Files & sync

Keep your SQLly world in plain files, then choose if and how those files travel with you.

SQLly keeps its data in plain files on your disk. Sync simply carries those files between devices, and only after you choose to turn it on.

Files first, sync second

The order matters. Because everything is an ordinary file in one folder, syncing is not a feature SQLly has to invent - it is a property of where the files live. That has a pleasant consequence: you are not limited to what we built. Point any file-sync tool you already trust at the folder, keep it in a private Git repo, or copy it to a new machine with cp, and your setup arrives intact.

Everything is a file

What each file holds, where the folder lives on each platform, and why secrets are deliberately not in it.

iCloud Drive sync

The built-in, opt-in option for moving between Macs - through Apple's sync, not ours.

Passwords do not travel with the files. Credentials live in each machine's own keychain and the config only references them, so a synced connection arrives ready to use and still asks that machine's keychain for the secret. Syncing your setup is not syncing your credentials.

Local-only is the default state, not a mode you have to select. Until you turn something on, nothing about your setup leaves the machine it is on.

In this section

Everything is a file — Connections, history, snippets, cards, and rules live as plain files you can back up, inspect, and keep.
iCloud Drive sync — When you opt in, let iCloud carry your SQLly setup between Macs without routing it through us.