# TablePlus

6 Hacker News commenters recommended TablePlus and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend TablePlus for its fair, flexible pricing, which they say pays for ongoing feature development and yearly updates.

## Why people recommend it

- Pricing funds ongoing feature development (2 comments): "I like this pricing a lot too because you actually support and incentivize the development of new features." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46552998)) "I buy their product and in exchange I get a year of updates." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847017))
- Fair and flexible pricing (1 comments): "Fair and flexible for everyone." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547474))

## What people warn about

- Recent releases lost interface quality (1 comments): "the latest releases of TablePlus have gone down in terms of user interface quality" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453999))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [DataGrip](https://hackerapproved.com/p/datagrip.md): 27 recommend
- [sqlit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sqlit.md): 19 recommend
- [DBeaver](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dbeaver.md): 17 recommend
- [HeidiSQL](https://hackerapproved.com/p/heidisql.md): 16 recommend
- [DB Pro](https://hackerapproved.com/p/db-pro.md): 12 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://tableplus.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "TablePlus", https://hackerapproved.com/p/tableplus/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).