GUI tools for MySQL

Graphical user interface (GUI) tools consist of an interface that includes visual components such as buttons or icons, through which the user interacts with electronic devices. The biggest advantage of graphical user interface is an improvement in usability for the average person. It gives the ability to perform various tasks on an electronic device, without any programming knowledge.

Navicat Data Modeler

Navicat Data Modeler lets you create, modify, and design your models using professional object designers, available for Tables and Views. It allows you to visually design database structures, perform reverse/forward engineering processes, import models from ODBC data sources, generate complex SQL/DDL, print models to files, and much more.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Free edition: No
Schema design: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: Yes

Valentina Studio

Valentina Studio is a visual data modeling and database management tool that lets you manage multiple databases in tabs and dockable views, create/Drop/Alter/Browse Tables, Fields, Indexes, Triggers, Constraints, Links, Views, Stored Procedures, Properties, Sequences, Types, and do plenty of other activities.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Free edition: Yes
Schema design: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: Yes

DBeaver

DBeaver is an open source universal database management tool that lets you view a database structure in the standard ERD (Entity Relation Diagram) form. You can view the diagrams of existing tables and whole database schemas, while it also allows the creation of custom diagrams.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Free edition: Yes
Schema design: Yes
Commercial: Free
Forward engineering: No
Reverse enginering: Yes

DataGrip

DataGrip is a database IDE that is tailored to suit the specific needs of professional SQL developers. It offers database diagram support that lets you graphically show the structure of the database and relations between database objects. You can generate a diagram for a data source, a schema, or a table.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Free edition: No
Schema design: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Forward engineering: No
Reverse enginering: Yes

RazorSQL

RazorSQL is a software application that provides both easy to use visual tools and advanced features to allow users to do database browsing, editing, management, administration, and programming.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Free edition: No
Schema design: No
Commercial: Commercial
Forward engineering: No
Reverse enginering: No

Sequel Pro

Sequel Pro is an open-source, fast, and easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases. It gives you direct access to your MySQL Databases on local and remote servers.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Free edition: Yes
Schema design: No
Commercial: Free
Forward engineering: No
Reverse enginering: Yes

SQLwave

SQLwave is the graphical and intuitive MySQL client tool designed to automate and simplify database development process. It also provides an easier way to explore and maintain existing databases, design compound SQL statements, query and manipulate data in different ways.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Free edition: No
Schema design: No
Commercial: Commercial
Forward engineering: No
Reverse enginering: No

SQLyog

SQLyog enables database developers, administrators, and architects to visually compare, optimize, and document schemas. The Schema Designer (introduced in SQLyog version 6.1) offers a visual interface where tables and table structures can be defined, displayed, and manipulated.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Free edition: No
Schema design: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Forward engineering: No
Reverse enginering: No

DbSchema

DbSchema is a universal database designer and GUI tool that provides a diagram-oriented database designer for relational and No-SQL databases. Using DbSchema, you will interact with the database using the mouse. Even if you are not an SQL expert, you will be able to create new tables, columns, or foreign keys, explore the data from multiple tables, create reports or generate test data.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Free edition: No
Schema design: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Forward engineering: No
Reverse enginering: Yes

DbVisualizer

DbVisualizer is a smart and powerful database tool aimed to simplify database development and management for database administrators and developers. It lets you create and manage the database visually. Generate SQL code by drag & drop and copy & paste it into other applications.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Free edition: No
Schema design: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: Yes

Adminer

Adminer is a PHP written full-featured database management tool. It provides an enhanced user interface, higher performance, more security, and more feature sets. You can create, alter, drop, and search tables, foreign keys, columns, triggers, etc. You can list data in tables with search, aggregate, sort and limit results.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Free edition: Yes
Schema design: Yes
Commercial: Free
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: Yes

Toad Data Modeler

Toad Data Modeler is an easy-to-use, multi-platform data modeler. It lets you visualize database structures and better understand existing databases and relationships. Create high-quality logical and physical data models. Reverse engineer existing database structures to view them in a diagram. Generate detailed HTML, RTF or PDF reports.

Desktop/Cloud: Cloud
Free edition: No
Schema design: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: Yes

SQuirreL SQL

SQuirreL SQL Client is a graphical Java program that will allow you to view the structure of a JDBC compliant database, browse the data in tables, issue SQL commands, etc.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Free edition: Yes
Schema design: Yes
Commercial: Free
Forward engineering: No
Reverse enginering: Yes

SchemaSpy

SchemaSpy is a Java-based graphical database schema metadata browser tool that analyzes the metadata of a schema in a database and generates a visual representation of it in a browser-displayable format. It lets you click through the hierarchy of database tables via child and parent table relationships as represented by both HTML links and entity-relationship diagrams.

Desktop/Cloud: Cloud
Free edition: Yes
Schema design: Yes
Commercial: Free
Forward engineering: No
Reverse enginering: Yes

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is a very easy-to-use and intuitive database design tool for database modeling, drawing database structure, and diagramming databases. The enhanced Entity Relationship Diagram modeling allows you to design a fully relational database, while flexible datatype mapping allows you to add and remove Target DBMS data types, including data type modifiers, and create auto-increment data types.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Free edition: Yes
Schema design: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: Yes


The key feature of GUI tools is to present system resources, in graphical objects, that are easy to find, understand and use. Through these elements users have an easy access to interact with and manipulate available functions. They allow us to speed up the most frequent tasks in the easiest and most accessible way.

We prepared simple data modeling tools as well as more advanced GUI tools for visually designing and managing databases.