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Getting started with Flare ​

Flare is a desktop app for working on databases safely. It supports Firebase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Supabase, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis and S3 storage, with the same tools for each. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Get Flare ​

Flare is opening through a waitlist. Join the waitlist. Once you're in, download Flare for your system and sign in. Plans are listed on flare.tools.

Connect a database ​

Flare opens on your list of connections. Choose New connection (the + next to the search) and either:

  • paste a connection string for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB or Supabase, such as postgres://user:password@host:5432/database, and Flare fills in the rest; or
  • choose the kind of database: PostgreSQL, MySQL or SQLite, Firebase or Supabase, Redis, MongoDB or Cassandra, or S3 storage (AWS S3, Cloudflare R2 and MinIO).

Then fill in the details. Each kind asks for what it needs: a host and port, a database file for SQLite, or a bucket endpoint and keys for S3. Firebase signs in with your Google account instead of a password and lists your projects.

Give the connection a name and a tag. Tags are Local, Development, Staging, Production, or one of your own, such as QA.

Tag production as Production

Flare asks before any change on a connection tagged Production. For the riskiest changes, such as deleting many rows, it makes you type the connection's name. Flare never guesses production from a name, so the tag is the only way it knows.

Saved connections and their passwords stay on your computer, and Flare's servers never see them. They only leave if you turn on sync or share them in a team folder, and then only end to end encrypted.

Open it ​

Choose the connection to open it. Flare starts on the Dashboard, or on Storage for S3. The rail on the left lists that database's tools. Where things are walks through them.

A few things work everywhere:

  • The command palette (Ctrl K, or ⌘K on a Mac) jumps to any tool, connection, table, collection or saved query. It also runs commands, including ones plugins add.
  • Activity lists every change you've made, with undo where Flare can undo it exactly.
  • Settings, at the bottom of the connection list, holds your account, sync, appearance and themes, projects and teams.

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