# Braceful

> JSON Formatter & Viewer

- Product page: https://obelisk.club/braceful
- Platforms: iPhone
- Release status: live
- Last updated: 2026-06-29T15:37:10Z
- Pricing: free to download; the App Store listing shows any in-app purchase or subscription
- Download (iPhone): https://apps.apple.com/app/id6782271007
- Publisher: Obelisk Club (https://obelisk.club) — local-first, privacy-respecting apps built in native Swift

## About

Braceful is the calm, fast way to read and tidy JSON on your iPhone — and it works completely offline. No account, no network, no tracking. Paste, format, and go.

Switch between a Text view for editing and a Tree view for exploring. Braceful validates while you type and tells you exactly where a document breaks, down to the line and the column.

— WHAT MAKES BRACEFUL DIFFERENT —
• Errors located, not just reported
  Invalid JSON gets the exact line and column of the problem, so you go straight to the character that broke it.
• A tree you can actually navigate
  Objects and arrays collapse and expand, with keys, strings, numbers, booleans, and null each in their own color.
• Big numbers survive
  Numbers are carried through as their original source text, so long integers and high-precision values are never silently rounded.
• Your choice of indentation
  Pretty-print with two spaces, four spaces, or tabs — or minify the whole document to a single line.
• Everything stays on the phone
  There is no account, no sign-in, no server round-trip, no ads, and no analytics. Your JSON never leaves the device.
• Built to feel native
  A single screen with a floating action bar, quick Paste, Copy, Load Sample, and Clear actions, and a design that reads well in light and dark mode.

— WHO IS BRACEFUL FOR? —
• Developers checking an API response away from their desk
• Anyone handed a wall of minified JSON who needs it readable right now
• People working with data they would rather not paste into a website
• Anyone who wants a JSON viewer that opens instantly and works on a plane

— PRICING —
Included: formatting with any indentation, minifying, live validation with line and column, the collapsible tree view, syntax colors, paste, copy, load sample, and clear — with no limits on document size or usage.
Braceful Pro is a one-time in-app purchase — not a subscription — and adds importing JSON from Files, exporting the formatted result, search and filter across the tree by key, value, or path, sorting object keys A→Z for clean diffs, and escaping or unescaping JSON strings.

— FEEDBACK —
Made by a small indie team. Email obeliskclubclub@gmail.com with feedback, bug reports, or feature requests.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://obelisk.club/jsonformatter/terms

## Key features

- **Format JSON with two-space, four-space, or tab indentation**
- **Minify JSON down to one compact line**
- **Validate as you type, with the exact line and column of any error**
- **Collapsible, color-coded tree view of deeply nested JSON**
- **Long integers preserved exactly, never rounded**
- **Pro tools: import and export, search the tree, sort keys, escape strings**