Comparison

JettDB vs OpenAB Remote

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

Head to head
About

JettDB

Features
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JettDB is the JSON editor people reach for first. Whether you're a developer wrangling API responses, a data analyst cleaning up a messy export, or someone who just opened a .json file for the first time and wants to actually read it, JettDB makes JSON approachable on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. A visual tree editor lets you expand, collapse, edit, and rearrange JSON without touching a single bracket. A syntax-highlighted text editor sits one tap away for when you'd rather type. Toggle between them at will โ€” your document stays the same. QUERY WITHOUT THE LEARNING CURVE Build jq-style queries by pointing and clicking. Pick an operation from a curated list โ€” select, map, filter, group, sort, flatten, unique, and dozens more โ€” and JettDB shows you the result instantly. Save the pipelines you use often to a personal library. The Ask in plain English pane understands phrases like "books with rating over 4" or "append a new tag to every entry." EDIT IN BULK Mass-edit operations let you add, rename, delete, or change fields across an entire document in one pass. Every change previews before it lands, and undo is always one tap away. FIND DUPLICATE RECORDS Point at any array of records, pick a field, and JettDB flags every group that shares a value โ€” perfect for catching copy-paste mistakes in ids, names, or ISBNs. COMPARE, VALIDATE, AND CONVERT Side-by-side diff highlights exactly what changed between two documents. JSON Schema validation flags structural issues with clear, plain-language errors, and schema inference builds a starting schema from any document with one tap. Import from JSON, JSON Lines, the clipboard, or a URL; export to JSON, CSV, YAML, or XML, or send a document by email. BUILT FOR THE APPLE ECOSYSTEM Native SwiftUI on every device. iCloud sync keeps your library in step across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The Mac build ships full menu bar support, middle-click autoscroll, and keyboard shortcuts for everything. Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and high-contrast support are first-class โ€” not afterthoughts. JSON5 SUPPORT Comments, trailing commas, unquoted keys, single quotes โ€” JettDB reads and writes JSON5 when you want it to, and stays strict when you don't. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your documents live in your iCloud, not ours. No analytics, no tracking, no account required. Nothing leaves your device unless you choose to share it. A bundled sample library shows you the ropes; the in-app help is searchable, and the tutorial tips and jq cheat sheet are written for humans, not parsers. JettDB. The JSON editor people reach for first.

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OpenAB Remote

Features
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OpenAB Remote turns your iPhone into a private push-to-talk remote and terminal client for OpenAB Connect. Pair with your Mac over the local network, dictate with on-device speech recognition, and send only terminal-safe text to the selected session. Import your own runtime connections from OpenAB Connect, browse live sessions, and attach directly over your own Tailscale network. Choose your speech engine: Apple's on-device recognition (no download), or optionally download Whisper (OpenAI, MIT) or SenseVoice (Alibaba FunASR) to run on this iPhone โ€” SenseVoice is recommended for Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean. โ€ข On-device push-to-talk transcription โ€ข Direct terminal session attach and resume โ€ข Remembered, encrypted nearby pairing โ€ข Explicit Auto-Enter permission โ€ข No account, analytics, advertising, or telemetry โ€ข Optional Whisper engine: download an open-source model once (MIT) and run it fully on-device โ€ข Fully offline Demo Mode for evaluation OpenAB Remote talks only to your Mac and infrastructure โ€” plus, only if you choose the Whisper engine, a one-time model download from Hugging Face. Your speech, credentials, and terminal sessions are not sent to an OpenAB service.

Screenshots

JettDB3 screens
OpenAB Remote3 screens

Verdict

The call

JettDB and OpenAB Remote are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
JettDB versus OpenAB Remote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJettDBOpenAB Remote
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.526.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGale WolfenbargerJiayan Lin

In-app purchases

None

JettDB

No in-app purchases

None

OpenAB Remote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is JettDB free?
JettDB is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OpenAB Remote free?
OpenAB Remote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do JettDB or OpenAB Remote have ads?
Neither JettDB nor OpenAB Remote shows ads.

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