Comparison

Master SQL 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

Master SQL

Features
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Master SQL is the professional database management tool designed exclusively for iPad. Connect directly to MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MariaDB, SQL Server, and MongoDB โ€” all from your tablet. DIRECT CONNECTION Connect to your database servers via TCP without any middleware. Your data never passes through our servers. SSH tunnel support included for secure connections. POWERFUL SQL EDITOR Write and execute SQL with syntax highlighting, auto-complete for table and column names, multiple tabs, and full Magic Keyboard support. Run queries with โŒ˜+Enter, view EXPLAIN plans visually, and save your favorite queries for quick access. VISUAL DATA BROWSER Browse tables in a spreadsheet-like view. Edit cells inline, add or delete rows, filter and sort data visually. NULL, BLOB, and JSON values are displayed with smart formatting. ER DIAGRAM (Pro) Auto-generate entity relationship diagrams from your database schema. Visualize foreign key relationships with pinch-to-zoom and drag-to-reposition. SERVER MONITOR (Pro) Monitor active connections, running queries, database sizes, and slow query logs in real-time with auto-refresh. CLOUD BACKUP (Gold) 1GB encrypted cloud storage for SQL dumps, connection profiles, saved queries, and app settings. Your backups are AES-256 encrypted. PLANS Free: 2 connections, 3 tabs, 5 saved queries, CSV export Pro: Unlimited everything, all export formats, ER diagram, server monitor Gold: Everything in Pro + 1GB cloud backup & sync Supported databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MariaDB, SQL Server, MongoDB. 16 languages supported. Built for iPad with Split View, Stage Manager, and Apple Pencil support. Terms of Use: https://mastersql.ssd.nz/terms Privacy Policy: https://mastersql.ssd.nz/privacy

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Octo

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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

Master SQL3 screens
Octo3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Octo at none against Master SQL's 6. Octo also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Master SQL sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Octo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Master SQL ships an update every 6 months, Octo weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Master SQL versus Octo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaster SQLOcto
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” better
Requires iOS26.226.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size23 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSECKIN SEFA DURASITaeHwan Kim

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Master SQL

Subscriptions4
  • Pro$4.991 Month
  • Gold$7.991 Month
  • Pro$39.991 Year
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  • Gold$59.991 Year
One-time2
  • Pro Lifetime$79.99
  • Gold Lifetime$119.99
None

Octo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Master SQL free?
Master SQL is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Octo free?
Octo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Master SQL or Octo have ads?
Neither Master SQL nor Octo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Master SQL or Octo?
Master SQL ships an update every 6 months, and Octo weekly. Most recently, Master SQL was updated on October 7, 2026 and Octo on September 21, 2026.

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