Numbers vs WPS Spreadsheet

Numbers

• Mac, iPad and iPhone owners who want a spreadsheet at no cost
• Home budgets, invoices and checklists started from a template
• Laying out several tables and charts on one sheet

WPS Spreadsheet

• People who want a free spreadsheet app that opens and saves Excel files
• Families or small groups splitting a paid plan through the Sharing Plan
• Writing formulas and analyzing data with an AI assistant

Numbers

• There are no Windows or Android apps; on a PC, Numbers is available only in a browser through iCloud.com.
• Magic Fill, premium templates and the Content Hub need an Apple Creator Studio subscription at $12.99 per month or $129 per year.
• Apple's compatibility list marks Excel macros, data validation, external data and slicers as not supported when a workbook is imported.

WPS Spreadsheet

• WPS Spreadsheet is not sold on its own: it comes with the WPS Office suite, and every plan covers the whole suite.
• The free plan is limited to 1 GB of cloud space and restricted template downloads, and no advertising is listed as a Pro+ benefit.
• AI tools on Pro+ have a daily usage limit; once it is reached they pause until the next day.
• Some advanced spreadsheet AI features arrive on Windows first and may differ on Mac, and the listed prices apply to PC and Android.

Numbers

Flexible canvas

Tables, charts, text and images can be placed anywhere on a sheet, so one page can hold several separate tables alongside the charts that draw on them.

Functions, pivot tables and categories

Hundreds of functions, including XLOOKUP and RegEx, with a built-in function browser. Pivot tables and categories group and summarize a table's data.

Charts

2D and 3D charts including bar, column, line, area, pie, donut and radar, plus interactive column, bar, scatter and bubble charts that animate data.

Real-time collaboration

Share a spreadsheet publicly or with specific people through iCloud or Box and see their changes as they happen. Collaborators can join from a Mac, iPad, iPhone or a PC browser.

Excel and CSV files

Imports and edits Microsoft Excel and CSV files and exports to Excel, CSV, TSV and PDF. Apple publishes a feature-by-feature list of what carries over from Excel.

Magic Fill and premium content

For Apple Creator Studio subscribers, Magic Fill suggests contents or formulas for empty cells from patterns in nearby data. Subscribers also get premium templates and the Content Hub's photos and graphics.

WPS Spreadsheet

Excel-compatible spreadsheets

Opens and saves .xlsx, .xls and .csv files, and the vendor lists more than 500 functions, including XLOOKUP, LAMBDA and dynamic arrays.

AI formula writer

Describe a calculation in plain language and WPS AI generates a formula for the selected cell. It can also explain what a formula does before it is used.

AI data analysis

Questions about the data in a sheet return checks, patterns and trends, along with charts and written conclusions.

AI functions for batch work

AI-powered spreadsheet functions generate or classify content inside cells and can be applied to hundreds of rows at once, for example to tag feedback or write descriptions.

Real-time co-editing

Spreadsheets can be shared with view, comment or edit permissions and edited together across desktop and web, with comments, mentions and version history.

PDF to Excel conversion

Tables are extracted from PDFs into editable spreadsheets with rows and columns kept in order. Online tools also cover Excel to PDF and image to Excel.

Numbers

• Numbers$0

  Create, view and edit spreadsheets on Mac, iPad, iPhone and iCloud.com, with real-time collaboration, pivot tables, charts and Excel import and export.

• Apple Creator Studio$12.99

  per month, or $129 per year

  Adds premium templates, the Content Hub media library, Magic Fill and image generation in Numbers, plus Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro and Pixelmator Pro.

WPS Spreadsheet

• WPS Standard$0

  The free WPS Office suite, including Spreadsheet, with basic PDF features, limited template downloads and 1 GB of cloud space.

• WPS Pro+$69.99

  per year ($5.83 / month); or $20.99 per 3 months

  Suite-wide plan for one user: full PDF editing and conversion, unlimited template downloads, 20 GB of cloud storage, no advertising and AI tools with daily limits.

• WPS Pro+ Sharing Plan$41.99

  per user / year, 2 users minimum; or $4.99 per user / month

  Suite-wide Pro+ benefits for each member of a family or small group, with a private 20 GB of cloud storage per member. Members can be added or removed.

Numbers

• Annual discount

  About 17% less on the yearly plan

  Apple Creator Studio is $129 per year or $12.99 per month. Twelve monthly payments come to $155.88, so the yearly plan costs about 17% less.

• Education

  Students and educators: $2.99 a month

  Verified college students and educators pay $2.99 per month or $29.99 per year for Apple Creator Studio. Apple calls it a limited-time offer, and it cannot be shared through Family Sharing.

• Other savings

  3 months free with a new Mac or iPad

  Buyers of an eligible new Mac or iPad can try Apple Creator Studio free for 3 months, claimed within 3 months of activating the device.

WPS Spreadsheet

• Other savings

  Sharing Plan cuts the per-user price by 40%

  With at least 2 users, the WPS Pro+ Sharing Plan costs $41.99 per user a year against $69.99 for a single Pro+ subscription. The pricing page labels this as saving 40%.

• Annual discount

  Lower monthly cost on the 1-year plan

  WPS Pro+ for a year is $69.99, which the page shows as $5.83 a month, against $20.99 for the 3-month plan, shown as $6.99 a month.