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SQLite is in your phone right now. It's in your browser. It's in your TV, your car, your watch, and your thermostat. The SQLite engine is embedded in virtually every application that needs local data storage, and the .sqlite file is the entire database — tables, indexes, views, and data — in a single portable file.
Unlike PostgreSQL or MySQL, SQLite has no server process. The database is just a file. Copy it, email it, put it in Git — it's completely self-contained. This simplicity makes it the default choice for mobile apps, desktop applications, embedded systems, and any situation where a client-server database is overkill.
DB Browser for SQLite (free, cross-platform) is the standard GUI for opening and querying SQLite databases. The `sqlite3` command-line tool comes pre-installed on macOS and most Linux distributions. For programmatic access, every major programming language has a SQLite library — Python's `sqlite3` module is part of the standard library.