# Surrealist (open-source desktop app)

> Surrealist is a free, open-source desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. Surrealist is the ultimate way to visually manage your SurrealDB database. It has 1,304 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license. Its source code is on GitHub at surrealdb/surrealist.

  Surrealist is now SurrealDB Studio Surrealist was the original user interface for interacting with SurrealDB visually. It let you connect to any SurrealDB instance, run queries, explore tables, design schemas, and manage SurrealDB Cloud — and it served as the primary companion app for SurrealDB for years.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealist |
| Platforms | Linux, macOS, Windows, Web |
| Interface | desktop GUI |
| GitHub stars | 1,304 |
| License | MIT (open source) |
| Replaces | n/a |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Website | https://app.surrealdb.com |
| Official | yes (published by the project behind the app) |
| Category | Other |
| Latest release | surrealist-v3.9.13 (Oct 3, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 2, 2026 |

## Install

Download a build for your system from the project's releases (https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealist/releases) or website, or build it from source by following the README.

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