Just to expand on the “behavior” bit, there’s a truckload of little things that native AppKit apps get you that nothing else will, not even other “native” toolkits like Qt. Things like Option-clicking a disclosure triangle in a nested list expanding/collapsing all children recursively, which one comes to use frequently and misses when absent. Foreign toolkits have spotty coverage of that kind of thing if they implement any at all.
As much as visually fitting in is important, behavior is perhaps bigger. Anybody who’s working on the Mac port of a cross platform toolkit would do well to replicate those little bits.
People care about the tools they are using a lot and spend a great deal of time on finding the perfect knife, the perfect editor, the perfect scissors.
People who care about their tools. If I have to stare at it all day, being pleasant on the eyes is a feature. If every time I grab my tool I think “urk, this is so ugly”, it affects my flow.
In my experience, DB Browser for SQLite keeps the connection open in a way where an application that accesses the database may throw a lock error. Maybe it can be configured, but I haven't had that issue with Base.
To my (biased) mind the advantages are:
- It fits with the system better and behaves more like other macOS apps
- I believe Base has better create/alter table support
However Base doesn’t (currently) have support for SQLCipher.
Just to expand on the “behavior” bit, there’s a truckload of little things that native AppKit apps get you that nothing else will, not even other “native” toolkits like Qt. Things like Option-clicking a disclosure triangle in a nested list expanding/collapsing all children recursively, which one comes to use frequently and misses when absent. Foreign toolkits have spotty coverage of that kind of thing if they implement any at all.
As much as visually fitting in is important, behavior is perhaps bigger. Anybody who’s working on the Mac port of a cross platform toolkit would do well to replicate those little bits.
Wow! I just discovered option-click in Finder -- unrelated to sqlite :o . Thank you! thank you!
Polish and decent UI...
I find the sqlitebrowser UI to be perfectly fine. It's not pretty, but it's a tool so who cares.
People care about the tools they are using a lot and spend a great deal of time on finding the perfect knife, the perfect editor, the perfect scissors.
> It's not pretty, but it's a tool so who cares.
People who care about their tools. If I have to stare at it all day, being pleasant on the eyes is a feature. If every time I grab my tool I think “urk, this is so ugly”, it affects my flow.
Base is nicely done, I’ve found it worthwhile over other options.
A nicer user interface. Personally I use datagrip but I want to encourage real native Mac software so will likely buy this anyway.
Unfortunately sqlite browser was too unstable for me. I purchased another app just because I can’t stand crashing apps.
In my experience, DB Browser for SQLite keeps the connection open in a way where an application that accesses the database may throw a lock error. Maybe it can be configured, but I haven't had that issue with Base.
sqlitebrowser is 100% open source, cross platform and free.
I don't think Base is at all and only supports macOS
Prettier UI?
wondering the same thing