First early beta for Tablecruncher 2

Dec 20, 2022

Important update:
The development of Tablecruncher Version 2 — a planned rewrite with a new UI and additional features — has been discontinued. Instead, I’ve decided to make the original Tablecruncher (Version 1) free and open source.

You can read more about the reasons behind this decision and what’s next for the project in this → blog post.

 

Screenshot of the first public beta of Tablecruncher 2.

 

With the winter solstice being tomorrow, it’s time to release the first beta of the completely new Tablecruncher 2. The main focus for the new version was to improve the look’n’feel of the application. This is where most of the development happened so far. Please be aware that this beta version lacks a lot of features and should be considered as a technical preview. Look at the feature list below to understand what the beta still lacks.

To use the Pro features of Tablecruncher, you’ll need a new license key. License keys from version 1 won’t work for version 2. This license key works for all Beta versions of Tablecruncher 2:

A02-170A11-0000-D251-2A63-1165-AA32-67CE-3A47-198A-AE48-5D72-1A17-08CC-1A6B-BAD8-4DA5-3F9A-D532-AFEF-9F80-9A6D-7639-9BBA-E107-D358-228B-C206-5839-377D-54D5-FD30-D72C-B8DF-5B0A

Windows Apple (ARM) Apple (Intel) Linux
Version 1.8

 

State of the Beta

UX Improvements

  • ✅ Native lool and feel
  • ✅ List of recently used files
  • ✅ Row header (aka line numbers) are using a thousands separator
  • ✅ Option to choose your own font for the grid
  • ✅ Open URLs in cells using the default browser (ALT-click on a cell containing a URL)
  • ✅ Selecting cells is improved
  • ⏱️ Better support for macOS default shortcuts (e.g. CMD-g and CMD-SHIFT-g for searching)
  • ⏱️ Freeze rows and columns
  • ✅ Option to automatically set the best cell widths for this table

New or Improved Features

  • ⏱️ Detect empty rows
  • ⏱️ Detect duplicate rows
  • ⏱️ Improved JavaScript API
  • ✅ New Redo command
  • ✅ More sophisticated Undo management
  • ✅ The cell delimiter can be freely chosen (as long as it’s a single-byte character)
  • ⏱️ Improved Find and Replace method
  • ⏱️ Copy as JSON
  • ⏱️ Export as JSONL
  • ⏱️ Merge multiple CSV files

Features missing in beta (compared to version 1)

  • ⏱️ Set CSV properties
  • ⏱️ Paste with format / paste into selection
  • ⏱️ Flag rows
  • ⏱️ Macros
  • ⏱️ Sort
  • ⏱️ Move columns
  • ⏱️ Find ∧ Replace
  • ⏱️ Delete columns or rows
  • ⏱️ Merge or Split columns
  • ⏱️ Export JSON
  • ⏱️ Check data consistency
  • ⏱️ Jump to cell

 

In the meantime, you can use the current version. Upgrades to version 2 are free within 12 months after purchase.

Windows Apple (ARM) Apple (Intel) Linux
Version 1.8