Best alternatives to JSONView (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to JSONView, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.
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JSONView
View JSON documents in the browser.
≈100K users3.8★ from 42 ratingsUpdated 18 months ago3 permissions- About 50× more users than JSONView
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 6)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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JSONVue
Validate and view JSON documents
≈900K users4.3★ from 2.6K ratingsNot updated for 2+ years2 permissions- About 450× more users than JSONView
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 6)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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JSONViewer
Format several JSON documents in one window, depends to your screen width, up to 6
≈10K users4.7★ from 15 ratingsUpdated 2 months ago1 permissions- About 5.0× more users than JSONView
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 6)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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JSON Viewer
Validates and makes JSON documents easy to read. Open source.
≈100K users3.6★ from 157 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years7 permissions- About 50× more users than JSONView
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (7 vs 6)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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JSON View Pro
JSON View Pro extension, JSON documents will be formatted, highlighted, and arrays and objects can be collapsed.
385 users4.6★ from 9 ratingsUpdated 16 months ago3 permissions- About 5.2× fewer users than JSONView
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 6)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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JSON Viewer
Pretty JSON Viewer – an online json formatter, validator, and viewer for easy formatting and validation of json files.
≈1K users5.0★ from 5 ratingsUpdated 6 months ago1 permissions- About 2.0× fewer users than JSONView
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 6)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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JSON Viewer Pro
A powerful JSON viewer and formatter that offers advanced features for developers and data analysts to visualise and analyse JSON
≈300K users4.5★ from 219 ratingsUpdated 2 days ago3 permissions- About 150× more users than JSONView
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 6)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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JSON Viewer
Port of Firefox's JSON Viewer
≈30K users4.7★ from 51 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years1 permissions- About 15× more users than JSONView
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 6)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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JSON Editor
A tool to view, edit, format, repair, query, transform, and validate JSON
≈2K users3.6★ from 5 ratingsNo special permissions- A similar number of users to JSONView
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 6)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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JSON Viewer
Most aesthetic & customizable JSON/JSONP viewer with themes, custom search, syntax highlighting/checking & copy features.
≈10K users4.9★ from 35 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago3 permissions- About 5.0× more users than JSONView
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 6)
- Listed under Developer Tools
JSONView alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to JSONView?
By users, the most popular alternative is JSONVue with ≈900K users and a 4.3-star rating. The closest match by what it does is JSONView.
Which JSONView alternative has the best rating?
JSON Viewer has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.7 out of 5 from 51 ratings.
Is there a JSONView alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
JSON Editor asks for 0 permissions, against 6 for JSONView.
How many alternatives to JSONView are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to JSONView on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.