Some common GUI and command-line tools for reading and visualising GRIB files are:

• Panoply -Panoply plots geo-referenced and other arrays from netCDF, HDF, GRIB, and other datasets.
• ArcGIS - ArcGIS is a software that allows the visualisation of GRIB and net CDF files.
• QGIS - QGIS is a graphical open-source software that can visualise GRIB files (requires Crayfish plugin).
• NCL -  NCAR Command Language. To read, analyze and visualize GRIB data, as well convert it to other gridded data formats.
• CDO - (Climate Data Operators) is an analysis tool for geoscientific data with GRIB support.