Power Json Editor App Reviews

I'm using JSON editor to enter in a lot of data. It certainly works but bugs and UI flow problems keep this from being ideal 1) Crashes upon undo operations (after you add a new object/array) 2) Tabbing erases your entry rather than entering it 3) You can tab to a new line, but can't shift-Tab to the previous 4) You can't convert a null entry to Array or Object.

Would be really nice if it let me open any filetype I want, instead I’m forced to rename the file in order to open it….

It seems to be pretty good. I have had some problems with it crashing, and occasionally will not let me copy & paste in new json. If I restart it works fine again. I would give it 5 stars without these two problems.

A nice visual JSON editor that allows for quick brainstroming of JSON structures. I do have a few suggestions * Syntax highlighting in the Raw JSON window * It would also be nice to be able to change the bracing style. It's understandable that most Javascript bracing styles are K&R due to the lovely behavior of Javascript's return keyword but in some coding standards, bracing style is required to be left justified. * Change the behavior of the Key field so you don't have to press enter in order for the changes to stick. I personally do a lot of tabbing between fields and this burns me from time to time. * Drag and drop reordering of the fields.

It can beautify JSON but then it can’t alwasy match up the JSON with the node you select.

Very responsive to suggestions too. I recomended the compaction feature in this suggestion box when I said previously "Another feature I think would be cool would be to un-beautify json. That is collapse the whitespace." Not sure if that was the reason why it was added but I'm glad it's there now! I'd say they should charge for this, but developers don't like to pay for software. (I would). You know what this needs though is command line support. Imagine beinga ble to !pjson %:p a file from vim. I realize that it's sandboxed, but maybe something can be done to send json directly to this awesome tool. I’ve been using this plugin for years and the dev keeps updating it. That’s so awesome! Thank you. It’s always getting better. :)

This app seems very buggy - I opened the app, added an object, deleted it and the app crashed. After it reopened, I tried to create a simple JSON { "title" : "this is my title" } When I opened the file it showed { "NewKey" : "this is my title" } I went back and found that often when I entered a name for a key, it didn't take. Otherwise I like the layout of the app, if the bugs get fixed, it will be a great little app. Update: Does nothing but crash. Text view does not keep in sync with tree view. Awful program in it's current form.

Love the app. It’s very helpful when designing new JSON docs (or finding bugs in the format of existing ones). One minor suggestion: Allow me to choose whether the open file dialog pops up or a new document is created on program start up. Similarly, allow me to decide if I want you to ask me to save the file on program shut down. More often than not, I am using the program to beautify / debug a chunk of JSON I’ve got in my clipboard.

nice!

I use this app for game development when I’m modeling game data (in the JSON format). It’s super simple, and it works great. I hope the developer stays active on this app!

I deal with JSON structures I'm not familiar with and this app makes it very easy to work with JSON, I would say the huge icons in the Menu list under Node Menubar Item is wayy too large, but apart from that the actual application is solid.

I bought this simply because I can't find a way to edit on the text directly in Cocoa Json Editor. Also I'm frustrated by Jason 0.6 because it kept opening an extremely large historical file, making the app can't even launch. Power JSON editor just do the work really well. You can edit the text directly. You can get both compact and beautified format. You can edit in a tree format. If you are thinking about getting Power JSON or Cocoa JSON, pick Power JSON.

This app has been broken since October. If you work with multipe large JSON files > 1MB each, the application poorly handles memory and thread management. The app hangs my entire mac with spinners as the app consumes 100% of the foreground process, while destroying and saving the data. Greeeeaaaaat! I lost 1/2 of my morning tracking down a payload destroyed by this pile. I’ve submitted bug reports, but the dev can’t reproduce - if they don’t try. What I used to say when it worked: Awesome tool! A MUST for JSON developers!!! Hands down, this is the best JSON preview app available for OS X! Buy it! This developer is very responsive to bug reports! Thank’s for fixing: Show duplicates in objects - a saver for iOS 5.x Json compatibility! Power JSON Editor has proved itself to be an invaluable part of our team's code production pipeline….

Would be nice to click on an object and paste in plain text object.

I’ve been using this tool for more than a few years. It’s always been reliable and performant and simply gets better with each update. Autosaving to iCloud is great! 2019 Update: I realised that this is one of the ten core apps that I rely on every week. THanks you again!

I am really liking 90% of this application, then I tried deleting nodes, and the application simply stops responding. It's fairly intermittent, but extremely frustrating. I've rebooted, quit, forced quit, etc - it just hangs when trying to delete a node. Then it will work for a few minutes, then right back to not working again. It's not a terribly large file - the file overall is, but honestly that shouldn't matter much to something with the name "power" in it. Hope this gets fixed, or I will have to locate another editor.

My personal favorite JSON editor.

This isn't a perfect JSON editor, but it gets the job done. It is better than the other two editors I tried. It handles large documents well and lets you edit the JSON one object at a time. Support for duplication and cut and paste at the object level is also nice - no lining up brackets! If you find yourself in an unfortunate situation where you need to edit JSON by hand, this is the best alternative I've found.

A nice intuitive time saver that I use everyday. Has everything i need and more. I would request a preference for 'relaxed' mode so I didn't have to quote my keys.

Well thought-out, works quite well. My only complaint is trivial, but I think the toolbar icons are rather ugly & distracting.

This app is critical to my business, and I am very glad I purchased it. However it appears the app is not optimized for multiple cores, if I 20-40mb JSON file, it takes minutes to do any operation, even on an iMac Pro. I would really love if the developer improves multiple core and single core performance and would easily update this to 5 stars.

This app works great, the only thing I'd like to see is the ability to search for and delete objects or strings. You can search and replace, but you cannot replace and delete. Otherwise, this is a solid app, money well spent.

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Overall, I think this app is pretty good. It does everything I need. It has a small footprint and has been reliable. My only gripe is when you exiting the app without saving, the close dialogs are non-standard. The dialogs also kept my Mac from performing a scheduled reboot. Other than that, I found it was well worth the cost.

Was looking for something to easly create and modify archetype JSON texts. This appication works perfect for this case. Easily move, copy, and delete JSON nodes. Easily change node types from arrays to objects. Easily modify values, add key/values, and add nodes. Only small quick, is adding a node to the very end of a top level array is a little wierd. By default when copying a new node into an array it adds it to the top. Adding to the bottom requires that the last node be fully expanded, then to move the node leftward until it is at the right level. Another workaround is to add the node as the second to last in the array then move the last one up. Easily overcome and worked around, but still annoying nonetheless. For this small annoyance, I gotta pull off one star, but otherwise is a HUGE timesaver.

I have used this (or tried to) for a few days now. It keeps freezing up after I edit something. The Quit menu item is greyed out so I must force quit. I am on 10.8.5. This happens consistently.

Does exactly what it is supposed to. In the first ten minutes of using it, it paid for itself. Finding errors in JSON is really easy. Nice editor.

This is a good json editor. I would like to see few of enhancements. 1. append the json to the URL when inporting from web. 2. Allow custom extensions - We have several JSON property files that have custom extensions. 3. Save URL by name to retrieve later. Thanks for a useful editor.

I can’t copy and paste text into this. As a result, I can do nothing useful with it.

I like this app. After having tried several other JSON editors, this is the one I am keeping. Nice combination of tree vs. raw view, always kept in sync. Love the quick beautify function too. The app behaves well. Hasn't crashed on me yet, and is always very responsive. A couple of suggestions that I think would enhance the app even more: - After adding a node in the tree view, autoselect the node name so I am not forced to click on it every time to edit the default "NewKey". - Add syntax coloring to the raw JSON view. Good work!

I agree. This is a must-have for API developers to disset RESTful JSON responses.

It does what it says it does. It makes editing Json easy, and one can see (and cut and paste) the Json below each level. A stand-out feature is that you get a full text box for strings, and you edit the string un-escaped (with newlines, etc) and it's stored fully escaped. I've rarely seen this in XML editors. It lets you move nodes around (even key/value pairs, even though this doesn't really make a difference, but makes the Json more readable) and make a nodes into an object or an array. One can even edit true/false values from the view screen. My only issues (and they are minor) is that it lets you add keys which already exist in the object, and when you create a string node, it starts out with "string" as the text (I would have preferred blank).

Most of the JSON editors out there are pretty terrible, but this one is decent and is currently the only one I use. All of the commonly used commands (create node, etc) use option+command keystrokes which are generally hard on the hands and difficult to remember. The saving feature of this editor is its split-pane plain-text editor, which allows you to write JSON directly, then just click "Beautify" and it formats it all. Additionally, the Beautify does not reorder your nodes (which some other JSON editors do)—big plus! Also, the node viewer is great for those string nodes that have a lot of text in them. To be the perfect editor, I recommend these changes: - the plain-text editor should have syntax highlighting and auto-indentation - remap the keystrokes, or allow the user to remap them to make writing JSON documents less contortionistic.

This is a great tool! It does exactly what it says. This has simplified my JSON editing workflow considerably.

I love this app, it's by far my "go-to" app for viewing/browsing JSON files and JSON web results. I recommend it all the time to my dev friends and people I train to be able to build apps quicker. -- @scalabl3

Awesome! Good Job!

Awesome little app. All the parts do what you’d expect, in the way you’d expect. Follows the “Law of least astonishment” to a tee. I use the “New from template” to save time on Node.js and Meteor projects and packages. Does one very helpful thing well. Reminds me of my old buddy CSSEdit (RIP, but still runs!).

I use JSON config files for various purposes, and need to be able to edit quickly in the raw format. It's extremely helpful to have two editor features that this editor lacks. One is syntax highlighting, making keys and values different colors and making text a different color from punctuation makes the JSON structure much easier to see. The other highly useful feature is error highlighting and positioning. It's great that this editor detects errors and tells you what they are. It would be much, much better to highlight that error in the raw text and scroll the window to it. Bonus points for making the highlight pluse three times. :)

All I was looking for was a way to format JSON text so I could debug an app more easily, and this app does that neatly. I just paste my compacted JSON into the text pane, then I can browse the structure on the right and see the JSON for any node I want to. Very nice. Eventually I will look into the advanced features - as it is it is worth the purchase price.

Very nice tool - it just works. Worth every penny.

Some non-standard behaviors frustrate me. Tabbing out of a node won't save the nodes new value; you have to press enter. This takes some getting used to, and is non-standard.

If you work with APIs, this app is a must-have. It’s a great looking app that lets you easily work with complicated JSON documents.

Being a web developer build REST based applications I often need to construct complex payloads with a lot of nesting. Power Json Editor helps me do that without guesswork. My fellow developers thought it was funny that I was using a special application to edit JSON and then suddenly I noticed that they had all installed it as well.

Great app,but this app does not work well for large JSON files and gets the OSX circle of death for JSON files over 1MB.