Alternatives to jless
Browse large JSON structures in a keyboard-driven terminal viewer. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
jless
Browse large JSON structures in a keyboard-driven terminal viewer.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as jless.
fx
Inspect JSON interactively from your terminal.
fx is an MIT-licensed interactive JSON viewer that also runs on Windows, which jless does not yet support natively.
jid
Explore JSON interactively with query suggestions.
jid explores JSON interactively with query completion and runs on Windows, focusing on building queries rather than collapsing a tree view.
jnv
Edit jq-style filters while previewing JSON results interactively.
jnv previews JSON while you edit jq-style filters live, runs on Windows, and does not need a separate jq installation.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
jq
The command-line JSON processor: slice, filter, map and transform structured data the way sed and awk handle text.
jaq
Run jq-style queries through a Rust command-line tool and library.
gojq
Process JSON with a Go implementation of jq.
yq
Command-line processor for YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and TOML.
ov
Read long command output with a configurable terminal pager.
gron
A command-line tool that flattens JSON into discrete assignments so it can be searched with grep.
