Open Microsoft Access databases on your Mac. MDB Tool reads .mdb files natively, so you can browse every table, run SQL queries and export your data without Windows, Office or a virtual machine.
FREE TO DOWNLOAD
• Open any .mdb database
• Browse every table with row counts
• See columns, data types and indexes
• Run SQL queries, including joins and GROUP BY
• Filter rows without writing SQL
• Explore the bundled Northwind sample
PREMIUM
• Instant results, with no countdown
• Export tables to CSV, JSON, XML, MySQL and SQLite
• Export selected rows from any result
Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, each with a free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. If you bought MDB Tool before, everything stays unlocked at no extra cost.
WHY MDB TOOL
• Native Mac app, built for macOS
• Fast with large tables: pages of 100,000 rows
• Opens files read-only, so your original database is never changed
• Dark Mode and themes
Made by the developer of SQLPro Studio and SQLPro for SQLite.
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Crashes for me
Ricky Charlet
Well, I have a 10 year old access database of about 50 tables ranging from 0 to 30k rows (most tables have a few thousand rows). The program crashes for me on both SQL export and on CSV export. During CSV export I can tell it made partial progress until it got to my table with 30K rows and thats where it gave up (just an observation).Still at 99 cents, it was worth a shot. It seems to work for other people here.
Crashes on large databases
RNCTX
Tried to import a 1.2gb database.Program crashes when selecting the largest table within it.Program crashes when trying to export it to another format.What does it do well? Your guess is as good as mine...
speed, please..in your next update
tomycars11
well, here is my experience with this app:- first I tried it to open a relatively small MBD with around 5k rows? very good, I can see them now.- next I exported them into sql, fine.- then tried it on the largest file I have, it has around 300k rows. nothing happened for a long time, so I walked out and did my shopping…when I came back, it was done. conclusion: this app is very useful when you need to frequently open and do some work on a bunch of relatively small database. If you need to work on oversized database, do it with microsoft access
Nice app, but needs sorting and find features...
BobReck
I needed an app that would allow me to view my Access Databases on my Mac. This app does exactly that and has helped me achieve my needs. Only thing stopping me from giving 5 stars is that I wish that I could sort the columns or use the find feature. In my case, the find will not work (the are in the menus, but grayed out). Clicking on the column headers does nothing to sort the data in the columns. It would be nice to see these features in an update. Thanks!
A new Access engine, rebuilt from the ground up.
- Opens password-protected databases: MDB Tool asks for the password when you open the file.
- Opens .accdb files from Access 2007 and later, as well as .mdb.
- More accurate values: numbers, currency and dates keep their real types, and dates export in ISO format.
- The SQL editor runs real Access SQL (TOP, #dates#, IIf, [Table Name]).
- Attachment tables are hidden from the table list.
Version 2026.301
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