Awesome List of CLI Spreadsheet Software

A curated list of terminal-based spreadsheet programs and command-line tools for working with tabular data. Inspired by Awesome Lists.

Full TUI Spreadsheet Editors

VisiData – A powerful terminal multitool for exploring and analyzing datasets. Supports CSV, Excel, JSON, SQLite, and more. Written in Python, extensible, and perfect for interactive data analysis.
SC-IM – Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised. A modernized version of sc, with Vim keybindings, undo/redo, cell formatting, filters, plots, and support for CSV, XLS, and XLSX.
sc – The classic Unix spreadsheet. Lightweight, no frills, but still functional for quick grid editing in the terminal.
teapot – A curious 3D-capable spreadsheet editor with ncurses interface. Niche and experimental.
SIAG – Scheme In A Grid. A spreadsheet with scripting support via Scheme, plus MySQL integration and export to HTML, LaTeX, and more.
GNU Oleo – A discontinued but historically significant terminal spreadsheet from the GNU project. Still available in some package repos.

Not spreadsheets per se, but excellent tools for viewing, transforming, and analyzing tabular data from the command line.

csvkit – A suite of CLI utilities for converting, filtering, querying, and transforming CSV files.
q – Run SQL queries directly on CSV/TSV files.
csvlens – A lightweight terminal CSV viewer with a filterable table interface.
xsv – Extremely fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust. Offers indexing, slicing, and statistical summaries.
mlr (Miller) – Like awk/sed/cut/join for CSV/TSV/JSON. Powerful and expressive, supports record transformations and aggregations.
tabview – A curses-based CSV viewer with Vim-style keybindings. Good for inspecting data quickly.
Vega CLI tools – JSON-first data exploration pipelines, suitable for programmatic transformation and visualization.

termgraph – Plot simple graphs from CSV or text data directly in the terminal.
cspivot – A CLI tool for performing pivot tables from CSV input.

xspread – A very old X-based spreadsheet with terminal support. Mostly of historical interest.
TextQL – Like q, but with a focus on SQL-like access to structured text.