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24 alternatives to Jqview, a simple native GUI for inspecting JSON with jq

simplest possible native GUI for inspecting JSON objects with jq - fiatjaf/jqview

Jqview is a native graphical interface for inspecting and querying JSON files using jq. It allows users to load JSON data and execute jq commands through a desktop application rather than the command line. The tool is… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Jqview, a simple native GUI for inspecting JSON with jq launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Interactive JSON filter using jq. Contribute to ynqa/jnv development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey, Hacker News! Today I'm proud to release jless, a command-line JSON viewer. jless provides a JSON viewing experience similar to what you see in a browser's network tab in the developer console, but from the comfort of your terminal, with a whole suite of vim-inspired key bindings to easily manipulate your view of the data and full-text regex search. I'm sure many of you have some piped together some combination of cat, jq and less before; hopefully jless can replace that usage (hence the name). It supports newline delimited JSON too, so it can handle any output from jq. I built jless to…

    2022 · pauljuliusmartinez.github.io · its alternatives →

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    After two years of improvement, I think it's time to share it with you all. Here’s a quick overview: - Common features include validation, formatting, minification, and more. - Visualize JSON in a graph or table view. - Structured comparison with fallback to text comparison. - Navigate though JSON using JSON pointer. - Supports jq. Would love to hear the community's questions, thoughts and comments!

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Easy JSON Query Processor with a Lispy syntax in Go - cube2222/jql

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm working on a tool that will probably involve querying JSON documents and I'm asking myself how to expose that functionality to my users. I like the power of `jq` and the fact that LLMs are proficient at it, but I find it right out impossible to come up with the right `jq` incantations myself. Has anyone here been in a similar situation? Which tool / language did you end up exposing to your users?

    Oct 2025 · jsonquerylang.org · its alternatives →

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    crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects

    2020 · crates.io · its alternatives →

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    Displays JSON files in a flat format. Contribute to soheilpro/catj development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Interactive jq tutorial: learn to filter and wrangle JSON files using a command-line interface in your browser.

    2021 · sandbox.bio · its alternatives →

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    jb is a UNIX tool that creates JSON, for shell scripts or interactive use. Its "one thing" is to get shell-native data (environment variables, files, program output) to somewhere else, using JSON encapsulate it robustly. I wrote this because I wanted a robust and ergonomic way to create ad-hoc JSON data from the command line and scripts. I wanted errors to not pass silently, not coerce data types, not put secrets into argv. I wanted to leverage shell features/patterns like process substitution, environment variables, reading/streaming from files and null-terminated data. If you…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Terminal JSON viewer & processor. Contribute to antonmedv/fx development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    SQL micro-dialect implementation for querying JSON objects. Written purely in Scala. - mmalek06/JsonSql

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hiya HN! TextQuery is my sabbatical project that I have been working on for the past six months. It was born out of a personal pain point. Anytime I wanted to analyze raw CSV data, I had to create a schema first before I could import it for querying. And to create charts, I had to use yet another tool. I also disliked how bad charts from popular tools like Excel, Google Sheets looked like. I wanted an easier way to do this and TextQuery was my solution: an all-in-one tool to query CSV files using SQL and create beautiful visualizations as well. Currently, it's a macOS app and focused on CSV…

    2025 · textquery.app · its alternatives →

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    OK JSON▲113

    Format and view JSON with native Mac app

    2021 · okjson.app · its alternatives →

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    Effortlessly visualize JSON structures as dynamic tree diagrams - The-01-Company/jsontr.ee

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    jq, but for HTML. Contribute to orf/html-query development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN. I've gotten pretty tired of needing to learn a custom programming language for a tool I use once a week or less. So I figured, it might be easier to pick up if `jq` used a programming language I already know. Voila, gq.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Jaiqu is an AI agent for creating repeatable JSON transforms using jq query language syntax. Jaiqu translates complex JSON structures into repeatable jq queries. jq is a command line utility built for fast, reliable JSON queries. Jaiqu takes advantage of the LLMs for both constructing jq queries as well as using feedback to fix errors/invalid results if those queries are incorrect. Writing code to parse JSON is super annoying. It usually involves manually reading huge JSON balls, parsing the keys in a language of your choice, and pulling the data manually. Also, you're likely to…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi all, I've made a javascript library to simplify searching/sorting/filtering in arrays of objects. Its inspired by both GraphQL and SQL, but implemented using javascript Proxies. Instead of creating a new language, its all just javascript. I've made it as part of an experimental database, which uses javascript as the query engine. The normal javascript map/reduce/sort functions are quite difficult to master for junior developers. JAQT is easier to explain, and can still be used in combination with any existing array functions. Please let me know what you think of the…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GUI app for editing, visualizing, and manipulating JSON data - wellsjo/JSON-Splora

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    JSONNinja – A Next‑Gen JSON Viewer for Developers

    2025 · v2.jsonninja.tools · its alternatives →

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    Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. - graphql-engine/community/tools/json2graphql at master · hasura/graphql-engine

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple visualization tool for your JSON data.

    2022 · jsoncrack.com · its alternatives →

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