tuitab - Explore CSV, Parquet, JSON, SQLite, DuckDB in your terminal

Fast, keyboard-driven TUI for exploring tabular data in your terminal. Open CSV, JSON, Parquet, Excel, SQLite or DuckDB with one command. Filter with regex, sort, pivot, JOIN files, compute columns, plot histograms and charts — all without leaving the shell. Vim-style navigation (hjkl). Pipe-friendly: works with psql, sqlite3 and stdin. Export to CSV, Parquet or Excel with Ctrl+S. Zero Python, zero GUI, zero dependencies. cargo install tuitab brew install tuitab Apache-2.0 · Built in Rust 🦀

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm a data analyst who lives in the terminal. And at some point I got tired of firing up Jupyter or pandas just to peek at a CSV or explore a Parquet dump. I used VisiData for a while — great tool. But I kept hitting edges that didn't fit my workflow. So I did what any terminal-obsessed analyst would do: wrote my own. tuitab is built around the way I actually explore → Open any file instantly — CSV, TSV, JSON, Parquet, Excel, SQLite, DuckDB → Filter with regex, sort, pivot, JOIN two files in a wizard → Compute new columns on the fly with =expr → Plot histograms and charts without leaving the shell → Vim-style navigation — hjkl, /, g/G — feels like home Fast even on large files (async loading for files > 10 MB). Written in Rust. Zero Python, zero GUI. Install in one line: cargo install tuitab brew install tuitab Would love to hear from fellow terminal lovers — what would make this fit your workflow? Feedback and PRs are very welcome 🙏

tuitab - Explore CSV, Parquet, JSON, SQLite, DuckDB in your terminal

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