Install Monghoul
Download and install on Windows, macOS or Linux, and what each platform asks you the first time you open it.
Monghoul is a desktop application. There is no browser version and no server to run.
Before you download
You need a MongoDB server at 4.4 or newer. The app refuses an older server with an error rather than connecting to it and behaving strangely, because several of the features here depend on commands that 4.2 does not have.
The full list is on System requirements.
Download
Get the installer from the download page. It picks your platform automatically, and every build is also listed on the changelog next to the release it came from.
On Windows you can also install from a terminal:
winget install Monghoul.MonghoulVerifying what you downloaded
Every installer is published as a GitHub release asset on monghoul-public, and the download page links the same files. Downloading from anywhere else is not something we can vouch for.
What it writes to your machine
Connection profiles, tabs, query history and themes go into a local SQLite database in your
platform’s application data directory. Nothing is synced to a server, because there is no server:
Monghoul talks to your MongoDB clusters, to license.monghoul.com for licence checks, to the
update service to look for a new version, and to anonymous usage telemetry, which is on until you
turn it off.
Updates and privacy has the detail.
Next
Connect to your first cluster: Connect to a cluster.