2 Free and Open-source Data Apps for macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)

1- Tad

Application for viewing and analyzing tabular data such as CSV files

TadApplication for viewing and analyzing tabular data such as CSV files

The Tad desktop application enables you to quickly view and explore tabular data in several of the most popular tabular data file formats: CSV, Parquet, and SQLite and DuckDb database files. Internally, the application is powered by an in-memory instance of DuckDb, a fast, embeddable database engine optimized for analytic queries.

The core of Tad is a React UI component that implements a hierarchical pivot table that allows you to specify a combination of pivot, filter, aggregate, sort, column selection, column ordering and basic column formatting operations. Tad delegates to a SQL database for storage and analytics, and generates SQL queries to perform all analytic operations specified in the UI.

Ted is a fast viewer for CSV and Parquet files and SQLite and DuckDb databases that supports large files.

It's a Pivot Table for analyzing and exploring data. Internally, Tad uses DuckDb for fast, accurate processing.

Ted is written with TypeScript.

Read about Tad 's features, license, platforms, and more.

2- Symphytum

Personal Database and Collection Manager Software

SymphytumPersonal Database and Collection Manager Software

Symphytum is a free open-source database and collection manager app that allows you to create and manage your data collections.

It aids you in managing your contacts, inventory, customers, film collections, books, notes, and basically anything.

It is a straightforward process, starts by creating a collection or database, create forms, add fields, customize your views, and start inserting your data.

Fields can be any data type, as boolean, list, progress, text, numeric, date. They can be an image, or a file.

You can also import your data with CSV files, which will set the fields directly and populate it with your data.

Moreover, you can use it to manage your tasks, to-do lists, projects, and daily routine tasks.

However, it is important to note that Symphytum is not a complete database solution as it does not allow creating relations between data and calculate fields yet.