CLUSTER SPREADSHEET-TERMINAL-COMMAND · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-09-05
Terminal spreadsheet tools
This cluster comprises terminal-based applications for viewing, editing, and exploring spreadsheet and tabular data (Excel, CSV, JSON, Parquet, etc.), plus one library for fast Excel reading. Its dated history runs from 2015 to mid-2026, with sparse early entries (2015 and 2020) and most dated entries clustered in late 2025 through mid-2026. Traction leaders (tuitab, sheets-bin, hledger-ui-beta-bin) all show zero stars, indicating minimal user engagement.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 9 unlabelled
Operator · 9 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01tuitab0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal application that displays and explores tabular data files in formats including CSV, JSON, YAML, TOML, Parquet, Excel, and SQLite.
- 02hledger-ui-beta-bin0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal application that provides a full-screen interface for browsing accounts and transactions in a plain-text accounting system.
- 03xleak-bin0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal application for viewing and navigating Excel spreadsheet files, with search, formula evaluation, and export options.
- 04vex-tui-bin0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based viewer for browsing and inspecting Excel and CSV spreadsheet files directly from the command line.
- 05sheets-bin0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based spreadsheet application allowing data manipulation and calculations in the command line.
- 06l1230★20 daysliveopen sourceTerminal spreadsheet application in the style of Lotus 1-2-3 with Excel file compatibility.
- 07python-fastexcel0★1 moliveopen sourceLibrary for reading Excel spreadsheet files quickly in Python and Rust.
- 08hledger-ui-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal application that provides a full-screen interface for browsing accounts and transactions in a plain-text accounting system.
- 09sc-im0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceSpreadsheet application for the terminal with a keyboard-driven interface for creating and editing data.
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