Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Noise – JSON search engine library launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   The Changelog - #189: JSON API with Yehuda Katz▲66

   Yehuda's start as a programmer and the spec for building API

   2016 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   JuliusJS▲94

   A speech recognition library for the web

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3JA
   jq, a lightweight commandline JSON processor▲5

   2012 · stedolan.github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Sonar▲14

   A linting tool for the web

   2017 · its alternatives →

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   JsonTree, a tool for turning JSON data into a collapsible html tree▲9

   A lightweight vanilla Javascript micro-library for making collapsible trees with JSON - MaxLeiter/jsonTree

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Fuse.js▲10

   A lightweight JavaScript fuzzy-search tool

   2016 · fusejs.io · its alternatives →

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   A lightweight JSON Parser without memory allocation in ~250 LOC▲9

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Jsong: faster than light streaming JSON parser and writer in C▲9

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9DA
   Drillbit – An API that analyzes names▲9

   2013 · drillbitapp.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    A Search Engine for Rust▲8

    A search engine for Rust

    2024 · query.rs · its alternatives →

11. 11SJ
    Siphon.js – A data extraction library built for scale▲8

    2016 · siphonjs.com · its alternatives →

12. 12HN
    Hot Notes – Fuzzy Search for Apple Notes (macOS)▲9

    2025 · hotmatcha.dev · its alternatives →

13. 13AS
    A Super Simple JSON CMS▲8

    2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →

14. 14AS
    Advanced search engine for microphones, inspired by diskprices.com▲7

    2024 · micprices.net · its alternatives →

15. 15TS
    The Social Search Engine, A crowd-sourced, anonymous social search tool▲9

    2021 · thesocialsearchengine.com · its alternatives →

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    The Simplest ML API▲7

    2021 · doc.clickup.com · its alternatives →

17. 17MS
    Music Search Engine▲7

    2012 · tunesicles.com · its alternatives →

18. 18AP
    A privacy-focused JSON pretty printer▲8

    2018 · nicejson.com · its alternatives →

19. 19AH
    A Hacker News GraphQL API▲8

    Filter, sort, search and relations - almost like SQL

    2020 · metamate.io · its alternatives →

20. 20TS
    Tor Search - A search engine for Tor▲9

    2013 · kbhpodhnfxl3clb4.onion.to · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Monkberry▲6

    A JavaScript library for building web user interfaces

    2016 · monkberry.js.org · its alternatives →

22. 22KI
    Keywordgenerator.io – A tool to generate thousands of longtail keywords▲5

    2020 · keywordgenerator.io · its alternatives →

23. 23HI
    HackerSearch.io – GitHub search that supports RegExp▲9

    2015 · hackersearch.io · its alternatives →

24. 24ML
    My Leeds Hack Day project, a language detection API▲9

    2010 · polyglossy.com · its alternatives →

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