It’s heavy and will consume a large portion of memory to run.

It’s one of the most resource-intensive tools.

If you work with more than one drivers, such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or SQLite, you will end up purchase the Navicat premium package at $1,299.

A single machine license for the most standard version (MySQL) is already $299.

Compatible with other Navicat products: Navicat Monitor, Navicat Data Modeler, Navicat Report Viewer, and Navicat Data Model Essentials.

Supports many languages, including Polish, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, French, and English.

Visual query builder and report builder.

It’s cross-platform and supports multiple drivers.

You can either buy a special edition for MySQL with $119 for Non-Commercial Edition, $199 for Standard Edition, and $299 for Enterprise Edition or you can buy Navicat Premium to work with all supported drivers at the price of $1299 for Enterprise Edition and $599 for Non-Commercial Edition. Pricing: Navicat is a commercial application with 14 days trial and it has many pricing schemes. Supported Drivers: Navicat supports several popular databases: MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Oracle, SQLite, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server. Supported platforms: Navicat is cross-platform. Navicat offers a powerful tool for both database development and administration. This is a big problem in the current (2016 to present) version of Sequel Pro.

Filtering/Sorting data based on single constraint including equal to/in/like/between etc.

Full user management, credentials, and roles.

Pricing: Sequel Pro is free and open source. Since the recent MySQL 8.0 came out, it’s reported that Sequel Pro can’t connect to MySQL 8.0, it’s not working properly or just crashing. Supported Drivers: Sequel Pro only supports MySQL. Supported Platforms: Sequel Pro is available on macOS only.

Sequel Pro had been long known for being one of the best GUI tools for MySQL, only until recently when it has compatibility issues with MySQL 8 and Mojave. Let’s have a quick look at three GUI tools: Sequel Pro, Navicat, TablePlus, and compare pros and cons to see which tool is better for your needs. A good GUI Client will help you work with database a lot faster and easier.

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