No account, no server: everything runs and stays in your browser. Typed columns, formulas, saved views, boards, calendars and charts.
Welcome back. Your tables are still in this browser.
Try the view tabs. In Charts, click a bar or a slice to filter.
Privacy & ownership
There is nowhere for them to go. dbtable.app is a set of static files: your browser loads them like any web page, then everything you type is saved in that browser’s own storage, on your device. The app is a tool; the data is yours.
The app’s security policy blocks connections to any other site, and it never sends your data anywhere. Open your browser’s developer tools while you work and check.
No account means no email, password or profile stored anywhere. There is nothing about you to sell, lose in a breach or hand over.
Download any view as CSV from the table menu, or back up everything to one JSON file that restores every table, folder, view and setting. Open formats, no lock‑in.
Keeping everything in your browser has trade‑offs. Here they are, plainly.
The desktop app, coming soon for Windows and macOS, lifts the size limit, saves everything to a single file you own and backs it up for you.
See it work
Watch a reading list built from scratch in 90 seconds: typed columns, rows, filters and sorting, highlight rules that colour the best-rated books, a CSV import with column types detected, and proof that no data is uploaded.
The dbtable.app logo draws itself, then a browser window at dbtable.app opens straight into an empty table called “Untitled”, with no sign-up or login screen. Caption: No sign-up. No login. You’re already in a table.
The table is renamed “Reading list”. The “+” at the end of the header row opens the property menu with every type: text, number, select, multi-select, status, date, checkbox, URL, email, phone, created time and last edited. A select column “Status”, a number column “Rating” and a date column “Finished” are added. Caption: Typed properties: select, number, date, checkbox, URL…
A new row is typed: “Middlemarch”, status “Finished”, rating 4.8. Seven more books follow, one by one. Caption: Type like a spreadsheet. Get typed columns.
A filter “Status is Reading” narrows the table to two rows, and is removed again. Then the Rating column is sorted highest first, from 4.8 down to 3.2. Filters and sorts are saved with the view. Caption: Filter and sort. Every view is saved.
A green highlight rule “Rating ≥ 4.5” colours the three best-rated books, Middlemarch, Beloved and Dune, without hiding the others. Caption: Highlight rules colour what matters.
The sidebar’s Search opens the command palette; typing “import” and picking “Import CSV file…” opens a file picker, and “Library export.csv” becomes a new table: “Imported 1,240 rows × 6 columns”. Each column’s type was detected: a title, text, a select with six options, a number, a date and a checkbox. Captions: Search runs any action, like importing a CSV. Column types are detected for you.
Back in the reading list, Search again: typing “dark” and picking “Theme: Dark” switches the whole app to dark mode. Caption: Switch to dark mode the same way.
A network panel opens next to the app. Pride and Prejudice’s rating is changed from 3.9 to 4.7; the row moves up, turns green and is saved, while the panel stays at 0 requests and 0 bytes transferred. The video ends on “Start a table, free, no sign-up”. Caption: Nothing is uploaded. Your data stays in this browser.
Features
The parts of a database tool you actually use, in a table that is ready the moment it opens. No workspace to set up: start blank, from a template, or from a CSV.
A title column, plus text, numbers (shown as currency, percent or a progress bar), select and multi‑select, status, dates, checkboxes, star ratings, URLs, email, phone, formulas, and IDs, created and edited times that fill themselves in.
Filter on all or any conditions, sort, group and hide columns, then keep it as a view. Each table can have as many views as you need.
Dates read as “Tomorrow” or “2 days ago”. Filter on “is in the past” or “within the next 7 days”, and colour the rows that match without hiding the rest. Rules run in order, so “today” beats “this week”.
Gather charts and big numbers from any of your tables on one page. Each one can follow a saved view, and clicking a bar opens its rows, ready to edit.
Show the same rows as a board you drag cards across, a month calendar you drag to reschedule, or a page of bar, line, donut and number charts. Click a bar to see just its rows in a table beneath. Each layout is a view, with its own filters.
Build a formula column from clickable pieces, like “Rent ÷ Rooms” or “days until Viewing”, or type one in. It updates as you edit and sorts, filters and totals like any other column.
Select a block of cells to copy, paste, clear or fill down, edit many rows at once, find and replace, colour single cells, pin and wrap columns, and print any view or save it as a PDF.
Count, sum, average, median, min, max, range, unique values and percent checked, one per column. Totals follow the current filter, and each group gets its own.
Ctrl K (⌘K on a Mac) searches every table, view and command, with a preview of the row you’re on. Use “quotes” for a phrase, -word to leave rows out and status:done to look in one column. Press Tab on a table to search only that table.
Open any row in a side panel to see all of its properties at once and write free‑form notes. Step to the next row with the arrows without closing it, and see when each row was created and last edited. In the table, arrow keys move between cells, Enter edits, and undo and redo are always a shortcut away.
Import & export
Start from any CSV, or a spreadsheet saved as one. dbtable.app finds the separator and works out what each column holds, so dates sort as dates, numbers add up and repeated values become colour‑coded options. You see every row in a preview before anything is added.
Who it’s for
You track things in a spreadsheet, but want a list where dates sort as dates and a status is one of a few options, without giving up copy, paste and fill‑down.
Saved views, boards and dashboards, like a view per client with overdue invoices in red, without a workspace to set up.
Everything stays on your device. Sort tables into folders, keep notes on any row, and back it all up to one JSON file.
Test data, a backlog or a budget, without standing up a database. Import a CSV, shape the columns, export it back.
Web & desktop
The dbtable.app web app is free, with no sign-up, no trial and no paid tier. A desktop app for Windows and macOS, for bigger tables kept in a file you own, is coming soon.
Free Free for good, with nothing to unlock
Windows & Mac From the Microsoft Store and the Mac App Store
Not in the stores yet, and there is no waitlist to join: we would need your email for that. Check back here.
FAQ
In your browser’s storage (localStorage) on your own device. It is never sent to a server: dbtable.app has no database of user tables, and the app’s security policy blocks connections to other sites.
No. There is no sign-up, login, email or password. Open the app and you are in a table.
No. dbtable.app runs no analytics or tracking scripts and sets no cookies. Like any website, the server that delivers the app’s files may keep standard access logs, but it never sees your tables.
Your tables are stored the way your browser stores any site’s data: dbtable.app does not encrypt them, but your device login, and disk encryption if you use it, still protect them. Anyone who can use your browser profile can open them, so on a shared computer use a profile of your own.
Your tables are deleted along with the site’s storage. Safari also clears a site’s storage after seven days of Safari use without a visit to the site, and private windows forget everything when they close. Export a JSON backup from Settings now and then; restoring it brings back every table, folder, view and setting.
Not automatically. There is no sync and there are no sharing links, by design. To move or share a table, export it as CSV or a JSON backup and import it on the other device.
Browsers give each site about 5 MB. A 10,000-row demo table uses about half of that, and the sidebar shows how much you have used. The desktop app, coming soon, removes the limit.
Yes. It works in any modern mobile browser, with a layout for small screens: tap a column header for its menu, or select rows for row actions. Tables on your phone are separate from the ones on your computer, because each browser keeps its own.
Once the app is open, editing never needs the network, because nothing is sent anywhere. Opening the app still needs a connection: it is not yet installable as an offline app.
Yes, as a CSV file: click Import in the sidebar. From a spreadsheet app, save as CSV first; .tsv files and Excel’s “Unicode text” work too, from any Excel version. Comma, semicolon, tab and pipe separators are detected, each column’s type (number, date, checkbox, URL, email, select, star rating, ID or text) is worked out for you, and a preview shows every row before anything is added. You can also paste a block of cells straight into a table.
Your tables stay in your browser, but you would need the app to open them. That is why every table exports to CSV, which any spreadsheet app opens, and the full backup is plain, readable JSON. Export now and then and you lose nothing.
Yes. Formula columns work things out from the other columns in a row, and any view can be a table, a board (kanban) you drag cards across, a month calendar or a page of charts. Dashboards gather charts from several tables. Links between tables and form views are not available yet.
Unlike a spreadsheet, every column has a type, so a date stays a date and a number stays a number, and filters, sorts, highlights and boards are saved views instead of manual setup. Unlike cloud workspace and database apps, there is no account and no server: your tables stay on your device. In return there is no sync, no real‑time collaboration and no links between tables yet. If several people need to edit the same table, use a cloud or self‑hosted database app; if your work is mostly formulas across cells and sheets, use a spreadsheet.
Yes. The web app is free, with no trial, no paid tier and nothing to unlock. A desktop app for people who need bigger tables is coming soon.
It opens straight into a table. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.