I still see a lot of people asking 'what's the best MongoDB client for Mac OS X' (besides the mongo shell console), so I think it would be only fair to share my experience.

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I've been using MongoDB a lot and for some reason I haven't been too comfortable using the shell console. I mean, you need an integrated code editor to fiddle with those somewhat verbose JSON-formatted queries...

So I was constantly looking for alternatives; 18 months ago there was none I could find and learn to like, really, but now I really favour Robomongo. It gives you 'the full power of MongoDB shell', but in the same time you can easily save, load, edit your queries, do copy/paste, view your results as JSON/trees/tables... and yes, you do get a decent autocompletion :-).

It's also cross-platform, free and open-source (GitHub repo here).

Fotonauts' fork of MongoHub is another interesting alternative to keep an eye on; it has a more 'native' OS X feel but IMO it does lack a better query editor...

The RazorSQL MongoDB database query tool includes a MongoDB database browser, a MongoDB query builder, a MongoDB query editor, custom MongoDB GUI tools, and MongoDB database administration tools. Listed below are more details on these features.

• A MongoDB create collection tool that generates MongoDB specific JSON inserts to create the collection and insert initial data into the collection.
• MongoDB Database Backup Tools for backing up MongoDB databases or single MongoDB collections.
• MongoDB Drop Tools for dropping collections and databases.
• A visual edit collection tool for visually editing MongoDB collections
• MongoDB Import and Export tools for importing data into collections, or exporting data from single collections or all collections in a database

• Displays information in a tree format for databases and collections.
• Displays MongoDB collection information such as attribute name and data type.
• Easily view collection contents, search collection data, or edit collections via the context menu.

Execute JSON or simple SQL queries and statements. Auto collection lookup. Supports over 20 programming languages including SQL, PHP, HTML, XML, Java, and more.

Import data from files containing JSON documents or JSON insert statements.

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Export data in various formats such as JSON insert statements, JSON documents, delimited files, Excel spreadsheets, text, HTML, and XML.

Visually edit MongoDB collections.

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Easily build select and insert statements using MongoDB query syntax. Also includes an option for generating queries based on entered search criteria.