SmoothCSV: Finally, a CSV Editor That Doesn't Guess

If you've ever had to search for "how to make Excel quit removing leading zeroes," I have an app for you. SmoothCSV won't turn some random number into a date and then refuse to change it back. In fact, it won't format anything unless you expressly tell it to. It doesn't try to be a lightweight spreadsheet; it's a grid editor, first and foremost. It leaves your data as it is, with no helpful "guesses" at what you might be trying to do. That's the pitch, and it's enough to make this my CSV editor for most tasks. Here to Stay The first version of SmoothCSV shipped in 2011. The current v3 release came out last year; it's a complete rewrite built on Tauri, which is why it weighs in under 80 MB and opens a 100 MB file remarkably fast. The dev claims it's 12x faster than Excel. I can't verify that number, but I have some genuinely huge CSV files and it never blinked when I threw them at it. Cheers for speed, and for not being another Electron monstrosity. The Features That Actually Matter…