Since you mentioned it, I was always curious if the team behind TablePlus were/are connected to the team behind Postico [1]. The UIs for both (at least before Postico 2) are almost identical.

[1] https://eggerapps.at/postico2/

As someone who uses both of them (One for Scylla, one for PG) on a daily basis...I don't think they look "almost identical" at all.

It'd been several years, but taking another look now I can spot the differences.

I suppose the tooling for databases (or the expectation from users) means they all end up sharing a similar UI and where and how various features are implemented. Not too unlike word processors or spreadsheet software!

Yet I still don't think nothing beats the good old SequelPro's elegant interface.

Somehow not really liking the fork.

YES! That's why I built Beekeeper Studio. Still have fond feelings for that app, especially the pancakes logo.

They came first, I wouldn't say I copied them, but we both value good UX and app design. I actually copied an old Mac app called SequelPro, which I missed greatly when moving to PSQL and a Linux desktop OS :-).

When I started building Beekeeper there were 0 open source DB apps with good UX, especially on Linux. So that's why it exists.

I now have a paid version to support development as it has grown super quickly over the last 3 years.

See also: DBeaver, pgadmin, MySQL workbench, Navicat, MS Access, ...

These graphical database clients mostly end up looking the same in the end.

Please use DBeaver, MySQL Workbench, or Navicat side by side with Beekeeper Studio and I think you'll understand how my UX philosophy differs.

Not sure how you can say they're similar.

Simplicity and ease of use vary a lot between them.