Macsmith vs ViewKit

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Macsmith compared with ViewKit
Detail	Macsmith	ViewKit
What it does	Your developer tools. One Mac app.	Free in-browser viewer for scientific and ML data files
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
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Pricing model	Freemium	Not given
Pricing	Free: Inspection of all 20 tools included. Macsmith Pro: $5 USD one-time per developer, valid on up to three Macs, includes every future update, no subscription required.	Free
Key features	Not given	Browse HDF5 groups, datasets and attributes Read Parquet schemas, row groups and column statistics Open Zarr v2 and v3 stores from a folder or a zip Inspect Apache Arrow and Feather files View CSV, TSV and Excel spreadsheets Load NumPy .npy and .npz arrays List safetensors tensors and step through TFRecord records Slice N-dimensional arrays and render heatmaps Parse every file locally, with no upload Work offline after page loads
What makes it different	All twenty developer tools integrated in one native macOS application 100% native macOS built with Swift and SwiftUI Works on up to three Macs per developer license	All data processing happens in your browser with no server uploads Opens very large files by reading only the bytes you view No installation, account or login required Comprehensive articles explaining data format specifications
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	3 +1 (up) since last check	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	13	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	23	22
Referring domains (Majestic)	11	20

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