Smart JSON Editor App Reviews

Good, but appears abandoned

No update in 4 years, and no native M1 support. With M1 support, I'd buy the Pro version.

Non-functional

This no longer appears to be working, even on Intel Macs. I'm running Ventura 13.4, and I'm unable to create any items in a new json file. In addition, the toolbar icons do not work. You might want to use it to edit a previously created json file, but it's not great.

Great app

Smart JSON Editor is very nice. It makes editing JSON much easier. The transform feature is very helpful.

Hands-down, the best JSON editor!

This application is vital to my daily work, as I use JSON to define application UIs on multiple platforms. It's easy to use, extremely stable, and very intuitive.

A major bug causing crash.

My computer unexpectedly crashed while the app wasn't even running. It put my computer into a boot loop. I went into safe mode and found out through console that the crash was caused by JsonRendererXPC. In safe mode, I have uninstalled Smart JSON Editor. And from there, my computer restarted just fine.

Trouble with large files

I tried to open a 10MB file (about 510,000 lines) and it failed with a generic 'cannot open file' error. Probably a great editor, but this is not useful to me at this point.

Refuses to open .json files

…with just a message saying that the file can't be opened. No reason why is given. (The files I tried to open were 46000 lines long or about 2.3MB in size).

Simply brilliant

I am not a developer, but I needed a tool that lets me easily create JSON specifications for our development team. The "Smart" features in this app make that very easy. If you create a "smart" object or array and then need to modify its structure, all other smart objects and arrays change as well. It's a massive time saver. This app is well worth the money.

Works great!

Pretty good for working with huge objects. How can I copy to clipboard in bracket notation for pasting?

Works fine for me.

The only thing that threw me was that on startup, it presents this app window with "how to" videos in it, but there's no window for the application itself. There's literally nothing but the tiny menu strip along the top edge of the screen provided by Apple for whatever application is currently running. Took me a minute to figure out why there was no application window, but smooth sailing after that.

Instantly annoying

It launched like twice before starting in with the tired old "pay me or wait to open a simple text file" business. Seriously, maybe demonstrate that this thing has any value before sticking your hand out. Deleted.

Really great JSON editor

Crashes fixed! This is one of the best, if not the best JSON editors available.

Crashes!!

This crashes for me too. Unusable….

Crashes ALL THE TIME!!!!!

I dont’ normally leave bad reviews and it’s clear that the deloper has put a lot of time into this software and I think the idea behind this app is great but this thing crashes ALL THE TIME and I keep losing my work. I wish I hadn’t paid for it. I’m going to switch to using that chrome extension, at least I won’t lose my work. Fix the crashes and I’ll amend my review.

Actually handles 100MB+ files

I am working with a message bus that has a lot of small messages and a number of very large ones. Standard text based editors and many node based editors don't handle them well. Parsing and searching are painful and crash the apps. Smart JSON Editor however has been able to handle them which has been extremely helpful. I haven't tried transforms, I haven't tried smart objects, so I can't speak to those. I have used JSONPath though more complex queries with regex aren't yet workng but I can't tell why. This is a first version, helped me get my work done, so I'm happy. I'll be sending feature requests to the developer ad looking forward to updates.

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