Ask HN: Is anyone building an Excel alternative for Mac?

#1

Post by emre » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 3:04 PM UTC

It's 2020 and Excel is still sluggish on Mac.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone building an Excel alternative for Mac?

#2

Post by zeroprox » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 3:14 PM UTC

It already exists https://www.openoffice.org/ or https://www.google.com/sheets/about/

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone building an Excel alternative for Mac?

#3

Post by zeroprox » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 3:16 PM UTC

zeroprox wrote: post #2

It already exists https://www.openoffice.org/ or https://www.google.com/sheets/about/

This is the default on Ubuntu 20.04 https://www.libreoffice.org/ (works with mac as well)

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone building an Excel alternative for Mac?

#4

Post by jrjsmrtn » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 5:50 PM UTC

I'm not a heavy spreadsheet user and I tend to use cross-platform applications but, quite frankly, Numbers works pretty well.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone building an Excel alternative for Mac?

#5

Post by peapicker » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 6:46 PM UTC

I'm using Excel from Office 365, and I'm not seeing "sluggishness" on mac (on an ancient 2009 iMac, 10.13 High Sierra). Not sure what version you're using.