Fast local spreadsheet viewer based on GPUI

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spread

A simple, fast spreadsheet viewer written in Rust using GPUI.

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Note<br>As with most things in 2026, the code here was almost entirely written by AI - using both Codex + GPT-5.5 and Claude Code + Opus 4.7 1M.

Why

I wanted a quick way to view spreadsheets locally, without the need to open a document in Google sheets.

Features:

supports CSV, Parquet, and XLSX file formats

loads 30M row Parquet files in 100ms

supports copy and paste to Google sheets or excel

displays formatting such as dates, currency, percentages, bold text, colors, and column/row dimensions

--display xml mode from the CLI to make it easy for LLMs to "view" spreadsheets

Example of rendering xlsx file

Example of rendering large Parquet file

Usage

Install the binary locally:

make install-macos

(If you're not on macOS, your mileage may vary, try make install-cli instead.)

On macOS, this also installs Spread.app to ~/Applications, registers it with Finder, and sets it as the default app for .xlsx, .csv, and .parquet when duti is installed. Without duti, use Finder's Get Info panel to choose Spread and click "Change All...".

Then open a file with:

spread path/to/file.xlsx

or:

spread path/to/file.csv

or:

spread path/to/file.parquet

Useful CLI modes:

spread --list-sheets path/to/file.xlsx<br>spread --sheet Summary path/to/file.xlsx<br>spread --sheet 2 --display json path/to/file.xlsx<br>spread --sheet 2 --display xml path/to/file.xlsx<br>spread --sheet 2 --display table path/to/file.xlsx<br>spread --display audit path/to/file.xlsx

--sheet accepts a sheet name or 1-based sheet index. --display can be gui, json, xml, table, or audit.

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