The Mac-native
MySQL workbench
Navicat-class power with TablePlus-class speed. Query builder, ER diagrams, verified backups, schema sync and an AI assistant that keeps your keys yours, in a fast, native Swift app.
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · notarized · MySQL & MariaDB
One app. The whole workflow.
No plug-ins, no tiers of missing features: the tools you'd expect from a £600 suite, in one native package.
SQL editor that thinks
Alias-aware completion: type o. and get the columns of whatever
orders o means. CTEs understood, visual EXPLAIN plan tree,
one-click index suggestions.
→ Stop alt-tabbing to remember column names.
Visual query builder
Drag tables onto a canvas, tick columns, joins detected from foreign keys. Round-trips with the editor: SQL in, diagram out, and back.
→ Complex joins without writing a line of SQL.
ER diagrams that cope
Column-anchored relationship lines, and inferred links for the WordPress-style schemas that never declared a foreign key in their lives.
→ Understand an inherited database in minutes.
Backups you can trust
Streamed dumps with automatic verification: gzip integrity, completeness marker, table and row counts checked. Drag a dump from Finder to import it.
→ Know your backup restores before you need it to.
Production guard-rails
Tag a connection production and every write asks first: in the editor, the grid, everywhere. The red badge follows it around the app.
→ Never fat-finger production again.
AI with your keys
An agentic assistant that inspects your schema and runs read-only SQL to answer with real data. Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or local Ollama. Your key, no middleman, writes need your click.
→ Answers from your data, not hallucinations.
Schema & data sync
Diff two databases, structure or rows, and generate the ALTER / INSERT script to reconcile them. Review before anything runs.
→ Deploy schema changes with confidence.
Import & export
CSV import with column mapping; export any table or query to CSV, JSON, SQL or Markdown, streamed, so million-row tables just work.
→ Reports for the boss in three clicks.
Scheduler & dashboards
Cron-style scheduled backups and queries, plus BI-style dashboards for the numbers you check every morning.
→ Fire the cron jobs you wrote in 2019.
Every feature, with real screenshots →
Questions, answered
Is there a free MySQL client for Mac?
Yes, Flanders is a native macOS MySQL and MariaDB client, free while in beta, with a query editor, visual query builder, ER diagrams, verified backups and schema sync. macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel.
Is Flanders a good Navicat or TablePlus alternative?
Flanders is a native Swift app with the pro tools people buy Navicat for, query builder, ER diagrams, backups, schema sync, with no subscription. It matches TablePlus on native speed and adds verified backups, a scheduler and an AI assistant.
Does Flanders support MySQL 8 and MariaDB over SSH?
Yes. It speaks the MySQL wire protocol directly, supports MySQL 8.x and MariaDB, and tunnels over SSH with host-key pinning. Passwords live in the macOS Keychain.
Does it have an AI assistant?
Yes, an agentic assistant you point at your own API key (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or local Ollama). It inspects your schema and runs read-only SQL to answer questions; any write needs your approval.
How much does Flanders cost?
Free during beta. At 1.0 it becomes a one-time perpetual licence with a year of updates, never a subscription.
No subscription.
Flanders is free while in beta. When 1.0 ships it will be a perpetual licence with a year of updates. The app you bought keeps working forever, renew only if you want newer builds.
- Every feature, no caps
- Auto-updates included
- Perpetual licence at 1.0, beta users first in line
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