Basaltty vs SQLStudio Light
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Basaltty
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Your coding agents run on your Mac. Basaltty puts them in your pocket. Start Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI in a terminal on your Mac, walk away, and pick the same session up on your iPhone or iPad: the transcript it has written so far, the question it is waiting on, and a prompt you can answer. Nothing is restarted and nothing is lost, because it is the same session: the agent keeps running on your Mac and you are looking at it. ⢠It tells you when an agent is waiting. A question asked while you were away is a badge on your phone, not something you discover an hour later. ⢠Sessions name themselves. A model on your Mac reads what each terminal is doing and calls it "Auth Refresh Fix" rather than "zsh", and groups the related ones together. ⢠A real terminal, not a picture of one: full colour, full scrollback, and vim, htop or a build log behaving exactly as they do on the Mac. ⢠Answer, interrupt, approve. The keys an agent conversation needs: escape, control-C, the arrows: are on a row above the keyboard, in whatever order you put them. ⢠Press and hold to select on the terminal itself, then copy the error. Paste a path or a token back from the same menu. ⢠On iPad, the Mac's own sidebar and canvas, splits included: the agent on one side, the tests it is running on the other. ⢠SSH to your own servers from the same list, with no Mac involved. Hosts sync through your iCloud and private keys stay in the keychain, which iCloud encrypts end to end. ⢠Start a new session or a new group on the Mac from here. Reaching your own Macs takes no setting up at all: nothing to configure, no port to open and no key to copy. Basaltty needs its free Mac app and both devices signed into the same iCloud account; they find each other through it and then talk directly. Nothing goes to a server of ours, because there is no server of ours: the connection is encrypted end to end, and the introduction is a handful of records in your own private iCloud database. Basaltty Pro opens every Mac you own from every device, and signs in with every SSH key you have saved. Without it the app opens the Mac you choose and uses the key you choose, which is all one machine and one key needs. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
SQLStudio Light
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SQLStudio Light brings the tools to administer and develop Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance databases to Mac, iPhone and iPad, with an interface that feels familiar to anyone who uses SQL Server Management Studio. Connect directly to your server on your local network, over a VPN or across the internet: there is nothing to install on the server. QUERY EDITOR ⢠Syntax highlighting and IntelliSense: keywords, tables, columns, procedures and parameters ⢠Run scripts with GO and SQLCMD mode; results to grid, text or file ⢠Estimated and actual execution plans with a graphical viewer, Live Query Statistics and client statistics ⢠Code formatting, syntax checking, more than 300 templates and snippets ⢠Per-window transactions, query options, .sql and .sqlplan files OBJECT EXPLORER ⢠Databases, tables, views, programmability, security, SQL Server Agent, Always On, replication and much more ⢠Complete context menus, filters, search, object details and dependencies ⢠CREATE, ALTER, DROP, SELECT and INSERT scripts, plus the Generate Scripts wizard ADMINISTRATION ⢠More than 130 dialogs and wizards: server and database properties, backup and restore, logins, users and roles, indexes, partitioning, compression, Always On, replication, Database Mail, maintenance plans, the Integration Services catalog, SQL Server Agent jobs ⢠Every dialog can also generate the matching T-SQL script ⢠Table designer, database diagrams, data editing, CSV import REPORTS AND MONITORING ⢠63 standard server and database reports ⢠Query Store, Activity Monitor, Job Activity Monitor, Always On Dashboard ⢠Log File Viewer, vulnerability assessment, missing indexes, live Extended Events SECURE CONNECTIONS ⢠SQL Server Authentication or a Microsoft Entra access token ⢠Mandatory or strict encryption (TDS 8.0) ⢠Saved connections and registered servers with groups ⢠Passwords are stored only in the device Keychain, protected with Touch ID or Face ID ⢠No account to create, no data sent to third parties FREE AND PROFESSIONAL SQLStudio Light is free: connect to your servers, browse objects, view properties and reports, and run read-only queries (SELECT). SQLStudio Light Professional unlocks every feature that changes or creates something: any statement in the query editor, saving dialogs and wizards, the table designer, data editing, Object Explorer commands and tasks such as backup and restore. Professional is available as a monthly or annual subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.geolox.it/sqlstudio-light/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.geolox.it/sqlstudio-light/privacy.html Need Windows authentication, DacFx (.bacpac/.dacpac) and the complete SSMS toolset? Try SQL Studio, the full free edition that works through the SQL Studio gateway installed on your own server. Available in English and Italian. SQLStudio Light is an independent product by IT Service, not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft. SQL Server, Azure and SQL Server Management Studio are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Basaltty at none against SQLStudio Light's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. SQLStudio Light sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Basaltty asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Basaltty | SQLStudio Light |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | ā | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Federico Zivolo | Dario Bondi |
In-app purchases
Basaltty
No in-app purchases
SQLStudio Light
- Professional Monthly$3.991 Month
- Professional Yearly$44.991 Year
- Professional Lifetime$449.99





