Your database, in your pocket.

Connect to PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and many more engines — directly from your phone. No cloud. No middleman. Your credentials never leave your device.

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12 engines ready · 16 on the way
Why dbOrbit

A real database tool — that fits in a back pocket.

No companion-app shortcuts. No watered-down feature set. dbOrbit ships the same primitives you reach for on the desktop.

Zero-knowledge security

AES-256 encrypted local vault. Biometric unlock. Hardware-backed key storage. Your passwords, SSH keys, and connection strings never touch a server. Period.

Direct TCP connections

dbOrbit speaks the same wire protocol as psql and mysql. Real TCP/TLS connections to your database — no proxy, no relay, no cloud dependency.

SSH tunneling, built in

Connect through bastion hosts with SSH key or password auth. Full port forwarding — reach databases inside private networks, right from your phone.

Built for mobile, not ported

Touch-first card, table, and detail views. Portrait or landscape. Offline mode with cached schemas. Auto-reconnect when you’re back online.

Features

Everything you reach for on the desktop. On your mobile screen.

Schema browser

Drill into tables, views, functions, types, and indexes for any connection. Maintenance shortcuts (analyze, optimize) live one tap away.

Tables · Views · Functions · Types · Indexes
Per-schema scoping
Analyze & optimize from the same screen
dbOrbit schema browser — tables, views, functions, indexes, maintenance ops
Engines

Twelve engines today. More on the way.

Our wire-protocol clients are written from scratch in Rust — fast, sandboxed, and thin enough to ship in a mobile binary.

Tier 1Available
Production-ready
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • CockroachDB
  • TimescaleDB
  • Neon
  • Supabase Postgres
  • PlanetScale
  • Aurora Postgres
  • Aurora MySQL
  • SQLite (Local)
  • MongoDB (Self-Hosted)
Tier 2Coming soon
Analytics & cloud
  • MongoDB (Atlas)
  • SQLite (DBOrbit Hosted)
  • ClickHouse
  • Elasticsearch
  • CouchDB
  • InfluxDB v2
  • BigQuery
  • DynamoDB
  • Firebase / Firestore
Tier 3Coming soon
Specialized engines
  • SQL Server
  • Oracle
  • Neo4j
  • Cassandra / ScyllaDB
  • Snowflake
// VS THE DESKTOP

How dbOrbit stacks up.

We're the only mobile-native database IDE in the room. Here's where we win — and where the desktop tools still have us beat.

FeaturedbOrbitDBeaverDataGripTablePlusNavicatBeekeeperpgAdminMySQL WB
Native iOS app——◐1———
Native Android app———————
Desktop (macOS / Win / Linux)—
SQL + NoSQL in one tool————
Engines supported14+80+30+15+9+15+PostgreSQLMySQL
Local-first credentials◐2
Biometric / PIN unlock———————
E2E-encrypted backup (your repo)———◐3———
SSH tunneling◐4—
ER diagramsPlanned——
Data export (CSV / JSON)Planned
Open source—◐5———◐5
Free tier———
PricingFree / $0.99 mo / $1.99 seat·moFree / $19 mo Pro$229 / yr~$89 once$399 / yr or $1,299 perpetualFree / $99 yr ProFreeFree
supported— not supported◐ partial / nuancedPlanned — on the roadmap
1Navicat ships separate single-engine iOS apps (e.g. Navicat for MySQL); Navicat Premium itself is desktop-only.
2TablePlus iOS optionally syncs connection settings via iCloud.
3Navicat Cloud is hosted by Navicat — not user-controlled storage.
4Beekeeper Studio supports SSH tunnels in the Pro tier.
5DBeaver Community (Apache 2.0) and Beekeeper Community (MIT) are open source; their Pro editions are commercial.
Pricing

Four plans. Pick the one that fits.

No surprise tiers. No "request a quote." Just plans that scale from a free taste to classroom-wide and team rollouts.

Free
$0
No credit card. No account.
  • 1 connection (PostgreSQL + MySQL only)
  • 1 active session
  • 500-row result limit
  • CSV export
  • Basic SQL editor
Download Free
Most popular
Indie
$0.99/ month
Everything an individual developer needs.
  • Unlimited connections, all 12 supported engines
  • Unlimited sessions & tabs
  • Unlimited result rows
  • SSH tunneling
  • CSV / JSON / SQL / XLSX export
  • Schema autocomplete
  • ER diagrams
  • Encrypted GitHub backup (manual)
Get Indie
Coming soon
Enterprise
$1.99/ seat / month
3-seat minimum · for teams and orgs.
  • Everything in Indie
  • Automatic GitHub backups
  • Team management & shared connections
  • Role-based access control
  • SSO / SAML
  • Audit logs
  • Priority support
  • API export
Coming soon
Edu
$4.99/ classroom / semester
For schools and student cohorts. Renews every 6 months.
  • One database engine of your choice
  • Up to 200 students per classroom
  • SSH tunneling
  • CSV / JSON / SQL / XLSX export
  • Schema autocomplete & ER diagrams
  • Encrypted GitHub backup (manual)
  • Classroom roster (planned)
  • Need more? Contact sales.
Security

Designed for production credentials.

Most "mobile DB clients" send your connection string through a relay server. We don’t. Here’s what that means in practice.

Local-first
SQLCipher (AES-256)

All data stored locally with full disk encryption. Only subscription status touches the cloud.

Hardware-backed
Keychain · Keystore

iOS Keychain or Android Keystore protects the encryption key. Stolen device, stolen rest.

Biometric
Face ID · Touch ID

Face ID, Touch ID, or fingerprint required to unlock. Configurable auto-lock on background.

No telemetry
Queries stay private

Analytics track feature usage. Never query content. Never connection strings. PII scrubbed before transmission.

FAQ

Common questions.

No. Connection strings, passwords, and SSH keys live in an encrypted vault on your device only. We don’t have a server that proxies your queries — your phone speaks the wire protocol directly to your database, the same way psql does.
Through SSH tunneling. Add a bastion host (SSH key or password auth), point the connection through it, and dbOrbit forwards the local port across the tunnel. Same flow as the desktop tools you already use.
Four plans: Free ($0), Indie ($0.99 / month), Enterprise ($1.99 / seat / month with a 3-seat minimum), and Edu ($4.99 / classroom every 6 months). Free covers a single PostgreSQL or MySQL connection. Indie unlocks all 12 supported engines, SSH tunneling, and every export format. Enterprise adds team features — shared connections, SSO, audit logs, RBAC, automatic GitHub backups, and priority support. Edu is built for schools: one database engine of your choice per classroom and up to 200 students, auto-renewing each semester. Larger cohorts or multi-engine needs are handled by the sales team.
Everything is gone. Your vault lives in the app sandbox. We strongly recommend enabling encrypted GitHub backup so you can restore on a new device.
dbOrbit wraps DDL and DML in explicit transactions and shows a confirmation summary before commit. Read-only mode is one toggle away on every connection.
Schema browsing works fully offline (cached in SQLCipher). Queued mutations replay automatically when your connection comes back.