Comparison of spreadsheet software
Spreadsheet is a class of application software design to analyze tabular data called "worksheets". A collection of worksheets is called a "workbook". Online spreadsheets do not depend on a particular operating system but require a standards-compliant web browser instead. One of the incentives for the creation of online spreadsheets was offering worksheet sharing and public sharing or workbooks as part of their features which enables collaboration between multiple users. Some on-line spreadsheets provide remote data update, allowing data values to be extracted from other users' spreadsheets even though they may be inactive at the time.
General
Name | Screenshot | Creator | Development started | First public release | Latest stable version | License |
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Calligra Sheets | KOffice KSpread Team | 3.2.0 (29 April 2020[1]) [±] | LGPL | |||
Gnumeric | GNOME community | 1998 | 1998 | 1.12.48 (13 August 2020[2]) [±] | GPL | |
IBM Lotus Symphony | IBM | 2008 | 1.3 / 2009 | Freeware | ||
LibreOffice Calc | The Document Foundation | 2010 | 3.3 / 2011-01-25 | MPL | ||
Mariner Calc | Mariner Software | 1988 | 1989 | 5.6.0 | Discontinued | |
Microsoft Excel | Microsoft | 1982 | 1985 | 16 (64-bit) / September 2015 | Freemium | |
Numbers | Apple, Inc. | August 7, 2007 | 3.5 / October 16, 2014 | Commercial Proprietary software | ||
OpenOffice Calc | Apache Software Foundation | 2000 | Build 638c / October 2001 | 4.1.8 (November 10, 2020) [±] | Apache License v2 | |
OnlyOffice | Ascensio System SIA | 2009 | 2014 | GPL | ||
PlanMaker | SoftMaker Software GmbH | 1994[5][6] | 2012 | Trialware | ||
Pyspread | Martin Manns | 2008 | 2008 | 1.1.3 (February 8, 2019 ) | GPL | |
Quattro Pro | Corel | 1988 | 1988 | 2020 / 2020 | Trialware | |
Resolver One | Resolver Systems | 2005 | 2008-01-16 | 1.9 / 2010-06-04 | Discontinued | |
Siag | Ulric Eriksson | 1996 | 3.6.1 / 2006 | GPL | ||
WPS Office | Kingsoft | 1988 | 1988 | 2019 | Freemium | |
Name | Screenshot | Creator | Development started | First public release | Latest stable version | License |
Legend |
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Licensed at no cost |
Licensed commercially |
Operating system support
The operating systems the software can run on natively (without emulation).
Name | Windows | macOS | Linux | BSD | Unix |
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Calligra Sheets | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Gnumeric | Old versions | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
IBM Lotus Symphony | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
LibreOffice Calc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
WPS Office | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Mariner Calc | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Microsoft Excel | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Numbers | No | Yes | No | No | No |
OpenOffice Calc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
PlanMaker | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Pyspread | Yes | Unsupported | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Quattro Pro | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Resolver One | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Siag | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Supported file formats
This table gives a comparison of what file formats each spreadsheet can import and export. "Yes" means can both import and export.
Name | CSV | Excel (xls) |
HTML | LaTeX | ODF (ods) |
OOXML (xlsx) |
DIF | OpenOffice.org XML (sxc) | |
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Calligra Sheets | Yes | Import | Export | Export | Yes | No | Export | ? | Yes |
Gnumeric | Yes | Yes | Yes | Export | Yes | Yes | Export | Import | Import |
IBM Lotus Symphony | Yes | Yes | Export | No | Yes | Import | Export | Yes | |
LibreOffice Calc | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Export | Yes | Yes |
Mariner Calc | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Export | No | |
Microsoft Excel | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | Export | Import | No |
WPS Office | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | Export | Import | No |
Numbers | Yes | Yes | No | No | Import | Import | Export | No | |
OpenOffice Calc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Export[7] | Yes | Import | Export | Yes | Yes |
Quattro Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Export | No | |
PlanMaker | Yes | Yes | Export | No | No | Yes | Export | No | |
Pyspread | Yes | Yes | No | No | Import | Import | Export | No | |
Resolver One | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Siag | Yes | Import partial | Yes | Export | No | No | Export | Import partial |
References
- "Calligra 3.2.0 released". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- "Tags - GNOME / gnumeric". Retrieved 13 August 2020.
- "LibreOffice 7.1 Community released by The Document Foundation". The Document Foundation. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/
- "Infos zu PlanMaker 97". 1997-06-03. Archived from the original on 1997-06-03. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
- Andy Updegrove (2006-07-05). "The Emerging ODF Environment, Part IV: Spotlight on SoftMaker Office 2006". Retrieved 2010-03-28.
- Through extensions: "Calc2LaTeX". 2009-07-15. Retrieved 2012-05-06.