| Alternative |
100% compliant |
Best for |
Offline Editing |
PROs |
CONs |
Key Features |
| workspace.google.com |
NO |
offline editing and collaboration |
YES |
- Ability to download in many formats
- Customizability
- macros.
- Real-time collaboration.
|
- Lags on large data.
- Difficult to pinpoint who edited the spreadsheet.
|
- Data analysis and visualization.
- Sharing and collaboration.
- Version history feature
- Template gallery.
|
| zoho.com |
NO |
Automation |
NO |
- Easy to learn and use.
AI-powered insights.
- Data cleaning (duplicates, inconsistencies and missing value removal).
- Integration with other Zoho apps.
|
- Lacks data connections, analysis and modeling capability.
- Lacks offline support.
- Takes a long time to load spreadsheets.
|
- Multi-language support
- over 350 predefined functions.
- export .html and .pdf formats.
- Custom and user-defined functions.
- Image-to-sheet feature (automatically convert it to spreadsheets).
- AI-powered insights
|
| openoffice.org |
NO |
Customization |
NO |
- Large user community.
- Available as open source.
- Custom backgrounds.
|
- Lacks real-time online collaboration.
- Needs to be updated more frequently.
|
- Natural language formulas.
- Ready-made templates repository.
- what if analysis.
- export in various formats
|
| libreoffice.org |
NO |
Features |
YES |
- Open source.
- Feature rich.
- import .xlsx files
|
- limited macro abilities.
- Lacks to display advanced charts.
- Lacks real-time online collaboration
|
- “what if …” analysis.
- export to .pdf.
- apps for Windows, macOS and Linux.
|
| wps.com |
Ease of use |
many formats |
|
- High Compatibility
- Intuitive user interface.
- Ease of use.
- Support for many languages.
|
- Free version has ads.
- Infrequently freezes.
|
- Data analysis and visualization.
- Templates for charts, budgets and business finances.
- high Compatibility with many file formats.
- Ability to edit Excel files.
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