Apple's Numbers spreadsheet for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, is not as powerful as Microsoft Excel, but most users will be hard-pressed to find its limitations — and will immediately see
Apple's Numbers spreadsheet for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, is not as powerful as Microsoft Excel, but most users will be hard-pressed to find its limitations — and will immediately see how much easier Numbers is for practically every use.

Side-by-side comparison of Microsoft Excel and Apple Numbers, displaying spreadsheet interfaces with toolbar menus and a table titled 'Quarterly Breakdown' showing quarterly data.
Numbers and Excel are among the most power apps you can get — but you need to choose carefully

Numbers is a spreadsheet done in the typical Apple way of being powerful enough for the majority of users, but also hiding that power away. Sometimes it gets criticized for not having features that in fact it does, because Apple minimizes what controls it shows, until you need them.

This is a key part of why Numbers is more accessible and quicker to get used to than Excel. Plus it also has those Apple touches of not just accepting what spreadsheets used to be, and instead offering new ways of looking at what they can do.


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