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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. ...

  • Gmail
    Gmail

    An easy to use email app that saves you time and keeps your messages safe. Get your messages instantly via push notifications, read and respond online & offline, and find any message quickly. ...

  • Firefox
    Firefox

    A free and open source web browser developed by The Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation. Firefox is available for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, and more. ...

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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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    Jason Barry
    Cofounder at FeaturePeek · | 10 upvotes · 347.5K 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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          Jason Barry
          Cofounder at FeaturePeek · | 10 upvotes · 347.5K 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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          Michael Videlgauz
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          Hello community, I am looking for a self-hosted online document management solution. One that covers all my needs is Confluence but it is currently not affordable for my team. Key requirements are RTL support, WYSIWYG Editing (Word-like interface as much as possible), Concurrent Editing (the best experience I have with Google Docs where I can even see who else is currently editing a document) with conflict resolution, versioning (view history and switch between versions), PDF and Word export, complex tables, and some others, full list here in column "A". I found XWIKI covering all my requirements (including those "bonus features" that I didn't list here) except one - RTL. Here a hack is suggested to address this issues but I would prefer not to go with any hacks. I myself am ready to contribute to an open source development but other people who (hopefully) will use this tool are not software engineers and this fact must be kept in mind... Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

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          Google Forms

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              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
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                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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              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?

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              Microsoft Excel

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                  Brian Densham
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                  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.

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                  Gmail

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                  PROS OF GMAIL
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                    Its free
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                    User-friendly
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                    Nice UI
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                    Snooze
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                    Can't unsend, add open trackers or read recipients

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                  Firefox

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                  PROS OF FIREFOX
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                    Add-ons
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                    Open source
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                    Themes
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                    Free
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                    Screenshots
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                    Privacy
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                    Account sync
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                    Faster
                  • 7
                    Customizable
                  • 7
                    Inspector
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                    Simple
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                    Smooth autoscroll
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                    Independent
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                    Easy
                  CONS OF FIREFOX
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                    Slower
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                    Complicated
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                    It is now silencing voices

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