# Postico Reviews **Vendor:** Egger Apps **Category:** [Relational Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/relational-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 17 ## About Postico Postico is a modern, user-friendly database client designed exclusively for macOS, offering seamless interaction with PostgreSQL databases. It caters to a diverse audience, including researchers, analysts, app developers, and students, providing an intuitive interface for data entry, querying, and management. Key Features and Functionality: - Data Entry and Editing: Facilitates straightforward data input and modification, enhancing productivity. - Row Detail Sidebar: Offers a detailed view of individual rows, simplifying data inspection and editing. - Graphical Structure Editor: Enables visual design and modification of database structures, streamlining schema management. - Function Editor: Allows for the creation and editing of database functions directly within the application. - Multi-File Query Editor: Supports working with multiple query files simultaneously, improving workflow efficiency. Primary Value and User Solutions: Postico addresses the need for a reliable and efficient PostgreSQL client on macOS by combining powerful features with an elegant interface. It simplifies complex database tasks, making it accessible for users of varying expertise levels. By focusing solely on PostgreSQL compatibility, Postico ensures optimized performance and a tailored experience for its users. ## Postico Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Postico, benefiting from its simple deployment and intuitive interface. (1 reviews) - Users value the **reasonable per-seat pricing** of Postico, making it affordable for small teams to manage databases effectively. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **setup ease** of Postico, finding deployment in a Mac environment quick and straightforward. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users note **compatibility issues** with Postico due to the lack of Windows and Linux support, limiting its usability. (1 reviews) - Users note the **limited database support** , particularly due to the absence of Windows and Linux compatibility. (1 reviews) ## Postico Reviews ### 1. Powerful and Reasonably Priced SQL Database Manager **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2025 **What do you like best about Postico?** Color coded tabs, customizable views and advanced filtering make Postico a critical SQL database manager. The per-seat pricing is reasonable for small teams and deploying Postico in the Mac environment is simple and fast. **What do you dislike about Postico?** Filtering could be a little smarter by stripping out trailing spaces, etc. Lack of Windows and Linux support could be a problem for some businesses. **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have multiple SQL databases to manage and when we need to make large or small changes, we need our SQL manager to work consistently and quickly. Postico allows us to accurately make database adjustments and get an accurate view of the entire data set. In addition, Postico is powerful enough for advanced database admins and simple enough for our tech support team to understand. ### 2. Loved the simple look but lacked some great features **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Idris R. | Senior Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Postico?** Simplicity. The simple view is great for use cases where we have 1-2 databases to connect. **What do you dislike about Postico?** - DBMS features: It does lack a lot of features such as table insights (index, constraints, etc) that typically is useful for a software developer - Multi-view: Connecting multiple databases opens up in a separate window which creates a lot of problems and does not offer a holistic view - Scripts: Lack of support for writing SQL scripts such as intellisense, persisting scripts, etc. **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** We extensively use Postico as a DBMS tool for entire organization ### 3. localized PostgreSQL database search app **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Postico?** Speed is important when querying a database since there will be inherant latency. The fact that this Mac app runs locally and not as SaaS helps with that. The ability to filter for indexed field variables is great for those of us who aren't so great writing SQL queries. However, you can still write your own. The "Copy Insert Statement" feature came in handy. In full disclosure, I used version one which I don't believe had the function editor. This app was a workhorse in my daily tasks. **What do you dislike about Postico?** The GUI is a bit bland and monolithic-looking, so it can take some getting used to. It feels as if it could be more intuitive and pleasant-looking. It's also almost a bit too easy to overwrite data if your database is very sensitive to changes **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** database queries ### 4. Easy database operations tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Filip K. | Kierownik projektu, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Postico?** The best part is that configuration of tool to get the ability of managament of database is so simple. It's just 20 seconds to provide credentials and you can access and make operations on database. It provides me easy way: - to execute SQL statement on databases - export the results as a csv - intuitive way and shortcuts when making queries. **What do you dislike about Postico?** There is not a lot of disadvantages of Postico. It's useful, nice and easy. But the column filtering would be nice feature. Also It would be nice to have an ability to export results on different formats. **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick mods on databases when our customers (users of our application) are in some needs. Also quick way to make reports when i need something unusual. ### 5. Postico - Your DB friend **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karan R. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Postico?** Postico's SQL execution is very intuitive. It's not cluttered, and lets you execute single or multiple queries with great shortcut support. The navigation view is also amazing to explore a larger database. **What do you dislike about Postico?** It's not possible to indent SQL code with IDE-like shortcuts. If they supported that, it would be amazing. Also there is no way to easy way to look at history or saved sql queries in the UI. **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a software developer, Postico helps me with my process of writing and testing SQL migrations, debugging Database issues through inspection, and generating custom reports. ### 6. Postico is a must if you are a OSX PostgreSQL Admin **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Postico?** I've been using Postico for many years at work, and it's a fantastic tool to interact with Postgres databases. What I like the most is the user-friendly features and slick UI that Native DB Clients don't have, such as: - Copy/paste using the clipboard is so nice for quickly copying data in a tabular format - Advanced Copy as Insert, CSV, etc also works very nicely - Autocomplete: Makes building complex queries so much easier - Low risk: Many GUI-based DB clients come with some risk, but with Postico you have complete control over how transactions are made, and you don't risk overloading the database. Also data edits are pretty low risk as they prescriptively require you to commit/save the changes, so it's a multi-stage process (other GUI-based clients are more prone to manipulate data inadvertently) **What do you dislike about Postico?** Switching between Database hosts is not straightforward, as you have to close the entire connection every time. It will be nice to have a "Get SELECT" feature to get a predefined SELECT query (similar to copy as INSERT) when selecting a row. More updates will be nice as well. There are a few updates per year and this is probably fine as it's a small team behind it, but sometimes it feels a bit behind OSX releases **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main gain for me is productivity. After using other more well known Postgres clients for many years (both CLI and GUI based), Postico is a huge time saver for me and for everyone I've recommended it. ### 7. Postico Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Postico?** I love that we're able to use this tool to create personalized and specific reporting for our company and our employees. It's a really helpful tool for us to be able to keep track of all our key metrics and stay on top of where our team is trending. **What do you dislike about Postico?** There's really not much that I dislike about the platform. It meets all my basic needs and is pretty simple to use. Writing the queries is the hardest part, but this application makes it pretty simple to use. **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** We utilize this tool to create reports in tableau and this is our main source of reporting. This is crucial to our success as a team and is a live saver for me as a manager. ### 8. User friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Postico?** Postico Interface is easy I felt. I user DBeaver too, but comparatively, this is far better. We can easily connect to our internal DB spaces wihtout much hassle. :) **What do you dislike about Postico?** Adding multple servers became alittle difficult. Also if there can be a tour guide that would help a newbie easily explore it otherwise it is good. :) **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** Through postico, we are fetching and tracing the data. Building and connecting to internal db tools through sql. It is very useful when we are working on high data points ### 9. Amazing PostgreSQL client for the Mac **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Postico?** PostgreSQL is super easy to use, with a beautiful and Mac-native user interface, super functionality and a very fair price including a very functional free tier. **What do you dislike about Postico?** Nothing, I haven't found any issues or anything that I couldn't do with Postico. It's really an amazing product and anyone with a Mac and a PostgreSQL DB should use it. **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** We operate a remote PostgreSQL database and use the app to browse data, perform queries and run maintenance and other operations on this database. We use Macs so we were looking for a quality native app and found a great solution with PostgreSQL. ### 10. Postico Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Postico?** Postico is very easy and intuitive to use. **What do you dislike about Postico?** - We can only save 5 db connection is free/community edition. - You cannot filter any column in community edition **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accessing db via GUI is quite time saving and its UI is much better than pgAdmin ### 11. Quick and slick Querying tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Postico?** the connection was easy; response time was faster than comparable products **What do you dislike about Postico?** Scale may be an issue and the UI is a little less attractive **Recommendations to others considering Postico:** worth a try **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** querying large data sets ### 12. A must-have if you are using Mac and Postgresql **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Postico?** Ability to automatically fill in details for favorites connections is time saving. The UI is simple and works really well. **What do you dislike about Postico?** The SQL query interface is like a big text editor without any ability to organize and share useful queries **Recommendations to others considering Postico:** Affordable and works really well **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing Postgresql databases, create materialized views on the fly and run queries which are not accessible via applications ### 13. Postico - Looking into my database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** OYEDEJI P. | Software Developer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Postico?** What I like best about postico is the ease of use. The user experience is great. and also the user interface. The first time I used postico, I didn't need a manual to use it, I just Installed it opened it and I was good to go. It also makes it possible to make changes to my database without having to write SQL queries from my terminal. I can see my database content, structure, the relation between the tables, and also the SQL queries used to design the database which provides a better understanding of relational database management. **What do you dislike about Postico?** What I dislike about postico is the fact that it can only be used on Mac. So while I was a windows user, I couldn't enjoy the benefits that come with using postico, Also, it doesn't have support for other databases aside Postgresql and those derived from it. **Recommendations to others considering Postico:** If you need a database tool for Postgresql database and you are a Mac user, I recommend Postico. The User Interface is flawless and the User experience is great. You get to sort, filter, edit and even batch edit your database without SQL queries. **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** As full-stack web developer, I use postico to interact with the data in my database. With Postico, I manage the database of my apps without having to write SQL queries from my terminal. ### 14. Postico is great for simple DB management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pablo L. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Postico?** I love the simplicity in both UI and navigation for postico. it makes it very simple to do day to day operations on our database (simple queries, filters, inserts etc). **What do you dislike about Postico?** I wish it had a bit of a better join view. I wish there were a way to see multiple tables at once (apart from just the foreign key option), which would help greatly in tracing through multiple tables when tracking customers and their data **Recommendations to others considering Postico:** I would recommend that the use case you are looking for relates to simple day to day usage. It is great for developers that need to explore the DB tables, but if you are a DB admin looking for powerful querying abilities, you will be very frustrated **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes it easy to manage day to day tasks like simple inserts and updates. while it doesn't have the more advanced options of something like pgadmin, it's much more friendly on the daily ### 15. Best Option For Mac **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Postico?** It works really well as a Postgres GUI tool on Mac. **What do you dislike about Postico?** Not an easy way to switch between browsing tables and running SQL commands. **Recommendations to others considering Postico:** It can be a little finicky on how it's used. It seems to have a very set use-case for some of its features, and learning how it's supposed to be used really helps on getting it to do what you want it to. **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to run SQL commands. It allows for quicker troubleshooting and testing. ### 16. Looks good **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Postico?** Postico has a good interface in terms of how it looks, however, it’s a lot more difficult then it’s counterparts to use. **What do you dislike about Postico?** I dislike how much harder it is to set your machine up on postico and use it effectively. **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** We’re solving the problem of viewing our backend data for postgres ### 17. Very user friendly DB client **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Postico?** UI and data retrieving with double click on the table name **What do you dislike about Postico?** some times it responds slowly may be because memory with opened sessions. **Recommendations to others considering Postico:** Very easy to learn and start use this tool for the database **What problems is Postico solving and how is that benefiting you?** Relational database debugging ## Postico Discussions - [Should I buy Postico?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/should-i-buy-postico) - [Is Postico only for Mac?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-postico-only-for-mac) - [What is Postico?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-postico) - [What is Postico used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-postico-used-for) - [View Postico pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/postico/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+08%3A06%3A24+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=6505b8c0-f11a-4d8b-bddb-828c98456c0b&secure%5Btoken%5D=9bba2df9b560f0ac457c5c736282aa3317cac30800624e34239ca59d1a4bbee6&format=llm_user) ## Postico Features **Management ** - Data Schema - Query Language - ACID - Complaint - Data Replication **Support ** - Text Search - Data Types - Languages - Operating Systems **Security** - Database Locking - Access Control - Encryption - Authentication **Performance ** - Disaster Recovery - Data Concurrency - Workload Management - Advanced Indexing - Query Optimizer **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Postico Alternatives - [PostgreSQL](https://www.g2.com/products/postgresql/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (643 reviews) - [Oracle Database](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-database/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (926 reviews) - [Google Cloud SQL](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-sql/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (353 reviews)