Best alternatives to PATM in 2026

Anyone who works with databases regularly knows the small, recurring annoyance of needing to move data from one table or database to another — and reaching for a quick throwaway script because the alternative feels like overkill. PATM is a desktop app built specifically to remove that friction: connect to your databases, browse tables, run queries, and transfer data between them through a graphical interface instead of scripting it each time. PATM is a C++/Qt6 desktop application supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB, with database credentials stored in the operating system's keyring rather than in plaintext config files, plus TLS and SSH tunnel support for connecting to remote or secured databases. It includes table browsing and preview, a SQL query window with selective execution, a SQL terminal for direct commands, CSV export, dedicated table-transfer tooling between databases, and a sandboxed API for writing custom Python tools on top of it. It's free and open-source under GPL-3.0-or-later. The project is explicitly labeled v0.0.0-experimental with 1 GitHub star and 0 forks — genuinely early software from what appears to be a single developer, competing in a space with long-established free tools like DBeaver and pgAdmin that already cover most of the same ground.