2anything

Use case

The Data Nerd

For developers, data engineers, and researchers who keep getting handed data in the wrong format. Parquet, HDF5, MATLAB, SPSS, BSON — convert it locally, then get back to the actual work.

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Free 7-day trial · one-time $39 license · Apple Silicon Mac

The problem

Your data is fine. Its format isn't.

A colleague sends a MATLAB .mat file and your pipeline only reads Parquet. A survey vendor delivers SPSS. An API dumps JSONL and the analyst wants CSV. Each one usually means a throwaway script, a heavyweight install, or uploading data you shouldn't be uploading.

2anything converts these on your Mac. Drop the file in, pick the output, done — and the data never leaves your machine.

Supported formats

What it reads and writes.

Data engineering

  • Parquet
  • Feather
  • Arrow IPC
  • MessagePack

Science & ML arrays

  • HDF5 .h5
  • HDF5 .hdf5 input only
  • NumPy .npy
  • NumPy .npz
  • MATLAB .mat
  • NetCDF .nc input only

Statistics packages

  • SPSS .sav
  • SPSS .zsav
  • SPSS .por
  • Stata .dta
  • SAS .sas7bdat input only
  • SAS .xpt

Binary JSON

  • BSON
  • CBOR

Tabular, spreadsheets & text

  • CSV
  • TSV
  • JSON
  • JSONL
  • Excel .xlsx (XLSX)
  • Excel .xlsm (XLSM)
  • XML
  • YAML .yaml .yml
  • SQLite .sqlite .sqlite3 .db

Table exports

  • SQL script
  • HTML table
  • Word table (DOCX)
  • PDF table

Formats marked input only can be opened and converted, but not written. Table exports are output only.

Example workflows

Three conversions that used to need a script.

MATLAB → Parquet

  1. Drop results.mat into 2anything.
  2. Choose Parquet as the output format.
  3. Convert, then load it straight into pandas, Polars, DuckDB, or Spark.

SPSS → CSV

  1. Drop the .sav file from your survey vendor.
  2. Choose CSV.
  3. Convert and open it in any spreadsheet or script.

JSONL → Feather

  1. Drop an API export in .jsonl.
  2. Choose Feather.
  3. Convert for fast, typed loading in Python or R.

Get 2anything

Try it free. Pay once. Convert locally.

Download 2anything and try it free for 7 days. Keep it with a one-time $39 license — no subscription, no uploads, no account.

Download for macOS Buy license — $39

Requires an Apple Silicon Mac.

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