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Brightbar JSON Viewer - Formatter, Beautifier & API Response Viewer

by Ken Lynch · Developer Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 16 Oct 2026

JSON viewer and formatter: fast tree view for huge files, dark mode, JSONPath search, exact big numbers. No tracking. Open source.

Users
21
−1 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#148K
#124K among extensions
Version
0.9.0
updated 8 Oct 2026

Users

monthly, 8 months
01122Mar 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 21 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 8 months
001Mar 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Brightbar JSON Viewer - Formatter, Beautifier & API Response Viewer

Brightbar JSON Viewer turns any JSON response into a fast, readable tree. It is a JSON formatter and viewer that stays quick on huge files, keeps big numbers exact, and never tracks you. Free, with no account. TREE VIEW AND FORMATTER - Formats JSON automatically: application/json, the +json types, and JSON sent as text/plain or JavaScript (JSONP included) - Collapsible tree with syntax colours, item counts, clickable links, readable dates and colour swatches - Light, dark and system themes; pick the font, text size and indentation, applied instantly without reloading - Raw view of the untouched response, with line numbers and wrapping BIG FILES WITHOUT FREEZING - Opens a 16 MB, 60,000-object document in well under a second and stays responsive while you scroll, search and expand everything - Only the rows on screen are drawn, so a bigger file does not mean a slower page FIND ANYTHING - Search keys and values with a live match count; Enter jumps to each match - Filter mode shows just the matches and the structure around them - JSONPath queries in the same box: $.data[*].email, $..price, $.items[?(@.price < 10)] - Table view turns an array of objects into a sortable table EXACT AND CORRECT - Big numbers stay exact: IDs like 149883901923910003 are shown, searched and copied as sent, never rounded - Invalid JSON gets an error view with the message, line and column, plus an option to parse leniently (comments and trailing commas) - Copy any value as valid JSON, copy its path as JSONPath, a JS accessor or a JSON Pointer, or download the document KEYBOARD AND ACCESSIBILITY - Full keyboard navigation of the tree (arrow keys, Home and End, Enter, *), built as an accessible tree for screen readers - Shortcuts: / to search, e and c to expand and collapse everything, 1 to 3 to show that many levels A VIEWER PAGE OF ITS OWN - Paste JSON, open a file or drop one: JSON, JSON with comments and NDJSON, validated as you type, with Format and Minify - Compare two JSON documents side by side: added, removed and changed values marked, key order optionally ignored, and a copyable JSON Patch (RFC 6902) of the differences. PRIVATE, AND YOU CAN CHECK - No tracking, analytics, ads or donation popups, and no network requests of its own - One request, once: after you have used it on a few different days, it asks whether you would leave a review, with a separate link for reporting a problem, and it never asks again - Open source: https://github.com/brightbar-dev/json-viewer-pro - Every build runs an automated check that fails if the code contains a network API, a remote address or code built from strings - One API permission, storage, for your settings - Hovering an image URL shows a thumbnail loaded from that address; you can turn previews off in the options WHY CHROME SAYS "READ AND CHANGE ALL YOUR DATA ON ALL WEBSITES" To recognise a JSON response, the extension has to look at every page you open. On ordinary pages it checks the page's content type and stops, without reading the page. On a JSON response it reads the response in order to display it. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%00.00
30 days−1−4.5%00.00
6 months+19+950.0%00.00

Version history

10 versions recorded
0.9.08 Oct 2026
0.8.228 Sep 2026
0.8.126 Sep 2026
0.8.024 Sep 2026
0.7.023 Sep 2026
0.6.019 Sep 2026
0.5.015 Sep 2026
0.3.014 Apr 2026

Details

Category
Developer Tools
First seen
2 Mar 2026
Size
115 KB
Languages
de, en, id, nl, vi, tr, es, fr
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
brightbar.dev
Support
github.com
Extension ID
iodhhjpjemdfmmfffmejfnbbjbfafoac

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 3
Permissions
storage

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