It's a no for me. I don't want a subscription. Charge whatever you need, give us 1y of updates, charge next year for an upgrade. Do not pull folks into yet another subscription.
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Over the past few months I've been building DB Pro with my co-founder. DB Pro is a modern desktop database GUI client designed to make working with Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, libSQL and other engines feel fast, visual, and enjoyable.
Our focus has been on the dev-experience. We wanted to absolutely nail the UX and look and feel as we believe most db clients aren't friendly to work with.
Some features:
Visual change review – See pending inserts/updates/deletes before committing them.
Inline data editing – Edit table rows directly without clunky modal dialogs.
Raw SQL editor – A focused editor for running queries with results in separate tabs.
Full activity logs – Track everything happening in your database for peace of mind.
Visual schema explorer – See tables, columns, keys, and relationships in a diagram.
Tabs & multi-window support – Keep multiple connections and queries open at once.
Custom table tagging – Organise your tables without altering the schema.
Tech stack: Electron, React, tRPC, Drizzle ORM, Postgres/MySQL/libSQL/SQLite support, and native builds for macOS at the moment with Windows, and Linux coming very soon.
We're super passionate about this project and we're actually documenting our journey through devlogs. The latest one is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T4GcJuV1rM
Thanks, Jay and Jack
If you were running this on some cloud, maybe had some other extras built in that cost you time and money, then there could be a subscription.
If you want to keep your software updated, and are pushing updates daily, weekly, monthly, etc, I could squint at a subscription, but I would rather you just do critical fixes (bc if your product is broken you do owe paying customers a fix without a charge), and put new features in a new version that you will also sell.
People are selling git clients, calculators, db clients on subscription. it's crazy what the world has come to. We don't work to pay you guys rent.
The second I saw this app I was about to click buy (looking for a table plus alternative), went to pricing, saw subscription and immediately dropped it without even trying the free version.
We’re about to introduce a one time purchase option that includes a full year of updates. No subscription required. This will be available later this coming week.
Really appreciate you checking out the project and pushing us to make the right call for our users. Stay tuned.