A Postico alternative, or the copy to open in Postico

Postico 2 is a lovely Mac client for Postgres, and its documentation says plainly that it does not recommend connecting to production. dbplex makes the thing to connect to instead: a copy of production on your Mac, with personal columns masked and a localhost URL.

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For Apple Silicon Macs. 7 days free with every feature. No card and no account.

Postico 2: $69 personal, perpetual
On production: Not recommended by its docs
Copying data: CSV import and export
dbplex: A Mac app, 7 days free

Which one fits

Postico is a Postgres editor. dbplex makes the copy it should be editing.

Pick Postico if

You want a polished Postgres editor and nothing else.
You want a perpetual licence at a modest price.
You browse and edit rows by hand.

Pick dbplex if

You want a copy of production to work on, as Postico's own docs suggest.
You want personal columns masked before anyone, or any agent, reads them.
You want saved states, branches, the migration script and a Refresh button.
You use MySQL, Supabase, MongoDB or another of the 12 engines too.

Postico and dbplex, side by side

Postico and dbplex, for the Postgres database you work on.

	Postico	dbplex
On production	Its docs do not recommend connecting to production.	Reads production once to make the copy, and never writes to it.
Read-only	Through a startup query or a read-only role.	Nothing. It only reads production to make the copy, and has no way to write back.
Copying data	CSV import and export.	The whole database in one pull, masked where you choose.
AI	None.	A built-in MCP server whose tools act on local copies only. The agent never sees production credentials.
Databases	Postgres, plus Redshift, CockroachDB and Greenplum.	12 engines.
Price	$69 personal or $99 a device commercial, perpetual for 2.x.	$12.99 a month, or $79.99 for a year of updates, after 7 free days.

Questions about Postico and dbplex

Can I open a dbplex copy in Postico?

Yes. Each copy has a localhost URL in the Connect tab. Add it in Postico like any other server.

Does Postico recommend connecting to production?

No. Its documentation on read-only connections says it does not recommend connecting to production servers with Postico.

Sources

What this page says about Postico comes from its own pages, checked on 7 November 2026. If something has changed, tell us and we will fix it.

The databases it copies, and other comparisons

Break prod. Locally.

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