JSON Editor App Reviews

Please add the ability to upload/download images and documents, not only txts. Thanks!

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

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

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.

This tool is exactly what a programmer developing with current tools needs. It saves me tons of time trying to fumble with other tools that make accessing web services and reviewing their output way slower than need be. The Request builder is straightforard and lets you setup your headers your way The response viewer is also great because it lets you see the results as text, both raw, or prettied up, and it’ll also put the results into a table viewer for easier drilling down. There’s no way this won’t save you time.

Crashes when doing any search of the JSON. Junk.

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.

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 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!

Ive 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.

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.

When I do a find (<cmd> 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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.