Best alternatives to JSONVue (2026)
9 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to JSONVue, 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 17 months ago3 permissions- About 9.0× fewer users than JSONVue
- Rated 0.7 stars lower
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (3 vs 2)
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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- About 9.0× fewer users than JSONVue
- Rated 0.3 stars lower
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (7 vs 2)
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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 90× fewer users than JSONVue
- Rated 0.2 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (6 vs 2)
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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 100× fewer users than JSONVue
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 2)
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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- About 450× fewer users than JSONVue
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 2)
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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- About 9.0× fewer users than JSONVue
- Rated 0.3 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (4 vs 2)
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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× fewer users than JSONVue
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (3 vs 2)
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JSON Viewer
Port of Firefox's JSON Viewer
≈30K users4.7★ from 50 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years1 permissions- About 30× fewer users than JSONVue
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 2)
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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 900× fewer users than JSONVue
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 2)
JSONVue alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to JSONVue?
By users, the most popular alternative is JSON Viewer Pro with ≈300K users and a 4.6-star rating. The closest match by what it does is JSONView.
Which JSONVue 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 JSONVue alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
JSON Editor asks for 0 permissions, against 2 for JSONVue.
How many alternatives to JSONVue are there?
We list 9 close alternatives to JSONVue 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.