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spreadsheet A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data entered in c ...

Free and open-source software

Cloud and on-line spreadsheets

Collabora Online Collabora Online is an open source online office suite based on LibreOffice, enabling web-based collaborative real-time editing of word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and vector graphics. Optional apps are available for deskto ...

Calc — Enterprise-ready LibreOffice. * EtherCalc (successor to SocialCalc, which is based on

wikiCalc wikiCalc is a web application, created by Dan Bricklin, that allows for the creation and editing of spreadsheets through a wiki-style user-editable interface. It is currently released as version 1.0 for use on Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix, and other p ...

) * LibreOffice Online Calc *

ONLYOFFICE OnlyOffice (formerly TeamLab), stylized as ONLYOFFICE, is a free software office suite and ecosystem of collaborative applications. It consists of online editors for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms and PDFs, and the room-base ...

- Community Server Edition * Sheetster – "Community Edition" is available under the AGPL * Simple Spreadsheet * Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware includes a spreadsheet since 2004 and migrated to jQuery.sheet in 2010.

Spreadsheets that are parts of suites

* Apache OpenOffice Calc — for MS Windows, Linux and the Apple Macintosh. Started as

StarOffice StarOffice is a discontinued proprietary software, proprietary office suite. Its source code continues today in derived open-source office suites Collabora Online and LibreOffice. StarOffice supported the OpenOffice.org XML file format, as well ...

, later as

OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite. Active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed) and Collabora Online, with Apache OpenOffice being considered mostly d ...

. It has not received a major update since 2014 and security fixes have not been prompt. *

Calc — Enterprise-ready LibreOffice, included with Online, Mobile and Desktop apps *

Gnumeric Gnumeric is a spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME Free Software Desktop Project. Gnumeric version 1.0 was released on 31 December 2001. Gnumeric is distributed as free software under the GNU General Public License; it is intended to ...

— for

Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...

. Started as the

GNOME A gnome () is a mythological creature and diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and widely adopted by authors, including those of modern fantasy literature. They are typically depict ...

desktop spreadsheet. Reasonably lightweight but has very advanced features. * KSpread — following the fork of the

Calligra Suite Calligra Suite is a Graphic art software, graphic art and office suite by KDE. It is available for Desktop computer, desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones. It contains applications for word processor, word processing, spreadsheets, prese ...

from

KOffice KOffice was a free and open source office and graphics suite developed by KDE for Unix-like and Windows systems. KOffice contains a word processor ( KWord), a spreadsheet ( KSpread), a presentation program ( KPresenter), and a number of other co ...

in mid-2010, superseded by

KCells KOffice was a free and open source office and graphics suite developed by KDE for Unix-like and Windows systems. KOffice contains a word processor ( KWord), a spreadsheet ( KSpread), a presentation program ( KPresenter), and a number of other co ...

and Sheets in the Calligra Suite. *

LibreOffice LibreOffice () is a free and open-source office productivity software suite developed by The Document Foundation (TDF). It was created in 2010 as a fork of OpenOffice.org, itself a successor to StarOffice. The suite includes applications ...

Calc — developed for MS Windows, Linux,

BSD The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as Berkeley Unix or BSD Unix, is a discontinued Unix operating system developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, beginni ...

and Apple

Macintosh Mac is a brand of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple since 1984. The name is short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), a reference to the McIntosh (apple), McIntosh apple. The current product lineup inclu ...

(Mac) operating systems by

The Document Foundation The Document Foundation (TDF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development of LibreOffice, a free and open-source office suite. Established in 2010 by members of the OpenOffice.org community, TDF aims to provide a vendor-neutral p ...

. The Document Foundation was formed in mid-2010 by several large organisations such as

Google Google LLC (, ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ...

Red Hat Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North ...

Canonical The adjective canonical is applied in many contexts to mean 'according to the canon' the standard, rule or primary source that is accepted as authoritative for the body of knowledge or literature in that context. In mathematics, ''canonical exampl ...

(

Ubuntu Ubuntu ( ) is a Linux distribution based on Debian and composed primarily of free and open-source software. Developed by the British company Canonical (company), Canonical and a community of contributors under a Meritocracy, meritocratic gover ...

) and

Novell Novell, Inc. () was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as NetWare. Novell technolog ...

along with the OpenOffice.org community (developed by

Sun The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light a ...

) and various OpenOffice.org forks, notably Go-oo. Go-oo had been the "OpenOffice" used in Ubuntu and elsewhere. Started as

in the late 1990s, it became OpenOffice under

and then LibreOffice in mid-2010. The Document Foundation works with external organisations such as the

Apache Foundation The Apache Software Foundation ( ; ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open-source software projects. The ASF was formed from a group of developers of the A ...

to help drive all three products forward. * Siag — for Linux,

OpenBSD OpenBSD is a security-focused operating system, security-focused, free software, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created OpenBSD in 1995 by fork (software development), forking NetBSD ...

and Apple Mac OS X. A simple old spreadsheet, part of Siag Office. * Sheets — for MS Windows, Linux,

FreeBSD FreeBSD is a free-software Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version was released in 1993 developed from 386BSD, one of the first fully functional and free Unix clones on affordable ...

, Apple Mac OS X and

Haiku is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 Mora (linguistics), morae (called ''On (Japanese prosody), on'' in Japanese) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern; that include a ''kire ...

. Part of the extensive Calligra Suite. Possibly still mainly for Linux, but ports have been developed for other

operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

Standalone spreadsheets

* sc *

GNU Oleo GNU Oleo is a discontinued lightweight free software spreadsheet originally designed as a text-based spreadsheet using the curses library. The last development version of Oleo, 1.99.16, was released in 2001. History The project was started in 19 ...

* Pyspread

Proprietary software

Online spreadsheets

* Airtable – a spreadsheet-database hybrid, with the features of a database but applied to a spreadsheet. * Coda *

EditGrid EditGrid was a Web 2.0 spreadsheet service, operated via Internet access (web-based application). It offered both a free-of-charge service to personal users and a subscription service to organizations and was available on a number of partner sit ...

– access, collaborate and share spreadsheets online, with API support; discontinued since 2014 *

Google Sheets Google Sheets is a spreadsheet application and part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. Google Sheets is available as a web application; a mobile app for: Android, iOS, and as a desktop application on Googl ...

– as part of

Google Workspace Google Workspace (formerly G Suite, formerly Google Apps) is a collection of cloud computing, Productivity software, productivity and Collaborative software, collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google. It con ...

* iRows – closed since 31 December 2006 * JotSpot Tracker – acquired by Google Inc. * Smartsheet – Online spreadsheet for project management, interactive Gantt, file sharing, integrated with

Google Apps Google Workspace (formerly G Suite, formerly Google Apps) is a collection of cloud computing, Productivity software, productivity and Collaborative software, collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google. It con ...

*Sourcetable – AI spreadsheet that generates formulas, charts, SQL, and analyzes data. * ThinkFree Online Calc – as part of the ThinkFree Office online office suite, using

Java Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea (a part of Pacific Ocean) to the north. With a population of 156.9 million people (including Madura) in mid 2024, proje ...

* Quadratic - A source available online spreadsheet for technical users, supporting Python, SQL, and Formulas. * Zoho Sheet Spreadsheet on the cloud that allows real-time collaboration and more, for free

Spreadsheets that are parts of suites

Ability Office Ability Office is an office suite developed by Ability Plus Software and distributed and marketed by Ability Software International and which consists of a word processor, spreadsheet, database, modules for presentation and photo or image editin ...

Spreadsheet – for MS Windows. * Apple iWork

Numbers A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure, and label. The most basic examples are the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth. Numbers can be represented in language with number words. More universally, individual numbers can ...

, included with Apple's

iWork iWork is an office suite of applications created by Apple Inc., Apple for its macOS, iPadOS, and iOS operating systems, and also available cross-platform through the iCloud website. iWork includes the presentation program, presentation applicat ...

'08 suite exclusively for Mac OS X v10.4 or higher. *

AppleWorks AppleWorks was an integrated office suite containing a word processor, Database#Database_management_system, database, and spreadsheet. It was developed by Rupert Lissner for Apple Inc., Apple Computer, originally for the Apple II and launched in ...

– for MS Windows and Macintosh. This is a further development of the historical Claris Works Office suite. *

WordPerfect Office WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Alludo, with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the market leader of word processors, disp ...

Quattro Pro Quattro Pro is a spreadsheet program developed by Borland and now sold by Alludo, most often as part of Alludo's WordPerfect Office suite. Characteristics Historically, Quattro Pro used keyboard commands close to those of Lotus 1-2-3. While ...

– for MS Windows. Was one of the big three spreadsheets (the others being Lotus 123 and Excel). * EasyOffice EasySpreadsheet – for MS Windows. No longer freeware, this suite aims to be more user friendly than competitors. * Framework – for MS Windows. Historical office suite still available and supported. It includes a spreadsheet. *

– as part of

suite, supporting both offline and online editing. *

IBM Lotus Symphony IBM Lotus Symphony is a discontinued software suite, suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, presentations, and other documents and Web browser, browsing the World Wide Web. It was first distributed as commer ...

– freeware for MS Windows, Apple Mac OS X and Linux. *

Kingsoft Office WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android (operating system), Android, Fire OS and HarmonyOS developed by the Chine ...

Spreadsheets 2012 – For MS Windows. Both free and paid versions are available. It can handle Microsoft Excel .xls and .xlsx files, and also produce other file formats such as .et, .txt, .csv, .pdf, and .dbf. It supports multiple tabs, VBA macro and PDF converting. *

Lotus SmartSuite SmartSuite is a discontinued office suite from Lotus Software. The company made versions of its office suite for IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. Status SmartSuite is no longer supported or maintained. SmartSuite used to be in maintenance mode, ...

Lotus 123 Lotus 1-2-3 is a discontinued spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (later part of IBM). It was the first killer application of the IBM PC, was hugely popular in the 1980s, and significantly contributed to the success of IBM PC-compatibles i ...

– for MS Windows. In its MS-DOS (character cell) version, widely considered to be responsible for the explosion of popularity of spreadsheets during the 80s and early 90s. *

Microsoft Office Microsoft Office, MS Office, or simply Office, is an office suite and family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. The first version of the Office suite, announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at CO ...

Excel – for MS Windows and Apple Macintosh. The proprietary spreadsheet leader. *

Microsoft Works Microsoft Works is a discontinued office suite, productivity software suite developed by Microsoft and sold from 1987 to 2009. Its core functionality includes a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system. Later versions have a ...

Spreadsheet – for MS Windows (previously MS-DOS and Apple Macintosh). Only allows one sheet at a time. *

PlanMaker PlanMaker is a spreadsheet, spreadsheet program that is part of the SoftMaker Office, SoftMaker Office suite. It is available on Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android (operating system), Android and iOS. PlanMaker is largely similar to Mi ...

– for MS Windows, Linux, MS Windows Mobile and CE; part of

SoftMaker Office SoftMaker Office is an office suite which aims for compatibility with Microsoft Office. It is available as a one-time purchase, as well as a subscription. A freeware version with a slightly reduced feature set is released under the name ''SoftM ...

– Originally introduced as a stand-alone DOS and Microsoft Windows application, it eventually became part of

in 1994. *

Calc – Cross-platform. StarOffice was originally developed by the German company Star Division which was purchased by

in 1998. The code was made open source and became

. Sun continues developing the commercial version which periodically integrates the open source code with their own and third party code to make new low price versions. *

WPS Office WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Fire OS and HarmonyOS developed by the Chinese company Kingsoft Offic ...

Stand alone spreadsheets

* As-Easy-As – from Trius, Inc.; unsupported; last MS-DOS and Windows versions available with free full license key.

Multi-dimensional spreadsheets

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Lotus Improv Lotus Improv is a discontinued spreadsheet program from Lotus Development released in 1991 for the NeXTSTEP platform and then for Windows 3.1 in 1993. Development was put on hiatus in 1994 after slow sales on the Windows platform, and officially ...

* Quantrix Financial Modeler

Spreadsheets on different paradigms

* DADiSP – Combines the numerical capability of

MATLAB MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementat ...

with a spreadsheet like interface. *

GeoGebra GeoGebra (a portmanteau of ''geometry'' and ''algebra'') is an interactive geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus application, intended for learning and teaching mathematics and science from primary school to university level. GeoGebra is a ...

Web application A web application (or web app) is application software that is created with web technologies and runs via a web browser. Web applications emerged during the late 1990s and allowed for the server to dynamically build a response to the request, ...

* Resolver One – a business application development tool that represents spreadsheets as

IronPython IronPython is an implementation of the Python programming language targeting the .NET and Mono frameworks. The project is currently maintained by a group of volunteers at GitHub. It is free and open-source software, and can be implemented with P ...

programs, created and executed in real time and allowing the spreadsheet flow to be fully programmed * Spreadsheet 2000

Spreadsheet-related developmental software

* ExtenXLS – Java Spreadsheet Toolkit.

Historical

In chronological order, year launched, product, launched for which machine/OS. * 1979,

VisiCalc VisiCalc ("visible calculator") is the first spreadsheet computer program for personal computers, originally released for the Apple II by VisiCorp on October 17, 1979. It is considered the killer application for the Apple II, turning the microco ...

for

Apple II Apple II ("apple Roman numerals, two", stylized as Apple ][) is a series of microcomputers manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1977 to 1993. The Apple II (original), original Apple II model, which gave the series its name, was designed ...

with 32K RAM, the first widely used normal spreadsheet with A1 notation etc. * 1980, SuperCalc for

CP/M CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/Intel 8085, 85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Dig ...

-80 operating system, included with early Osborne computers. * 1982,

ZX81 The ZX81 is a home computer that was produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Dundee, Scotland, by Timex Corporation. It was launched in the United Kingdom in March 1981 as the successor to Sinclair's ZX80 and designed to be a low-c ...

Memocalc, for low cost ~$100 personal computer with 16K RAM expansion, launched by Memotech in April 1982. * 1982, Multiplan for

operating system, later becoming Microsoft Excel, launched Aug 1982. * 1983,

Lotus 1-2-3 Lotus 1-2-3 is a discontinued spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (later part of IBM). It was the first killer application of the IBM PC, was hugely popular in the 1980s, and significantly contributed to the success of IBM PC-compatibles ...

for

MS-DOS MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few op ...

, the first

killer application A killer application (often shortened to killer app) is any software that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology, such as its host computer hardware, video game console, software platform, or operatin ...

for the IBM PC, it took the market from Visicalc in the early 1980s. * 1983, Dynacalc for

OS-9 OS-9 is a family of real-time, process-based, multitasking, multi-user operating systems, developed in the 1980s, originally by Microware Systems Corporation for the Motorola 6809 microprocessor. It was purchased by Radisys Corp in 2001, a ...

Unix-like A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X, *nix or *NIX) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. A Uni ...

operating system, similar to VisiCalc. * 1984, Lotus Symphony for

, the follow-on to Lotus 1-2-3 * 1985,

Boeing Calc Boeing Calc was a spreadsheet package written by Boeing Computer Services, an independent subsidiary of aviation manufacturer Boeing. It had originally been developed as an in-house accounting tool, but was launched as a commercial product in Apr ...

for

MVS Multiple Virtual Storage, more commonly called MVS, is the most commonly used operating system on the System/370, System/390 and IBM Z IBM mainframe computers. IBM developed MVS, along with OS/VS1 and SVS, as a successor to OS/360. It is unr ...

and

, written by subsidiary of aviation manufacturer Boeing. * 1985,

for

, later becoming

then currently

and

. * 1985,

20/20 Visual acuity (VA) commonly refers to the clarity of visual perception, vision, but technically rates an animal's ability to recognize small details with precision. Visual acuity depends on optical and neural factors. Optical factors of the eye ...

, for

, competitor to 1-2-3 with database integration, real-time data updating, multiplatform. * 1986, VP Planner for

, similar in look and feel to Lotus 1-2-3, but included 5 level multi-dimensional database * 1987, PlanPerfect for

, distributed by

WordPerfect WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Alludo, with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the market leader of word processors, disp ...

Corporation. * 1988, Wingz for

Classic Mac OS Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Mac (computer), Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and end ...

operating system, a multi dimensional Spreadsheet from Informix. * 1989,

for

Borland Borland Software Corporation was a computing technology company founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad, and Philippe Kahn. Its main business was developing and selling software development and software deployment products. B ...

. The Windows version, introduced several years later was included in the PerfectOffice 3.0 suite. * 1991,

3D-Calc ''3D-Calc'' is a 3-dimensional spreadsheet program for the Atari ST computer. The first version of the program was released in April 1989 and was distributed by ISTARI bvba, Ghent, Belgium. History Starting in May 1991, the English version was dis ...

for

Atari ST Atari ST is a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the company's Atari 8-bit computers, 8-bit computers. The initial model, the Atari 520ST, had limited release in April–June 1985, and was widely available i ...

operating system, multi-dimensional spreadsheet. * 1991,

for

NeXTSTEP NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD. It was developed by NeXT, founded by Steve Jobs, in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was initially used for its ...

, a novel design that went beyond A1 notation.

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Free and open-source software

Cloud and on-line spreadsheets

Spreadsheets that are parts of suites

Standalone spreadsheets

Proprietary software

Online spreadsheets

Spreadsheets that are parts of suites

Stand alone spreadsheets

Multi-dimensional spreadsheets

Spreadsheets on different paradigms

Spreadsheet-related developmental software

Historical

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