What it is

Another Redis Desktop Manager is an open-source graphical client for Redis, written in JavaScript and distributed under the MIT license. It runs as a native desktop application on Linux, Windows, and macOS, and it lives in the Redis tooling ecosystem alongside the server itself and the various command-line clients that ship with it. The project has been maintained for roughly eight years and has accumulated a large user base, reflected in more than 34,000 stars and over 2,700 forks on GitHub.

The concrete problem it solves is the friction of inspecting and manipulating Redis data without a terminal. The README states the project's central claim directly: it is built to be faster, better, and more stable than comparable managers, and specifically that it will not crash when loading massive keys. That failure mode — a GUI client dying or hanging while enumerating a large keyspace — is the pain point the project targets. It also covers Redis Cluster connections, which the topic list calls out explicitly, so operators working against sharded deployments are not limited to single-instance servers.

Key capabilities

• Graphical browsing of Redis keys and their values, shown in the project's key view.
• Connection to Redis Cluster deployments, listed as a first-class topic of the project.
• Handling of large keyspaces without the client crashing during load, per the README's stated design goal.
• A Redis status view for inspecting server state from the desktop application.
• An execution log view for reviewing commands issued through the client.
• Cross-platform builds for Linux, Windows, and macOS from a single codebase.
• MIT-licensed source, so the client can be audited, forked, or rebuilt.

Who uses it and how

• Developers on Windows install the executable directly, or through Chocolatey with choco install another-redis-desktop-manager, or through winget with winget install qishibo.AnotherRedisDesktopManager.
• Linux users run the AppImage after marking it executable, or install the confined snap package with sudo snap install another-redis-desktop-manager.
• Snap users who need to select a private key for a connection must first grant access to the SSH folder with sudo snap connect another-redis-desktop-manager:ssh-keys.
• macOS users install the dmg or use brew install --cask another-redis-desktop-manager; if the app will not open afterwards, the README advises clearing the quarantine attribute with sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine.
• Teams working against Redis Cluster use the client to inspect keys across shards rather than connecting to each node separately.

Getting started

Install from the GitHub releases page using the platform package — exe, AppImage, or dmg — or through a package manager: Chocolatey or winget on Windows, snap on Linux, and Homebrew cask on macOS. Paid builds are also sold through the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store as a way to sponsor the project, and those store versions update automatically.

When to use it — and when not to

The paid store builds are the same application offered as a sponsorship channel rather than a separate product tier, so there is no feature gap to weigh against the free downloads. Because this is a desktop client rather than a server, a self-hoster operates no database, storage, or mail infrastructure — only the Redis instance being connected to. The main caveat visible in the facts is the open issue count of 160, which suggests that some reported problems remain unresolved.