Features & Capabilities

Private DB is a mobile SQLite database viewer. It lets you load and view databases on your device, and import CSV or tab-delimited text files from the web, email, Dropbox, or share them from iTunes into tables. Note: you can view, sort, and search data, but cannot add, edit, or delete rows, making it ideal for distributing company data or reference tables without tampering. This is a read-only viewer.

Key capabilities include downloading/importing CSV or TSV files, importing from Mail, downloading from the web or Dropbox, executing SQL files, switching between databases, sorting on up to three fields, searching any field, running SQL commands in the SQL Console, and creating views to reorder or filter data.

User Growth & Download Statistics

By:
Portable Databases
Rating:
4.60
(69)
Version:
5.12 Last updated: 2021-07-01
Version code:
842856794
Creation date:
2011-01-05
Compatible devices:
Size:
20.52MB
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-06
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Developed by:
Portable Databases
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/private-db/id406410237
Website:
https://www.portabledatabases.com

User Reviews

Would be nice, in addition to beng able to create a table from scratch (which seems to work fine), to be able to add rows with data.
by Yu*****, 2024-04-13

Awesome app. Simply it just works! It’s also fully featured. I’m Python developer. When working with Pythonista I can easily create and manage my SQLite DB’s. Thanks for an awesome app!
by wi*****, 2020-10-20

First, when importing CSV or TSV, the first row should be allowed to be the field names in place of “Field 1” etc. To be fair, this is covered on the product support page. Second, field widths should either be manually controllable or auto-width with some upper limit. Third, displaying text fields enclosed in quotes is a waste of screen real estate. Suppose you have the first field as a 6 letter ID, followed by a second field of 64 characters of text description. It would be useful for the screen widths occupied by these two fields to be either manually (preferably permanently) set and/or automatically preset individually to some width that reasonably makes the content visible (perhaps with some way to set an upper width limit). Now all fields are the same (unhelpful) width without any obvious way to change. Changing field widths is not obvious, not standard, and not covered on your support page. Given the narrow field widths, the inclusion of quote characters enclosing the characters of fields, and thereby wasting field display space, adds insult to injury. All text and date fields are displayed enclosed in double quotes. Your support page, under the “Rows” section, even shows an example of a date, exactly as it would be displayed in the product. One further annoyance is that horizontal scrolling operates in chunks via the ‘<‘ and ‘>’ buttons rather than the more precise iOS standard horizontal swipe. The result is that if you want the third through seventh columns to be simultaneously visible, you’re out of luck. This requirement is quite common in practice, and may be possible, but it’s not obvious how.
by kc*****, 2018-02-14
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