What has changed in Calíope, version by version.
Here's the record of what we've added, improved and fixed in each version of Calíope — the same story the app tells you in What's New, told with a little more room. Curious about what comes next instead? That lives on the roadmap.
This page describes Calíope 1.2. The App Store currently serves 1.1 — version 1.2 is in review, so what is marked below as 1.2 is finished and waiting on Apple rather than available to download today.
A tool for working with document databases: browse collections and documents in their own vocabulary, edit them as JSON, write filters and aggregation pipelines, manage indexes, and check the server status, its running operations and its users. Every value shows its type — ObjectId, decimal128, dates, binaries — because in a schemaless database that is half the information.
A companion app for your iPhone, shipping alongside 1.2: connections, snippets, query history, assistant conversations and the error log, all carried over by iCloud. It does not connect to your servers — it shows what Calíope syncs — so without iCloud it has nothing to read, and it tells you which switch is closed instead of showing an empty screen. Face ID to unlock, five languages, and a demo mode. The error log can be read but not pruned: that stays on the desktop.
Every connection now takes an alternate host. If the main one does not answer, Calíope tries the second with the same port and the same credentials — handy when the same server is reached at one address from the Mac and another from the iPad. When the session comes in through the alternate, it says so.
Open a .sqlite or .db file from your Mac and actually work on it: look through its structure, edit the data, run queries, check the pragmas. Your changes are saved when you say so, and you can always roll them back. Import and export in CSV, JSON and SQL. No server, no connection — it's a tool of its own, for local unencrypted databases.
Search for text across every text column of a database and replace it in bulk. Before anything is written you see, row by row, exactly how it will look — computed by the server, not simulated — and Calíope warns you when the search finds more than the replace can change.
Spatial columns stop showing up as a pile of bytes: Calíope reads them and draws them on a map that opens next to the results grid, in standard, hybrid or satellite view. You can drag a point or a vertex and apply the change to the database — always with a confirmation first, and only when the result carries a reliable primary key.
Dumping and restoring huge databases no longer depends on how much memory your machine has: the backup is written row by row, and the restore reads the file one statement at a time instead of loading it whole. A 722 MB dump with four million rows is produced without going past 68 MB of memory, and restores completely in under twenty seconds. Cancelling really does stop the dump, and files from earlier versions are still recognised.
You can now save everything Calíope keeps — connections, groups, preferences and history — to a file, and come back to it whenever you need. Calíope can also make a copy on its own every day or every week and keep it in iCloud, so you can restore it from any of your devices, and it saves a restore point right before the operations that could take data away. Passwords only leave if you ask, and always encrypted with a key of your own.
When something fails, Calíope tells you what happened, what you can do about it and links to the full explanation. It all lands in a log of its own — a new workspace tool, available offline too — that you can export and, if you want, sync with your iCloud to see on the Mac what failed on the iPad.
For those times when you only want to read a file. Open one and Calíope makes sense of it: Markdown reads like a document, SQL comes out highlighted, JSON tidied up, CSV as a table, and plain text and logs exactly as they are. If the file changes on disk, the view catches up on its own. Read-only, and no connection needed.
A long backup, a big import or a query that takes its time no longer gets cut short because the Mac fell asleep. You turn it on, you turn it off, it never expires on its own, and it stays visible so you don't leave it running by accident. On iPad it keeps the screen on while Calíope is in the foreground.
The sidebar now gathers every tool in one place, and the schema tree lives where you actually use it: inside the SQL editor.
A real step in this direction: a native dark interface, support for Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency, better contrast, and status you can tell apart by icon and text — not by color alone.
All five languages reviewed and expanded, and the help system brought up to date.
Work under the hood you won't see, but will feel.
A good number of minor fixes spread across the app.
Calíope arrives on iPad, with Magic Keyboard support, touch gestures and Home Screen widgets.
Alongside OpenAI and Google Gemini, the AI Assistant now works with Anthropic Claude. You pick the one you prefer and use your own API key.
Calíope now speaks five languages: the whole interface and all of the help are available in Italian and German too.
Calíope remembers the tabs you had open on each server. Reconnect, and they come back with you. It never reconnects on its own and never skips your password — and if you'd rather start clean every time, you can turn it off.
Drag any card to rearrange gauges and charts, or hide the ones you never look at. Your layout follows you from one device to the other over iCloud.
Restore compressed .sql.gz files, save ready-to-run templates, and find the same file picker everywhere in the module.
Translations widened across the five languages, the help system updated, and improvements to security and stability.
Minor fixes throughout the app.
First release. Where Calíope started: a MariaDB and MySQL client written for the Mac from the ground up.
You'll find this same summary inside the app, under What's New — it opens by itself after each update. And if there's something you'd like to see in a future version, tell us about it.