Browse your database from your desktop.
Open live tables, filter and sort them, and export results from PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, or ClickHouse. Valv connects from your machine and keeps database secrets encrypted with your OS keychain.
Free for personal, non-commercial use. Commercial Pro is $99 per seat, paid once during the beta.
Look at the data yourself, or ask your agent.
Browse the schema and inspect live rows in the table viewer. When a question needs a query, ask your agent and check the query it ran.
Filter, sort, and export without touching the data.
Open a table, sort or filter its rows, and follow foreign-key links. Page through large tables and save rows as CSV. Tables are read-only, so nothing you do here changes the database.
Ask your agent instead of writing SQL.
Type the question in plain language. Your agent queries the data through Valv and cites the query behind each number, so you can see exactly what it counted.
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Your desktop connects directly to the database.
Valv does not put a hosted query proxy between the viewer and your database. The connection starts on your machine, and the app keeps secrets out of the workspace folder.
Secrets stay outside the workspace.
Valv encrypts passwords and tokens with your OS keychain. The workspace stores only non-secret connection settings, dashboards, exports, and context files.
postgres://•••••••@db.internal:5432/prod
The workspace is a folder you can inspect.
Dashboards, CSV exports, and workspace context live on disk. You decide where that folder lives and whether to put a git-backed workspace under team version control.
~/valv/analytics
Add an agent when a question is faster than a query.
Valv detects the agent CLIs installed on your machine and uses their existing logins. Chat is optional. The table viewer works without an AI provider.
Works in-app with Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Grok, and OpenCode.
Database tools stay read-only.
Agents discover the permitted schema and submit structured queries. Valv validates those queries and runs them locally. It does not give agents database insert, update, delete, or raw SQL tools.
Choose what the agent can inspect.
Active schemas start visible. Hide a table or columns such as email and card number in AI access. The agent cannot discover or query hidden fields. You still see them in the table viewer.
AI access
When you use chat, the allowed schema, your prompt, and the query results needed for the answer are processed through the agent account you chose. Database passwords and tokens are not included.
Four stable database integrations.
Use a connection string for server databases or choose a SQLite file. Test the connection before saving it, then select the schemas Valv should browse.
PostgreSQL
Postgres connection strings and multiple schemas
MySQL
MySQL and MariaDB databases
SQLite
Local database files
ClickHouse
HTTP and HTTPS endpoints
MongoDB is available as an experimental integration. Just need to open a .db file? See the SQLite viewer guide.
Local database viewer, answered
What makes Valv a local database viewer?
The desktop app connects directly to your database. Passwords and tokens are encrypted with your OS keychain, queries originate on your machine, and workspace files stay in a folder you choose. Valv does not proxy table viewer or agent queries through a hosted Valv database service.
Which databases have stable support?
PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB, SQLite, and ClickHouse. MongoDB is also available in the app as an experimental connection.
Can I edit rows in the table viewer?
No. Tables in Valv are read-only. You can browse, filter, sort, and page through rows, and export them to CSV. Nothing in Valv writes to your database.
Can I run SQL, or is Valv AI-only?
Valv has no SQL editor. You browse tables yourself in the table viewer. For questions, you ask your agent. It queries through Valv's policy layer and cites the query behind each number, so you can check how it got the answer.
What can an AI agent see?
The active schemas start visible to AI. In the AI access editor, you can hide a whole table or individual columns before you ask a question. Hidden fields are excluded from schema discovery and queries. You still see them in the table viewer, marked Hidden from AI.
Does database data go to an AI provider?
Only when you use the optional chat. Valv queries the database from your machine, then the allowed schema, your question, and the query results needed for the answer are processed through the agent account you selected. Database credentials are not sent to the agent or its model provider.
Which coding agents work inside Valv?
Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Grok, and OpenCode. Valv uses the installed CLI and its existing login. You do not add an AI API key to Valv, and model usage stays with that provider account.
How much does Valv Desktop cost?
Valv is free for personal, non-commercial use with every feature included. During the beta, commercial use requires a one-time $99 Pro license per seat. There is no recurring charge for that seat.
Open your database in a desktop client.
Free for personal use, every feature included. Commercial use needs a seat at beta pricing. See pricing.