Worth the upgrade from Navicat Lite
I have used Navicat Lite for a couple years and thought Id like to support the company and product. The Navicat web site says the Essentials version is the same as Lite, except that Lite is restricted to non-commercial use.
But there are differences that make this upgrade worth it even for non-commercial use:
- connection coloring, which can make it clear whether youre on local or server db when making queries
- paren matching
- general polish
- ¿works on retina display? I havent tested this but Navicate Lite rendered queries double-size and Im guessing they fixed that
Why I didnt give it a five:
- no autocomplete while writing queries. as another review points out, thats not really an Enterprise feature so its surprising they expect hundreds of dollars for that.
- the SQL beautify and minify commands (same reason, but not as strongly)
- remaining interface quirks. (e.g. Cmd-downarrow is Export, overriding the editor binding for end of buffer)
Taapl about Navicat Premium Essentials