SimpleSpread
A fast, native spreadsheet for Mac and iPad.
SimpleSpread opens and saves Excel files, recalculates as you type, and starts in under a second. There’s no account and no subscription, and your files never leave your device.
Get it on the App Store Other ways to get it
One App Store purchase covers both Mac and iPad.
What it does
The spreadsheet features you actually use.
SimpleSpread covers the everyday work of a spreadsheet, and does it the way Excel and Google Sheets do, so there’s nothing new to learn.
Works with Excel files
Open and save .xlsx files from Excel, Numbers and Google Sheets. Charts, comments, conditional formatting and data validation in a file are kept when you save. If a file has something SimpleSpread can’t write back, it tells you before it saves.
157 functions
SUMIFS, XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH, TEXTJOIN, NETWORKDAYS, IRR and more, with the same results and rules as Google Sheets. Formulas recalculate as you type.
Charts
Column, bar, line, area, pie, doughnut and scatter charts. They redraw as your numbers change, and Excel opens them as if it had made them.
Pivot tables
Drag fields into rows, columns, values and filters, as in Excel. Group dates by month or quarter and show values as a percentage of the total. Layouts are checked cell by cell against real Excel.
Sort, filter and find
Sort by several columns, filter by value or by condition, freeze the header row, and find and jump to any cell. Undo works for everything, including deleted rows and sheets.
CSV done right
Imports work out the delimiter and the text encoding, keep leading zeros, and never run a formula hidden in the data. Exports open cleanly in Excel.
Speed
Small, and quick to open.
SimpleSpread is written in Swift from the ground up, with no web views and no third-party libraries. It opens big files in the background, so the window never freezes.
- A 20,000-row workbook with 80,000 formulas
- 1.4 s to open
- The same file in Numbers
- 5.4 s
- The size of the Mac app
- 8.6 MB
From launch until the sheet shows, median of five runs on an M4 Pro Mac with macOS 26.6. Numbers 14.1 opened the same .xlsx file.
On iPad
The same app, made for touch.
On iPad, SimpleSpread opens files from iCloud Drive, On My iPad and other places in the Files browser, and edits them where they are. It saves as you go.
Tap to select, double-tap to edit, drag the handles to grow a selection, and pinch to zoom. With a keyboard and trackpad it works just as it does on the Mac, menus and shortcuts included.
Privacy
Your spreadsheets stay yours.
SimpleSpread has no account, no analytics and no ads. The App Store version never connects to the internet. Your files are opened and saved on your device, or in the cloud storage you already use. Read the privacy policy.
Get SimpleSpread
Open source, and on the App Store.
SimpleSpread is open source under the MIT licence. The App Store version is the same app. Buying it is the easy way to get it on your Mac and iPad with updates handled for you, and it supports the work on it.
GitHub
A free download for the Mac (macOS 14 or later), which updates itself. The source code is there too.
Download for Mac