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PostgreSQLPostgres.app
Free

Free and open source under the PostgreSQL Licence, a permissive licence similar to BSD and…

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Free and open source.

Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted macOS
  • Over 35 years of development with a strong reputation for reliability and correctness
  • Extensible with custom types, index methods and procedural languages; PostGIS and pgvector are built on that
  • Drag-and-drop install with no command line needed
  • Includes PostGIS and command-line tools
  • Default configuration is conservative and needs tuning for real workloads
  • Built-in replication and failover require third-party tooling to become a full HA setup
  • macOS only
  • Intended for local development rather than production servers
Downloadable app, Self-hosted Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: PostgreSQL License: PostgreSQL
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 21, 2026

Checked September 24, 2026

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