Native SQL Server tools for Mac
Stop draining your laptop battery running heavy Windows Virtual Machines or fighting generic web-wrapped database tools. Helix SQL brings a deep, SSMS-inspired database management experience directly to Apple Silicon, written entirely in native Swift.
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The capabilities SQL Server engineers reach for every day, running as a native Mac app.
Connect securely using standard SQL Server Authentication or seamless Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) Multi-Factor Interactive Web Browser authentication. All active connection profiles and local connection histories are stored securely and encrypted via the macOS Keychain.
Effortlessly navigate complex database architectures. Browse server-level folders, databases, tables, views, stored procedures, functions, keys, indexes, columns, statistics, and database security trees. Keep multiple separate servers connected simultaneously in a unified native workspace.
Write scripts in tabbed native editors featuring syntax highlighting, robust IntelliSense code completion, live error checking, block indentation, and quick-switch database pickers. Execute whole scripts, specific batches, or only your highlighted text blocks with full execution cancellation support.
Analyze performance bottlenecks directly on your Mac. View beautifully rendered native Estimated and Actual Execution Plans modeled after traditional SSMS conventions. Inspect node details, scan costs, row weights, Live Query Statistics, and Client Statistics effortlessly.
View data arrays in highly responsive, smoothly scrolling grids or raw text layouts complete with accurate messaging, row counts, and active connection status bars. Instantly right-click to copy or export data into multi-format clipboard arrays including CSV, JSON, XML, and tab-delimited text. Formatted JSON values open automatically in their own dedicated viewer tabs.
Respects your desktop environment with a fully responsive layout that supports light mode, dark mode, or dynamic system theme matching. The application intelligently remembers your open window dimensions, editor split ratios, and property pane widths across launches.
Helix SQL respects your data. Your database credentials, connection attributes, analytical queries, and returned server arrays never leave your machine. The app features zero tracking analytics, zero remote telemetry, and zero third-party cloud data dependencies.
Phase 1
Helix SQL is currently in active feature deployment. We are recruiting 50 core SQL Server engineers and DBAs for our closed TestFlight group. By helping us test connection configurations and surface edge-case bugs, active beta participants will be issued a unique custom promotional voucher code unlocking a 100% free first year subscription window when the application launches publicly on the Mac App Store.
