Sqlit
A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases
Details
- External ID
- 46276002
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Sqlit
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 15, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 190
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9446564885496184
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I work mostly in the terminal but found myself constantly switching to bloated GUIs like SSMS only for the simple task of browsing tables and run queries. And I didn't find Existing SQL TUIs intuitive, having to read documentation to learn keybindings and CLI flags to connect. Given I had recently switched to linux, I found myself using vs code's sql database extension. Something was awfully wrong.I wanted something like lazygit for databases – run it, connect, and query and frankly just make it enjoyable to access data. Sqlit is a keyboard-driven SQL TUI with: - Context-based keybindings (always visible) - Neovim-like interface with normal and insert mode for query editing - Browse databases, tables, views, stored procedures - Adapters for SQL Server, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Turso & more - SSH tunneling support - Themes (Tokyo Night, Nord, Gruvbox etc.) Inspired by lazygit, neovim and lazysql. Built with Python/Textual. Feedback welcome – especially on which adapters to prioritize next. My vision of sqlit is to make a tool that makes it easy to connect and query data, and to do that, and that thing only, really well.https://github.com/Maxteabag/sqlit
Enrichment
- Theme
- database infrastructure and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal ui for sql database management
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A terminal UI for database querying can be vibe-coded rapidly using established TUI frameworks like Bubbletea (Go) or Ratatui (Rust) paired with standard SQL database drivers.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio), VS Code SQL extensions, Harlequin, lazysql
Concerns raised: Doesn't show all database object types comprehensively (indexes, procedures, triggers, sequences missing), Limited scaling/window size support, Reliance on arrow keys instead of vim keybindings
Feature requests: Vim-style navigation (hjkl for results, jk for tree, ^j/^k for autocomplete), Filter/search tables with / command, Edit cell values directly, Support for indexes, triggers, and sequences, In-memory only database connections
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 93 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 94 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 47 days after the earliest competitor.
- LazyDB · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Lazyworktree, a TUI manager for Git worktrees · hn · 2026-01-03 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Pgit · hn · 2026-03-17 · 126 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Pgcraft · hn · 2026-05-26 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Interactive SQLite3 Query Inspection · hn · 2026-07-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- SQLazy · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Py-SQL-cleaner · hn · 2026-05-28 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- SNKV · hn · 2026-02-24 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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