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Alternatives to Google Sheets

Airtable, Smartsheet, Google Docs, Google Forms, and Google Drive are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Google Sheets.
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What is Google Sheets and what are its top alternatives?

Access, create, and edit your spreadsheets wherever you go—from your phone, tablet, or computer.
Google Sheets is a tool in the Spreadsheets Online category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Google Sheets

  • Airtable
    Airtable

    Working with Airtable is as fast and easy as editing a spreadsheet. But only Airtable is backed by the power of a full database, giving you rich features far beyond what a spreadsheet can offer. ...

  • Smartsheet
    Smartsheet

    It is an intuitive online project management tool enabling teams to increase productivity using cloud, collaboration, & mobile technologies. It provides your organization with a powerful work platform that offers exceptional speed to business value ...

  • Google Docs
    Google Docs

    It is a word processor included as part of a free, web-based software office suite offered by Google. It brings your documents to life with smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs. ...

  • Google Forms
    Google Forms

    It is a cloud-based questionnaire and survey solution with real-time collaboration and powerful tools to customize form questions. It can also be used to create online quizzes. ...

  • Google Drive
    Google Drive

    Keep photos, stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos, and more. Your first 15 GB of storage are free with a Google Account. Your files in Drive can be reached from any smartphone, tablet, or computer. ...

  • Microsoft Excel
    Microsoft Excel

    Present tables of values arranged in rows and columns that can be manipulated mathematically using basic and complex arithmetic. ...

  • GRID
    GRID

    GRID is an all-in-one data tool helping modern teams explore, explain, and collaborate on numbers & calculations in a friendly document interface with a powerful spreadsheet engine underneath. ...

  • Grist
    Grist

    It is a modern relational spreadsheet that combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database to organize your data, your way. ...

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Airtable

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PROS OF AIRTABLE
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    Powerful and easy to use
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    Robust and dynamic
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    Jason Barry
    Cofounder at FeaturePeek · | 10 upvotes · 342.5K views

    If you're a developer using Google Docs or Google Sheets... just stop. There are much better alternatives these days that provide a better user and developer experience.

    At FeaturePeek, we use slite for our internal documents and knowledge tracking. Slite's look and feel is similar to Slack's, so if you use Slack, you'll feel right at home. Slite is great for keeping tabs on meeting notes, internal documentation, drafting marketing content, writing pitches... any long-form text writing that we do as a company happens in Slite. I'm able to be up-to-date with everyone on my team by viewing our team activity. I feel more organized using Slite as opposed to GDocs or GDrive.

    Airtable is also absolutely killer – you'll never want to use Google Sheets again. Have you noticed that with most spreadsheet apps, if you have a tall or wide cell, your screen jumps all over the place when you scroll? With Airtable, you can scroll by screen pixels instead of by spreadsheet cells – this makes a huge difference! It's one of those things that you don't really notice at first, but once you do, you can't go back. This is just one example of the UX improvements that Airtable has to the previous generation of spreadsheet apps – there are plenty more.

    Also, their API is a breeze to use. If you're logged in, the docs fill in values from your tables and account, so it feels personalized to you.

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    Smartsheet

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        Google Docs

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        PROS OF GOOGLE DOCS
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          It's simple, but expansive
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          Free
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          Fast and simple
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          Jason Barry
          Cofounder at FeaturePeek · | 10 upvotes · 342.5K views

          If you're a developer using Google Docs or Google Sheets... just stop. There are much better alternatives these days that provide a better user and developer experience.

          At FeaturePeek, we use slite for our internal documents and knowledge tracking. Slite's look and feel is similar to Slack's, so if you use Slack, you'll feel right at home. Slite is great for keeping tabs on meeting notes, internal documentation, drafting marketing content, writing pitches... any long-form text writing that we do as a company happens in Slite. I'm able to be up-to-date with everyone on my team by viewing our team activity. I feel more organized using Slite as opposed to GDocs or GDrive.

          Airtable is also absolutely killer – you'll never want to use Google Sheets again. Have you noticed that with most spreadsheet apps, if you have a tall or wide cell, your screen jumps all over the place when you scroll? With Airtable, you can scroll by screen pixels instead of by spreadsheet cells – this makes a huge difference! It's one of those things that you don't really notice at first, but once you do, you can't go back. This is just one example of the UX improvements that Airtable has to the previous generation of spreadsheet apps – there are plenty more.

          Also, their API is a breeze to use. If you're logged in, the docs fill in values from your tables and account, so it feels personalized to you.

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          Google Forms

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              Google Drive

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              PROS OF GOOGLE DRIVE
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                Enough free space
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                Collaboration
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                Stable service
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                Desktop and mobile apps
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                Offline sync
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                Apps
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                15 gb storage
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                Add-ons
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                Integrates well
              • 6
                Easy to use
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                Simple back-up tool
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                Amazing
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                Beautiful
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                Fast upload speeds
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                The more the merrier
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                So easy
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                Wonderful
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                Linux terminal transfer tools
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                It has grown to a stable in the cloud office
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                UI
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                G Suite integration
              CONS OF GOOGLE DRIVE
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                Organization via web ui sucks
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                Not a real database

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              I created a simple upload/download functionality for a web application and connected it to Mongo, now I can upload, store and download files. I need advice on how to create a SPA similar to Dropbox or Google Drive in that it will be a hierarchy of folders with files within them, how would I go about creating this structure and adding this functionality to all the files within the application?

              Intuitively creating a react component and adding it to a File object seems like the way to go, what are some issues to expect and how do I go about creating such an application to be as fast and UI-friendly as possible?

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              Joshua Dean Küpper
              CEO at Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt) · | 3 upvotes · 171.2K views

              We use Nextcloud for company-file-management, personal work-documents and for collaborative work (through collabora), organize our #TODOs, that are not covered by the Bugtracker. Existing solutions either were very expensive ( Google Drive ), missed a lot of features ( Trello ) or were pretty much overloaded with features ( Wekan within Sandstorm ).

              That made Nextcloud ud our natural fit for our company management and we're convinced of its integrations and flexibility.

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              Microsoft Excel

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                  Hey everyone, My users love Microsoft Excel, and so do I. I've been making tools for them in the form of workbooks for years, these tools usually have databases included in the spreadsheets or communicate to free APIs around the web, but now I want to distribute these tools in the form of Excel Add-ins for several reasons.

                  I want these Add-ins to communicate to a personal server to authorize users, read from my databases, and write to them while they're using their Excel environment. I have never built a website, so what would be a good solution for this, considering I'm new to all of these technologies? I know about the existence of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SharePoint, and Google Sheets, but I don't know how to feel about those.

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                  Brian Densham
                  Designer at PVInnovations · | 4 upvotes · 30.4K views

                  I am presently using Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel on SharePoint so that I can share stored data and allow data input with users. I need to add simpler input forms, process documentation, attachments, analytics-light and storage as well. I also would like to have mobile data input and retrieval. Retool seems to offer what I need and as there will be less than 10 users, the pricing seems affordable.

                  I'm looking for any recommendations of this or alternate software.

                  Thank you

                  Brian

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                  GRID

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                  The friendly data tool for your team
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                      Grist

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