Show HN: Weavit UI – A Weaviate GUI for macOS, Windows and Linux

Weavit UI, a free, open-source cross-platform desktop client for the Weaviate vector database, has been released for macOS, Windows, and Linux, offering features such as collection browsing, vector and hybrid searches, multi-tenancy, backup and restore, and RBAC. The project is community-built and not affiliated with Weaviate B.V., and version 1.0.1 fixes a code-signing issue that blocked the Apple Silicon build of v1.0.0.

Weavit UI is a free, open-source Weaviate GUI: a cross-platform desktop client for the Weaviate vector database. Browse collections, view/edit/delete/insert objects, inspect named vectors, and run vector, keyword BM25 , and hybrid searches — then manage the instance itself: tenants, backups, aliases, users and roles, and replication — against any Weaviate instance local, self-hosted, or Weaviate Cloud . ⚠️ Community project — not affiliated with or endorsed by Weaviate B.V.“Weaviate” is a trademark of its respective owner. Weavit UI is an independent, open-source tool. Pick the installer for your platform from the release assets: | Platform | Installer | |---|---| macOS — Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3… | the -arm64.dmg file | macOS — Intel | the -x64.dmg file | Windows | the -setup.exe file NSIS installer | Linux | the .AppImage portable or .deb Debian/Ubuntu file | These are unsigned community builds — notarizing an app requires a paid Apple Developer account, and this is a free open-source project. Your OS will flag them on first launch. macOS blocks the app the first time you open it. This is expected, and you only do this once : - Open Weavit UI from Applications. macOS blocks it — click Done . - Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security . - Scroll down to the Security section. You'll see "Weavit UI" was blocked to protect your Mac. - Click Open Anyway . - Enter your Mac login password or Touch ID to confirm. Weavit UI opens, and every launch after this one is normal — you won't be asked again. Instead getting "Weavit UI is damaged and can't be opened"? That's a different problem, and it only affects the Apple Silicon build of v1.0.0 , which shipped without a valid code signature. macOS refuses to launch it outright — there's no Open Anyway button to click. Download v1.0.1 or later , which fixes it. Or repair the copy you already have: codesign --force --deep --sign - "/Applications/Weavit UI.app" xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Weavit UI.app" On Windows, SmartScreen flags the installer — click More info → Run anyway . On Linux there's no prompt; mark the AppImage executable with chmod +x before running it. Connections — local, Weaviate Cloud, or fully custom separate HTTP + gRPC host/port . Anonymous, API-key, or OIDC auth password, client credentials, bearer token , with per-request timeouts and an optional gRPC proxy. Credentials are encrypted at rest with your OS keychain Electron safeStorage . Extra headers for third-party vectorizer keys. Schema & collections — sidebar tree, per-collection config properties, vectorizer, vector index, multi-tenancy . Create, edit and delete collections: change settings, add properties, and drop a collection behind a typed confirmation. Import/export a schema to move a definition between instances. Data — paginated object browser with click-to-sort columns, structured + raw-JSON views, named vectors, tenant selector, insert / edit merge or replace / delete. Bulk import from JSON, NDJSON or CSV, and export results or a whole collection. Search & RAG — nearText , nearVector , nearObject , nearImage , nearMedia , BM25 and hybrid, with a visual filter builder, target-vector selection, property projection, autocut, group-by, reranking and consistency levels. Generative search single-prompt and grouped-task runs in its own tab, and every query is kept in a re-runnable history. Multi-tenancy — per-collection tenant list; create, delete, and move tenants between active, inactive and offloaded. Backup & restore — create, watch, cancel and restore backups on any configured backend, with per-collection include/exclude. Aliases — list, create, repoint and delete collection aliases. Access control RBAC — roles with a permission editor covering every resource kind, database users create, rotate keys, activate/deactivate , role grants, and OIDC group assignments. Connections whose key is read-only say so in the status bar. Cluster — per-node and per-shard detail, sharding state, and replica movement with a live replication queue. Admin — cluster meta & modules, node status, tokenizer preview, and raw GraphQL / REST consoles. Weavit UI is an Electron app. The main process Node.js runs the official weaviate-client https://www.npmjs.com/package/weaviate-client v3 which needs gRPC and is Node-only and exposes a small typed IPC surface. The React + TypeScript renderer talks only to that surface via a contextBridge preload — it never reaches Weaviate directly. React renderer ──window.api──► preload contextBridge ──IPC──► main Node + weaviate-client ──► Weaviate Security: contextIsolation on, nodeIntegration off, sandbox on, production CSP, and IPC-only data access. 1. Install deps pnpm recommended; npm works too pnpm install 2. optional start a throwaway local Weaviate to point at HTTP :8080, gRPC :50051, anonymous access, no vectorizer module docker run -d --name weaviate -p 8080:8080 -p 50051:50051 \ -e AUTHENTICATION ANONYMOUS ACCESS ENABLED=true \ -e DEFAULT VECTORIZER MODULE=none \ cr.weaviate.io/semitechnologies/weaviate:1.28.2 3. Run in dev pnpm dev In the app: New connection → Local host localhost , HTTP 8080 , gRPC 50051 , auth None → select it in the sidebar to connect. pnpm build typecheck + bundle main/preload/renderer pnpm dist:mac or dist:win / dist:linux — produces installers in release/ Targets: macOS Intel + Apple Silicon dmg/zip , Windows nsis , Linux AppImage/deb via electron-builder . Official installers are built and published automatically from a vX.Y.Z tag — see RELEASING.md /XenoraAI/weavit-ui/blob/main/RELEASING.md . src/main/ Electron main: weaviate client wrapper, IPC handlers, encrypted secrets src/preload/ contextBridge — the only bridge to the renderer src/renderer/ React UI features: connections, schema, data, query, generate, stats, tenants, alias, backup, rbac, cluster, admin src/shared/ IPC contract types + channel names shared by main & renderer Contributions are welcome See CONTRIBUTING.md /XenoraAI/weavit-ui/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md to get set up, and please read our Code of Conduct /XenoraAI/weavit-ui/blob/main/CODE OF CONDUCT.md . Found a security issue? See SECURITY.md /XenoraAI/weavit-ui/blob/main/SECURITY.md . - 🐛 Report a bug https://github.com/XenoraAI/weavit-ui/issues/new?template=bug report.yml - 💡 Request a feature https://github.com/XenoraAI/weavit-ui/issues/new?template=feature request.yml - 📦 Cutting a release? See RELEASING.md /XenoraAI/weavit-ui/blob/main/RELEASING.md . Is there a GUI for Weaviate? Yes — this one. Weavit UI is a free, open-source desktop GUI for Weaviate on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It connects to any instance and gives you a collection browser, an object editor, a vector inspector, and a search builder in one window. How do I browse Weaviate collections? Add a connection pointing at your Weaviate host, and every collection in the schema shows up in the sidebar. Selecting one opens a paginated object browser: read properties, switch to raw JSON, pick a tenant on multi-tenant collections, and open any object to see its named vectors. Does it work with Weaviate Cloud? Yes. Local, Weaviate Cloud, and fully custom setups with separate HTTP and gRPC hosts and ports all work, with API-key or anonymous auth. Where are my API keys stored? On your machine, encrypted at rest with your OS keychain via Electron safeStorage . No account, no sync, no telemetry. Is this an official Weaviate product? No — see the disclaimer at the top. Weavit UI is an independent community project built on the official weaviate-client https://www.npmjs.com/package/weaviate-client library. Apache-2.0 /XenoraAI/weavit-ui/blob/main/LICENSE . Contributions welcome.