The interface
A tour of the Tablyne window: title bar, sidebar, tabs, data grid and panels.
Tablyne uses a single, unified window with a custom title bar, a table sidebar, a tabbed workspace and a native data grid — laid out for fast keyboard-driven work.
The top bar
Tablyne hides the operating system’s native window chrome and draws its own unified top bar (TablePlus-style). It has three regions:
- Left — the Tablyne logo and wordmark, followed by the app menu (File, View, Appearance, Help).
- Center — the license / trial status. During a trial this shows the days remaining with a manage button; once expired it turns to a warning with activate license. When you hold a paid license, this area is empty.
- Right — the window controls: minimize, maximize/restore and close.
The whole strip is the window drag region, so you can move the window by dragging any empty part of it.
The app menu
| Menu | Contents |
|---|---|
| File | New table (Ctrl+N), Import from S3, Settings (Ctrl+,), License, Quit (Ctrl+Q) |
| View | Find table (Ctrl+T), Collections |
| Appearance | Font size controls, theme picker, language picker |
| Help | Keyboard shortcuts, Replay tour, About |
The Appearance menu is a quick switcher: it lists every built-in theme plus any custom themes you’ve made, the font-scale buttons (A− / A+ / ⟲), and the three languages. For the full set of preferences, open Settings.
The connection bar
Below the top bar sits the connection bar, where you pick the active AWS profile and region (or switch to your local endpoint). Switching here re-lists the tables in the sidebar without re-authenticating. See Connect to AWS.
The table sidebar
The left sidebar lists the tables in the current profile/region. From here you can:
- Click a table to open it in a workspace tab.
- Use Collections to group tables.
- Jump to any table — even across regions and accounts — with the global finder (Ctrl+T).
See The table list for details.
The workspace tabs
Each table you open becomes a tab. Tabs let you keep several tables (and their query/console state) open side by side. Close the current tab with Ctrl+W, or jump straight to a tab with Ctrl+1…9. See Workspace tabs.
The data grid
The center of a table tab is the data grid — a native canvas grid (not an HTML table) built for large result sets. Core interactions:
- Double-click a cell to edit it in place.
- Click the key on a row to open the full item editor.
- Click a column header to sort; drag a header to reorder columns.
- Right-click for the context menu.
Edits are staged before they’re written — see Staged edits and save them with Ctrl+S. Read the full reference at The data grid.
Panels and toolbar
Above the grid, a toolbar exposes the per-table tools:
- + new item and delete
- ⚡ bulk — bulk operations (update/delete by filter with dry-run)
- calc — capacity / cost estimation
- 🗄 backups and 📡 streams
- ›_ console — the REPL
- code — code generation
- truncate / delete table
Search and query (filtering loaded results, PartiQL, saved queries) live in the query area of each tab — see Search & query.
Modals and overlays
Several features open as centered overlays you can dismiss with Esc:
- The command palette (Ctrl+K)
- Settings (Ctrl+,)
- The license dialog
- Create table (Ctrl+N)
Customizing the layout
Tablyne scales like browser zoom — increase or decrease the whole UI with Ctrl++ / Ctrl+− / Ctrl+0, or via the Appearance menu. Pick from nine built-in themes (or build your own), and switch language on the fly.