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Apple Numbers

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What is Apple Numbers?

Numbers is a spreadsheet application developed by Apple Inc. as part of the iWork productivity suite. It is available for Mac and iOS, or for Windows in a browser via its cloud edition.

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Ease of Use: Many users have praised Apple Numbers for its user-friendly interface, making it easy to use even for those with little to no …
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What is Apple Numbers?

Numbers is a spreadsheet application developed by Apple Inc. as part of the iWork productivity suite. It is available for Mac and iOS, or for Windows in a browser via its cloud edition.

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Apple Numbers Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
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Mobile Application
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TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users commonly recommend Apple Numbers for various purposes. Firstly, they suggest using it as an alternative to Microsoft Excel, especially for organizations that do not use Microsoft Office products. It is seen as a good option for basic spreadsheets and tasks, thanks to its intuitive and visually appealing interface. Additionally, users recommend Apple Numbers as a decent alternative to Excel for creating outstanding graphs and charts.

Secondly, users appreciate Apple Numbers as a free cloud-based spreadsheet tool. They find it easy-to-use, particularly for those who prefer the Apple ecosystem or have multiple Apple products. It is often recommended for fulfilling basic spreadsheet needs without overwhelming features.

Lastly, Mac users specifically find Apple Numbers to be a user-friendly version of Excel. They recommend using it for crunching numbers and performing basic spreadsheet functions. However, they acknowledge that more complex tasks like PivotTables may be better suited for Excel. Furthermore, while Apple Numbers is suitable for personal use, some users find limited value when collaborating with others who use different spreadsheet software.

Overall, users commonly recommend using Apple Numbers as an alternative to Excel for basic spreadsheets and tasks. It is praised for its intuitive interface and cloud-based nature. Mac users appreciate its user-friendliness but note certain limitations compared to Excel for advanced features like PivotTables.

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Josh Edney | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
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I use Apple Numbers for any type of spreadsheet -- analyzing growth trends, financial reports, and account balances. Because Apple Numbers is apart of Apple's iWork, I can use numbers across my Apple devices seamlessly. I'm very familiar with Excel, but Excel is clunky on Apple's operating systems. I find Apple Numbers to be a more user-friendly software.
  • Handing off from one Apple device to the another Apple device
  • The simplicity of the layout
  • Creating formulas are easy to implement
  • The ability to go live and present a spreadsheet during a meeting in real time
  • Make it simpler to add custom fonts to the font packages
If someone uses Apple products exclusively, Apple Numbers is a no-brainer. Because of the ability to hand off documents across Apple devices, it makes it easy to work on multiple devices. If someone is already familiar with Excel, there is hardly no learning curve with Apple Numbers. If someone is working on a PC and Android devices, Apple Numbers is not appropriate. The software will not sync as well and in this scenario, someone should stick with the Microsoft suite package.
  • My clients are in their 20s and 30s. Apple Numbers is a cleaner spreadsheet so it presents my business are being modern to my clients.
  • For my clients that don't "speak spreadsheets," Apple Numbers doesn't overwhelm them. The formatting is visually more appealing than alternative spreadsheet software.
If you're an Apple user, Apple Numbers is for you. If you primarily operate on PC and Android, you will find more compatibility with Excel. Both platforms perform similar functions -- you can create charts, graphs, and figures. Excel was the pioneer spreadsheet software but Apple presents a simpler, more modern, spreadsheet.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
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I use Numbers for all of my spreadsheet tasks. I also use it for form creation, signs, some inter-office documents. I like to use Numbers especially because the tools are intuitive, and consistent. Portabaility between Numbers and other spreadsheet programs is seamless. This is expecially useful when working or collaborating with PC users who likely are using Microsoft products. I have never had any significant issues when sharing files with Excel users.
  • templates
  • layout
  • tool selection
  • customization of workspace
  • saving pre-selected tools
  • consistent fonts across platforme
Apple Numbers is perfectly suited for small to medium businesses. I have not had occasion to use it in a large/enterprise setting, but I cant imagine that there would be any issues there. There was one instance that comes to mind when Numbers presented a challenge when I needed to use a supplied Excel sheet had macros and they did not function properly in Numbers.
  • simple to use...saves time
  • produces high-quality, professional documents
  • very easy to share and collaborate with other team members
Numbers is every bit as good and functional as Excel.
Vijendr Warankar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
People in my organization use this software for maintaining data sheets of our customers. We also maintain our product details in Apple Numbers. It is very convenient to share these sheets among each others as we all use apple devices. It also helps us by converting our data into graphs for our analysis.
  • Data security provided by Apple on its all the software.
  • Very well integration within the Apple ecosystem.
  • It is very well compatible with MS Excel also.
  • It is available on iOS also. We can use it on our Apple mobile phones and on our iPads also.
  • Unavailability of all the functionalities of MS Excel. It lacks some of input formats.
  • Some of its functionalities are not available in mobile app.
  • Its unavailability on Android device.
For Mac users this software is very productive. It is very easy to use for various calculations and data entry. It also provides high level of security because of Apple ecosystem. So you can save your sensitive data in these sheets. We can avoid using this tool if we need very complex formulas for our calculations.
  • It helps us to organise our data sheets.
  • It helps us to make our client presentations with its graphical representation of data
  • It helps us in our financial calculations.
We all work with Apple devices in this organization. So we mostly use this software. It is very well synced in Apple ecosystem and provide very attractive data representation by its graphics and charts. In few scenarios we use MS Excel also but we always try to stick on Apple Numbers.
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