Intact CSV Editor vs Easy CSV Editor
A native Mac CSV editor on the App Store, the closest to Intact CSV Editor in shape. Import and export are sold as an in-app purchase. Intact CSV Editor does 31 things we did not find on Easy CSV Editor's website or in its App Store listing — SQL queries, column rules and file comparison among them — and 32 of the 34 features Easy CSV Editor lists.
things Intact CSV Editor does that we did not find on Easy CSV Editor's website or in its App Store listing, of the 57 we compared.
of the features Easy CSV Editor lists are in Intact CSV Editor too, and 1 more in part.
of the features Easy CSV Editor lists Intact CSV Editor does not have yet.
31 things we did not find on Easy CSV Editor's website or in its App Store listing.
We read the product page, the mobile page and the App Store listing with its version history on 3 September 2026, and looked for each of them there.
Keeping data intact
- Keeps the byte-order mark
- Mainframe EBCDIC code pages
- Quoting per column and per cell
- Refuses a character the encoding cannot hold
Opening files
- Fixed-width files, with layouts you can keep
- Rules for the files in a folder
- Log files read into columns by a pattern
- OpenDocument spreadsheets
- SQLite databases
- SPSS, Stata, SAS, R and MATLAB files
Editing and cleaning
- Clusters of similar values, merged on request
- JSON inside a cell, edited as a tree
- Reshape: wide to long, a cell split into rows
- Stack several files into one
Analysis
- Compare two files, value by value
- Look values up in another table
- Summaries and pivot tables with subtotals
- Rules for each column, checked on every row
- SQL across every open file
Automation
- Shortcuts you can change, sequences too
- JavaScript macros
- A command palette
Export
- Word and rich text
- Export to more than 30 formats
- HTML tables that sort themselves
Safety
- A copy kept before every save
- Lock a file against changes
- Unsaved work recovered after a crash
- Settings kept in a small file beside the data
- Knows when another program changes the file
On the Mac
- Eight languages
Every feature we compared.
| Feature |  Intact CSV Editor | Easy CSV Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Keeping data intact | ||
| Saves a file back byte for byte | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Detects the text encoding | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Mainframe EBCDIC code pages | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Keeps the byte-order mark | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Keeps comment lines | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Refuses a character the encoding cannot hold | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Quoting per column and per cell | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Opening files | ||
| Separator, quotes and line endings detected and shown | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Excel workbooks, opened and saved as workbooks | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| OpenDocument spreadsheets | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| JSON, JSON Lines, YAML and XML as tables | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Parquet, Avro, ORC and Arrow, read and written | Intact CSV Editor | In part |
| SPSS, Stata, SAS, R and MATLAB files | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| SQLite databases | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Tables from web pages | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| vCards and your Mac's Contacts | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Log files read into columns by a pattern | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Open a file from a link | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Fixed-width files, with layouts you can keep | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Millions of rows | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Rules for the files in a folder | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Editing and cleaning | ||
| The column's own values offered as you type | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Fill handle that continues a series | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| JSON inside a cell, edited as a tree | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Find and replace with regular expressions and a preview | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| A filter on every column heading, with counts | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Sort by several columns, then back to the file's order | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Duplicates judged on the columns you choose | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Rewrite dates and number formats | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Reshape: wide to long, a cell split into rows | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Stack several files into one | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Clusters of similar values, merged on request | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Analysis | ||
| SQL across every open file | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Summaries and pivot tables with subtotals | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Statistics for every column | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Look values up in another table | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Compare two files, value by value | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Rules for each column, checked on every row | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Automation | ||
| JavaScript macros | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Send the table through any program | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| AppleScript and Shortcuts | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| A command-line tool and links into the app | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| A command palette | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Shortcuts you can change, sequences too | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Export | ||
| Export to more than 30 formats | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| PDF export, PDF/A too | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Word and rich text | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Copy as Markdown, JSON, SQL, HTML and more | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| HTML tables that sort themselves | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Saved export presets | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Split a file into several | Intact CSV Editor | Documented |
| Safety | ||
| A copy kept before every save | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Unsaved work recovered after a crash | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Knows when another program changes the file | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Lock a file against changes | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| Settings kept in a small file beside the data | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
| On the Mac | ||
| Eight languages | Intact CSV Editor | —Not in their documentation |
Choose Intact CSV Editor if…
- Import and export are part of the app rather than an in-app purchase.
- Your files must come back exactly as they came — byte for byte, in their own separator, quoting, encoding and line endings.
- You open more than CSV: Excel, JSON, Parquet, SPSS, Stata, SAS, EBCDIC and more — and export to 33 formats.
- You want SQL across files, column rules, file comparison and a backup before every save, in one app.
- You work on a Mac and want an app made for it, in eight languages, from a company in Zürich you can call.
ECChoose Easy CSV Editor if…
- A mobile version for iPhone and iPad.
- A cell editor that grows as you type.
- Available through the Mac App Store.
| Intact CSV Editor | Easy CSV Editor | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Native Mac editor for CSV and 30+ data formats | Native Mac CSV editor |
| Runs on | Mac (macOS 14 or later) | Mac (App Store), with a mobile version |
| Only here | 31 of the 57 features we compared | 0 of the 34 features it lists |
| Pricing | Free trial of every feature; licence price at launch | App Store; import and export are an in-app purchase (App Store listing). |
Where Easy CSV Editor goes further
Every feature Easy CSV Editor documents is in Intact CSV Editor. In 1 of them, Easy CSV Editor does more:
- A cell editor that grows as you type
https://vdt-labs.com/easy-csv-editor/ — read 3 September 2026: the product page, the mobile page and the App Store listing with its version history. Product names belong to their owners. Found something out of date? Tell us.
Everything Easy CSV Editor documents — 34 features, and whether Intact CSV Editor does it
| Easy CSV Editor documents | In Intact CSV Editor |
|---|---|
| Things none of the others do | |
| Cell suggestions from the column's own values, with fuzzy matching | Yes |
| AppleScript, and a UNIX script hook | Yes |
| Import from a URL, and keep a list of recent URLs | Yes |
| Import from macOS Contacts and vCard | Yes |
| Import an HTML table | Yes |
| Flip rows or columns (reverse their order) | Yes |
| Trim characters you name, not just whitespace | Yes |
| Spelling and grammar checking inside cells | Yes |
| Insert rows or columns from the pasteboard | Yes |
| Select the empty rows and columns | Yes |
| A cell editor that grows as you type | Partly |
| Several date formats in one document, named per column | Yes |
| JSON5 | Yes |
| Parquet, as an import | Yes |
| The same ideas under other names | |
| Vertical row view for inspecting one row | Yes |
| Several filters at once, each switchable off | Yes |
| Filter and sort rules saved and reloaded | Yes |
| Search for a column by name in the filter and sort menus | Yes |
| Split a document into smaller files | Yes |
| Column statistics and frequency browsing | Yes |
| Duplicate and unique detection | Yes |
| Several header rows and columns | Yes |
| Number reformatting — decimal and thousands separators | Yes |
| Print and save as PDF | Yes |
| Customisable keyboard shortcuts | Yes |
| Row numbers starting at zero, and letter or number column labels | Yes |
| Autofill | Yes |
| Transpose | Yes |
| Copy As, in several formats | Yes |
| Tabs, dark mode, undo and redo, a properties sidebar | Yes |
| Reads dialects, ragged rows and comment lines without cleaning first | Yes |
| Keeps leading zeros and does not reformat what it did not touch | Yes |
| Large files with progress shown | Yes |
| Import and export as a paid extra | Not applicable |
About this comparison
Is Intact CSV Editor a good alternative to Easy CSV Editor?
For most people who work on a Mac, yes. It does 32 of the 34 features Easy CSV Editor lists, 1 more in part, and 31 things we did not find on Easy CSV Editor's website or in its App Store listing — SQL queries, column rules and file comparison among them. Where Easy CSV Editor is ahead is listed on this page too.
Does Intact CSV Editor have more features than Easy CSV Editor?
Of the 57 features of Intact CSV Editor we looked for on Easy CSV Editor's website or in its App Store listing, we found 26, some of them only in part; the other 31 we did not find. The other way round, Intact CSV Editor lacks 0 of the 34 features Easy CSV Editor lists.
How was this comparison made?
We read the product page, the mobile page and the App Store listing with its version history on 3 September 2026. Every feature Easy CSV Editor lists was checked against Intact CSV Editor, and every one of Intact CSV Editor's was looked for in Easy CSV Editor's pages. A dash means we found nothing like it there; Easy CSV Editor may do more than it documents. If something has changed, write to info@marketvision.ch and we will correct it.
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