Dig into your databases. DGopher is a fast, open-source database client for Linux, macOS and Windows. It works with PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse, SQLite, DuckDB and Redis.
It is a single Go binary. Its interface is drawn natively by MyGo, with no webview, JVM or Electron. It starts instantly, looks the same on every system, and is careful by default with the databases that matter.
Download the build for your system from the latest release:
| System | Builds |
|---|---|
| Linux | amd64, arm64 (.deb and .tar.gz) |
| macOS | Apple silicon, Intel (disk image) |
| Windows | amd64 (installer) |
The builds are not signed yet. On macOS, allow the app once in System Settings → Privacy & Security. On Windows, SmartScreen warns once.
To build from source, see Development.
- Open DGopher and choose Try the sample on the start page. It creates a small shop database in SQLite, so you need no server.
- Take the one-minute tour the start page offers.
- Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Linux and Windows) for the command palette, or ⌘N
for a new connection. You can paste a connection URL such as
postgres://user@host/dbinto the form.
- Each connection has an environment (development, staging or production), and its color shows everywhere.
- On production, writes ask first, destructive statements need the connection's name typed, and manual commit is the default.
- Read-only connections are enforced both in the app and on the server.
- An open transaction is never closed silently. One left idle rolls back, after a warning.
- Grid edits are shown as SQL to review, then applied in one transaction, one row per statement by primary key.
See the Safety model.
- Passwords stay in the system keychain or a
DGOPHER_*environment variable, come from a command such as a password manager, or are asked every time. Project files hold none, and secrets are redacted from history and logs. - Log in without a password through AWS IAM, Google Cloud IAM or Microsoft Entra ID, or Kerberos on PostgreSQL.
- TLS with a custom CA and client certificates, SSH tunnels through jump hosts with host keys checked, and SOCKS5 or HTTP proxies.
- Every statement, edit, import, export and confirmation is recorded per project in a tamper-evident audit log that you can verify and export.
- Editor: highlighting, completion from the catalog, a ▶ on every
statement,
:nameparameters, folding, multiple carets, Vim keys, find and replace, Go to Definition, problems underlined as you type, and a session per editor. - Results grid: streams large results, filters (in SQL or with a builder), sorts, edits rows inline, follows foreign keys both ways, profiles every column, and opens values in JSON, XML, hex and image viewers.
- Query plans: Explain and Explain Analyze as a tree of steps or a flame graph, with rows estimated and found, and advice on what makes a query slow.
- Charts and dashboards: chart any result, and put any read query on a dashboard as a number, a chart or a table, with parameters and refresh.
- Files: drop a CSV, Parquet or JSON file on the window to query it in place with DuckDB. Import CSV, JSON, Parquet, Excel and XML. Export to CSV, JSON, SQL, Markdown, Excel, Parquet and more.
- Move data: copy tables between databases and engines, compare rows, generate test data, back up and restore.
- Schema: ER diagrams you can edit, a table designer, data models that generate migrations, a query builder, and search across objects and their definitions.
- Admin: server activity with running queries to cancel, locks and the slowest statements; users and privileges; and VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX or OPTIMIZE from a table's menu.
- Redis: a key browser, value editors for every type including Redis 8's, a console with completion, and monitor, slow log, memory and Pub/Sub panels. One server, a cluster, or through Sentinel.
- Git-friendly projects: connections, query files, snippets, dashboards and data models live in your repository, without secrets.
- Keyboard first: a command palette, quick open for tables and query files, and every shortcut customizable.
- Tabs that stay: pin, reorder and reopen tabs, open two side by side or in another window, and get them back after a restart.
- Your way: light, dark and custom themes, and every control named for screen readers.
See Features for everything DGopher does.
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Measured on Linux (amd64, Wayland) with version 0.1.0:
| Download | 36 MB, as the .deb or the .tar.gz |
| Executable | 99 MB, with every driver and DuckDB compiled in |
| Memory at start | 164 MB resident, of which 36 MB is the app's own; the rest is the executable and the GTK and graphics libraries, mapped from disk |
The documentation index lists every page:
- Features, Engine support and Keyboard shortcuts
- Safety model and Audit log
- Where things are kept and Project files
- Command line and Troubleshooting
- Known limitations and Roadmap
- For contributors: Development, Architecture, Testing, How SQL is read and CONTRIBUTING.md
See CONTRIBUTING.md. Report vulnerabilities privately, as SECURITY.md describes. Each version's changes are in its release notes.
Copyright 2026 DGopher contributors. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
The icon is based on the Go gopher, designed by Renée French and licensed under CC BY 4.0.