GUI viewers for HDF5 / NetCDF4 data

HDF5 is a popular data container format, a filesystem within a file. Many programs supporting HDF5 like Matlab can read and plot data. It is useful to have a standalone simple data browser like HDFview, which is a Java-based application to view, create, and modify HDF5, netCDF4 and FITS files in a tabular format. HDFView can also make 1-D (line) plots and 2-D (raster) plots of the data in an HDF5 file. For example data see Neon. To view a plot of data, right click on the dataset name and select “Open As” and then set the parameters to view the data.

HDFview enables editing (writing) as well as reading HDF5.

ViTables is a Python-based HDF5 GUI.

Panoply is available for macOS, Linux and Windows.