[3][4] Jaikoz uses a relatively unusual spreadsheet metaphor for both viewing and editing data, and allows editing of over fifty fields[5] using this spreadsheet interface, the underlying jaudiotagger tag library is released under LGPL and is used by various Java applications.

[7] Jaikoz version 1.1.3 was distributed by Macworld Italy magazine with its Spring, 2006 supplement "Everything iPod".

[8] Version 2.5 was favorably reviewed in 2008 by Thomas Weiss, senior editor of Macnews Germany.

[9] Macworld Germany editor Matthias Zehden concurred in his 2009 iPhoneWelt review of Jaikoz.

[10] In 2006, Julien Chaveau of the University of Angers cited Jaikoz as an exemplar of an automated information extraction system,[11] and in 2008 Badawia Albassuny of King Abdulaziz University included Jaikoz in his survey of automatic metadata generators for its ability to generate metadata by analyzing content.