About Squeal
Squeal is a desktop SQL client built around what querying a database actually looks like.
Why it exists
Querying a database is rarely one tidy statement. It is a dozen half-finished ones you keep coming back to, one of them you want to run right now, and a table of results you need to read without squinting. Most clients turn that into filing work: name this, save that, find it again next week. Squeal treats it as a scratchpad instead — keep as many queries open as you like, run whichever one you need, and they are all still there tomorrow.
What it speaks
PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite, with as many connections as you need — prod, staging, and the local file, all in the same window. You can look through any of them to see what tables and columns are actually there, and search across all of them at once when you only half-remember a name. Passwords are encrypted with your operating system's keychain, after the app asks and only if you say yes.
Who builds it
Squeal is built by Christoffer Artmann, mostly because the tool he wanted did not exist. The source code is on GitHub under the MIT license, so you can read it, change it, and build it yourself.
Something broken, or missing?
Bug reports and feature requests go in the issue tracker. That is the fastest way to get a fix into a release, and it keeps the conversation somewhere everyone can read it. For anything else — licensing, privacy, or a quiet word — write to chris@pullpanda.io.