Databases, servers and files.
All in one workspace.

Eighteen kinds of connection in one library, an editor that saves remote files back in place, and a Git client that stages by the hunk.

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The connection library: sixteen connections grouped by kind, with workspaces, tags and live status
MySQL & MariaDBPostgreSQLSQL ServerOracleSQLite DuckDBClickHouseAmazon AthenaAmazon DynamoDBSFTPFTP / FTPS Amazon S3WebDAVAzure BlobSMBSSH Local foldersGit repositories

Everything you connect to, in one place

Stop keeping a database client, an FTP app, a terminal, a Git client and a cloud browser open at the same time.

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A library, not a list

Workspaces group what belongs together. Tags carry down from a workspace to everything inside it. Favourites and search sit above both.

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Edit remote files in place

Open a config file over SFTP, fix it, save it. 36 languages highlighted, encoding and line endings preserved exactly as found.

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Git, in the same window

Stage by file or by hunk, commit, browse history with per-commit diffs, switch branches, pull and push. No separate app.

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Nine databases, properly

Schema trees down to procedures, functions and triggers. Browse tables, run queries, export results as CSV, JSON, Markdown or SQL.

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Transfers that report honestly

Recursive transfers with byte-level progress inside a single large file — and a cancel that stops mid-file, even on a stalled connection.

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Native, not wrapped

Swift and Go, no Electron and no Java runtime. Instant launch, small memory footprint, real Mac behaviour.

A Git client that stages by the hunk

Point Hydra at a repository and it opens as a source-control tab beside your databases and servers. Changes on one side, history on the other.

  • Stage and unstage by file, or a single hunk at a time
  • Discard one hunk, one file, or every working-tree change
  • Commit, switch branches, pull and push
  • Browse recent commits with each one's changed files and diffs
  • Runs on go-git inside the app: no external dependency needed, and it works under the sandbox
The source control tab: six staged files, eleven more changed, and the selected file's diff showing hunk 1 of 2 with stage and discard controls

The editor knows where the file came from

Most tools download a file, let you edit a copy, and upload it back with their fingers crossed. Hydra saves the way each service actually supports.

  • SFTP replaces through a posix rename
  • S3 writes with a real If-Match precondition and keeps object metadata
  • FTP has to delete first, and the app says so before it does
  • Local files use a coordinated atomic replace, permissions restored
  • Unsaved edits are mirrored to disk for recovery, and never uploaded on their own
The editor with a stylesheet open over SFTP, syntax highlighted, and four documents in the strip

Point it at a project folder and it finds the rest

Scanning a workspace folder walks it once and reports what is in there: Git repositories, database connections and cloud storage parsed out of the config files you already have, and any credentials sitting in them.

  • Reads .env, docker-compose.yml, Rails database.yml, Django settings, appsettings.json, PHP config, Node config, .properties, AWS shared credentials and more
  • An on-device model judges whether a found secret is real or a placeholder, so nothing is sent anywhere
  • The walk is bounded and prunes node_modules and vendor trees, so it stays fast
  • Nothing is imported until you tick it, and secret values are never displayed
The dual-pane browser: a local folder on the left, the same folder on the server on the right

Scriptable, without handing over your passwords

Turn on the local control socket and your tools — scripts, and AI agents in particular — can list, fetch and upload across every connection you have set up. It exists only while the app is running, and only for things running as you.

  • put ./site prod:~/public -r — recursive, over SFTP, S3, WebDAV, Azure or SMB alike
  • Your credential is never handed to the script. It names a connection; Hydra opens the session. No response can carry a secret
  • A tab already showing that folder refreshes itself when the upload lands
  • Every command is recorded — what ran, from where, how much moved, and what came back

Which means an AI agent can deploy to a server whose password it has never seen, and you can read afterwards exactly what it did.

Four documents open at once over SFTP, each remembering where it came from

What is Hydra Dev Studio?

Hydra Dev Studio is a native macOS developer workspace. It holds your database connections, remote file servers, cloud buckets, SSH sessions and Git repositories in one library and opens each one as a tab in the same window.

It speaks MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite, DuckDB, ClickHouse, Amazon Athena and Amazon DynamoDB, plus SFTP, FTP/FTPS, Amazon S3, WebDAV, Azure Blob Storage, SMB, local folders and Git. No runtime to install, no plugin marketplace, no server component.

Your library, on your Macs

The library syncs through your private iCloud database, and passwords go to the iCloud Keychain rather than into the sync store. Add a server on one Mac and it is on the other. Without iCloud it runs local-only, and says so in the status bar rather than failing quietly.

Built by the people behind SQLPro Studio

Hankinsoft Development has shipped and supported SQLPro Studio since 2015. Hydra Dev Studio is the same approach applied to everything else a developer has to connect to during a day.

Buy it once

A perpetual licence with a year of updates. When the year is up, the version you paid for keeps working.

$99

Once, including twelve months of updates

Every version released during your year is yours to keep. When the year is up the app carries on working exactly as it is. Another twelve months of updates is $99 again, and nothing stops if you never buy them.

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