TablePlus alternative for Linux

If you’ve searched for a TablePlus alternative for Linux, you’ve probably read that the Linux build is in alpha. It was, once. That stopped being true in November 2023, when TablePlus shipped Linux 1.0.0 and called it stable.

I’m not going to build a page on a complaint that expired three years ago. The real problem is smaller, still true, and you can check it yourself in their changelogs.

Two release lines, not one

TablePlus versions its Linux build separately from macOS and Windows:

	Latest release	Cadence
macOS	26.10.22 — 16 September 2026	Near-weekly
Windows	26.10.2 — 1 September 2026	Close behind macOS
Linux	1.7.0 — 22 August 2026	Roughly monthly

Those aren’t the same numbering scheme because they aren’t the same release train. macOS and Windows share the year.month.point line. Linux has its own 1.x line.

What Linux was missing, as of 22 August 2026

Shipped to macOS and Windows, not yet to Linux:

ElasticSearch driver
Mongo Shell support
Custom themes
Code folding
Cell selection
SQL Server Entra ID login

Redis makes the pattern clearest. It sat in TablePlus’s supported-database list on macOS for years before it arrived on Linux in June 2026.

Open cross-platform issues on the Linux tracker as of September 2026: files exported on Linux won’t import on macOS (#280), and Postgres inline edits don’t commit (#276).

So what

On macOS, none of this touches you. TablePlus is a good client with an engine list I can’t match — MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Snowflake, BigQuery. Go buy it.

On Linux you’re running a build that’s months behind the main one. Whether that bothers you depends on whether the feature you want has landed yet.

Seaquel builds all three platforms from one codebase in the same release, as DEB, RPM and AppImage. What you give up is engine coverage: six — PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SQL Server and DuckDB — against TablePlus’s fifteen. If your databases are on that list and your desktop is Linux, that’s the trade.

I re-check this against both changelogs on a schedule, and the date I last did it is at the bottom of the page. If TablePlus merges the release lines, I’ll say so here.

Seaquel vs TablePlus on Linux, feature by feature

Every row links to the source it was checked against. Last verified 23 September 2026.

Feature

Seaquel

TablePlus on Linux

Price

Free for personal use; annual license for commercial use

$99–$129 once, includes 1 year of updates

Different models rather than different numbers: TablePlus is perpetual, Seaquel's commercial license is a yearly subscription with a perpetual fallback to the version you had.

Free tier

The full app, for personal use

2 tabs, 2 windows, 2 filters

Source available

MIT licensed

Seaquel's source is MIT, but a commercial license is still required for work use — that restriction is my policy, not the license.

Database engines

~15

NoSQL engines (Mongo, Redis, Cassandra)

Linux build on the same release line

TablePlus ships Linux as a separate 1.x line at roughly monthly cadence, against a near-weekly 26.x line on macOS.

SSH tunneling

Review changes before committing

Both tools stage edits for review. TablePlus calls it Safe Mode; Seaquel calls it Pending Changes.

iOS app

Plugin API

JavaScript

Visual query plans

ERD viewer

Git-based project sharing

Interactive SQL tutorials

Where TablePlus on Linux is better

Reasons to pick TablePlus on Linux over Seaquel.

Engine breadth

TablePlus connects to around fifteen engines, including MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Snowflake, BigQuery and ClickHouse. Seaquel supports six, all of them relational or embedded. If your stack includes a document or key-value store, stop reading here.

Actually native

TablePlus is written in Swift and Objective-C on macOS and C# on Windows. Seaquel is a Tauri app — a Rust core with a web-technology interface. Tauri is far lighter than Electron, but a hand-written native UI is still a native UI, and on macOS it shows.

An iOS client, included

TablePlus licenses bundle activations for a companion iOS app with SSH and TLS support. Seaquel is desktop and self-hosted web only, with no mobile client and none planned.

A plugin ecosystem

TablePlus documents a JavaScript plugin API and has real community plugins built on it. Seaquel's only extension surface today is DuckDB extensions, which isn't the same thing.

Nine years of shipping

TablePlus has released continuously since early 2017. Seaquel's first commit was December 2025. Maturity never shows up in a feature list. It shows up when you hit something strange on a Friday afternoon and the app already handles it.

Common questions

Is TablePlus for Linux still in alpha?

No. TablePlus marked the Linux build stable in November 2023, at version 1.0.0. The claim that it's alpha comes from reviews written before that and is no longer accurate.

What is actually missing from TablePlus on Linux?

As of the August 2026 Linux changelog: the ElasticSearch driver, Mongo Shell support, custom themes, code folding, cell selection and SQL Server Entra ID login. All of those had shipped to macOS and Windows by September 2026. Redis support reached Linux only in June 2026, years after macOS.

Why does the Linux build lag?

TablePlus maintains Linux as a separate product line with its own version numbers — 1.7.0 in August 2026, against 26.10.22 on macOS in September 2026 — and releases it roughly monthly rather than near-weekly. TablePlus has not published a statement explaining the difference, so this is an observation about their changelogs, not about their intentions.

Does Seaquel ship the same build on Linux?

Yes. Seaquel is one codebase producing macOS, Windows and Linux builds from the same release, packaged as DEB, RPM and AppImage. A feature that ships, ships everywhere at once.