Numbers 4+
Create impressive spreadsheets
Apple
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- Free
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Description
Create gorgeous spreadsheets with Numbers for Mac. Get started with one of over 30 Apple-designed templates for your home budget, checklist, invoice, mortgage calculator and more. Add tables, charts, text and images anywhere on the flexible canvas. Get instant suggestions and built-in help for the hundreds of powerful functions. Animate your data with interactive column, bar, scatter and bubble charts. Easily filter through large tables. Find patterns and trends using pivot tables.
Collaborate with others at the same time
• With real-time collaboration, your whole team can work together on a spreadsheet at the same time on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and even on a PC
• Share your spreadsheet publicly or with specific people, see who’s currently in the document with you, and view other people’s cursors to follow their edits
• See a list of recent changes in collaborative spreadsheets, including when people join, comment and make edits
• Available for spreadsheets stored in iCloud or in Box
Beautiful spreadsheets
• Over 30 Apple-designed templates give your spreadsheets a beautiful start
• Place tables, charts, text and images anywhere on the flexible canvas
• Add and resize multiple tables on a single sheet
• Insert photos, music and video with the Media Browser
• Enhance your spreadsheets with a library of over 700 editable shapes
• Import and edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Comma Separated Values (CSV) and tab-delimited text
Formulas for everyone
• Choose from hundreds of powerful functions, including XLOOKUP and RegEx
• Get function suggestions as soon as you start typing a formula
• Search the integrated function browser for built-in help and sample formulas
• Get live formula results, error checking, exact value and cell format with the new smart cell view
• Easily add stock information to spreadsheets
• Add your favourite functions to Quick Calculations for instant results
Everything adds up beautifully
• Use Pivot Tables and Smart 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
• Automatically highlight cells based on rules for numbers, text, dates and durations
• 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
iCloud
• Turn on iCloud so you can access and edit your spreadsheets from your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and from a Mac or PC browser at iCloud.com
• Numbers automatically saves your spreadsheet as you make changes
Share a copy of your work
• Export your spreadsheet to CSV, TSV, PDF and Microsoft Excel
• Use AirDrop to send your spreadsheet to anyone nearby
• Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail or Messages
Some features may require internet access; additional fees and terms may apply.
What’s New
Version 14.0
• Streamlined in-app notifications inform you when a person joins a collaborative spreadsheet for the first time
• Preserve file format and full quality when adding HEIC photos taken on iPhone or iPad
• Press and hold the Command key to select non-contiguous words, sentences or paragraphs
• Additional stability and performance improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Numbers is a total solution to my spreadsheeting
I switched to using NUMBERS, PAGES and KEYNOTE from the 'obvious competition' and found them not only more intuitive and easier to use but they actually speeded up my productivity. The export function works perfectly for creating files in different formats. Absolutely brilliant, can't fault these apps at all. Being free apps the question is asked why would Mac users even consider using a paid-for alternative when these are head and shoulders above the rest. All that's required now is a Mac Database software like the one that came with AppleWorks in the old days (and became Claris).
Good Enough
Numbers is good. It's a native Mac App and is nicely designed. When you're stuck it's usually easy enough to find solutions online. It's not without foibles and oddnesses, but there's nothing in it I can't live with.
As a software engineer with an interest in end user programming I find Numbers a conservative addition to the market of spreadsheet software. To me this seems perhaps a missed opportunity for some radical departures and improvements from established approaches. However, it is also understandable Apple would stick to known approaches and use functions, types and UI that users have already accepted.
If you are highly fluent in Excel (I'm not), you will probably spend a while getting used to what is different. I don't think you'll find anything substantial you just can't do, but you might find your reflexes will need to retrain a little. However, I believe the available functions are very close to those of Excel.
Numbers Review
If I were being charitable I would have given 4 to 4.5 stars to Numbers 13.0
It has some great features, which once you get your head around that it is not an excel clone, are great. However, the downgrade is due to the fact that it has not really advanced since its original release years and years ago. I wont focus on the positives but some of my bugbears are:
1. The level of formulas is poor at this stage in its life - for example there are no matrix type functions which have been present in excel for a long time.
2. The formula bar with its large brackets are in a very light coloured grey and it can be very difficult to see in a lot of light conditions - what's wrong with plain black?The formulas can also get easily corrupted when inserting formulas within formulas.
3. Importing from CSV / TSV files - there is no way to set a default preference so every time you will get a space separated import instead of defaulting to say tab and you have to manually adjust.
4. The level of charts on offer is also very limited for this day and age - maybe it was ok 15 years ago but nothing has changed.
There are plenty of positives and on a good day this review would be a 4-4.5 but in the cold light of day, enhancements since its original release have been very few and very far between.
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Information
- Provider
- Apple Distribution International
- Size
- 256.8 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2008-2024 Apple Inc.
- Price
- Free