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Hi, one of the SQLite Browser team here. Thanks for posting this. :)

(Though, I'm kinda wondering why? ;> Our last release was nearly 2 months ago, and nothing super special happened in the last few days from memory... maybe I'm forgetting something? ;>)

Anyway, it's all good promo I suppose. :D

Yes. I did not know about it and it seems like a useful tool. I'm glad to see it at least.

Thanks. :)

Yeah, it's pretty reasonable for doing stuff with SQLite databases, and supports encryption. It's also GPL/MPL licensed, written in C++/Qt, so is fairly cross platform. Precompiled downloads available for OSX/Win, and it's in the packaging/ports system of several Linuxs & BSDs. :)

We're kinda needing more C++ dev's though, as the GitHub Issues list is getting a bit out of hand at the moment. O_o

Download stats wise... I think it's about 120k/month through GitHub:

  https://api.github.com/repos/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/releases

(that's a rough guesstimate from last time I looked :>)

I just had to use it to investigate for a fix in a search engine deployment...

Cool. Work well enough?

Note that SQuirreL SQL [1] or just about any JDBC compliant SQL client combined with Sqlite's JDBC driver [2] can be used to interrogate/manipulate the structure and the data stored in Sqlite database files.

[1]: http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/

[2]: https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc

This is probably the best free, multiplatform sqlite GUI. I've tried many apps and I've stuck with Sqlite Browser for about two years now. It's great and does its job perfectly! Can't praise it enough :)

I used v1.x back in the days. SQLite was still little known and it was the only UI tool. The project was dead for some years (in v1.x days), good to see some brought new life to it and it's still in development.

I wrote a little web based sqlite database manager: https://github.com/coleifer/sqlite-web

You can really tell a programmer made that UI. Wow.

If you'd like to criticize or praise their UI, it'd be helpful to others if you made it explicit, so in the least the developers could learn the strong/weak points of their work.

..and programmers account for probably 95% of the user base. Your point?

Hey, if you're into C++, you're definitely welcome to submit a PR with a rationalised interface. The UI has started getting featuritis... and we've no problems accepting improvements. :D

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