Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to VisiData – vi for data
A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data - saulpw/visidata
VisiData is a terminal-based data exploration tool launched in 2017. It enables users to browse, filter, and analyze datasets directly from the command line using keyboard shortcuts similar to the vi text editor. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. VisiData – vi for data launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hello HN. I've always found writing data visualisation scripts boring and repetitive in data science workflows earlier in my career, so I built this tool to automate it. The available methods are based on my experience in econometrics where histograms and scatterplots were the starting points to check data distributions. The link is to the documentation and the app is freely available at https://visprex.com, and if you're curious about the implementation it's open source at https://github.com/visprex/visprex. I'd appreciate any comments and feedback!
2024 · docs.visprex.com · its alternatives →
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While speccing out this spreadsheet tool, I realized that I never had to think about the keybindings. It all just came naturally from Vim. Normal/insert/visual modes, hjkl navigation, dd/yy/p, :w, :q. The usual muscle memory works. It supports CSV/TSV import and export, and a native .cell format that preserves formulas. The formula engine handles SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, and IF with range references. The codebase is a Cargo workspace: a pure cell-sheet-core library (no TUI dependency) and a cell-sheet-tui crate on top of ratatui. Early days, but it's usable. To…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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dataviz.tools▲409Curated collection of the 400 best data visualization tools
2017 · dataviz.tools · its alternatives →
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Performant, real-time data visualization in your terminal
Mar 2026 · its alternatives →
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Visual tool to explore SQLite databases page-by-page, the way they're stored on disk and the way SQLite sees them. - QuadrupleA/sqlite-page-explorer
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The project has been migrated to @wolf-table/table https://github.com/wolf-table/table - myliang/x-spreadsheet
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 9SA
2017 · freerobotcollective.com · its alternatives →
- 10MO
2018 · anvaka.github.io · its alternatives →
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Parsers▲300Extract structured data and visualize it without code
2019 · parsers.me · its alternatives →
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Powerful virtual data table smartsheet with advanced customization. Best features from excel plus incredible performance 🔋 - revolist/revogrid
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We’ve built Pretzel, an open-source data exploration and visualization tool that runs fully in the browser and can handle large files (200 MB CSV on my 8gb MacBook air is snappy). It’s also reactive - so if, for example, you change a filter, all the data transform blocks after it re-evaluate automatically. You can try it here: https://pretzelai.github.io/ (static hosted webpage) or see a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73wNEun_L7w You can play with the demo CSV that’s pre-loaded (GitHub data of text-editor adjacent projects) or upload…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · icanhazdata.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, Our startup nearly died 2 years ago. We kept losing customers to spreadsheets. And it made us see a problem right under our nose: everyone just wanted flexibility & speed from a spreadsheet. But they have to stay in sync with {Jira / Salesforce / insert SaaS app}. When we followed this thread, we discovered how broken the integration experience was for flexible products like Airtable, Smartsheet, Monday, and Google Sheets. Their big problem is that they transform external data into their own format. This makes setup harder, since you have to get the mapping just right.…
2022 · visor.us · its alternatives →
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Search, Aggregate, & Plot CSVs with millions of rows
2017 · csvexplorer.com · its alternatives →
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node-based editor for exploring, analyzing and transforming data without code
2021 · datablocks.pro · its alternatives →
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2017 · retool.in · its alternatives →
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Enso▲149Analyze and visualize data by building data flow graphs
2021 · ensoanalytics.com · its alternatives →
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GUI disk analyzers are great for figuring out what's filling up your laptop/desktop drive. On containers or remote servers, the options are limited to purely text based utilities (e.g. du) or list-centric TUIs (e.g. ncdu) which are usually limited to viewing one directory at a time. I created leaves to fill that gap. Inspired by classic utilities like WinDirStat and KDirStat, it uses a 2-dimensional treemap^1 visualization to show the entire directory hierarchy with proportionally sized rectangles. It's performant enough to handle millions of files, thanks to Rust and multi-threading.…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a Rust-based CLI/terminal UI for inspecting Parquet files—data, metadata, and row-group-level structure—right from the terminal. If someone sent me a Parquet file, I used to open DuckDB or Polars just to see what was inside. Now I can do it with one command. Repo: https://github.com/kaushiksrini/parqeye
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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an exploration in reading and understanding code
2021 · artifacts.bypaulshen.com · its alternatives →
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App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API. - multiprocessio/datastation
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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