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xlwings vs SheetUI: What are the differences?
xlwings: Use Python in Excel without add-ins. Replace your VBA code with Python, a powerful yet easy-to-use programming language that is highly suited for numerical analysis. Supports Windows & Mac!; SheetUI: Turn Your Google Sheets Into Beautiful Web Pages. Turn Your Google Spreadsheets Into A Beautiful, Responsive Web Page in 3 simple steps. What is it good for? A quick page to show curated articles for a mailing list, a product catalog, real-estate listing, team roster, talent listing for an agency, and more.
xlwings and SheetUI can be primarily classified as "Spreadsheets as a Backend" tools.
Some of the features offered by xlwings are:
- Easy deployment: The receiver of an xlwings-powered spreadsheets only needs Python with minimal dependencies — or nothing at all when shipped with the Python runtime.
- Cross-Platform: xlwings works with Microsoft Excel on Windows and Mac.
- Plug-and-Play: No cumbersome installation of Excel add-ins or license keys.
On the other hand, SheetUI provides the following key features:
- Team Roster
- Image Gallery
- Real Estate Listing
xlwings is an open source tool with 1.74K GitHub stars and 332 GitHub forks. Here's a link to xlwings's open source repository on GitHub.
Cons of SheetUI
Cons of xlwings
- Very slow and still needs VBA for UDFs3