Excel viewer
for Mac

Papagal reads each worksheet, takes its first row as the column names, and shows the rest as a table. Sheets are matched to their real files inside the workbook, so a workbook whose sheets were reordered or deleted in Excel still opens with the right names. Duplicate column headers, common in spreadsheets, are kept apart.

Excel stores dates as serial numbers; Papagal reads the cell formats and shows them as dates, including workbooks that use the 1904 date system.

Legacy .xls workbooks, from Excel 97–2003 (BIFF8) and the older BIFF5 format, open in the same grid. Files are often renamed between .xls and .xlsx, so Papagal checks what the file actually contains rather than trusting the extension.

Stack filters per column, sort, and open the SQL console to query a sheet like any database table. Excel files stay read-only in Papagal: your workbook is never rewritten.

With Pro, export a sheet or a query result to CSV, TSV, JSON, Markdown or SQL INSERT statements, streamed to disk with a progress bar and a cancel button.

The free version is the full viewer with 1,000 rows per page, for every format. Pro is $15 one time, with no subscription, on up to 3 Macs: it adds 100,000-row pages, the Metal grid, editing and saving, exports, and SQL tabs with history. Papagal runs on macOS 13 Ventura or later, Apple Silicon and Intel. Everything is parsed and queried on your Mac; files are never uploaded (see security).

Papagal also opens SQLite, Parquet and CSV files, plus JSON, JSON Lines and .sql dumps. The full list is on the home page.