Numbers vs Zoho Sheet

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

Zoho Sheet

• Individuals who want a spreadsheet at no cost on web, desktop and mobile
• Teams already using Zoho Workplace, WorkDrive or Zoho One
• Shared spreadsheets where some cells must stay locked

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.

Zoho Sheet

• There is no standalone paid Sheet plan; teams get it through a Zoho WorkDrive, Zoho Workplace or Zoho One subscription.
• The Windows and macOS desktop apps are labeled beta, and the Windows app does not sync offline edits automatically.
• Offline use is available on iPhone but not yet in the iPad app, which Zoho says is under development.
• Organizations without one of those subscriptions pay $10 per device for the Zoho Office desktop apps; the page does not show a billing period.

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.

Zoho Sheet

Real-time collaboration with cell locking

Collaborators edit and comment on a spreadsheet together. Cells can be locked for everyone or for specific people, earlier versions restored, and each change reviewed in the audit trail.

Zia AI assistant

Zia suggests charts and pivot tables for a data set and answers questions about the data in plain English. A ChatGPT-powered option generates sample data, formulas and VBA macro code.

Data cleaning

An automatic Data Cleaning tool finds duplicate entries, missing values and inconsistent data and suggests fixes that are applied with a click.

Charts, pivot tables and functions

More than 35 chart types, a pivot table builder and more than 350 built-in functions, plus custom functions for a team's own logic.

Excel files and VBA macros

Works with XLS, XLSX and XLSM files as well as CSV and TSV. Existing VBA code can be reused, and macros can be recorded or written from scratch.

Data connections

Data Connection pulls records from Zoho apps such as CRM, Books and Campaigns, and from CSV, RSS or HTML sources by URL, and refreshes them on a schedule.

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.

Zoho Sheet

• Free$0

  The version for individuals: spreadsheets on the web and in the mobile and desktop apps, with sharing and real-time collaboration.

• WorkDrive Starter$2.50

  per user / month, billed annually ($3 monthly); min. 3 users

  Zoho WorkDrive with the Zoho Office Suite, including Sheet, and 1 TB of team storage for 3 to 10 users.

• Workplace Standard$3

  per user / month, billed annually ($4 billed monthly)

  Zoho Workplace: Sheet, Writer and Show alongside Mail with 30 GB per user, WorkDrive, Cliq and Meeting.

• WorkDrive Team$4.50

  per user / month, billed annually ($6 monthly); min. 3 users

  3 TB of team storage for 3 to 10 users, a 50 GB upload limit per file and data recovery for up to 120 days.

• Workplace Professional$6

  per user / month, billed annually ($7 billed monthly)

  100 GB of mail storage per user, 1 TB of team file storage, email retention and eDiscovery, and the Connect intranet.

• WorkDrive Business$9

  per user / month, billed annually ($11 monthly); min. 3 users

  5 TB of team storage for 3 to 10 users, custom workflows, data loss prevention policies and an admin audit trail.

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.

Zoho Sheet

• Annual discount

  Lower WorkDrive rates with annual billing

  WorkDrive Starter is $2.50 per user a month billed annually against $3 billed monthly. Team is $4.50 against $6 and Business $9 against $11.

• Annual discount

  Lower Workplace rates with annual billing

  Workplace Standard is $3 per user a month billed annually against $4 billed monthly, and Workplace Professional is $6 against $7.

• By country

  Lower price shown to buyers in India

  On October 9, 2026 the price list behind the WorkDrive pricing page gave Starter as ₹140 per user a month billed annually for India, against $2.50 in US dollars. Workplace Standard was ₹99 against $3.