Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft Office Excel

Product categories

Back Office Business Tools CSV Editors Collaboration Excel Office & Productivity Office Suites Productivity Project Management Software Development Spreadsheets Task Management

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Microsoft Office Excel are LibreOffice, Apache OpenOffice, and Excel Formula Beautifier. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

LibreOffice Landing Page
1

LibreOffice

Free office suite, open source, and compatible with .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx files. Updated regularly – download for free. Originally based on OpenOffice.org.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Office Suites #Office & Productivity #Project Management 15 social mentions
Apache OpenOffice Landing Page
2

Apache OpenOffice

Apache OpenOffice is an open source, office document productivity suite.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Office Suites #Office & Productivity #Project Management 13 social mentions
Excel Formula Beautifier Landing Page
3

Excel Formula Beautifier

Beautifies Excel to JavaScript/JSON format.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Spreadsheets #Office Suites #Office & Productivity 7 social mentions
Excelize Landing Page
4

Excelize

Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel™ (XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM / XLTX) spreadsheets
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $5.0 / One-off
#Excel Tools #Spreadsheets #Golang IDE 1 social mentions
Hive Landing Page
5

Hive

Seamless project management and collaboration for your team.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- $12.0 / Monthly (Per user)
#Productivity #Project Management #Task Management 9 social mentions
Notion Landing Page
6

Notion

All-in-one workspace. One tool for your whole team. Write, plan, and get organized.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Productivity #Work Collaboration #Note Taking 438 social mentions
Guesstimate Landing Page
7

Guesstimate

A spreadsheet for things that aren’t certain.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Spreadsheets #Excel #Research Tools
Trello Landing Page
8

Trello

Infinitely flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Great mobile apps. It's free. Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details.
Pricing:
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $12.5 / Monthly (Per user - Business Class)
#Project Management #Task Management #Productivity 231 social mentions
CryptPad Landing Page
9

CryptPad

CryptPad is a collaborative office suite that is end-to-end encrypted and open-source.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- €5.0 / Monthly (Personal 5GB)
#Office Suites #Project Management #Office & Productivity 88 social mentions
Quadratic Landing Page
10

Quadratic

Infinite canvas spreadsheet for data science with Python, SQL, and formulas.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Business Tools #Back Office #Spreadsheets Online
NocoDB Landing Page
11

NocoDB

The Open Source Airtable alternative
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Productivity #Spreadsheets #Developer Tools 31 social mentions
Tad Landing Page
12

Tad

Create sleeve and cover art for your band in minutes
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Linux #CSV Editors #Spreadsheets