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Alternatives to Microsoft Excel

Google Sheets, Microsoft Access, Google Docs, GRID, and Grist are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Microsoft Excel.
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What is Microsoft Excel and what are its top alternatives?

Present tables of values arranged in rows and columns that can be manipulated mathematically using basic and complex arithmetic.
Microsoft Excel is a tool in the Spreadsheets Online category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Microsoft Excel

  • Google Sheets
    Google Sheets

    Access, create, and edit your spreadsheets wherever you go—from your phone, tablet, or computer. ...

  • Microsoft Access
    Microsoft Access

    It is an easy-to-use tool for creating business applications, from templates or from scratch. With its rich and intuitive design tools, it can help you create appealing and highly functional applications in a minimal amount of time. ...

  • 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. ...

  • 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. ...

  • Spreadsheet
    Spreadsheet

    It is an all-in-one spreadsheet with the power of a database and project management system. It is a new kind of spreadsheet that brings people, projects, and data together. It works the same as a traditional spreadsheet, but with a whole new set of capabilities that anyone can use to create spreadsheets as powerful as apps. It is an online project management, collaboration & Gantt chart tool helping work execution, enabling organizations to plan, capture, track, automate, and report on work at scale, resulting in more efficient processes and better business outcomes. ...

  • Rows
    Rows

    It combines the power of a spreadsheet with built-in integrations and a slick sharing experience. Made for teams to build and share their work, all in one place. ...

  • Quadratic
    Quadratic

    It is an infinite canvas spreadsheet for scripting and visualizing data, made for data scientists, business analysts, engineers, and more. It is unique and allows for novel solutions with the age-old utility of a spreadsheet. ...

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Google Sheets

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Create and edit spreadsheets online, for free
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    Simultaneous shared editing
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    Jason Barry
    Cofounder at FeaturePeek · | 10 upvotes · 332.7K 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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    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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    Microsoft Access

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        Google Docs

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          It's simple, but expansive
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          Jason Barry
          Cofounder at FeaturePeek · | 10 upvotes · 332.7K 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.

          See more
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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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              Super powers for spreadsheet creators
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                  Spreadsheet

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                  The all-in-one spreadsheet for teams
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                      Rows

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                      The spreadsheet where teams work faster
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                          Quadratic

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                          Open-source spreadsheet with Python, AI (WASM and WebGL)
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