Metabase
Metabase is a business intelligence app that helps people explore data, build dashboards, and share reports from databases and data warehouses.
What is Metabase?
Metabase is a business intelligence and analytics tool for exploring data, building dashboards, and answering questions without requiring every user to write SQL. It is commonly used by analysts, operations teams, product teams, and internal business users who need a simpler way to work with company data. Users can connect Metabase to databases and data warehouses, create charts and saved questions, organize collections, and share dashboards for reporting and decision-making. It also supports SQL queries for more technical users while keeping interactive visual exploration available for less technical teammates. On Mac, older releases were distributed as a desktop app for local use, while Metabase today is primarily used through a web browser with self-hosted or cloud deployments. Metabase is published by Metabase, Inc.
Key features
- Connect to supported databases and explore data visually
- Build dashboards with charts, tables, and saved questions
- Create and run SQL queries for deeper analysis
- Share reports and collections with teammates
- Filter dashboards to focus on specific metrics or time ranges
- Organize questions and dashboards for team use
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Metabase is legitimate analytics software used to connect to business data sources and present reports in a simpler interface. Its access to databases, dashboards, and saved queries is normal for its purpose, but the app can expose sensitive business information if it is connected to production data without appropriate account controls. Keep it only if you use Metabase for local or self-hosted analytics, and make sure any connected data source uses the permissions your organization intends.
Recommendation: Keep Metabase if you actively use it to explore data or view internal dashboards. If you no longer use the Mac app, removing it is reasonable, especially because current Metabase workflows are commonly handled through browser-based or server deployments instead of a local desktop install.
Common paths
/Applications/Metabase.app~/Applications/Metabase.app
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Metabase
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