Modern CSV
Modern CSV is a desktop CSV editor and viewer for macOS that helps you open, inspect, edit, sort, and analyze delimited text files.
What is Modern CSV?
Modern CSV is a native desktop CSV editor and viewer for working with comma-separated and other delimited text files on macOS. It is designed for people who regularly open data exports, clean up tables, inspect large text-based datasets, review upload files, or maintain structured lists without using a full spreadsheet workflow. The app supports editing rows, columns, and cells, along with sorting, filtering, find and replace, and quick navigation across large files. It also handles multiple delimiters, character encodings, and line endings, which is useful when exchanging data between different systems. Built-in analysis tools can help users review numeric columns, unique values, and table structure while staying in a file-focused editor. Modern CSV is published by MPQV Group LLC and is also available on Windows and Linux for users who want a consistent cross-platform CSV workflow.
Key features
- Open and edit CSV, TSV, PSV, and other delimited text files.
- Sort, filter, hide, and rearrange rows or columns to inspect data faster.
- Find and replace values with options such as regex matching and live highlighting.
- Work with large files in read-only mode with a small memory footprint.
- Import from and export to JSON and XML formats.
- Review column statistics, unique values, and other built-in analysis tools.
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Modern CSV is a legitimate desktop data-editing app. It works primarily with the files you choose to open, so its main privacy consideration is the sensitivity of the spreadsheet or text data you load into it. Local file access and normal save behavior are expected for this type of app. If you work with confidential customer, financial, or operational data, use the same care you would with any editor: open only trusted files, confirm changes before saving over originals, and keep backups of important datasets.
Recommendation: Keep Modern CSV if you use it to review or edit delimited text files, data exports, or large CSV datasets. Remove it if you no longer need a dedicated CSV editor; doing so only affects your ability to open and edit files with this app and does not remove the data files themselves.
Common paths
/Applications/Modern CSV.app
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