Navicat
in a single application
Software Development
AI-assisted workflows
Navicat Is Used
Overview
Navicat® is a database development and administration suite created by PremiumSoft CyberTech Ltd. It lets developers, DBAs, and analysts connect to and manage MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, and Snowflake — all from one native, cross-platform application for Windows, macOS, and Linux. An Explorer-style interface and object-oriented navigation keep day-to-day database work approachable for beginners while staying fast and precise enough for senior administrators.
Beyond core administration, Navicat brings together query editing, visual data modeling, data transfer and synchronization, and business intelligence dashboards in a single license, removing the need to juggle separate specialized clients for each task. Version 18 layers in AI-assisted table design, automated data masking for compliant testing, and hybrid conceptual/physical modeling, while Navicat Cloud and Navicat On-Prem Server extend the same workspace to distributed teams.
Key Features & Navicat Capabilities
Connect simultaneously to MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, and Snowflake from one application, with compatibility for cloud-native and derivative engines such as Amazon RDS/Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, Azure, GaussDB, OceanBase, and PolarDB.
Fill with AI populates, translates, and summarizes column data automatically, Ask AI drafts table structures from a plain-language description, and Fill with Comment writes table documentation, cutting manual setup and documentation time.
Code Insight provides hover metadata, highlight-usages, and go-to-declaration; real-time error detection flags syntax and schema issues as you type; refactoring tools safely rename identifiers across an entire script; and Visual Explain turns query plans into readable diagrams.
Build conceptual, logical, and physical models in one workspace, enforce naming standards and a shared glossary across teams, reverse- and forward-engineer schemas, and bulk-edit fields across many tables from a single hierarchical view.
Migrate data and structures between different database engines, compare and synchronize schemas and records with a detailed change script, and import or export through more than a dozen formats including Excel, CSV, Access, XML, JSON, and Parquet.
Turn sensitive production records into safe test data using Substitution, Variance, Shuffling, Hashing, and Nulling techniques, and protect every connection with SSH tunneling, HTTP tunneling, and SSL encryption.
Navicat BI turns query results into interactive dashboards with drag-and-drop Auto Tile layouts, global parameters for on-demand filtering, page navigation between reports, and scheduled auto-refresh for live data.
Schedule batch jobs and recurring scripts with the built-in Task Scheduler, track every statement run in a session with Session History, and share connections, models, and scripts with a team through Navicat Cloud or a self-hosted Navicat On-Prem Server.
Navicat Platform Overview
A walkthrough of the Navicat workspace — connecting databases, editing data and queries, and exploring the newer BI dashboarding tools that sit alongside Navicat's core administration features.
Deep Dive: The Navicat Product Family
Navicat is not one product but a family of tools built around the same interface and workflow. Single-database editions cover one engine each at a lower price point, Navicat Premium brings all of them together, and a set of companion products extends the same workspace to modeling, business intelligence, monitoring, and team collaboration.
Navicat Premium
The flagship, all-in-one edition that connects to MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, and Snowflake from a single application, with data modeling and BI included — built for teams that work across more than one database engine.
Navicat BI
A business intelligence and dashboarding tool (formerly Navicat Charts Creator) that turns query results into interactive charts and reports, with Auto Tile layouts, global parameters, and scheduled auto-refresh for live data.
Navicat Cloud
A hosted collaboration workspace that syncs connections, queries, and models across a team in real time, so colleagues always work from the same up-to-date project information regardless of which machine they log in from.
Navicat Data Modeler
A standalone visual modeling tool for building conceptual, logical, and physical data models, reverse- and forward-engineering schemas, and enforcing naming standards — independent of any single database connection.
Navicat for MariaDB
A dedicated administration and development client for MariaDB servers from version 5.1 upward, covering visual structure design, SQL editing, user and privilege management, and data import/export in one focused tool.
Navicat for MongoDB
A GUI client for MongoDB with grid, tree, and JSON views of collections and documents, a visual aggregation pipeline builder, and compatibility with MongoDB Atlas for cloud-hosted deployments.
Navicat for MySQL
The original Navicat product, first released in 2002, purpose-built for MySQL server administration, query development, and data migration — still one of the line's most widely deployed single-database editions.
Navicat for Oracle
An Oracle-focused client covering schemas, packages, materialized views, and the recycle bin alongside standard tables and views, with a query debugger for stepping through PL/SQL and inspecting variables.
Navicat for PostgreSQL
A PostgreSQL administration and development tool with support for databases, schemas, materialized views, and extensions, plus the same real-time error detection and code insight found across the Navicat query editor.
Navicat for Redis
A visual client for browsing and editing Redis keys, strings, lists, sets, and hashes, with support for Redis Enterprise Cloud connections and SSH-tunneled access to remote instances.
Navicat for SQL Server
A Microsoft SQL Server client for managing tables, views, stored procedures, triggers, and jobs, with structure and data synchronization tools for keeping development and production instances aligned.
Navicat for SQLite
A lightweight client for local and embedded SQLite database files, with the same object designer, SQL editor, and import/export wizard used across the Navicat line, sized for single-file, serverless databases.
Navicat for Snowflake
The newest single-database edition, purpose-built for Snowflake's cloud data warehouse — covering warehouse and role browsing, query editing, and data loading for teams standardized on Snowflake.
Navicat Monitor
A web-based monitoring and alerting tool that tracks the health of MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL servers from a browser, flagging threshold breaches so administrators can catch performance issues across a whole fleet early.
Navicat On-Prem Server
A self-hosted alternative to Navicat Cloud that gives organizations the same shared team workspace for connections, queries, and models, hosted entirely within their own infrastructure for stricter data-control requirements.
Benefits
- ✓One application covers nine major database engines, removing the need for a separate client per database platform
- ✓Intuitive, Explorer-style interface keeps the learning curve short for new users while staying efficient for experienced DBAs
- ✓SSH and HTTP tunnel support lets you reach databases behind a firewall securely, without exposing the server directly
- ✓Import/Export Wizard moves data through more than a dozen formats, including Excel, Access, CSV, XML, HTML, and JSON
- ✓Over 25 years of continuous development, with a large, actively maintained customer base across 138+ countries
- ✓A fully functional 14-day free trial lets you evaluate the product on real projects before purchasing
- ✓Cross-platform, one-time license activation on Windows, macOS, or Linux, transferable if your platform changes later
- ✓Free minor version updates and unlimited email technical support are included with every purchased license
- ✓Multi-license and non-commercial discount pricing accommodate teams of any size and qualified organizations
- ✓Navicat Cloud and On-Prem Server extend the same workspace to distributed teams for shared, real-time collaboration
Licensing Model
The flagship, all-in-one license covering all nine supported database engines from a single application, with Model and BI modules included. Available as a perpetual license with optional annual maintenance, or as a subscription.
Navicat for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQLite, and Redis each focus on one engine at a lower price point, for teams that only need to manage a single database platform.
Navicat Premium Lite and Navicat Data Modeler Lite offer a no-cost entry point with core functionality, while Navicat Cloud, Navicat On-Prem Server, and Navicat Monitor add shared workspaces and infrastructure-wide visibility for teams.
Deployment Options
Navicat for Windows, macOS & Linux
Natively designed desktop application for each platform, so the interface feels familiar and responsive rather than a generic cross-platform wrapper. Cross-platform licensing lets one purchase be activated on, and later transferred between, any of the three operating systems.
Navicat Cloud & On-Prem Server
Navicat Cloud syncs connections, queries, and models to a shared workspace for real-time team collaboration, while Navicat On-Prem Server offers the same collaborative model hosted entirely within an organization's own infrastructure for stricter data-control requirements.
Navicat Monitor
A web-based monitoring and alerting tool that watches MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL server health from a browser, giving administrators visibility into performance and availability across an entire database fleet without opening the desktop client.
Supported Databases & Integrations
Industry Applications
| # | Industry | Application & Business Impact |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Software Development | Development teams use Navicat to design and version schemas alongside application code, run and debug complex queries with code completion and breakpoints, and keep staging and production databases in sync through structure and data comparison scripts. |
| 02 | E-Commerce & Retail | Online retailers manage catalog, inventory, and order databases across MySQL and cloud-hosted instances, use the Import/Export Wizard to reconcile supplier spreadsheets with live tables, and build BI dashboards to track sales and stock trends in real time. |
| 03 | Finance & Banking | Financial institutions rely on SSH-tunneled connections and SSL encryption to reach production servers securely, apply data masking so QA and outsourced testing teams never see real account data, and use scheduled batch jobs for nightly reconciliation and reporting. |
| 04 | Education & Research | Universities and research groups take advantage of the non-commercial licensing program to teach database design and SQL, using the visual modeling tools to help students see the relationship between an ER diagram and an actual running schema. |
| 05 | Healthcare | Healthcare IT teams manage patient-record and scheduling databases behind strict access controls, use masking techniques to anonymize records for development environments, and rely on scheduled backups and Task Scheduler jobs to protect data integrity. |
| 06 | Government & Public Sector | Public-sector agencies use Navicat as an affordable, standardized tool for managing citizen-services databases, exporting data for public reporting in open formats, and enforcing consistent naming standards and documentation across departments. |
| 07 | Telecom & Utilities | Telecom and utility operators manage large customer and network-inventory databases across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle, automate recurring extract and reconciliation jobs, and monitor database health across many servers with Navicat Monitor. |
| 08 | SaaS & Startups | Growing SaaS companies use a single Navicat Premium license to manage MongoDB, Redis, and PostgreSQL side by side, migrate between cloud providers with the built-in data transfer tools, and stand up BI dashboards without a separate analytics stack. |
| 09 | IT Consulting & Managed Services | Consultancies supporting many clients on different database engines standardize on one tool for every engagement, use Navicat Cloud to hand off connection profiles and saved scripts between team members, and rely on cross-platform licensing to work from whichever machine a project calls for. |
Summary
Navicat's value proposition is consolidation: rather than switching between separate clients for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and the rest, teams get administration, querying, modeling, data movement, masking, and BI reporting for nine database engines in one native, cross-platform application. Over 25 years of development by PremiumSoft CyberTech have produced a tool used by Fortune 500 companies and independent developers alike, in more than 138 countries.
With Navicat 18 adding AI-assisted table design and documentation, real-time query error detection, and enterprise-grade data masking on top of the existing hybrid modeling and BI modules, Navicat covers the path from first schema sketch to secure, governed production data — inside a single license that runs the same way on Windows, macOS, and Linux.