Microsoft Excel vs Airtable Comparison

Simple and used by everyone however is feeling very old now. Does all of the basic well enough.

Old and not moved forward - competitors like Airtable are doing things better, faster and more interestingly.

There are other cheaper tools, Sheets, Airtable, etc... but none of them do as much as Excel. The only other service I would recommend would be Airtable but that's when you have a specific need more of a relational database.

Can't add attachments to cell's the way Airtable can. Would be great if they brought in those capabilities.

My familiarity with Excel makes this my go-to software for when I need to create documents that use formulas. Getting the software to do the function that I want is easier compared to competing products due to its longevity and not changing how things are done

Visually, produced documents don't look as good or as visually appealing as ones made AirTable or Apple Numbers

It's Excel. You can make it do pretty much anything you want, provided you've invested the time in learning the skills. Worst case, Google has an answer for pretty much any Excel query or need.

There's a stigma to Excel, particularly for creatives. That can make sharing workbooks and sheets difficult outside of certain departments. Likewise, the learning curve is STEEP for advanced functionality.

Excel is really the original in terms of sheets. Its design is not the best which is why there are so many alternative such as AirTable and the like popping up. However, i have seen Excel try to improve upon this and increase its design attraction. I love that this platform is the "pro" version of all those toys like Airtable with those colors. When Im on excel, I feel productive instead as if Im doing a school project with RGB

Admittedly, the platform seems to change and confuse me. Especially with so many spreadsheet platforms and all being different in terms of where the buttons are, I do not like the placement of some Execel's buttons as they confuse me so much. Some shortcuts are not straight forward and I always have to research whenever I want to use another feature.

Excel has always been the easiest way to manage and process numerical data. Google Sheets has been a recent alternative, but Excel remains the most powerful tool (i.e. custom formulas, shortcuts, acceptable data) in play, and should be installed on every computer.

Easier sharing, especially if the recipient is not integrated into the Microsoft ecosystem (e.g. no Microsoft / Office 365 acct).

I really love getting into macros and optimizing my routine work for my job.

It's really hard to educate other people on all the features, and some of the most helpful utilities require too many steps when they could be buttons. Like transposing a table.

While there are several other copycat products available, some for free, Excel is still the most feature-rich and easy-to-use application available for spreadsheets.

Though the price point is much fairer now, I guess I could complain that it isn't free. That being said, I still choose to purchase it through an Office365 subscription.

I like that a lot of people do use Excel and there are usually a lot of tutorials about it when I'm needing help with a certain equation, etc. It has a lot of capabilities and I know I have not come close to tapping its full potential.

I think Excel is very slow, especially compared to a solution like Google Sheets. Additionally, Sheets is much easier to use, more intuitive. Excel is often buggy, needs refreshing often (for the online version), is clunky and sluggish when trying to input data more quickly (even the local version is often slow).

For any sort of accounting/budget/data tracking needs, Excel still has the best features for making complicated calculations simple. It's very helpful for tracking data and getting updated results without having to re-do all the calculations.

Excel is not good as a database, especially compared to newer options like Airtable. Without features like multiple selections in a single cell, Excel can quickly turn into a massive document where you have to scroll and scroll to see all your data.

Simple and easy to use. Responsive. Really feature heavy with filters, cell formatting and options, and FORMULAS! You can achieve a lot with only formulas. Easy to create and beautiful graphs. Whole world of options when include its VBA scripting language.

No collaboration. Can be slow for big documents. Biggest con I see (aside of simple collaboration) is the lack of integration and automation you can accomplish with Excel - in the world of interconnected apps and tools, Excel is heavily lacking behind others like Google Sheets or Airtable.

- works on every device I have - has the most robust system of the spreadsheet apps, not as freeform as Airtable but I find it much easier to use - It's reliable - Heavy on the features - I use it to do a cost analysis for venues, and then immediately after to do a staff list for an event, manage students, etc.

- That there's no way to have more than one person work on a file at the same time - Even though I've used it for years, I still think the UX is ugly

It is quite helpful, and has been around for a while. I get a monthly Microsoft 365 subscription, which also features excel.

Well- if a software has been around for so long, and still doesnt have features that even newer software has (like for example airtable- which is an agile mixture between trello and excel)- it makes me worry for product development. You could at least add a functionality that adds pictures to a sheet. like access has it if i remember correctly (haven't used access for 10 years or so)

Simplicity, design and power of the IA powered tools.

Pricing can be a little bit expansive for growing teams.

Airtable takes the features of Microsoft Excel and integrates it with several other features including forms

Airtable offers so many features that it takes some time to learn how to effectively use it.

Airtable helped information of all types for my team to organize and view collaboratively.

I wish there were more features similar to Microsoft Excel. I found myself having to copy and paste info into excel to do basic math functions while crunching numbers.

How easy it was to get going. It was all very intuitive.

I honestly wouldn't call myself a power user, just the basics, and I haven't run into any problems yet.

Best Software to keep and manage my content with much more productivity than any other software.

No cons at all,To be honest, it is far away the best software than any Microsoft excel or google sheets.

User-friendly interface! Super easy to collaborate with the team and also the third-party applications. Their free plan is genuinely good and comprehensive!

Their paid plan is a touch expensive, once you surpass the free 1,000 entries per database.

AirTable features many of same functions as Microsoft excel. Can input formulas and similar features making it an extremely useful for data input.

Does have maximum amount of memory that can be used, can expand for more cost.

- User friendly - Works with a lot of other services - Great way to manage information - Great templates to choose from

- It can be a little hard to figure out at first - communication options are limited - It really doesn't support the Microsoft Excel formatting

Airtable is amazing for project management and sharing work with other team members. The extra check boxes for adding documents or messaging, charts, etc. just makes this the best software with keeping track of everything!

It's a little harder to figure everything out than a traditional Microsoft Excel sheet but once you get the hang of it, you'll never look back!

Airtable is so much like excel, but more intuitive and user friendly. I love that you can easily link tables, change colors for categorizing, and flow work with coworkers. The product is intuitive and it is much easier to create meaningful relationships between qualitative data than in excel

I have a hard time paying for something I know I can duplicate within Excel (which I have already paid for). While it is more intuitive, since our business is so small, it was too hard to justify paying for a monthly plan when we could create tables within our SharePoint Microsoft Excel.

Working with fields within airtable databases is really easy. It also manages the tables very well, in the same way they can be used from Microsoft Excel. That is, it serves to manage spreadsheets in general.

There are several limitations in relation to the way in which artartable segments the information and shows it to us, especially in the organization of lists. It does not have so many collaborative functions, so despite granting access to the tables to third parties, good group support is not maintained.

Airtable is a powerful tool that all businesses should consider using, if they haven't discovered it yet. It's so simple to use, fully customizable, and offers a huge range of options for storing, editing, and managing content. As a project manager, I need a way to maintain and update records on the fly on a daily basis. This software offers a sustainable option to do that as our company's needs and goals scale into the future.

Nothing, this software is truly amazing. The possibilities are limitless.

I love that it helps me to keep things organized and create a system and flow to manage my social media and blog posts. It is aesthetically pleasing and works like Microsoft Access and excel all put together.

It is a bit taxing to get setup unless you use a template. But once you get the hang of it it is great to use.

Airtable got a minimal cool UI but it might take time to understand everything, it allows you to manage data just like a database but in something like Microsoft Excel but it can handle more data and it has more functionality.

The mobile app is so poor and doesn't have such functionality compared to the desktop app, and when copying/pasting data from a Excel sheet to an Airtable sheet, it doesn't look identical and there might be some things incorrect.

It's a better alternative to Microsoft Excel for processing large amounts of data on many situations. The ease with which we can create relationship between tables is brilliant, and it really helps to identify patterns and to manage data properly.

The lack of a simples mechanism to link Bases, that is really the deal breaker the prevents me from using airtable for so much more. As you use airtable more and more, you end up reaching a point where you feel the need to link different bases, and there are several convoluted workarounds to achieve this, at least partially, but it really goes against the ease of use and customization of the solution you experience up to that limitation, and it becomes a deal breaker for many use cases.

Very easy to use Accessible anywhere as long as you have an internet Blocks/Apps are helpful Neat-looking app

Not all formulas from Microsoft Excel can be used here. A bit confusing at first but once you get a hang of it, it will be easier to use. Free account, not enough. Hope they can increase it.

I liked the fact that it's very close to an excel sheet but can perform multiple tasks like collaboration, sharing of tables via links and access the data using no-code ways. Also, the tables can be locked with passwords which is another benefit of it.

The user interface isn't the best as it's a web app and not an actual native application. Sometimes it becomes very hard to copy or move some data between cells.

Easy to use. Affordable. Sharable. Both online and app.

Does not have a drag and drop feature into different tabs. Does not have a mobile calendar view yet.