Comparison

Navidog for MySQL vs D1Explorer

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

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About

Navidog for MySQL

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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D1Explorer

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D1Explorer is a native Cloudflare D1 client for iPhone and iPad that backs up before it writes. Browse, query and edit your databases, with cost projection and Time Travel restore. FREE TO DOWNLOAD Download D1Explorer free and connect unlimited Cloudflare D1 databases. Browse tables, run SELECT queries, inspect schema and preview BLOB/JSON cells. No account, no trial timer, no read limits. Unlock D1Explorer Pro with a one-time in-app purchase for every write feature: row inserts, updates and deletes, inline cell editing, table and column changes, and DML/DDL in the query editor. Pro also unlocks the Recovery Center, the Query Notebook, and Cost & Budget's projections and Advisor. Pay once, no subscription, and one purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. KEY FEATURES โ€ข Editable Data Grid โ€” Tap a cell to edit it, add rows, then discard or commit. Pending edits are shown as the SQL they will run before anything runs, and a remote database asks once more before it is written to. โ€ข Recovery Center (Pro) โ€” Back up before you write. "Export Snapshot" runs Cloudflare's official export, a .sql dump preserving BLOBs byte-for-byte. Time Travel rolls a D1 database back to any point in its retention window, backing up first. โ€ข Cost & Budget โ€” Know what a database costs before the invoice arrives. Month-to-date spend on the three axes D1 bills, rows read, rows written and stored bytes, with the billable part separated. Free, including the sidebar figure on each database. Pro adds a month-end projection, a monthly budget, and an Advisor that ranks the query shapes reading the most rows, suggests a fix where the numbers support one, and copies out as Markdown. โ€ข Draft SQL & Query Editor โ€” Describe what you want, as in "active pro users, newest first", and Apple Intelligence turns it into a SELECT you can read and edit before you run it. Or write SQL by hand. Free. โ€ข Sign in with Cloudflare โ€” Connect without making an API token. Approve D1Explorer once on Cloudflare's own screen, decide there whether it gets write access and usage analytics, and withdraw it whenever you like. Free. โ€ข Connection Doctor โ€” Ask a connection what it can actually do. It checks the token, this database, and the permissions behind editing, exporting, restoring and cost analytics, then names the one you are missing instead of an HTTP status. Free. โ€ข iCloud Sync โ€” Connections follow you between your devices. Only what identifies a database travels; credentials sync separately through end-to-end encrypted iCloud Keychain. โ€ข Query Notebook (Pro) โ€” Never lose the query that fixed production. Save named snippets and keep a per-connection history of everything you've run, failures included, each labelled READ or WRITE. โ€ข Performance Insights โ€” Execution time and rows read per statement, plus which D1 datacenter answered and whether a replica served it. SECURITY FIRST Your Cloudflare credentials live only in the iOS Keychain, pasted token or sign-in grant alike: encrypted by the OS, never in plain text, never sent to third parties. D1Explorer talks straight to Cloudflare, with no intermediary servers. PRIVACY BY DESIGN D1Explorer collects no analytics, no telemetry, and no user data of its own. Cost & Budget and the Advisor read your usage from Cloudflare with your own credentials and send it nowhere else; the Advisor's suggestions are local arithmetic, not a language model. Draft SQL is the one feature that uses a language model, and it is Apple's on-device one: it receives your question and this database's table and column names, never a value from any row, and nothing is uploaded. The Query Notebook records SQL as you typed it, so it can contain literals from your data: clear its history or turn recording off in Settings. Local SQLite files and Wrangler project import are Mac features and are not part of the iPhone and iPad app.

Screenshots

Navidog for MySQL4 screens
D1Explorer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: D1Explorer at weekly against Navidog for MySQL's every 2 months. Navidog for MySQL's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and D1Explorer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Navidog for MySQL ships an update every 2 months, D1Explorer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Navidog for MySQL versus D1Explorer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNavidog for MySQLD1Explorer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size28 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerๅ†ฐๅ†ฐ ้‚“Magenta Creations

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
1 purchases

D1Explorer

One-time1
  • D1Explorer Pro$5.99

Questions

Is Navidog for MySQL free?
Navidog for MySQL is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is D1Explorer free?
D1Explorer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Navidog for MySQL or D1Explorer have ads?
Neither Navidog for MySQL nor D1Explorer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Navidog for MySQL or D1Explorer?
Navidog for MySQL ships an update every 2 months, and D1Explorer weekly. Most recently, Navidog for MySQL was updated on October 9, 2026 and D1Explorer on October 6, 2026.

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