Item: Apple Numbers
Rating: 8
Author: Matt McShane

Overall Satisfaction with Apple Numbers

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apple Numbers is used far more than excel or google, however we do use all three. we use Apple Numbers to track all our daily activities, temperature and other logs, financial analysis, customer spending trends, costing, what I find most useful is the ability to create good design, having the freedom to create a text box or any object and place it anywhere. I also use icloud to access my work from anywhere but especially useful if I have to work on other devices that are not apple. i use it to create barcodes and filing taxes with the CRA, via importing. Ultimately we use it to track everything that is not in our ERP, or information from out ERP which is Odoo

Pros and Cons

Pros

Good design, can place objects anywhere
pivot tables
collaboration

Cons

formula complexity, doesn't have the same depth or complex calculations
must get more export options for data
what if formulas

Return on Investment

use it to calculate the profitability of our menus
Doens't really have a direct impact on ROI
Helps with managing projects that create ROI

Usability

The interface once familiar allows for quick work, and easy to use. very intuitive. Its easy to create beautiful spreadsheets, ones that capture interest and can communicate data in a easy to understand with Apple Numbers ability to organize, and make good looking with styles. Collaboration is great for our teams to all contribute the to document at the same time.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Odoo, Calibre and LibreOffice

has a more refined interface, allows for making good looking spreadsheets with little effort. though these other softwares each have their own positives and negatives. But Excel and Odoo are top in features and managing large amounts of data. Apple Numbers is good until you need to clean large amounts of accounting data.

Key Insights

Do you think Apple Numbers delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Apple Numbers's feature set?

Yes

Did Apple Numbers live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Apple Numbers go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Apple Numbers again?

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Odoo, Google Sheets

Likelihood to Recommend

I am using version 14.4, i am avoiding upgrading and would never recommend the new version as it requires for all tense of purpose a subscription to creator studio, or it contains ads if you dont have subscription. the software is not good enough to justify a regular payment. I would have given a 10 / 10 for the standalone "old" version. Im still not trusting of AI which seems to be a big part of the new version. I use AI however I always have to double check everything. As this technology matures I would likely change on this. Apple Numbers best is its interface and intuitiveness.

Evaluating Apple Numbers and Competitors

Products Replaced

Yes - Microsoft Excel, we still have excel installed on most computers, however its only used when need data exported in a format that Apple Numbers cant, or the formulas are not available. we prefer Apple Numbers as we are able easily integrate the spreadsheets into our other documents. importing works well. Excel is expensive and we dont trust microsoft.

Apple Numbers a powerful but simple to use program