OpenRefine Alternatives

OpenRefine is described as 'Power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to OpenRefine for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, SaaS, Mac and Linux apps. The best OpenRefine alternative is Tabulate. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Open Data Editor or Data Wrangler. Other great apps like OpenRefine are Tabula.io, Flookup Data Wrangler, Trifacta and Easy Data Transform.

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  1. Tabulate icon
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    Tabulate is a simple yet powerful tool designed for folks who know their field inside out but aren't data wizards. Think of it as your friendly data assistant. With Tabulate, you don't need to be a tech expert to work with data.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
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  2. Tabula.io icon
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    Tabula is a visual prospecting and enrichment platform that helps you find, research, and prepare high-quality leads in minutes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  3. Flookup is a Google Sheets add-on that uses the power of fuzzy matching for data cleaning.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Google Sheets
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  4. No-code application to explore and publish all kinds of data: datasets, tables, charts, maps, stories, and more. Forever free and open source project powered by open standards and generative AI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
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  5. Trifacta icon
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    Data Transformation Platform. It has intuitive distribution charts, auto-generated scripts, machine learning for suggestion of data cleanup and transformation.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • OpenRefine
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  6. Wrangler is an interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation. Spend less time formatting and more time analyzing your data.

    Why wrangle? Too much time is spent manipulating data just to get analysis and visualization tools to read it. Wrangler is designed to accelerate.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. Omniscope icon
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    Filter, analyse and edit information in interactive point-and-click graphs, charts and maps, import web content, and create slider-driven models.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Reshape.XL icon
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    Reshape.XL in an Excel add-in for data processing. With this add-in you can clean, complete, reshape, wrangle, summarize, edit, subset, select, format, separate, unite, pivot, unpivot, combine your data that are messy, incomplete, contain many records and variables.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
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  9. WinPure Clean & Match is the #1 rated data cleansing and data matching software suite rolled into one powerful, affordable and easy-to-use application.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. DataSort icon
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    DataSort is an AI data cleaning tool for messy Excel and CSV files that runs in your browser, with no installation and no signup on the free plan.

    9 DataSort alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. DatumInt icon
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    One-click clean for messy CSV files. Datumint runs in your browser and built for non-technical users and users in hurry who work with data every day.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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