Navicat vs. Sequel Pro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Navicat
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Navicat Premium is a multi-connection database development and administration tool which can simultaneously connect 7 databases (MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite) from a single application. Compatible with cloud databases like Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, MongoDB Atlas and Huawei Cloud, developerws can quickly and easily build, manage and maintain databases.N/A
Sequel Pro
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Sequel Pro is a relational database software solution offered free and open source. It allows users to access any MySQL database through a Mac.
$0
Pricing
NavicatSequel Pro
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NavicatSequel Pro
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
NavicatSequel Pro
Considered Both Products
Navicat
Chose Navicat
While Sequel Pro is a great shareware tool, it's limited to MySQL databases; while our department does use MySQL databases, we also use Oracle databases, so Navicat Premium's multi-product support is an absolute requirement.
Navicat Premium also provides data browser support, …
Sequel Pro

No answer on this topic

Features
NavicatSequel Pro
Database Development
Comparison of Database Development features of Product A and Product B
Navicat
8.2
5 Ratings
4% below category average
Sequel Pro
-
Ratings
Version control tools7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Test data generation7.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance optimization tools8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Schema maintenance9.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Database change management8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Database Administration
Comparison of Database Administration features of Product A and Product B
Navicat
8.2
5 Ratings
0% above category average
Sequel Pro
-
Ratings
User management9.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Database status reporting7.44 Ratings00 Ratings
Change management8.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
NavicatSequel Pro
Small Businesses
DBeaver
DBeaver
Score 8.5 out of 10
DBeaver
DBeaver
Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
DBeaver
DBeaver
Score 8.5 out of 10
DBeaver
DBeaver
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises
DBeaver
DBeaver
Score 8.5 out of 10
DBeaver
DBeaver
Score 8.5 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
NavicatSequel Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(5 ratings)
8.4
(12 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
NavicatSequel Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
PremiumSoft
Navicat Premium is a very well-rounded tool with a reasonable licensing fee given its feature set. It is primarily suited for technical resources who must work with a variety of different database systems, but who may not be database or command line tool wizards. However, its query building and job batch scheduling feature support end-users as they build competency, and it continues to hold its value even as users outgrow their training wheels. Navicat is probably not so appropriate for DBAs and others for whom database development and management is already a career path; these folks have their preferred toolsets, both vendor-supplied and homegrown, and they might consider the additional licensing cost to outweigh the value they'd personally get out of Navicat.
Read full review
Open Source
It's a great tool when building the software, the ability to add SQL and No-SQL databases. Very convenient to write the queries and generate the filtered data we require. Gives the ability to export, import databases of various formats and generate reports from them. It might not be suitable if you want the data to be seen in a visualized manner
Read full review
Pros
PremiumSoft
  • Really helpful auto-completion.
  • Can connect to multiple (different) database types simultaneously.
  • Can generate some really impressive charts.
  • The new data dictionary tool is great!
Read full review
Open Source
  • Table filters are simple and easy to use
  • I love the ability to install plugins: Export tables to Laravel migrations is one of our most used plugins
  • Super easy to connect to local Docker containers, Vagrant and remote DBs through SSH
Read full review
Cons
PremiumSoft
  • Remote deploy databases
  • Clone databases
Read full review
Open Source
  • It crashes CONSTANTLY. If you have more than one connection tab open and close one of them, it crashes. If you just have it open in the background, it randomly crashes. If you're using it, it randomly crashes. When you try to send a crash report, the CRASH REPORTER CRASHES.
  • Can be a bit slow.
  • No way that I'm aware of to query multiple databases in the same query.
Read full review
Usability
PremiumSoft
There is quite a lot to learn because Navicat Premium is a very comprehensive database management and development tool, but it's User Interface is intuitive enough to pick up fairly quickly. I have also referred to the documentation on occasion, and can attest that it is quite good. I feel that it works best on a large monitor, but that's fairly common for this sort of software.
Read full review
Open Source
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
PremiumSoft
Very robust online community and well as excellent support staff. Easy to follow video tutorials. Detailed sample configurations are provided with guided walk-throughs via remote classroom instruction. Very fast response from support staff. No internal hires were necessary for support as vendor support staff fully met all technical expertise. 24/7 incident reporting and tracking is great.
Read full review
Open Source
It's open-source and very convenient to work with. I can easily import any database I want using a data dump and runt the queries on them to derive the data insights on the data. I might want to use Excel to visualize that, that might be one of the disadvantages.
Read full review
Alternatives Considered
PremiumSoft
Navicat allows for easier querying of data while still allowing for visualization and modeling
Read full review
Open Source
MySQL Workbench is a wonderful tool, but the routine editing of existing data is note nearly as straightforward as it is in Sequel Pro. The ability to sort a data view with a single click makes Sequel Pro my definite choice. phpMyAdmin is pretty ubiquitous, but the routine editing of existing data is much more cumbersome than it is in Sequel Pro.
Read full review
Return on Investment
PremiumSoft
  • Assisting new employees with understanding our DB
  • Reduce debugging and testing time with being able to visualize data/queries
  • Allowing non-SQL users to execute queries to get real-time data.
Read full review
Open Source
  • The user interface is great. Since all of our computers are macOS based, we can all use it and share knowledge with our colleagues
  • It enables me to make things in such a faster way that it enables us to spend our time with coding and providing more solutions to our clients
  • The workflow is much improved with the import and export feature, so we don't waste time with that kind of work.
Read full review
ScreenShots