Json Editor App Reviews

I’m using this app currently to build and edit several rather large (several hundred line) JSON files for a development project. Overall it’s pretty good. It helps visualize the structure of the file really well, and editing is very simple. My only request is multiple selections. In my use case, I find my self changing structures sometimes which means moving rows to different areas of the structure while maintaining their order. Because I often have to move around many rows at once, I have to do them one by one, as I cannot shift+select multiple items at once. Adding that functionality would probably shave a solid hour off my work.

I need to grapple with JSON files: review them, check them against a spec, design them, document the designs, etc, etc. This app is perfect for me, allowing me to quickly see how a new JSON is laid out, searching for things, digging deep when I need to. I’m very glad I spent $5 on it, I’ll be using it every day now. I strongly recommend this app if you do any work with JSON objects and files; it is quick, clean, efficient, powerful.

I’m an iOS developer and that means I spend a lot of time trying to make sense of JSON responses from RESTful web servers. This app is an indespensable tool as it does a fantastic job of: 1 - Saving common requests I need to make, it’s just a click to switch between endpoints! 2 - Formats the JSON in an easily digestible format. This especially plays well with the new Codable/Decodable technology in Swift 4, which oftentimes reports an error such as “you have a problem at index 46 of the array”. Using JSON Editor’s JSON Document feature, I can quickly click through a UI (reminsicent of a plist editor) to see what the problem is. Also the developer is super helpful and responsive to support requests. I can’t praise this app enough!

This was just the app I was looking for to edit and validate JSON data. I looked at a lot of apps, but this one really fit the bill. It’s easy to view and edit JSON. The app quickly converts JSON between “Tree” editor and “Text” editor mode. This makes it easy to paste JSON data in text mode and then convert to tree mode for validation and viewing. The app also has a great HTTP client which is useful for interacting with REST API in the Cloud. I’d used a couple of other HTTP clients, but this app - once again - really met my needs. And, I especially like the “Beautify” button on the HTTP Response dialog of the client. That really makes it easy to quickly view the data coming from the cloud. Finally, the author does a fantastic job with support. Quickly answering questions and adding new features. Highly rated app and author!

This has been a very useful tool. Well worth the money! I have a few requests to the developer: - allow for a configurable number of spaces for the “Readable JSON”. You use 2 spaces, but some people prefer 4 or 5 - use different colors for strings versus labels. Currently, something like “existing_files”: “replace” would all be in red. Other editors have these in two different colors which makes it more readable. - if the user tries to close a file without saving, please WARN them.

I had a very large json file (almost 9 million lines) and was having a lot of trouble visualizing the structure. It loaded it up in less than 20 seconds and made visualization feasible.

When I do a find ( F), the program crashes before I enter the text. I tried to tell the author it seems a hastle to just send an email. This is my email to the author. please fix. (I am running 10.9.5)

The json tools are handy, and in conjunction with the HTTP client I can do a lot of quick testing on my REST services. Nice tool to have in my collection.

This app is great for working with JSON data. I have had zero problems with it. The only thing that I would like is for the app to retain my window size. I don’t want to drag it bigger every time I open a new doc or window.

I just wanted a simple JSON editor and this one works great! Even better it has HTTP support, I can see myself using that occasionally.

Like your program, thanks! A nice addition would be detecting changes to the JSON file and show those changes (update your display) as changes happen. It would speed developer’s real-time monitoring.

UPDATE: Without the 32-deep limit, this is a great and fast viewer for JSON files. I was able to open a 100MB NewRelic stack trace JSON file in less than ten seconds, and navigate through the tree. Great work! Also it seems like preserving original formatting improved with this version as well. Previously when I had hand-coded JSON with semi-compact formatting, a round-trip through JSON Editor would move a bunch of braces to the next lines; now those are preserved. Overall: Very useful tool for both small and huge JSON files, responsive developer, and fills its niche well. Can’t find a fault in that! Suggestion: In the “duplicate” function, can custom formatting be preserved there? For instance, with this JSON (using ‘-‘ in place of spaces just in this review to keep formatting visible): { ----"main": { --------"foo”:-------{"value": 6}, --------"bar":-------{"value": 3} ----} } … if I dupllicate “bar” (right-click, select ‘duplicate’) then save, I get: { ----"main": { --------"foo":-------{"value": 6}, --------"bar":-------{"value": 3}, ----"bar - 2": { ------"value": 3 ----} --} } … that is, “bar - 2” loses the special formatting of “bar”, and the ‘}’ after it loses the indent it had had previously (adopts 2-space-per-level rather than the 4-space-per-level the input file had) Still, just a nit, and this update really made the application super-useful to me. Kudos and thanks! ORIGINAL: Not sure what the error “Input depth exceeds max depth of 32” might mean, other than that “32” seems like an arbitrarily low limit for something. Are you using an Int bitmask for something? Hopefully not object nesting depth (since that would seem very silly). I’m assuming it is because my file is too large or complex, but I can’t find any documentation on the tool or its limitations. In any case, it won’t let me view it in the tree and essentially leaves me in a plain text editor. I already have a lot of plain text editors, and this doesn’t seem to add any value there.

I love this editor. Perfect compliment for any developer constantly working with JSON files.

Nice to have Raw and Tree views. and HTTP Requests. Does what it needs to.

Crashes when doing any search of the JSON. Junk.

This is the best JSON editor I’ve found for macOS. Recent improvements have moved my rating to ***** 5 Stars *****. It now allows line-breaks in values and shows multiple lines. It now supports setting size of window and size of individual columns — a huge time saver when opening a file. I can go straight to work, rather than adjusting the window. Also the UI for specifying these settings (by number or using an example window) is very handy and does the job well. Thanks for a great product — and the ongoing improvements!

I have no idea how i would ever get along without this tool. I deal with enourmous JSON strings that are in the half a million to million lines when expanded. Yes, it laggs a little on the biggest stuff, but so does my super powered Mac Book Pro. Absolutely incredible tool!

What a great JSON editor: * Fast validation * Pretty Formatting * Great Error detection (providing precise location) * Simple shortcut keys to jump between raw, tree views, and formatting What needs improved: * Importing large JSON. It hangs on a 2.7MB JSON blob I’m trying to paste in. * Remove the occassional reminder to rate it. That’s cheesy. This app is worth it though. Great job!

I've found it useful in digesting JSON responses from services and parsing those responses. One feature request: allow the user to assign aliases for the HTTP requests so that they can quickly identify them in the list. As it is now, the distinguishing portion of a request is usually way to the right and that part is truncated in the list of requests. Update: The developer is very responsive to change requests and improvmeents.

It’s not overly fancy, but so far, I’ve very happy with this app. I’m mostly happy with how intuitive the interface is. I’ve been able to pick up how to use it as I go along pretty well. For instance, drag and drop, copy and paste, and other basics seem to do what you expect. I’ve found a bug in how array items are numbered after inserting and deleting things (sometimes item numbers repeat), but it appears to be benign. Reopening the file you’re editing fixes the problem. No crashes yet, which seems to be no small feat these days. (I’d much rather have a basic-featured crash-free app over a full-featured, crashes-now-and-then app every time.) If I had a suggestion: I’d love to see the raw JSON and the editor at the same time.

Just opened a 227 MB json file without even blinking. Well done.

I am extremely happy with this app. It’s simple and straightforward and works. Recently however it had started crashing a lot. But the developer got a fix out straight away. Thanks for the great utility!

It has had a crashing problem for several updates (including the current one) where as soon as you Cmd-F or select Edit>Find from the menu it crashes. This unfortunately renders the app virtually useless for dealing with JSON docs of any size.

I love this little app, for the price it’s perfect. It loads in JSON files quickly, allows me to traverse the leaves of it, select keys. Really everything I need. Well worth the money if you open JSON files. Also found a great feature that allows me to copy out from json various formats, including Swift code, and bracketted JSON paths, which is very useful for developing iOS apps with SwiftyJSON. Thanks again!

This worked great for my smaller files, but I purchased it to find an issue with a file that was 10 mb and I kept getting the rainbow wheel until it was unresponsive.

I was looking for a json editor to handle editing local json files and this app was exactly what I was looking for. Basically I wanted Xcode’s plist editor but for json. Pros: The interface is less clunky than Xcode, it can handle plists (and convert them to json) and you can easily copy and paste arbitrary parts of your hierarchy. Cons: There doesn’t seem to be any way to save optimized (whitespace removed) json files. It seems to only save “pretty” ones. Also, I (naively) nearly skipped over this app because the icon looks like.. well, like it was made by a software developer, but the rest of the app feels polished and loved. Finally, I’m only editing files locally, so I haven’t tried the network support. Very happy with this app for my needs.

I like the feature set of this tool, but unfortunately, with large JSON files this app struggles. Anything over 700k and I get frequent crashes. North of 1MB, the tool becomes unuseable. Another editor I’ve recently purchased seems to work fine with large files.

The only thing this is missing (for me) is keyboard shortcuts to expand/collapse all. Other than that, it’s very solid and works great.

Unfortunately, this does not work at all! Freezes constantly for large files. Extremely slow to use and constantly complain even if the JSON is valid. Waste of money!

Parses large json quickly, includes syntax highlighting and validation with animated error indicating! My only request would be for a splitscreen view. Currently you can view either the raw JSON or the visal tree, not both! 5 stars regardless.

I use it routinely to check some large JSON files I output, and validates well. I’d like to see some more: 1. JSON Editor allows newlines (unescaped) to be valid… i’m pretty sure this is not correct. 2. In big files, the line numbers listed with errors don’t seem to match up with the original source code line numbers. I can live with those, and am, but look forward to further improvements.

Been using this editor long time, everything works great until version 1.8. The copy/paste stopped working. Please fix the bug.