About View My JSON

View My JSON is a free web app for reading, editing and checking JSON. You paste a document or drop a .json file into the page, and it shows you the data in a form that is easier to understand than a wall of braces.

The problem it solves

JSON is the default format for API responses, configuration files and application logs, and it is written for machines first. A response arrives on a single line. A config nests six levels deep. A log entry carries a payload that someone has serialized twice. Reading any of these in a plain text box is slow and error-prone, and one missing comma can stop a whole deployment. We built View My JSON so that looking at JSON takes seconds, not minutes of counting brackets.

Who it is for

Mostly people who read JSON as part of their job: developers debugging an endpoint, QA engineers checking what a service actually returned, and analysts who receive a JSON export and need to see what is in it. You do not need to be a programmer to use it, but it helps to know what an object and an array are.

How it works

Paste your JSON or drop a file into the app at app.viewmyjson.com. You can then switch between views of the same data. Cards show each record as a block, Table lines up arrays of objects in rows and columns, and Tree lets you expand one branch at a time. Format tidies the indentation and Validate tells you whether the text is valid JSON and where it is not. All of these are free. Pro adds Charts, a 3D view, Compare for diffing two documents, and a Rich view. The pages under JSON tools explain each of these in more detail.

What it is not

View My JSON is a viewer and editor for JSON documents. It is not a database, an API testing client or a schema validation framework, and it does not replace the checks in your own test suite. It is the quick tool you reach for when you have a payload in front of you and want to understand it, fix it or compare it before moving on.

Privacy

Core viewing and editing are done by your browser. The JSON you paste is parsed locally, and the core tools do not need an account. Even so, we would suggest removing secrets such as API keys and access tokens from anything you paste into any online tool, including this one. Our privacy policy describes what the site itself collects, such as ordinary analytics and advertising data.

How the site is run and paid for

Using View My JSON is free. There is an optional Pro plan for the extra views and for Compare. The app may also show third-party advertising, for example through Google AdSense, which helps cover hosting and the time spent maintaining the tools. This marketing site is for information and does not show ads. Ads are supplied by those third parties and are not a recommendation from us. If an ad ever gets in the way of reading a guide or using a tool, tell us, because that is a layout bug we want to fix.

How we write the guides

The blog holds practical guides on viewing, formatting, validating and comparing JSON. We try to write them the way one colleague would explain something to another: with a concrete example, the common mistakes, and a note on where a technique stops working. Technical statements about JSON follow RFC 8259, the specification for the format. Guides are not written to be keyword lists. If a page does not help you finish the task you came for, that is a defect.

We make mistakes. When a reader points out an error, we check it and correct the page. If you find something wrong, outdated or unclear, please let us know.

Contact

Questions, bug reports, corrections and feedback are welcome at aakashchhoker2021@gmail.com, or use the Contact page.