AI-first PostgreSQL client for Mac
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"Can you check if this user is on the premium plan?" "I have a support ticket on Mr.Bean, saying he cannot login... Can you have a look?" "How many subscriptions did we have today?" ...As senior SWE at Twenty.com (open source CRM), I had these quite often.Every day I needed to check something in Postgres, I had to wait 30 seconds for DBeaver to load or fight pgAdmin's UI. So I built Paul. Yes our database configuration has too many schemas (3000 schemas) for those clients, but still, it was not Postgres fault. Only the client that couldn't handle it.Paul is a native macOS app, light (<20MB) and opens in 2 seconds. You can imagine how fast it feels compared to the 5 minutes I had to wait when opening DBeaver...I did not go very deep in the DBA features, nor in the UI. I kept Paul simple: you can browse tables, filter them, and sort them.A few distinctions: - Paul's read-only by default: you have to explicitly switch to edit mode in the settings to allow INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE. This makes it safe to point at production. - I added an agent mode (read-only) to interact faster with the database, without SQL knowledge. Nothing fancy, It basically is a wrapper around openAI and Anthorpic sdks. Still useful for some SQL formulas i don't use often.It's of course Free, no account required. Works offline.I'd love feedback on what's missing or what could be better. This is a solo project and I'm building it for me first, but open to add features if anyone feels like it could use it.
HN · launched Apr 2, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 61%) · 1 view
Niche: database clients and gui tools · 112 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +13% · Explore this niche →
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- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Yes It is a native desktop PostgreSQL client with an LLM prompt wrapper to convert natural language queries to SQL and display tabular results.
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