Cocoa JSON Editor App Reviews

This is great for editing JSON. You can edit anywhere inside the JSON. (Someone was saying otherwise.) There are also some fancy features for replacing multiple values at once. I have not used this feature but there is at least one video demonstrating it. The only reason for 4 stars not 5 is that there are a lot of other great features it has that no one on my team can figure out how to use yet. We are too busy to spend hours trying to figure it out. And an email to support has so far gone unanswered. (About a week and a half now.) It is a shame because we could really use these feautures and several of us already own it. They did put some time into trying to creating videos to show how to use it but some real documentation and more about setting it up for custom use is needed. (And you will want to slow down some of the videos! :o) )

Title says it all. A neat idea with some serious limitations. Be prepared to copy-paste from your locally stored JSON file, and hope it isnt too large.

A JSON editor should be able to open JSON files. Cocoa JSON Editor cannot. After fighting with the UI for half an hour, I realized you can get existing JSON data into the app by clicking the "Text" toolbar item (which is not how the HIG specifies to do operations like this). At this point it does work and you can see existing JSON data structured correctly.

Great utility. It makes searching and analysing json responces soooo much easier

I really like this Json Editor. It is great. Here are some suggestions for future releases: * Associate the app to open automatically files with the extention .json * When open .json files expand the tree. * On the JSON text viewer (The one on the bottom right) use fixed size fonts. (Option on the preference pane) * On the JSON text viewer use color syntax

The Cocoa JSON Editor seems to be seriously broken for plain old .json file creation. Clicking on add object, etc. sometimes works, sometimes doesnt. Screen doesnt reflect changes immediately. This app is not intuitive at all. Stay away

This is a useful app if you dont need to hit authentication. Will this be added in a future release?

I especially like the cocoa integration so that I can generate a parseJSONDictionary to bring the values into my app as custom object properties, but my favorite part is the smart objects so I dont have to doctor several objects in a list every time the base configuration changes during the design process

So broken; crashes randomly. Imports a file and shows nothing even if it is perfectly valid json. It looks nice, but functionally it is awful.

Cons: -Frequent crashes -Drops data -Namespaces get dropped/renamed -File saving seems to be partially broken Pros: -Looks, nice? I can see how this might be good for opening and reviewing data in JSON, but for creating and modifying data it is useless. The App Store really needs a "gimme my money back" button.

Its now the most powerful JSON dev tool for Mac! The price is too cheap. But ASIHttpRequest is somehow outdated. Please add support for AFNetworking and RestKit. Thank you.

This latest update has gone beyoned my wildest dreams :) The app has become very stable and the new feature are extreemly useful for developers who use JSONS daily espcially on iOS. if youre working on iOS apps using JSONS, you need this app and you will never look again for a JSON editor. The API Groups and Endpoints are fantastic, especially the integration with the ASIHTTPRequests is genius ! I loved working with it but now its defintly my favorite JSON editor tool. P.S. for the next version its nice to have a validator instead of just demising the text import that would be super useful. Thank you guys! GREAT JOB :)

As far as I can see, its impossible to open and view a JSON file in this JSON "editor". May be useful for making API calls or something, but it is useless if you just want to open a JSON file and see it nicely formatted and be able to edit the JSON. Any file I open seemed to open without error, but wouldnt display anything at all in the editor. For my intended purpose, this app is totally useless. Cutting and pasting JSON into it didnt work either. This is either for different purpose than editing JSON, or too hard to figure out. Or maybe it just completely broken.

I use Cocoa JSON Editor just about every day, so I gotta say its good. But I often get large JSON data structures, like RDF graphs, and it just cant handle it. I like that it shows me the equivalent Objective C data types, but I wish it worked with other languages, especially Java. But in terms of pointing the way to usability and good WYSIWYG, this app has no competition. Its cool.

This is a brilliant application - specially for the cost. It works well, has many excellent features and has made my job of interactively producing an api that supports JSON request mush easier. BUT it does appear to have a bug. All my attempts to use the http "PUT" verb instead use "POST" , hence the 3 stars. The support has been slow ( e.g. no response) on my query.

To work around the issue Eva Q. is having, I first create a `New Model` and then used the `Import Text` and was able to paste in my local JSON files and work with them easily. However, it would be nice if we could just point to a file and the app handle the rest… But having to paste in isnt that terrible. This app also has a decent UI to connect up with public/local APIs giving you a very nice way to drill down into the returned JSON.

This appears to work great, as long as your JSON is correctly formatted (but why would you need an editor if your JSON is already exactly right)? All errors appear to be silenced, and rather than tell you theres a problem with your existing JSON, it simply does nothing. Thats not helpful when a significant other does it, so why would I want a development tool to do the same? I spent way too long wondering why this wasnt working with some pre-existing JSON, but another app told me within seconds that I had properties that were not properly quoted.

This app has a lot of great features, but there is a bug in the primary use case: creating a JSON file. There is a bug when importing text, in that your imported text wont appear until after a model has be added. To work around this bug, just add a model before importing text. The developer has promised a fix soon. Otherwise, the app is great, if not a little confusing. Watch the tutorial videos.

Although this app looks promising, its a bit difficult to work with. There doesnt seem to be much in the way of documentation and the tutorials have no narration. Instead, the tutorials have annoying music, the screen is difficult to see and they go too fast. It’s going to take a considerable investment of time for me to sort this app out. Once I do, I will revise my review. Don’t buy this today and expect it to be helpful right away.

Trying to import a simple string. Cant figure it out. The import feature seems to do nothing. Maybe its too powerful.