| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Mobile Databases | 7.8 (#12) | 7.9 (#10) |
| Concurrency | FMDatabaseQueue synchronizes and coordinates database access across multiple threads. | Database pools support concurrent access and use SQLite WAL mode unless opened read-only. |
| Purpose | FMDB is an Objective-C wrapper around SQLite. | GRDB.swift is a toolkit for saving application data in SQLite databases. |
| Support | Support is community-provided on a voluntary basis through the mailing list, GitHub bug reports, or Stack Overflow. | The project directs bug reports to GitHub issues and questions or advice requests to GitHub Discussions or the GRDB forums. |