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Numbers is a spreadsheet application designed to help teams create tables, charts, bars, columns, diagrams, and illustrations to visualize data via web browsers or using devices including Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Managers can create an audio representation of data charts using VoiceOver in iOS.

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iPhone

Owner

Easy to navigate and preforms awesome for what I need it for. A nice look to showing my data.

Consultant/Coach

Very fast product- I would say for the most part it is easy to use- Stable product and options for exporting are  solid- I would call this a powerful program and being that it is free very affordable.

Programmer Analyst 3

The templates that have this app are great and help me to do some dynamic spreadsheets  I can share with my team in some meetings.

Manager

Wow what a great program, it is as powerful in the functions that Excel ha but it also looks great too.

Dispatch Associates 

My overall experience with this application is superb because I got lot of help from this application.

Associate Engineer 

It is great that the software is included with any Mac or Apple device. I like that it is useable across multiple devices And that spreadsheets can be shared with other users with the software.

Curriculum Writer

I love it because the spreadsheets I need to use don't require complex functions or formulas, so the simplicity of Numbers is perfect for my basic needs.

Director

Numbers is so easy to use, even if you haven't had any experience with these types of programs before. It is user friendly and has a beautiful interface.

Community Manager

Easy to use features, clean style, collaborative friendly (within the Apple users community), great at what the program is used for.

Composer

I love using Numbers on my iMac whenever I need to do anything with money, or anything that needs to be organized. It's great for any budget or invoice.

Personal Use

This isn't always a straight-forward process and often, there is some data loss or some cleaning up to do after the import.

Assistant to the Metropolitan

The best thing about Numbers is the best thing about most Apple products. It is a fully integrated Apple product with complete support across all Apple devices and Operating Systems.

Photographer

The only con I can think of is that if you are used to Microsoft, Numbers will be very confusing at first.

Founder

Apple Number's ended up a good choice for me as it broadly does fulfill most of my needs functionality-wise at no additional cost (since I already own Apple products including their cloud storage).

Web developer

Cell editing is snappy and intuitive, and I actually prefer just using the software. It is a massive help being able to edit documents on my phone and Macs, utilising the seamless cloud integration.

Social Media Manager

Numbers does not have too many editing options once you upload your document. It is a little weird to navigate the folders in the app too.

Publisher

I was annoyed when I wanted to copy a list into Numbers and it put everything in the same cell, when I wanted it to put every line in it's own cell.

Logistic coordinator 

Love the apple customer support and also apple trainings for this product. After years of using excel after starting my role within my company i made the company switch to excel since we all use macs.

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It is great,especially on Apple products where you can go from iPhone to laptop or Ipad easily while editing the same file. 

Numbers is close enough to Excel without the headache

Intuitive to use. Seamless integration with Apple operating systems.

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Easy to use and something I can easily incorporate for my business

Great for beginners

It does everything that it's supposed to and it's free so you don't need any other tool.

The best free app for your data

We started with a small team in the Apple ecosystem. Our processes were smooth. However, as soon as we welcomed more PC users and wanted to share more information with our clients and collaborators, it was a disaster.

Don't waste time, switch to competitors

Excellent for the cost and works better than Google Sheets and is cheaper than MS Excel and can open excel spreadsheets in numbers so I love it.

Use of Numbers vs Google sheets and MS Word

It is okay

Overall has been good for what I have used it for. I used it just like an excel spreadsheet with formulas in cells and as a chart and it worked as I needed to 

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Everyone Needs Numbers 

It has been amazing. Aside from the real time collaboration thing, is a trustworthy tool. Quite trustworthy. You're aware you won't find yourself with a damage document or something that is not working for any reason at all. This is why I use it to handle important AOS or Criminal cases. I know numbers will not let down and the sense of privacy that the Numbers creator provides is even better. Feels like a powerful and safe playground for important data.

Numbers for a non-mathematician in a Law Firm

My overall experience has been very good. I very much enjoy syncing with icloud so I can use my many devices.  At the beginning I had a few problems with sending numbers to my colleagues that use windows but I quickly got over this. The biggest benefit I found was that easy to understand and make my tables. 

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The (almost) perfect solution for spreadsheets

"Simple to use without the additional expense"

Great for business tracking

Goidnto use for day to day spreadsheets in the office especially with a MAC

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Excellent spreadsheet

Overall, this is nothing flashy, but very similar to Excel. The main difference is that it's best used for small data sets.

Great for Budgeting

Brilliant, easy to use and reliable

Great Excel alternative, especially for Apple/Mac users

i enjoyed using numbers and it made my job so much more easier

NUMBERS IS GREAT!

OVer all, it did the job for my personal level work but I always had to export in Excel and it wasn't the cleanest and easiest to work with that structure and versioning.

Simple and easy for personal use only

Good basic number/data processing software

Unsatisfactory, I prefer using the competitors to Numbers. 

Why use Numbers when you can use Excel

Good product 

Numbers is a winner for me

Marc S.:                                               My name is Marc, and I'm a business owner. I give Numbers a five out of five rating. For more videos just like this, click below.
                                                       Before Numbers, I was using Excel, and it just wasn't as productive as I'd like it to be. It didn't work really with other people who were using a similar software. Plus, I switched to Mac, and it's just not as conducive using it on a Mac as it is on other programs. So, it was a much better transition for me to move to Numbers.
                                                       I chose Numbers because it was so easy to integrate, not just with myself, but across all the computers and the team members that I use. It's super easy and flexible. And everything that I learned in a previous software I was able to use in this software, but with some greater things. Just easier, much more accessible, and very much more intuitive. And it really works, especially when I'm helping to work with some people who are younger and haven't yet transitioned and used some of those other software.
                                                       Getting started with Numbers is super simple. I was able to jump in and get to work right away. A lot of the basics are there. But it's super, super easy, and I love it because it's very intuitive, and the way it seems like it should work is exactly how it works.
                                                       If you work with any type of spreadsheet, if you're doing any type of number crunching or doing anything like that, I highly recommend Numbers. It is super intuitive, easy to use, and one of the best products that I've ever used. The formulas are great, all of the workings of it, phenomenal, so if you need anything with spreadsheets, you've got to get Numbers.

Youth Pastor

Numbers for Apple - Workable, but Inferior to Excel

Steve:                                                 I'm Steve, I'm a youth pastor at a church, and I would give Numbers a four out of five. As a youth pastor, I have a lot of responsibilities to care for high school students and junior high students, keep track of them and see how they're doing, connect with them with their contact information. And every year I use Numbers to create a new spreadsheet with all the contact info for all of our students. In addition to that, we also have events that we do including a major youth conference in which we use numbers to help record registrations and keep track of all of our guests who are visiting with us for our conference, and Numbers is a helpful tool for all of that.
                                                       What I appreciate about Numbers is the ease of use with which I can record data and information. It can help me with a simple functions like addition and figuring out who has contributed to what funds or scholarships for retreats, financial assistance for youth retreats, or when we're raising money for a missions trip, it helps keep track of all that data and information as well. It's nice and clean, a lot of options for formatting a spreadsheet that are appealing visually, that I can color code situations or individuals depending on who's in which category. So it's just helpful for me to think through problems and events logically, Numbers is helpful for that.
                                                       There's not much I dislike about Numbers. However, the one thing I would say when I compare it to Microsoft Excel, which is what I'm more familiar with, Numbers seems to have a few less features and was slightly, just slightly less user intuitive than Microsoft Excel was. But when I compare the two, while Numbers is a little less intuitive than Excel was, the difference is negligible. Numbers is almost as good as Excel.

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