The Ultimate CSV Editor/Viewer 
for Windows, Mac, and Linux

What Our Users Say

"The most consistent and wonderful experience."

Having tried almost every CSV editor I could find, Modern CSV by far gives the most consistent and wonderful experience.

If you’re a programmer (who uses keyboard more often), you will be happy to find out there is a quick access to the command list you can type in and the ability to customize every shortcut, which makes editing so blissful.

-Umar A.

"I could not live without it."

I have been using Modern CSV for more than a year now and, as a data scientist in Digital Humanities, I could not live without it.

The ubiquitous open data exchange format is CSV. Excel and LibreOffice Calc are capable to read and save CSV data, but they reach their limits very fast -- mostly when dealing with big amounts of data. This is precisely where Modern CSV has carved its niche: dealing with vast amounts of CSV data, transform them fast, and extract them to another data set.

An indispensable tool, highly recommended.

-Stephen S.

"An impressive array of features."

An incredibly useful program!

Let me tell you some highlights: I like how a Selected Column can be filtered with the selected cell content. This can even be adjusted with a custom shortcut to a one keystroke action! There are many useful other actions like 'Remove Empty Columns' or 'Remove All Filtered Out and Hidden Data". Other extraordinary tools offer unexpected abilities: E.g. applying 'Filter Selected Row' on the header row filters the columns only with the field name pattern searched for. When selecting the header row, 'Sort Selected Row - Ascending' sorts all data according to ascending field names. Sorting generally is great and does everything intuitively correctly. These are only a few highlights of an impressive array of features.

- Marc

"Took away a huge pain-point."

I inherited an ETL system that used a set of CSV files to "program" the ETL process. The CSV files varied in size from a 10s to 100s of rows, each one needing to be lovingly entered by hand.

I'm no stranger to CSV. I've been wrangling data for decades. I can slap together pipelines using xsv, perl, sed, csvkit, awk, grep, and countless other CLI utilities in my sleep. I can chew through 100s of GB of data without batting an eye.

But hand-editing individual rows in CSV files has _always_ been a headache. Excel and other spreadsheet programs just mangle CSV format. Plaintext editors are a nuisance and I end up playing "count the commas". I found a terminal-based editor, but its keybindings were beyond my comprehension and I frequently destroyed my CSV files.

I was loathing the idea of starting a project with this ETL system, and I googled "CSV editor" as I had a thousand times before expecting only disappointment. This time, though, SEO worked its magic and ModernCSV came up on the first page. With a great deal of skepticism, I downloaded the "free trial" and fired up the editor. Within seconds I felt at home, able to easily navigate around and edit individual cells. The interface for editing multiple cells, cutting/pasting, and filtering felt intuitive and, well, modern.

ModernCSV took away a huge pain-point for me on this project. ModernCSV does its job well so that, rather than wrestling with tools that treat CSV manipulation as an afterthought, I can instead wrestle with the important parts of my project. Tools are supposed to act as an extension of ourselves to make a certain task easier. ModernCSV does just that for CSV editing, and I can't think of higher praise than that.

- Ryan D.

"Superbly designed and highly functional."

Over the years, I’ve often had to deal with tables of data, I’ve used many different programs to deal with them, including Microsoft "Excel", Open Office "Calc" and even Libre Office "Calc"; they all work – sort of, anyway.

They’re all large, "Swiss Army Knife" solutions. Kind of like using a handgun to kill a mosquito.

Earlier this year, I was drafted into yet another project where I had to edit and organize a large amount of textual data, and those "big programs" kept corrupting the data by adding their own information.

In frustration, I searched (again!) for a better solution for working with files of "comma separated values" and I stumbled on Modern CSV.

There was a trial available, so I gave it a try, especially since they have a FREE version.

It was amazing! It did pretty much exactly what I needed, although there were a few things that would have made my job easier, so I sent a note to the Evan– a feature request.

If I remember right, he responded the very same day, and my request was added to the next version. It does what is needed better than anything else I’ve ever seen.

While I had not reason to buy a license (the free version did what I needed), I strongly believe in acknowledging work that is above and beyond the expected. Modern CSV certainly did that, and the license wasn’t prohibitively expensive, so I bought one – my way of saying "Thank You" to Evan.

If you deal with CSV files, try this program. It is superbly designed and highly functional, with a small system footprint.

- Rob W.

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