Supabase GUI Client

Supabase Studio is a web-based tool that runs in your browser and can feel slow with large datasets or complex schemas. A desktop client like 1bench runs natively on your machine, offering faster performance, keyboard-driven workflows, multiple tabs, and offline access to saved connections. It's ideal for developers who spend significant time working with their Supabase database.

In your Supabase dashboard, go to Settings > Database to find your connection string. Copy the PostgreSQL URI (it looks like postgres://postgres.[ref]:[password]@aws-0-[region].pooler.supabase.com:6543/postgres). Paste it into 1bench as a new PostgreSQL connection. You can also use the direct connection string on port 5432 for non-pooled access.

Yes. If you're running Supabase locally via the Supabase CLI (supabase start), you can connect to the local PostgreSQL instance at localhost:54322 with the default credentials. 1bench treats it as a standard PostgreSQL connection, so you get the same full feature set for local development.

Supabase Studio is convenient but has trade-offs: it can be slow with large tables, lacks advanced SQL editor features like autocomplete and multi-tab queries, doesn't support data export to multiple formats, and requires a browser with an active internet connection. A desktop client addresses these gaps with native performance and richer tooling.

1bench connects to Supabase via its underlying PostgreSQL database, so you get full access to all PostgreSQL features including RLS policies, functions, triggers, and extensions. You can view and manage RLS policies through SQL queries, inspect schemas, and work with all Supabase database objects directly.