About Google Sheets
Google Sheets is a cloud-based spreadsheet platform designed to help businesses of all sizes collaborate with clients and partners to create and edit data on spreadsheets. The artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled system allows employees to add collaborators to projects, view real-time changes in the sheet, and chat with team members from within documents.
The application lets administrators set expiration dates on projects and grant permissions to download, copy, or print content among specific collaborators. Stakeholders can utilize the explore functionality to view trends and gain data insights through customizable visuals in real-time. Google Sheets offers data loss prevention (DLP) module, which enables organizations to detect potential data breaches and prevent data leak by blocking sensitive data visibility among unauthorized members.
Google Sheets provides an API and Zapier integration, which lets businesses connect with several third-party platforms such as BigQuery, Microsoft Office, Outlook, Apps Script, Trello, Slack, Mailchimp, and more. Other features include information rights management (IRM), customizable templates, analytics, collaboration, survey creation, revision history, conditional formatting, and more.
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Pricing starting from:
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- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Top 5 alternatives to Google Sheets
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Total features of Google Sheets: 12
Alternatives
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft 365
Numbers
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- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Google sheets review
Reviewed on 14/07/2022
As I use google sheet daily. Its awesome feelings with google sheets, I generate many reports from...
As I use google sheet daily. Its awesome feelings with google sheets, I generate many reports from sheets. Google sheet has best feature to use this online and many users can access same sheet at a same time, this is also have version control system. So you can retrieve your previous data.
Pros
Google sheet is the best software for data collection and analysis. Many more types of files and many types of data can be integrate with google sheet. You can give specific access to the specific users.
And also has feature of offline edit.
Cons
I use google sheet daily I don't think that software has any problem. But the formulas are little difficult than other.
- Industry: Business Supplies & Equipment
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Easy to use alternative to Excel
Reviewed on 29/07/2022
We use it for a lot more than crunching numbers. For instance, we have 300+ items we hire out, and...
We use it for a lot more than crunching numbers. For instance, we have 300+ items we hire out, and we use Sheets to keep track of who has them booked and when (like a Gantt chart). The fact that we can all work on this sheet simultaneously makes Sheets work when an offline version of Excel wouldn't. That said, Office 365 would allow a similar experience.
Pros
The collaboration options within a team are game changing. No more save, attach and send - everyone's aligned on the same sheet at the same time. You don't realise how much work and confusion this elimiates until you switch to it.
Cons
Its strength is its weakness. It's quite a cut down alternative to Excel, which makes it easy to use, but if you want to do something advanced or nuanced then you may find the feature you want is missing. Luckily you can export to Excel and carry on there if you want to. We very rarely have to.
Collaboration also requires the other users to have Google accounts. Sometimes you just want to share with someone when you don't know if they have one or not. And they may have one, but not using the email address you assumed they did, which means they have to make an access request. It could be easier.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft ExcelReasons for Choosing Google Sheets
Collaboration features. We also signed up for Google Workspace.Switched From
Microsoft ExcelReasons for Switching to Google Sheets
The whole Google Workspace ecosystem worked well for us as a company. Sheets comes with it.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Not a Rival to Microsoft Excel!
Reviewed on 12/07/2022
It was okay.
It was okay.
Pros
The online and collaboration feature is the only feature that makes it stand out. And it is better than Office 365 online.
Cons
It just cant match the speed of Excel App,( the offline version). Google sheet spoils the productivity and the integrations with excel aren't good. Can be improved.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Excel- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Most convenient and universal spreadsheet platform, great product evolution
Reviewed on 05/05/2022
All prior advantages other spreadsheet programs had like more robust formulas and being able to...
All prior advantages other spreadsheet programs had like more robust formulas and being able to edit locally have now been incorporated into Google Sheets as well so Google Sheets is the leader.
The collaboration among Google Sheets is the easiest of all platform since everyone already has Google accounts and the links are easily sharable where everyone can edit the document at the same time.
Pros
Real-time collaboration with any number of peers, built-in chat, easy access from other Google Workspace products as a new feature.
Cons
Very few issues, Google Sheets can be accessed locally now as well even without internet. All prior issues with complexity of formulas have been solved now as well, Google Sheets is great.
Reasons for Choosing Google Sheets
Collaboration in Google Sheets and how people of all generations use Sheets.Reasons for Switching to Google Sheets
Superior collaboration and ease of sharing the document- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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A free spreadsheet app with Google's intuitive user interface
Reviewed on 01/07/2022
Very convenient to use especially when there is a need for collaborating with others.
Very convenient to use especially when there is a need for collaborating with others.
Pros
The application is not intimidating unlike other similar apps with many overwhelming features and options. For a beginner who is new to spreadsheets, Google sheets is perhaps the easiest app to get started.
This Google Docs family app is free to use and supports all the necessary features that the popular market leading apps have. The user interface is minimal, intuitive and easy to use.
Sharing feature allows collaborating with others over the Internet and real-time editing. Features associated with collaboration includes commenting and assigning, edit history, specific cell range for specific collaborators etc. The sheets are automatically saved and the version history allows to rollback to previous versions instantly.
The pivot table features are less confusing when compared to other apps. Also inserting formulas in easy with suggestions from the app itself. Another feature is the ability to links different documents. For example, data from Google sheets can be included in Google docs which gets automatically updated with any changes in the sheets.
Additional features and functionalities can be added with plugins and by using Apps Script to write custom logic.
Another cool feature is using Google sheets as database for static webpages. Data can be loaded from Google sheets with the help of a few JavaScript codes.
Cons
For those who are used with other popular spreadsheets applications, Google sheets may not be suitable because they might find some advanced features missing. However, Google Sheets is being updated with new features occasionally.
Google Sheets FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Google Sheets.Q. What type of pricing plans does Google Sheets offer?
Google Sheets offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Available
Please contact Google directly for pricing information.
Q. Who are the typical users of Google Sheets?
Google Sheets has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-5,000
Q. What languages does Google Sheets support?
Google Sheets supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Google Sheets support mobile devices?
Google Sheets supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Google Sheets integrate with?
Google Sheets integrates with the following applications:
Google Analytics 360, Google Drive, Google Workspace, Mailchimp, Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Trello, Zapier
Q. What level of support does Google Sheets offer?
Google Sheets offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, Chat
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