Comparison

Navidog for MySQL vs Octo

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Navidog for MySQL

Connect to MySQL and MariaDB servers directly from your mobile device. This app offers a SQL editor with syntax highlighting, schema browsing, and query history. It supports SSH tunnels and secure password storage, with a free version and a Pro upgrade for advanced features.

Highlights
  • SQL editor with syntax highlighting
  • Schema browsing
  • Query history
  • SSH tunnel support
  • Secure password storage
  • MySQL reference cheat sheet
  • CSV export (Pro)
Features
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Connect to MySQL and MariaDB from your iPhone and iPad. Run SQL, read your results and browse your schema โ€” your device connects to your server directly, with no Navidog account and no servers of ours in the path. QUERY โ€ข A SQL editor with syntax highlighting and MySQL keyword completion โ€ข Results in a table you can scroll and search โ€ข Query history, per connection โ€ข Share query results as CSV (Pro) BROWSE โ€ข Databases, tables and views in a searchable list โ€ข Page through table data โ€ข Column types, keys, defaults and nullability at a glance โ€ข Indexes, and the CREATE statement behind any table, view or stored routine CONNECT โ€ข MySQL 5.7 and 8.x, MariaDB, and managed database services โ€ข TLS, with the certificate handling managed hosts expect โ€ข SSH tunnels for servers you reach through a jump host โ€ข Paste a mysql:// URI or a connection string and the form fills itself in โ€ข Passwords are kept in the system Keychain, and saved connections never hold them in plain text MYSQL REFERENCE A searchable cheat sheet of MySQL syntax โ€” joins, indexes, data types, common statements โ€” for when you are away from your desk. FREE AND PRO The free version includes two saved connections. Pro removes the limit and adds CSV sharing for query results, plus the light theme and the accent colors. Monthly, yearly, or a one-time purchase โ€” and Pro applies to the Mac app too, on the same Apple Account. PRIVACY Database traffic does not pass through our servers. There is no Navidog account to create, no analytics SDK and no crash reporter. SIX LANGUAGES English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, German and French โ€” switched inside the app, no restart. Browsing on iPhone and iPad is read-only for table data; the Mac app adds in-place row editing. Anything you write yourself in the SQL editor runs as you typed it. Terms of Use: https://navidog.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://navidog.app/privacy

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Octo

Features
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Octo๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์•ฑ์—์„œ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋„ค์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ DB ํด๋ผ์ด์–ธํŠธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Redis, Elasticsearch๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์กฐํšŒ, ์ฟผ๋ฆฌ ์‹คํ–‰๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•œ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ โ€ข PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Redis, Elasticsearch ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ โ€ข ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค, ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”, ์ธ๋ฑ์Šค, ํ‚ค ํƒ์ƒ‰ โ€ข SQL ์ฟผ๋ฆฌ ์‹คํ–‰ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ํ™•์ธ โ€ข Redis ํ‚ค ์กฐํšŒ ๋ฐ ๋ช…๋ น ์‹คํ–‰ โ€ข Elasticsearch ์ธ๋ฑ์Šค ํƒ์ƒ‰ ๋ฐ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ํ™•์ธ โ€ข ์ฟผ๋ฆฌ ํžˆ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ ์ €์žฅ โ€ข ์•ฑ ๋‚ด ์–ธ์–ด ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ์ง€์› โ€ข Apple ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์— ๋งž์ถ˜ ๋„ค์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์ธํ„ฐํŽ˜์ด์Šค Octo๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž๊ฐ€ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณ„๋„ ์„œ๋ฒ„๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ง์ ‘ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค์™€ ํ†ต์‹ ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์กฐํšŒํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Screenshots

Navidog for MySQL4 screens
Octo3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Octo at none against Navidog for MySQL's 6. Octo also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Navidog for MySQL's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Navidog for MySQL sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Octo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Navidog for MySQL ships an update every 2 months, Octo weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Navidog for MySQL versus Octo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNavidog for MySQLOcto
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
MonetizationFreemiumโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size28 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerๅ†ฐๅ†ฐ ้‚“TaeHwan Kim

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Navidog for MySQL

Subscriptions4
  • iOS Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Mac Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • iOS Pro Annual$19.991 Year
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  • Mac Pro Annual$39.991 Year
One-time2
  • iOS Pro Lifetime$49.99
  • Mac Pro Lifetime$79.99
None

Octo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Navidog for MySQL free?
Navidog for MySQL is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Octo free?
Octo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Navidog for MySQL or Octo have ads?
Neither Navidog for MySQL nor Octo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Navidog for MySQL or Octo?
Navidog for MySQL ships an update every 2 months, and Octo weekly. Most recently, Navidog for MySQL was updated on October 30, 2026 and Octo on October 25, 2026.

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