Numbers is now part of Apple Creator Studio, an amazing collection of Apple’s most powerful creative apps designed to help you bring your ideas to life. The suite includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor and MainStage — plus premium content and intelligence features in Keynote, Pages, Numbers and Freeform, all in one simple plan. Creating, viewing and editing spreadsheets in Numbers, as well as collaborating in real time, does not require a subscription.
Create gorgeous spreadsheets with Numbers on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Get started with Apple-designed templates for everything from a home budget to an invoice. Add tables, charts, text and images anywhere on the flexible canvas. Animate your data with interactive charts, find patterns with pivot tables and use hundreds of powerful functions.
Get Started Quickly
• Work from iPhone, iPad and Mac, or even a PC with iCloud.com
• Select from a wide variety of Apple-designed templates
• Add from a library of shapes, tables and charts with predefined styles
• Import and edit Microsoft Excel and CSV files
Create Beautiful Spreadsheets
• Place tables, charts, text and images anywhere on the flexible canvas
• Create a form on iPhone or iPad to quickly enter data on the go
• Draw or write with Apple Pencil on iPad
Formulas for Everyone
• Choose from hundreds of powerful functions, including XLOOKUP and RegEx
• Search the integrated function browser for built-in help and sample formulas
• Easily add stock information to spreadsheets
• See results from a single formula across multiple cells using spilling arrays
Everything Adds Up Beautifully
• Use pivot tables and categories to see your data in a whole new way
• Quickly organise and summarise tables to gain new insights
• Insert gorgeous 2D and 3D charts, including bar, column, line, area, pie, doughnut and radar charts
• Animate data with interactive column, bar, scatter and bubble charts
• Easily filter through large tables for specific values, text or duplicate entries
• Change values in cells using sliders, steppers, tickboxes, pop-ups and star ratings
Share with Anyone
• Share your spreadsheet publicly or collaborate with specific people using iCloud or Box
• Make changes from any device and see a list of changes from others in real time
• Export your spreadsheet in CSV, TSV, PDF and Microsoft Excel format
Apple Intelligence
• Use Writing Tools to proofread, rewrite, summarise and compose text
• Create your own fun images with Image Playground based on a description
Some features of Apple Creator Studio require an Apple Intelligence–capable device. For full system requirements and usage limits for Apple Creator Studio intelligence features, see Apple Support article 125029.
If you’re not already familiar with Excel, invest time in learning Numbers instead.
Harritaylor
As a data scientist, I usually rely on tableau / R / python in order to get the results I need. Recently my MacBook was out of action and with a creeping deadline I needed to get some results done quickly. Thankfully it was pretty basic stuff, but doing it in excel for iPad turned out to DOOM-esque nightmare, with macros and unwanted functions coming out the walls, and weird esoteric quirks that have been embedded in the user base since the early 90s that are just accepted as being “the right way”. I am sure that excel is a fantastic application if you’re familiar with the desktop versions, but I have managed to avoid it altogether in my career so far. With only 8 hours left from my deadline, I thought I’d give the data another crack in numbers. What can I say, everything is laid out in such a sane way with the same functionality. It appears that the apple guys really do still care about intuitive app design! I managed to get up to grips and bash the data into shape in less than 1 hour (I’d been struggling with excel for 3 hours that morning). Whilst it may be true that in terms of raw speed excel is faster, I found that for my needs - a relative spreadsheet noob - I was able to get the results I wanted very quickly. TL,DR; if you already know excel, get excel. If you don’t - get Numbers instead and save yourself the headaches and steep learning curve.
Underdeveloped. Underperforming. Underpowered.
alexnhchong
Apple Numbers fails at tasks that any modern spreadsheet tool should handle effortlessly. The application lacks the ability to flatten a two-dimensional range, cannot dynamically reference multi-column data, and offers an incomplete function set that forces users into manual, repetitive, and error-prone work. Essential functions such as COLLECT and FLATTEN do not exist, and the limited array handling means that even straightforward operations require long, manually assembled ranges.Formulaic filtering of multi-column data is impossible without listing every range individually. Referencing large data structures remains clumsy and restrictive. Dynamic data spill into neighbouring cells is outright prohibited. Even simple tasks, such as generating a drop-down from another table, are impossible because Numbers does not support dynamic data validation. The result is a tool that obstructs automation instead of enabling it.On the Mac, common, universally expected keyboard shortcuts such as Cmd D and Cmd R for filling down or filling right are entirely absent. Even after manually mapping these shortcuts through System Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts, the functions refuse to trigger in Numbers, leaving users with no reliable or efficient way to perform basic autofill operations.Numbers may handle trivial budgets or single-table layouts, but any attempt to build structured worksheets exposes just how far behind it is. It performs like outdated software and lacks the core capabilities that users reasonably expect today.
Long-term us are worried by subscription
Geezering
I have been using Numbers in one way or another, since it came out. I’ve gone through the reboot from Eye work 09 and have used numbers with the mail merge app that used to be available by a third-party – a guy who used to work on productivity at Apple and moved on? I think he’s at Omni now. Numbers has always been a really useful tool and as I use a mixture of Max, iPhones and iPads the For Mentri has made it absolutely a no brainer for me. I work as a teacher and have to use spreadsheets for student tracking, assessments and so on. Using dictation and the For elementary and being able to input data from the Mac, iPhone and iPad has been really useful. Numbers has got better and better. I have used it with my own individual records, collaboration with colleagues and with Student groups. I have run assessments and assignments and units through this. And I’ve maintained years of tracking with it. The reboot back in the day where a lot of features were lost was worrying, but the new subscription model is much more so. I don’t want to use the final cut, logic or any of the other so-called pro apps and I’m not going to pay a load of money each month for those. To be honest, I don’t really use Pages or Keynote but I do use numbers. I will be willing to pay a much smaller monthly to keep numbers and get all of the features particularly as AI offer so many more opportunities. But really, I think Apple should be giving this away to encourage people to use their platforms. This is what made Apple a great computer company to work with: you brought into the whole experience and, Apple make piles of cash. They can afford to loss lead on a couple of items. In my opinion, numbers is one of those. I think this subscription will just hurt the uptake of what is a really useful program for lots of ordinary people. Definitely not the Apple way that I’ve come to know.
So much better than Excel
PhilCutting
I have to use Microsoft apps for my work but what users interprete as great power is simply great over-complication. For every task that needs multiple selections to accomplish in Excel. I can achieve the same thing in a couple of clicks in Numbers. It’s the same with Excel and PowerPoint. I write scripts, screenplays and reports; add charts and create diagrams, all with the free suite of Pages, Numbers and Keynote. It’s simple, elegant and very effective. When I’m done, I simply export to Word/Excel/PowerPoint and upload to SharePoint. My Pages/Numbers/Keynote documents are all saved on iCloud so I can access them and edit them on any of my Apple devices (or on any Windows device via the Browser version of the suite). So versatile, so elegant, so… FREE!!!
• This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes
Also Recently Added:
For Apple Creator Studio Subscribers:
• Make your work stand out with an exclusive new collection of professionally designed templates
• Explore high-quality photos, graphics and illustrations for your document in the all-new Content Hub
• Find inspiration faster with collections of new Apple-curated content in the Content Hub
• Create stunning images and graphics directly in your spreadsheet, apply quick edits or adjust the style using AI
• Increase the clarity and detail of existing images and graphics using Super Resolution
• Use Auto Crop to generate suggestions for how to frame your image
• Use Magic Fill to suggest data or generate formulas based on pattern recognition
• Collaborate on larger files shared via iCloud – now up to 4GB
Other New Features:
• Experience a new, more fluid way to work on your spreadsheets with Liquid Glass
• Access the full set of advanced options and controls straight from the new menu bar in iPadOS 26
• Add personality to your work with new editable shapes
Version 15.2
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