--- title: dbForge Studio for MySQL Reviews meta\_title: 'dbForge Studio for MySQL Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 100 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how dbForge Studio for MySQL works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.7 review\_count: 100 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # dbForge Studio for MySQL Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by dbForge Studio for MySQL but has limited features. Are you part of the dbForge Studio for MySQL team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! dbForge Studio for MySQL is the universal MySQL and MariaDB client for database management, administration and development. With the help of this intelligent MySQL client the work with data and code has become easier and more convenient. Devart's MySQL GUI tool provides utilities to compare, synchronize, and backup MySQL databases with scheduling, and gives possibility to analyze and report MySQL tables data. * * * Seller [Devart](https://www.g2.com/sellers/devart) Discussions [dbForge Studio for MySQL Community](https://www.g2.com/products/dbforge-studio-for-mysql-2018-12-04/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Jordan Sanders (PR Manager at Devart) Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by dbForge. ### Express Free ### Standard (Subscription) $9.95 Per Month [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/dbforge-studio-for-mysql-2018-12-04/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Toad For Oracle](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Toad For Oracle") Toad For Oracle 4.4/5(286) ](https://www.g2.com/products/quest-software-toad-for-oracle/reviews) [ ![DBeaver](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "DBeaver") DBeaver 4.4/5(172) ](https://www.g2.com/products/dbeaver/reviews) [ ![Navicat Premium](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Navicat Premium") Navicat Premium 4.5/5(60) ](https://www.g2.com/products/navicat-premium/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/dbforge-studio-for-mysql-2018-12-04/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 100 real user reviews. Implementation Time 1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Month [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Tomáš C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tomáš C.") TC Tomáš C. Software Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/21/2023 "Like SSMS on steroids with support for MySql" 5/5 What do you like best about dbForge Studio for MySQL? I was using SSMS with MsSql for more than decade so am familiar with it's layout. It's seamless to switch from it to dbForge Studio. But I found dbForge Studio to be more feature-rich, more intuitive and overall it feels to me like more mature product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dbForge Studio for MySQL? The buggest con of dbForge was absence of monthly subscription, but that is now resolved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dbForge Studio for MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you? Writing queries is really easy. CopyDb feature is handy in some scenarios and different rendering options for the output gives me easier look into data that I fetched Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Anish Kumar D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anish Kumar D.") AD Anish Kumar D. Specialist Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/1/2023 "Best tool for managing your MySQL DBs" 4/5 What do you like best about dbForge Studio for MySQL? The best part of dbForge Studio for MySQL is the comfort and the ease it takes for doing the basic operation across multi clould evironment is seamless and right up the point what our DBAs need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dbForge Studio for MySQL? Our DB team is using dbForge Studio for MySQL for almost a year now and they havenot complained about any issues after this software was made live to the production environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dbForge Studio for MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you? Before we switched to dbForge Studio for MySQL, our database team was using multiple different tools for managing the MySQL DBs, hence we needed to install mutiple software in our VDI and that was a mess and unnecessary, but after we installed dbForge we stick to this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/17/2022 "Almost flawless MySQL management tool for Windows, far better than competition" 4.5/5 What do you like best about dbForge Studio for MySQL? dbForge Studio for MySQL has tons of functionality - lots of import, export, and copy options, great syntax checker and highlighting; advanced and quick filtering possibilities to quickly find something in a table or modify. The support is great, whenever I have a question or find a bug, they are quick to respond. But what makes it overall the best is that it simply works; I struggled for years to find an excellent MySQL management tool, and most of those, both free and paid options had mostly horrible UIs, and were buggy (some to extent of being almost unusable) or severely lacked features. dbForge just does everything right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dbForge Studio for MySQL? Although not buggy, the UI is a bit sluggish, even on a high-end desktop setup; this could be improved in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dbForge Studio for MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you? I'm using dbForge Studio for MySQL for managing MySQL and MariaDB databases on several projects within the company. It helps me quickly importing/exporting data, and do day-by-day database management tasks, without the hassle of using command line and writing queries manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Diego C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Diego C.") DC Diego C. Titular Cátedra Práctica Profesional II - Adminsitración Estratégica Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/16/2023 "Best data import for MySQL (plus other great tools)" 5/5 What do you like best about dbForge Studio for MySQL? We've been fighting with some MYSQL functions across many desktop solutions until we found dbForge Studio for MySQL. The import data tool is the best we have seen online. It is a great tool! Buy it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dbForge Studio for MySQL? It takes some time to find everything on its GUI but no more than a couple of hours using the soft. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dbForge Studio for MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you? Data import for MySQL tables Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic KB Kirk B. President Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/17/2021 "dbForge is EASY to use and makes my job easier" 5/5 What do you like best about dbForge Studio for MySQL? I've been using dbForge Studio for almost 2 years now, with previous experience being command-line access & M$QL tools. It surpasses both of those in ease of use and instant views/summaries. We administer multiple instances MySQL and mariaDB in all the usual flavors: test, beta, and production. I highly recommend that you try this product and see it for yourself. We are a small company but I see this tool as capable of growing with us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dbForge Studio for MySQL? Local help files would be great - sometimes we need to operate in non-networking mode and have to look up something (last time was something about joins in the visual query builder). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering dbForge Studio for MySQL: This tool is worth downloading as a trial. We did and it wasn't long before we decided that we needed the licensed version! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dbForge Studio for MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you? We use dbForge Studio to help us create and test new data models in our sales reporting and maintain existing CRM databases. As a small life insurance company, we have a lot of flexibility in our implementations and dbForge works very well in this type of environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/19/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Szabolcs C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Szabolcs C.") SC Szabolcs C. Senior IT Operation expert Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/18/2022 "A nicely usable tool for your developments, or DB administration" 5/5 What do you like best about dbForge Studio for MySQL? I like in this tool, that all the functions are easily reachable. It has a lot of valuable features, but the usage of them is not a pain. If you create a new object, it helps a lot in the correct syntax, The DB diagram helps a lot in understanding, showing the relations, or even preparing presentations. Database backups, data import /export in different file formats are easy and quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dbForge Studio for MySQL? Unfortunately, the schema compare is not in the package I can afford, for me this functionality is missing. Basically, there are no any other things I dislike in that tool. Really all the features satisfy me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dbForge Studio for MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you? I Started a DB development and it helped me extremely a lot. Since earlier I used SQL several years ago it's syntax correction was very useful. Currently, in my DB there are roughly 50 tables, 30 views, 10 procedures and functions and some triggers - so it helped to have a clear overview on these. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Rich M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rich M.") RM Rich M. Chief Information Officer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/21/2022 "Great tool for DevOps to manage MySQL" 5/5 What do you like best about dbForge Studio for MySQL? dbForge is great for testing queries, managing data, and all DB admin tasks related to DevOps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dbForge Studio for MySQL? It can be slow to start at times. But the overall performance is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dbForge Studio for MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you? dbForge brings MySQL management to my desktop. I am able to connect to different servers and databases to manage them all in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Program Development](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Program Development") UP Verified User in Program Development Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/17/2022 "Great product making difficult tasks easy." 4.5/5 What do you like best about dbForge Studio for MySQL? The query bulder is great at helping build large complex queries similar to MSSQL's version. , but the whole package has so many helpful tools it's hard to pick just one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dbForge Studio for MySQL? Connectivity to remote servers is sometimes buggy. It feels like a throttling issue when reviewing large datasets over the wire, even when you use paginal mode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dbForge Studio for MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you? Reduces the time required to write complex queries or test existing ones. I also like the ability to quickly customize a backup to failsafe some data before ongoing development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic RP Ryan P. SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/17/2022 "Very Happy MySQL Camper" 5/5 What do you like best about dbForge Studio for MySQL? I like the clean, understandable interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dbForge Studio for MySQL? Nothing! Every day I discover something cool about the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dbForge Studio for MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you? I have a large number (200 plus) databases that I manage and find DBForge an invaluable tool in my arenal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Jonathan D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jonathan D.") JD Jonathan D. Software Testing Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/9/2022 "An extremely effective db administration suite" 5/5 What do you like best about dbForge Studio for MySQL? it's fast, flexible and easy to use. For maintaining an existing database, it is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dbForge Studio for MySQL? I'm less keen on the schema maintenance. For this part of administration, I tend to use other tools, although it is certainly possible to do everything inside of dbForge and I fully expect this part of the system to improve as it is much more convenient to do everything with a one-stop shop than to constantly switch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dbForge Studio for MySQL solving and how is that benefiting you? I'm solving the bulk of administration issues through dbForge, and have done for many years now, as it's extremely effective. I get a lot more done through it than I do through a lot of the database-supplied tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about dbForge Studio for MySQL? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about dbForge Studio for MySQL ](https://www.g2.com/products/dbforge-studio-for-mysql-2018-12-04/discussions/new) AA Agustin Aguirre • Last activity over 5 years ago is it posible to automate a comparisson between environments and deploy? 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/46830-is-it-posible-to-automate-a-comparisson-between-environments-and-deploy) ![Bernardo B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bernardo B.") BB Bernardo Bicalho • Last activity over 3 years ago why not make it multidatabase? 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/why-not-make-it-multidatabase) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/dbforge-studio-for-mysql-2018-12-04/discuss) ## Pricing Options Pricing provided by dbForge. ### Express Free ### Standard (Subscription) $9.95 Per Month ### Professional (Subscription) $19.95 Per Month [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/dbforge-studio-for-mysql-2018-12-04/pricing) dbForge Studio for MySQL Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_0c1a5efe2186b27d1209cb6792600fda/navicat-premium.png "Product Avatar Image") Navicat Premium 4.5/5(60) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/navicat-premium-vs-dbforge-studio-for-mysql-2018-12-04) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_f780e4cdd9d34f3e5f626adb6f680aed/dbeaver.png "Product Avatar Image") DBeaver 4.4/5(172) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/dbeaver-vs-dbforge-studio-for-mysql-2018-12-04) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_3f8bc78b80dcba76cd813e5b9bdcee14/sql-compare.png "Product Avatar Image") SQL Compare 4.4/5(28) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/sql-compare-vs-dbforge-studio-for-mysql-2018-12-04) ##### ##### dbForge Studio for MySQL Features Functionality Data Backup Schema Comparison Data Comparison Management Database Synchronization Selective Synchronization Data dictionary Maintenance Data Migration Backup and Recovery Multi-User Environment Security User Access Control [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/dbforge-studio-for-mysql-2018-12-04/features) ##### Categories on G2 [Database Management Systems (DBMS)](https://www.g2.com/categories/database-management-systems-dbms)[Database Backup](https://www.g2.com/categories/database-backup)[Database Comparison](https://www.g2.com/categories/database-comparison) ##### Explore More [Is Apollo ILS worth it for mid-size public or academic institutions that need fast deployment and minimal training overhead, or does Koha deliver the same value as an open-source alternative?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-apollo-ils-worth-it-for-mid-size-public-or-academic-institutions-that-need-fast-deployment-and-minimal-training-overhead-or-does-koha-deliver-the-same-value-as-an-open-source-alternative)[Which influencer marketing tools are genuinely easy to onboard for a non-technical marketing team that does not have a dedicated ops person?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-influencer-marketing-tools-are-genuinely-easy-to-onboard-for-a-non-technical-marketing-team-that-does-not-have-a-dedicated-ops-person)[Best MFT software for small business](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-s-the-best-mft-software-for-small-businesses) [What is the best way to track time for remote teams?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-way-to-track-time-for-remote-teams)[What are the main freelance platforms and how do they actually compare for someone who wants to understand the landscape before committing to one?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-main-freelance-platforms-and-how-do-they-actually-compare-for-someone-who-wants-to-understand-the-landscape-before-committing-to-one)[Pros and Cons Details](https://www.g2.com/products/dbforge-studio-for-mysql-2018-12-04/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)