Desktop App

The desktop app is db-studio in its own window. It opens on the Connect page, and it shares saved connections with the CLI in ~/.dbstudio, so a database you opened with npx db-studio is already in the list.

Download

Older versions are on the releases page.

macOS

1. Open the .dmg and drag db-studio into Applications.

2. The app is not signed yet, so macOS says it "is damaged and can't be opened" or that Apple "could not verify" it. Remove the download quarantine once:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/db-studio.app

3. Open db-studio from Applications.

Not sure which Mac you have? Apple menu → About This Mac: a chip named Apple M… needs arm64, an Intel processor needs x64.

Windows

1. Run db-studio-win-x64.exe and follow the installer.
2. The installer is not signed yet, so SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, then Run anyway.

Linux

Debian and Ubuntu

sudo apt install ./db-studio-linux-amd64.deb

Start db-studio from your app launcher, or run db-studio in a terminal.

Other distributions

The AppImage runs without installing:

chmod +x db-studio-linux-x86_64.AppImage
./db-studio-linux-x86_64.AppImage

If it fails with a FUSE error, install FUSE 2: libfuse2 on most distributions (libfuse2t64 on Ubuntu 24.04 and later), fuse on Arch, fuse-libs on Fedora.

Updates

On Windows and with the AppImage, db-studio checks for a new version when it starts and installs it when you quit. On macOS and with the .deb, download the new version and install it over the old one; your saved connections stay where they are.

Uninstall

Delete the app (Applications on macOS, Installed apps on Windows, sudo apt remove db-studio or the AppImage file on Linux). Saved connections live in ~/.dbstudio; delete that folder too if you no longer use the CLI.