Tiny RDM (Tiny Redis Desktop Manager) is a modern, lightweight, cross-platform Redis GUI client for Mac, Windows, and Linux, distributed under GPL-3.0 and also offered as a Docker-deployable web version, for developers and operators who need to inspect and edit Redis data without a heavy desktop tool.

What it is

Tiny RDM is a Redis desktop manager built with a Vue frontend and a Go backend through Wails. On the desktop it runs on Webview2 and does not embed a browser, which is the source of its lightweight footprint. The interface is built with Naive UI and IconPark and ships light and dark themes, along with a user interface available in multiple languages including English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, and Turkish. The same codebase is also published as a web version that can be deployed with Docker, so a team can reach the same functionality through a browser on port 8086 instead of installing a client on each machine.

The concrete problem it solves is the day-to-day command-line work of listing, inspecting, and editing Redis data. Rather than assembling raw commands by hand, users get visual CRUD over Lists, Hashes, Strings, Sets, Sorted Sets, and Streams, segmented loading that makes it practical to list millions of keys using SCAN, and first-class handling of values that are encoded or compressed. It also removes the friction of reaching Redis instances that are not directly exposed, covering SSH Tunnel, SSL, Sentinel Mode, Cluster Mode, HTTP proxy, and SOCKS5 proxy connections. Project home is tinyrdm.com, and the repository carries 13108 stars and 660 forks.

Key capabilities

• Visual key-value operations with full CRUD for Lists, Hashes, Strings, Sets, Sorted Sets, and Streams.
• Connection management covering SSH Tunnel, SSL, Sentinel Mode, Cluster Mode, HTTP proxy, and SOCKS5 proxy.
• SCAN-based segmented loading for listing millions of keys, plus segmented loading and querying for List, Hash, Set, and Sorted Set types.
• Multiple data viewing formats with decode and decompression methods, extendable through a custom data encoder and decoder for value display.
• Monaco Editor integration alongside a command-line mode, a command operation history log, a slow logs list, and real-time command monitoring.
• Publish/subscribe support, plus import and export of data and of connection profiles.
• Light and dark themes through Naive UI and IconPark, in a Webview2 build that carries no embedded browser.

Who uses it and how

• Individual developers on Mac, Windows, or Linux who download a release build and point it at local or remote Redis instances.
• Teams that run the web version as a container on port 8086, setting ADMIN_USERNAME and ADMIN_PASSWORD and mounting ./data:/app/tinyrdm for persistence, so colleagues share one browser-accessible console.
• Operations engineers who reach production Redis through an SSH tunnel, Sentinel Mode, Cluster Mode, or an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy rather than a direct connection.
• Developers working with encoded or compressed values who configure a custom encoder and decoder so stored data is readable in the UI.
• Users facing very large keyspaces who rely on SCAN-based segmented loading rather than a single blocking listing.

Getting started

Desktop builds are downloaded free from the GitHub releases page, with a macOS quarantine note that requires sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Tiny\ RDM.app if the app will not open after installation. The web version runs from the image ghcr.io/tiny-craft/tiny-rdm:latest via docker compose up -d, then serves http://localhost:8086; building from source needs Go, Node.js 20 or later, and NPM 9 or later, followed by wails dev.

How it compares

The facts provided name no competing products and no paid alternatives that Tiny RDM replaces, so it stands alone in this registry. Its dependencies, Wails, Naive UI, and IconPark, are building blocks rather than peers.

When to use it — and when not to

A self-hoster taking the web route must operate a Docker container, set administrator credentials, and maintain a persistent data volume, though no external database, object storage, or SMTP service is required. It is a poor fit for anyone who cannot accept the GPL-3.0 licence, who wants a hosted service rather than something they deploy and patch themselves, or who needs a desktop client without the manual download-and-quarantine step on macOS. The repository also carries 178 open issues, so prospective users should review the tracker before standardising on it.

go install github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/cmd/wails@latest

git clone https://github.com/tiny-craft/tiny-rdm --depth=1

npm install --prefix ./frontend

cd frontend
npm install

wails dev

services:
  tinyrdm:
    image: ghcr.io/tiny-craft/tiny-rdm:latest
    container_name: tinyrdm
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8086:8086"
    environment:
      - ADMIN_USERNAME=admin
      - ADMIN_PASSWORD=tinyrdm
    volumes:
      - ./data:/app/tinyrdm

docker compose up -d

docker run -d --name tinyrdm \
  -p 8086:8086 \
  -e ADMIN_USERNAME=admin \
  -e ADMIN_PASSWORD=tinyrdm \
  -v ./data:/app/tinyrdm \
  ghcr.io/tiny-craft/tiny-rdm:latest