Google Refine was a standalone desktop application for data cleanup and transformation to other formats. Launched November 10, 2010; shut down October 31, 2012 — it lived 1 year. One of 23 Google products killed in 2012. OpenRefine is an open-source desktop application for data cleanup and transformation to other formats, an activity commonly known as data wrangling. It is similar to spreadsheet applications, and can handle spreadsheet file formats such as CSV, but it behaves more like a database. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).