affiliation with the developer, just wanted to give a shout-out to a high quality piece of software that I've really appreciated using.
Is this project still alive? they haven't had an official release since 2016 though the commit history shows some recent but unreleased work.<p>That coupled with a lack of other RDBMS support has forced me to transition to other tools like DataGrip.
Great product. Switched from MySQL workbench and it was amazing. Haven’t upgraded to Mojave though. Apple hasn’t been the same since they switched to one year OS release cycles.
This is a really nicely done client.<p>I've mainly used it from a "let's go in and see what's going on in the database" perspective, and it's been great for that.<p>I wish I had the same thing for Oracle and sql server.<p>It crashes on Mojave, but only when closing it so it's more an annoyance than a problem (and the fix is in the works).
It is nice it is true. But some time ago SequelPro was crashed on my Mac. Since then I moved to TablePluse. It is much more convinent for me. Contain everyting what I need and I can use for manage another types of database (Redis, Postgres, Mongo..). I highly recomend TablePlus.
This is a nice client.<p>I had used Navicat for years on my old iMac, but when I got my new MacBook Pro as my secondary development machine and went to get another licence for it, I was shocked at the current pricing. I am certain I only paid about $50 for a licence years back. When I downloaded the latest version it was something like 25x the price!!<p>Don't get me wrong - Navicat is a great MySQL/MariaDB client, but I wasn't going to stretch to that price. I hunted around and found Sequel Pro, which meets my needs to a 't' and probably has a slicker interface.
After a brief period working with macOS, I missed Sequel Pro when moving back to Linux. In the end I wrote Sequel Joe:<p><a href="https://github.com/ohwgiles/sequeljoe" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ohwgiles/sequeljoe</a><p>Still, it's light years behind Sequel Pro in terms of features/completeness/quality and probably always will be :)
Sequel Pro is the single app that makes me come back to OSX every now and then to work with my databases. This app for Linux would be so great. The official Oracle MySQL application for Linux is so unstable, it's mostly unusable for large databases. Never experienced such problems with Sequel.
It's ok. I mean, it's great that you put in all this time to give it away for free, but this is not where open source shines. This is lightyears behind professional SQL clients like SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) - even compared to what SSMS was 10 years ago!
It's a paid and rather expensive product but I've used Navicat happily for something like ten years.<p>The latest release was a rewrite and they're still sorting out problems but every incremental update brings it closer to how great the previous version was.
It's a great program and I have used it for years. I highly recommend it to everyone and the developers have done a great job. Currently it has a small bug which can be bit annoying where it crashes when opening and closing connections.
Sequel Pro is one of the few reasons why I used to be really, really envious about Mac users, as a Linux user (now I don't work with MySQL anymore).
I've never seen any SQL GUI even come close.
Honestly, I really enjoyed using Sequel Pro but I __had__ to switch to DBeaver because it constantly kept crashing for me. Maybe I'll have to give it another shot.
Been using this for years now. Im hooked to it. That simplicity and functionality. Wow!!! Way better than than MySQL Workbench for most of the daily needs.
Sequel Pro is by far the best SQL client I've ever used. It's really sad that it's available only for Mac. It's the only app I miss after having moved to Linux.