Online spreadsheet

An online spreadsheet is a spreadsheet document edited through a web-based application that allow multiple persons to edit and share it with the world. With the advent of web 2.0 technologies such as Ajax circa 2005, a new generation of online spreadsheets has emerged. Equipped with a rich Internet application user experience, the best web based online spreadsheets have many of the features seen in desktop spreadsheet applications. Some of them have strong multi-user collaboration features. Some of them offer real time updates from remote sources such as stock prices and currency exchange rates.

A list of online spreadsheets follows.

Free Software

• Simple Spreadsheet - Free and open source
• wikiCalc (now called SocialCalc) - Free, download application for online use
• Sheetster

Proprietary Software

• EditGrid - Free
• Expresso spreadsheet - Free, Workgroup, & Enterprise accounts
• Google Docs - Free
• Office Web Apps - Free
• Resolver One - Free Trial
• ThinkFree Calc - Free Trial
• ZCubes - Calci - Free
• Feyasoft - Free
• Zoho Office Suite - Free for personal use, business accounts are charged
• Smartsheet - Free trial

See also

• List of collaborative software
• Web based simulation

External links

• Web-based Spreadsheets Comparison Matrix on EditGrid (2006)
• 14 Online Spreadsheets on web
• Closing the gap between online and offline spreadsheets