v0.9.7 PostgreSQL database explorer for Windows and Linux

A focused viewer
for PostgreSQL.

PG Compass is a fast, minimal database viewer for PostgreSQL. Connect, navigate schemas, inspect tables, and run queries without the overhead of a full IDE.

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5 focused table views Windows and Linux 0 telemetry, 0 accounts MIT licensed
payments-development · drag to compare themes
// dark — default // light — for daylight PG Compass dark mode PG Compass light mode

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Most PostgreSQL tools are bloated IDEs or primitive CLI wrappers. PG Compass sits in the sweet spot: a focused, fast tool for the thing developers do most — inspecting data.

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Schema-first navigation

Browse connections, expand schemas, and drill into tables from a clean tree. Schemas remain first-class instead of being buried behind database tooling.

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Zero configuration

Paste a PostgreSQL connection string and start exploring. Save, label, color-code, and favorite the connections you use every day.

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Card view for JSONB

Tables stuffed with JSONB? Flip to card view and read documents like a human, not a row.

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Five-tab table viewer

Data, Structure, Indexes, Constraints, and Query keep everything you need to understand a table in one focused interface.

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CSV / JSON export

Right-click any result set or table. Export full or filtered rows, no row-count limit.

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SQL query editor

Run ad-hoc SQL and inspect the results with the same pagination and data views used while browsing tables.

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Extension-aware rendering

Inspect pgvector embeddings and PostGIS geometry as meaningful values instead of unreadable blobs.

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Dark by default

A quiet, data-first interface with light mode included and keyboard-friendly controls throughout.

Click, browse, breathe.
It just keeps up.

One window. Tab anything you want to keep open. Switch between connections without losing your place.

PG Compass demo: browsing schemas and tables

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Why another Postgres GUI?

Because the existing ones are either heavy IDEs full of features you'll never touch — or terminal wrappers with the ergonomics of a hand-cranked drill. We picked the middle.

Feature
PG Compass
pgAdmin
DataGrip
Cold start
~80 ms
~3 s
~12 s
Install size
14 MB
230 MB
740 MB
JSONB card view
built-in
raw text
plugin
Account required
never
never
license key
Telemetry
none
opt-out
opt-out
License
MIT
PostgreSQL
Commercial

Built in the open.
Not in a meeting.

PG Compass is MIT-licensed and developed in public. No paid tier, no “pro” features held hostage, no telemetry pinging home. Fork it, audit it, ship a patch, or just lurk in the issues — all of it is welcome.

One repo. One license.
Zero asterisks.

The whole app — desktop shell, query engine, and every theme — lives at github.com/waterrmalann/pg-compass. It is the same code we ship and the same code you can read, extend, and rebuild.

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LICENSE · MIT · // do whatever, just keep the notice.
TELEMETRY · none · // we don't want your data.
ACCOUNTS · never · // log in to what?

Stop wrestling with your database GUI.

Free. Open source. No accounts. Available for Windows and Linux.

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