Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Excel 2013
Not exactly a side project but my work for the last 2.5 years. As an avid HN lurker would love to hear feedback. Background: I am a PM on the Excel team in charge of the advanced data analysis tools (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bi/Products/OfficePreview.aspx) To download: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en
Excel 2013 is a spreadsheet application featuring advanced data analysis tools developed by Microsoft's Excel team. It is designed for users who work with data analysis, business intelligence, and complex spreadsheet… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Excel 2013 launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The project is called QueryStorm. It uses Roslyn to offer C# (and VB.NET) support in Excel, as an alternative to VBA. I've posted about it before, but a lot has changed since then so figured I'd share an update. The current version includes a host of new features, namely a C# debugger, support for NuGet packages, and the ability to publish Excel extensions to an "AppStore" (which is essentially a NuGet repository). The AppStore can be used by anyone with the (free) runtime component. Another great addition is the community license, which is a free license for individuals and small companies…
2023 · querystorm.com · its alternatives →
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OpenSheet▲86Hi folks. I've been doing some experiments on how LLMs could get more handy in the day to day of working with files (CSV, Parquet, etc). Earlier last year, I built https://datakit.page and evolved it over and over into an all in-browser experience with help of duckdb-wasm. Got loads of feedbacks and I think it turned into a good shape with being an adhoc local data studio, but I kept hearing two main things/issues: Why can't the AI also change cells in the file we give to it? Why can't we modify this grid ourselves? So besides the whole READ and text-to-SQL flows, what seemed…
Feb 2026 · opensheet.app · its alternatives →
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Rows▲511Import business data and analyze it using plain language.
2021 · rows.com · its alternatives →
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I have spent large parts of the last 10+ years building an SQL Editor. The tool is targeted at data analysts, a lot of effort has gone into charting, visualizing and excel export. If this sounds useful to you, it's Free, please give it a try and let me know any feedback.
2024 · timestored.com · its alternatives →
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Row Zero is the best spreadsheet for big data. Build secure spreadsheets connected to your data warehouse with a bigger, faster Excel alternative in the cloud.
2024 · rowzero.io · its alternatives →
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A collection of spreadsheet examples for turning Excel to web, editing online and building spreadsheet applications using Keikai.
2019 · keikai.io · its alternatives →
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Today I'm open sourcing "Grid studio", a web-based spreadsheet application with full integration of the Python programming language.
2019 · hackernoon.com · its alternatives →
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Transform your financial strategy with xP&A: unified insights, enhanced collaboration and cloud connectivity to make smarter decisions and unlock business potential.
2019 · causal.app · its alternatives →
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Sheets by Google▲312Excel powered with automation and collaboration features.
2018 · workspace.google.com · its alternatives →
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Excel Dashboard Aifree tier, from $7.43/mo▲158Hey everyone! I'm Alex, the co-founder of Excel Dashboard Ai. I’m excited to share our AI tool that turns your Excel data into awesome dashboards and detailed reports. Think visualized charts, diverse analysis angles, and almost 10,000 words of AI-driven insights—all in one place. Say goodbye to endless hours of data analysis and report writing. ExcelDashboard is here to boost your productivity! Why did we build this? Back in my previous company, we were constantly asked for data-driven insights and long reports. This process was a huge time drain. I used to joke, "Wouldn't it be great if…
2024 · exceldashboard.ai · its alternatives →
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Analyzing and visualizing data from CSV files
2025 · claude.com · its alternatives →
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The project has been migrated to @wolf-table/table https://github.com/wolf-table/table - myliang/x-spreadsheet
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · docs.google.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · datanitro.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I spent a few weeks looking at the top HN posts of all time. This included exploration, clustering, creating visualizations, and zooming in on what (to me personally) seems like some of the best discussions on here. Three things in this post: 1- The interesting groups of HN posts 2- The interactive visualizations that you can explore in your browser 3- The data from this exploration -- this includes CSV of the titles as well as the text embeddings of 3,000 Ask HN articles. Blog post about this whole process here: [1] ============ 1- The interesting groups of HN posts From the…
2022 · its alternatives →
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GRID Sheets 1.0▲130AI-powered spreadsheet w/ interactive datavis layer
2023 · grid.is · its alternatives →
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2014 · voyager.datanitro.com · its alternatives →
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We built what we're calling "operational spreadsheets" – spreadsheets that can actually execute actions across external systems, not just calculate and display data. The core idea: spreadsheets have been passive tools for 40 years. You put data in, formulas process it, you export it, manually move it somewhere else, repeat. We added bidirectional API integration with natural language commands, so the spreadsheet itself can send emails, update databases, orchestrate workflows across services – autonomously. Think of it as the evolution from VisiCalc → Excel → Google Sheets (multi-user) →…
2024 · sourcetable.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · alphasheets.com · its alternatives →
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An Excel AI agent that uses MCP tools to let LLMs read, edit, and automate Excel spreadsheets. - SylvianAI/sv-excel-agent
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We (me and @aarondia) built a tool to help you turn psuedo-software Excel files into real-software Python. Ideally, Pyoneer helps you automate your manual Excel processes. You can try it today here: https://pyoneer.ai. How it works: 1. You upload an Excel file 2. We statically parse the Excel file and build a dependency graph of all the cells, tables, formulas, and pivots. 3. We do a graph traversal, and translate nodes as we hit them. We use OpenAI APIs to translate formulas. There’s a bunch of extra work here — because even with the best prompt engineering a fella like me can do,…
2024 · pyoneer.ai · its alternatives →
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