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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JSONViewer
Format several JSON documents in one window, depends to your screen width, up to 6
≈9K users4.7★ from 15 ratingsUpdated 6 weeks ago1 permissions- About 11× fewer users than JSONView
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 3)
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JSONVue
Validate and view JSON documents
≈900K users4.5★ from 2.6K ratingsNot updated for 2+ years2 permissions- About 9.0× more users than JSONView
- Rated 0.7 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 3)
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JSON Viewer
Validates and makes JSON documents easy to read. Open source.
≈100K users4.2★ from 157 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years7 permissions- A similar number of users to JSONView
- Rated 0.4 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (7 vs 3)
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JSON Viewer
Port of Firefox's JSON Viewer
≈30K users4.7★ from 50 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years1 permissions- About 3.3× fewer users than JSONView
- Rated 0.9 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 3)
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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 users4.6★ from 219 ratingsUpdated 7 weeks ago3 permissions- About 3.0× more users than JSONView
- Rated 0.8 stars higher
- Updated more recently
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JSON Lite
Fast JSON viewer - highlights, shows items count/size, handles large files
≈10K users4.8★ from 61 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years6 permissions- About 10× fewer users than JSONView
- Rated 0.9 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (6 vs 3)
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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 31 ratingsUpdated 2 months ago3 permissions- About 10× fewer users than JSONView
- Rated 1.1 stars higher
- Updated more recently
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JSON Viewer
Makes JSON response easy to read.
≈5K users5.0★ from 2 ratingsUpdated 6 months agoNo special permissions- About 20× fewer users than JSONView
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 3)
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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 5 months ago1 permissions- About 100× fewer users than JSONView
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 3)
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JSON-handle
It's a browser and editor for JSON document.You can get a beautiful view. And transcoding Unicode Base64 URL with decode & encode.
≈100K users4.8★ from 473 ratingsUpdated 3 days ago4 permissions- A similar number of users to JSONView
- Rated 1.0 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (4 vs 3)
JSONView alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to JSONView?
By users, the most popular alternative is JSONVue with ≈900K users and a 4.5-star rating. The closest match by what it does is JSONViewer.
Which JSONView alternative has the best rating?
JSON-handle has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.8 out of 5 from 473 ratings.
Is there a JSONView alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
JSON Viewer asks for 0 permissions, against 3 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.