Comparison

CSVReader vs BigSplice

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CSVReader

Easily view and edit CSV and TSV files on your mobile device. Import files with various character codes, sort columns, and filter data by specific conditions.

Highlights
  • Edit CSV and TSV files
  • Import files with various character codes
  • Sort columns
  • Filter data by conditions
Features
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Open, view, and edit CSV & TSV files right on your iPhone. No computer or spreadsheet app needed. CSV Reader is a fast, simple tool for working with tabular data on the go. Check an export from work, fix a typo in a data file, or find one row in thousands in just a few taps. KEY FEATURES • Edit CSV and TSV files Change cell values directly and keep your data up to date wherever you are. • No more garbled text Encodings are detected automatically, so files open correctly. That includes UTF-8, UTF-16, Windows-1252 (Excel on Windows), ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), Mac Roman, and many more. Accented letters, curly quotes, and symbols show up exactly as they should. • Sort any column instantly Tap a column to sort in ascending or descending order. • Powerful per-column filters Set conditions on each column to narrow thousands of rows down to exactly what you need. • Easy-to-read layout Columns resize automatically to fit their content, so your data stays clear and readable. Whether you're a developer, analyst, or anyone who gets CSV files by email, CSV Reader makes handling data on mobile easy.

About

BigSplice

Features
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BigSplice is the spreadsheet for gigabyte-sized files. Where other apps choke on a 500 MB export, BigSplice opens multi-gigabyte CSV, Excel and JSON files in seconds — tens of millions of rows — and runs entirely on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Sort and filter millions of rows, build pivot tables, write formulas, chart the results, and ask questions about your data in plain English. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. SERVER LOGS, FINALLY READABLE Drop in a folder of IIS, nginx or Apache logs — zipped or not — and BigSplice turns them into one sheet you can actually work with: • Pivot a month of traffic in seconds: requests by status code (how many 500s? which URLs threw 404s?), by hour, by client IP, by user agent • Search every file at once: an email address, a session id, an IP — BigSplice also matches the URL-encoded and case variants, so "@outlook.com" finds "%40outlook.com" inside query strings • Ask in plain English: "which endpoints were slowest yesterday?", "how many 500 errors per hour this week?", "top 10 IPs hitting /login" — answered from your data, on your device • Formats: IIS/W3C (#Fields), nginx & Apache access logs, syslog, plain text logs; .log, .gz, .zip. A folder becomes one sheet with a file column, and new files show up when you reopen it BUILT FOR BIG FILES • Open files of any size — huge sheets appear in seconds and stay smooth as you scroll. • Sort, search and filter across millions of rows. • Column filters with value lists, and search that highlights every hit and jumps between them. REAL SPREADSHEET TOOLS • Formulas with SUM, AVERAGE, IF, VLOOKUP and hundreds more, plus quick AutoSum. • Pivot tables with drag-and-drop rows, columns and values. • Edit cells in place; export to CSV or Excel. ASK YOUR DATA • Ask a question — "which region sold the most last quarter?" — and get an answer worked out from your actual data. • Runs with Apple Intelligence on your device, a large model you download to your device, or a model server you run yourself. Every query is shown to you and needs your approval before it runs. • Ask it to build a pivot or summary table and it appears as a new sheet. • Put related sheets in a folder and ask across all of them at once: "which file has the most 500s?", "revenue per month across these three files". • New here? Load a sample dataset — server logs, city records or taxi trips — in one tap. CHARTS IN ONE TAP • Any pivot becomes a bar, line or area chart — one tap, no setup. Count the 500s by hour and see the spike. • Every Ask answer that comes back as a table gets a chart button: "chart the requests per day" and it is drawn from your real data. • Dates on the axis are recognised automatically; every numeric column becomes a series. IMPORT FROM ANYWHERE • Files app, iCloud Drive, web links, ZIP archives. • Your own Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage or Azure buckets — browse folders, open files directly. Credentials stay in your device's Keychain. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in, no analytics. Your files never leave your device unless you choose to share them. • Optionally share sheets with Claude on your Mac or another device over Wi‑Fi or Tailscale, protected by a pairing code. BIGSPLICE PRO The free version opens files up to 150 MB with full sort, filter, pivot, formulas and export. Pro adds files up to 1 GB, Ask your data, cloud storage imports, network sharing and the large on-device model — as a yearly subscription with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Pro Unlimited is a one-time purchase that adds files over 1 GB. Family Sharing supported. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.trilonapps.com/gigasheets/privacy

Screenshots

CSVReader4 screens
BigSplice4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: BigSplice at none against CSVReader's shown. BigSplice also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). CSVReader's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. CSVReader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BigSplice sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CSVReader ships an update monthly, BigSplice every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
CSVReader versus BigSplice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCSVReaderBigSplice
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (118 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings118 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMotoki TakahashiTrilon Apps

In-app purchases

1 purchases

CSVReader

One-time1
  • Remove ads$7.99
4 purchases

BigSplice

Subscriptions2
  • Pro 1 GB Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Pro Unlimited Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time2
  • Pro 1 GB Lifetime$79.99
  • Pro Unlimited$199.99

Questions

Is CSVReader free?
CSVReader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BigSplice free?
BigSplice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CSVReader or BigSplice have ads?
CSVReader shows ads; BigSplice does not.
Which is updated more often, CSVReader or BigSplice?
CSVReader ships an update monthly, and BigSplice every 2 weeks. Most recently, CSVReader was updated on October 19, 2026 and BigSplice on October 17, 2026.

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