This page describes Calíope 1.5, the version we are building right now. 1.4 is finished and in App Review, and the store serves 1.3 on the Mac and 1.2 on iPad. The changelog says which version each feature landed in.
Adds an “Open in Calíope” button to every topic. It only works with the app installed.
Version, authorship, and how to access application information.
Where it is: Calíope › About Calíope
Calíope is a native MySQL · MariaDB · Aurora · PostgreSQL client developed by David Villalobos Cambronero, built entirely with SwiftUI for macOS 14+, iPadOS 17+ and iOS 17+.
macOS: open the Calíope › About Calíope menu to view the window with the version, build, included features, and acknowledgments.
iPad: open Settings › About (last tab) to view the same information.
Calíope is distributed through the App Store under Apple's standard terms.
Calíope is proprietary software. All rights are reserved to David Villalobos Cambronero.
By downloading Calíope from the App Store, you accept the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions and receive a personal, limited, non-transferable license to use the application on your Apple devices.
What you may do:
- Use Calíope on Apple devices linked to your App Store account.
- Install the application on the number of devices permitted by Apple's family license policy.
What is not permitted:
- Copying, redistributing, or reselling the application.
- Modifying, decompiling, or reverse-engineering the software.
- Transferring the license to third parties.
- Removing or altering copyright notices or proprietary marks.
The full text of Apple's standard EULA is available at apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.
Calíope includes open source components with their respective licenses.
Where it is: Calíope › About Calíope
Calíope incorporates third-party open source components, and credits every one of them.
The full list is in the About Calíope window (macOS) or in Settings › About (iPad), under Acknowledgments: each entry gives the component name, the version inside this build, its license and the copyright holder.
The complete legal text of every license ships inside the app, in the ThirdPartyNotices.txt file. On macOS you can reach it with Show Package Contents on Calíope.app.
That list is not written by hand: it is generated from the dependencies this version was built with, so it cannot fall short when a component is added or bumped.
SQLite is not on the list because it does not ship inside Calíope: it is the operating system library, and it is in the public domain.
How to leave a review on the App Store, and when the app may ask you for one.
Where it is: Help › Write a Review
Reviews are the only public signal other people have when deciding whether Calíope is for them.
At any time: open Help › Write a Review (macOS) or Settings › About › Write a Review (iPad). The link opens Calíope's App Store page with the review form ready. There is no limit — use it whenever you want.
The system dialog: Calíope may show Apple's rating dialog at most once a year, and only after a backup finishes successfully, if you have been using the app for at least two weeks. It never appears after an error or in the middle of a task.
The dialog is drawn by the operating system, not by Calíope: the app never sees your rating and does not know whether you submitted it. You can turn these dialogs off for every app in Settings › App Store › In-App Ratings & Reviews.
How to tell us what’s missing, and why it is the fastest way to get it added.
Calíope has more than three hundred help topics and, even so, yours may not be one of them. When that happens, the useful thing is not to close the window: it is to tell us.
Where to write
At the end of the Help home page —the screen you see when you open it, before picking a topic— there is a block titled “Help that actually helps” with a button that opens a pre-written email to info@caliope.org. You can also write straight to that address.
What to tell us
Three things are enough:
- What you were looking for. The actual task, not the name of the feature.
- The words you searched with. This is the most valuable thing you can give us: the Help search matches against each topic’s keywords, so if you searched for “dump” where we wrote “backup”, the fix is to add your word.
- What you expected to find and wasn’t there.
What travels in the email
The message opens with the Calíope version, the platform and the app language already written at the end, because they are almost always the difference between understanding the problem and not understanding it. Nothing about your connections travels with it, no passwords and no queries, and that footer is in plain sight so you can delete it before sending.
What happens next
Every message gets read. When what is missing is a topic, it gets written and arrives in the next update, already translated into all five languages; when what is missing is a keyword, it usually arrives sooner. A good share of the topics here today exist because someone wrote in.