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This is my “go to” appI love this app! My primary uses are for a monthly budget and a daily complex TV schedule (2 households, multiple recordings, 4 DVRs+). I would love to see the following three features added: (1) the ability to click/tap on an image (or just several merged cells containing text) and pop-up a larger version of the image/merged cells**. (2) the ability to use multiple merged cells to hand write notes using the Apple Pencil (varying nib sizes, move the merged notes around and/or cut/delete like any other cell or merged cells). (3) the ability to insert a moveable and removable window (either set or expandable size, like 4 cells wide and high to 6 cells, or more, wide and high) that would accept animated GIFs and/or video clips. Features 1 and 2 are features I could use immediately. UPDATE: Feature request 3 was added in the latest update. I have a new feature request... the ability to see the history of shared access, like number of visits and date of at least the most-recent visit. **This would really help my friend (with poor near-vision) read the individual blocks of information on the TV schedule..RSL08Version: 10.1

Minimal Learning Curve!Apple really did a fantastic job on creating an App that has minimal learning curve, visually appealing, smooth running, with plenty of explanations tucked neatly in the little “I’ icons with the blue circle around them. It’s very drag and drop, zoomable, adjustable, easy to navigate and frankly, even fun to play around with. The formulas often seen in spreadsheet related software such as Excel even has its own reference menu. Absolutely love that you can also share with another user and they can even make changes to the file and it all syncs automatically across all connected devices. You can even add a password to your files too. The ONLY thing keeping this App from achieving 5 STARS from me is it is missing the ability to like link to your banking stuff(although I could understand the level of security involved) and there doesn’t seem to be any indictator anywhere that your saves are syncing (like the little cloud icon with green check mark in Light Room Cloud) - that little extra peace of mind goes a long ways with an app that has no save button yet auto saves any changes. Copies are tedious after a bit, you know. That and truthfully, while their instructions for the formulas were present, very visible, there were a few parts that were a tad bit difficult to “decipher” into plain language lol, like it lacked a little more in depth content, especially for more elaborate formula strings. They should come out with like an advanced user tutorial and add more formulas and features - this app is going to go very very far. Especially with its ability to be so much more than a spreadsheet with all of its super cool “live art”. 😀.PawesomeLilAussiesVersion: 14.4

Love.. but wish for a few things:I love working with Numbers.. however, there are a few features I really wish it would do. For instance, I wish that it would allow me to pick non-consecutive lines to highlight in order to apply an edit to it.. whether that edit is formatting, a rule, or a function… I would love the control that highlighting individual, non-consecutive lines to mass edit at once would make my life far easier. I have more than a few times considered buying Excel in order to have this feature for the time it would save me. I do love that I can make outline formatting inside of a cell. This has been vital for more than a few projects. Thank you for this amazing feature. My final complaint would be that the iPad app version will not allow me to adjust margins for printing.. and it would save me much time to adjust margins and or print lines for quick project prints…. But I am fully using Numbers 100% of the time and loving it but for these frustrations..BumpitybumpVersion: 14.2

Numbers Program is the BestI have used this Numbers Program for free for almost 5 yrs.! It’s the best and easiest business and personal act program fir making lists or spreadsheets. I can hold and duplicate my lists then change the name and date. Items are so easy to put in folders for each of my tax years. I run our Ranch/Cattle as well as my sons mowing business and our personal checking act payees or categories. Thank you for offering it for free when I downloaded it. I’d be so lost without this Numbers program. I have a folder I keep an invoice in that I duplicate each time he mows a Cemetery or lawn. It helps me keep everything in order at which at the end of the yr, I make a new totals sheet and copy and paste the dates and check no’s. And amts paid. Then pulling down and hitting the sum tab this program will give me a final total on his yearly tax income. This is so easy to man over around! Just be sure to delete any open files you don’t use. Also, I can look at our Insurance use and download to Numbers where I name and adjust columns I want and delete columns I don’t. Hold and scroll down & sum. Then I can reach up and hit the paint brush scroll down the lust and add colors to itemize categories. Makes for a sharp spreed sheet. My CPA lady has been very impressed at my last few tax lists making her job so much easier!!! I go down the tax printout and do my ranch spreadsheet or single category lists with a number or title name which I file in my tax notebook!!! Awesome!!!!.RobbielcwVersion: 10.2

It’s Excel with Apple’s Easy to Use flair!For most excel users it’s both familiar but also takes a bit to get used to. So far everything I could do in excel I can do in numbers. For the new users with little to basic excel knowledge, it’s a bit more user friendly. I’ve only just now opened numbers for the first time because I saw that the “premium” version is included with my Creator package (or whatever it’s called) so I don’t know whether my experience is only because I have premium or not. If you can get the student price, the creator package is well worth it. Whether or not you need Numbers premium, that I don’t know. I can say that the premium templates appear, to me at least, more confusing than helpful. But if the “green” button that says “cell” and has a lightning bolt on it, is not available in the standard version, then premium is necessary to make this app usable. It’s an awesome button for quick actions..TrackracersiVersion: 15.1

My business companionI have been an excel power user in the past . When I was introduced to number, this has been my go to app. I create some amazing reports with custom dashboards. I can customize as much as I want and share my reports as a PDF. I share my reports as is to my iOS and Mac users . I have created awesome inbound stat reports , recreated ‘Bill of ladings”, invoices, cost analysis reports, shipping packing slips , and many other reports with custom dashboards. I have incorporated the Apple Pencil and signed a lot of my sheets . If a sheet is really needed in excel, I port it over. A simple spreadsheet gets ported with no problem. Complex sheets from numbers with dashboards get ported to excel require a lot of work however. The only thing I would like to see from number is the ability to hide sheets . Overall, solid business companion and my go to spreadsheet . Still my go to . Awesome work Apple !.DeebrownmanVersion: 13.0

Wait…! There’s a user guide???Numbers won’t even let me change the name of a spreadsheet anymore. The “operation is not supported.” It is good to have a spreadsheet available. If you go to the App Store and scroll down you can select developers website. Select “Go to support.” You’ll find the link under “resources” and “learn how to use numbers.” Scroll down again to “resources” and “user guides.” Select your platform and a lot of guidance can be found on how to utilize and get the most out of Numbers. Apple needs to add a quick link that you can select in the app instead of going thru all the above. I gave this 3 stars because 1) it’s available and free; 2)I just found the user guide, after I go thru it maybe I’ll give it more. For now I can only do relatively basic stuff. Whereas, I rock Excel 3) there is no easy way to get to the user guide and 4) what’s up with restricting renaming spreadsheets? I wish you could rename them in the initial list view instead of from within the document..Becket9Version: 14.3

Creating or moving groups a problemI used a black blank template. An Apple tech support creative adviser confirms the app does not allow me to create a group (insert) between created groups. The tech also confirms that my iPad has the latest updates and the Numbers app I used is the most updated version. What actually happens, is the app seems to randomly choose the location of the newly created group (either below the last group or somewhere in between groups not chosen by me. The tech agreed that the app shouldn’t do that but would not confirm if that is “normal” for this app. The tech could not resolve this issue. I welcome any instructions on how to do this task for I’ve yet to learn how to do create an “inserted group” at a desired location. The best I can do is drag that group and move it to my desired location. I will change rating of this app as I learn its limits..Adamu1248Version: 11.1

Do you write down the list in the notebook or the calendar with all the information you have To haveI’m speaking personally the thing is you don’t want to carry with all of that information around in a notebook in your Job, now we can’t remember daily to keep track of the list with the information to know just how much you spend being middle class before inflación. Most of us have to start young in debt just to get by, but to open the Numbers App (you had all this time) but now with all as fast as you can if you forget that financial litteracy and restraining yourself because for a fact that the car is in need of the seasonal maintaince investment that happens after you drove fast in a rainy day and felt that you were skating in the water and thank God you did not hurt anyone or died in the process afraid To use that Credit Card. Yes.Ámbar JaniceVersion: 14.4

The best spreadsheet ever by design!I’ve been using spreadsheets since they were first invented, going back to Multiplan and Visicalc (on Commodore and early Apple computers). The object-oriented design of Numbers far surpasses the traditional full-screen grid spreadsheet programs. Numbers presents users with a blank paste-up board. You, the user, choose what you want to work with: grids, charts, drawings, almost any object will be accommodated. While I haven’t had the need to try or do this myself, I believe you could even put audio or video files on a Numbers worksheet. In the past, Numbers was lacking some of Excel’s more advanced features, but Apple’s been making great changes to Numbers in leaps and bounds. Pivot tables being one of the latest more advanced features they’ve added, for those who need and use them, which isn’t most people. I’ve used and taught just about every spreadsheet ever programmed: Multiplan, VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, Jazz for Mac, Ashton-Tate Framework II, SuperCalc, and those are just the ones I can remember over the past 45 years. Apple Numbers is the most modern spreadsheet I’ve seen and used. I use Numbers everyday to track everything from finances to medical records. This should be the future design of productivity apps. Apple has given us a great new standard. It’s such a great design that Apple is able to use the exact same format for their other productivity apps: Pages (word processing) and Keynotes (slides & presentations). If you learn any one of these apps (Numbers, Pages, Keynotes), you’ll find the others very familiar and should take to them quickly, only needing to learn the specifics of their intended purpose. I give Apple very high praise for the excellent design of these apps!!!.Johne154Version: 13.1

Keep it on my phone!!I love it for keeping track of characters on a spreadsheet, and it’s nice that it syncs it to the cloud, but it CONSTANTLY removes it from my phone (which I don’t take all the memory on so it’s not like it needs to constantly remove it from my phone!) And I have to constantly redownload my list! If it was like, once a month or once every other month, when I haven’t used the list in a while, maybe I could understand, but it’s nearly every other week, with a half empty phone and an often opened document, and it won’t give me an option to make it available offline permanently! This is literally my only complaint but it gets really annoying when I have to wait for it to download the file I had opened two days ago, onto a phone that hasn’t been close to maxed out storage wise for the fourth time this month. Just let me keep the file on my phone..WhiteKatsuVersion: 13.0

It is okayThere are some tasks that I do daily using Numbers but I find that overall Numbers does not have the power of some other spreadsheets. If your spreadsheet needs are fairly straightforward, then Numbers is sufficient to do so. Formatting is an area I find to be both straightforward and limited. Basic formatting can be accomplished using the toolbar on the right when selected. Once you are in the tool bar, I find this basic formatting is intuitive. However, after using other spreadsheets, I realize that Numbers does not have all the formatting abilities of other programs. I am reminded of decades ago of Apple Works, which the time was comparable to Microsoft Works. At that time, Microsoft offered Works and Excel. Microsoft Works was simpler to use and had the most used features included. For those with advanced processing needs, had to pay extra for Excel. Numbers is still comparable. Of course both programs have evolved over these decades with additional functionality. Keep in mind that there are other spreadsheet apps besides Numbers and Excel, some of which compare closer to Numbers while others are comparable in features and power to Excel. I fully realize that decades ago iOS didn’t exist, but by my experiences, what I have written applies to both the iOS version and the desktop version. As I mentioned in the beginning, I do use Numbers on a daily basis as I do find it useful to have two different spreadsheets installed. One benefit I see is keeping certain uses separated. For some users, Numbers fits their needs very well. There is one aspect of Numbers that it great - it is included at no extra cost with iOS and macOS..Bjs307Version: 14.4

Very GoodI have used this app for years with my job as a baseball scout. I have designed 10 different templates for my needs and they have all been so easy to put together. With the updates sometimes it takes me a minute to think along with the app designers to be able to execute what I need, but every time it works out well. The updates, over the years, have been helpful. Really appreciate being able to use the apple pencil. Good luck! To the designers of this app, I do have some constructive requests for the next time you guys are looking to tweak this. It would be helpful, if it is possible, to be able to automatically save the apple pencil work instead of having to touch the screen elsewhere to get rid of the adjustment boxes everywhere. Thanks..BUddyro 4454Version: 5.0

Almost TOO GoodHave you ever had experiences with an app that made you think that it has too many features, options, or complex instructions for your iPhone to process it without having a tutorial or a personal trainer right next to you to guide you through everything; even though that would take even longer than it’s worthwhile? Well if not then I recommend this app as the makers promise it’s the most advance spreadsheet app available for iOS and by “advance” they mean complicated and oftentimes nonsensical to the point that you’re ready to throw your phone across the room whenever you make a mistake that essentially undoes everything that you just spent hours creating. Seriously tho, it does have an undo option to rectify such problems but seriously too many features for me to keep up with all the upgrades they seem to be doing all the time! Otherwise it does have the functionality that it describes, as well as encompassing top-of-the-line technology that’s almost too good for your brain to use it to its full capacity. I’m giving it four stars because I’ve had it for a while now and despite having mastered all other Pages apps, I just can’t seem to get this one down to the kind of precision that’s needed to create shared or editable spreadsheets and since that’s sort of its entire purpose, I see it as being rather redundant in that I’m still using Microsoft for shared or editing documents and I save this one for personal use documents only. The cell formulas that are included with the app aren’t self explanatory, nor can I find any tutorials to walk me through them all so I spend a lot of time searching for the right formulas out of many different templates and then I have to write it down for future reference and then of course I seemingly always use different combinations rendering the copy and paste fallback utterly useless imo. But yeah they do have great templates; almost overwhelming so.... if you’re just looking for a simplistic design. But they also have many different options and categories that you can choose from-some that you’d probably never even think of if it wasn’t included with the app. Thus, exactly what I mean by “almost TOO good”!.UneeklibeautifulVersion: 10.3.5

It is OK but far from ideal on iPhoneUsing Numbers on a desktop device, whether through the native Numbers application or by way of the iCloud implementation is fine. It works reasonably well for what it is. However, on the iPhone, using the native Numbers app, it quickly turns into a frustrating experience; particularly for those being “well seasoned” in age with regards to eyesight and finger dexterity challenges. 😏 All of the features appear to be there, at least with the limited time I can tolerate using the app for last minute editing. The challenge is really trying to manipulate editing cells by zooming in far enough to accurately edit without losing so much of the surrounding data to keep the context in mind. As a quick way to view Numbers files on the go, with maybe some light editing, the Numbers iOS app is OK. It gets the job done..Old-Timer //c’erVersion: 13.1

My favorite spread sheetHowever, it would be nice if you added a copy command to the bar so I don’t have to sit here for five minutes tapping the cell that has a formula in it until a box finally pops up with the copy command in it. I assume if I was using a keyboard with a track pad this wouldn’t be a problem. You could add it to your little paint brush icon. I have tried to search and find another way but the results always say just click the cell and select copy… except the only way is to sit here and tap the cell over and over again and hope that when it finally does pop up my reaction time is good enough that I don’t tap the cell again making the box disappear. 😊 Thank you..GoraknewVersion: 14.1

Autocomplete feature takes away tab key to advanceI’ve been using Numbers for several years to manage my business pipeline and it has been just fine. The new autocomplete feature has me pulling what little hair I have left. The problem is not the feature itself, but that now when I press the tab bar it advances down the autocomplete list instead of advancing to the cell to the right. There is no way to turn this off. For as long as I’ve been using spreadsheets the tab bar has always advanced to the cell to the right. Now apparently there is no way to advance to the cell to the right except to touch the screen or use the right arrow key, both of which are very inconvenient when typing! And there seems to be no way to turn off autocomplete on the iOS app! This is absolutely driving me nuts!!!.BpharryVersion: 12.2.1

Solid feature set, responsive developersI’m happy to update, and say that the Apple Pencil works again as a fine selection tool, the “mouse” of the iPad, with just a flip of a switch in the Settings app. Thank you to the development team for listening and adapting! If you’re looking for an office suite that meets the majority of content creation needs, and aren’t locked into MS Office for one reason or another, then you can’t do better than the free, Apple iWork suite. It does what it is designed to do, and does it well. While MS Office is utilitarian at its core, iWork’s design embraces creativity and presentation at every level. It is much easier to create something that looks good in iWork than it is in Office. I’ve created simple advertisements in Pages on my iPad Pro, and sent them straight to the printer. On the flip side, some feature omissions limit iWork from being a five-star product. Most, you’ll likely never run into, as they’re useful to a small group of users. Others, though, like Numbers not having a hide/unhide key command, just don’t make sense. Ultimately, I recommend you give iWork a try, if you haven’t already. It’s free, so there’s nothing to lose, and you may well find you like it better for your uses than some of the paid alternatives..SelviusVersion: 4.0.1

Great Spreadsheet for iPad UseThis Spreadsheet in iPad format is very easy to use for simple spreadsheets... interactive format is simple, easy to use, without the intense formula & formatting issues of the more high Power Spreadsheet of the Mac. I like it better than the Mac Format for my “Household & Recreational” Spreadsheets. Only negative that is a bit frustrating is the “editing” within a cell functionality ... it is a bit erratic when selecting text or insertion points within a cell. Sometimes requires selecting the Keyboard icon @ the lower right on the screen, other times insertion point directly “clicks in” where positioned similar to the way it works on the Mac & in the Pages App. When working with the Spreadsheet, I have not found a reason for this “2 options” issue for cell editing. Rating loses one Star for this issue..StarLakeGolferVersion: 5.0

BudgetingI used this app as a budgeting tool and until the last update, it worked. The most recent update to this app has made it almost entirely unusable. I have to spend 10 minutes trying to figure out how to enter a date (used to be a tab to do that with a button for today's date), there is no conditional formatting, entering text is a hassle because there is now a "function" to do that instead of the tab that there used to be, entering numbers doesn't overwrite the numbers that were there before time in my experience. This app used to be a gem for budgeting, but you have over complicated it for the sake of trying to add functionality. You really messed this app up..Proud_conservativeVersion: 3.2

For the love of Jobs, fix the scroll handlesThis is a pretty good substitute for Excel or Neo office. But the ultra thin scroll handles at the bottom and side for moving the spreadsheet around are infuriating and un-useable. I have some pretty large spreadsheets and whenever I re-open them after editing them over the cloud, they always start at the upper left corner. So I have to try and scroll though 200+ columns as fast as possible to make-up the time wasted trying to use the little scroll handles that appear when I move the sheet around. Tyrannosauruses are pointing at them with there tiny, useless arms and laughing. For once, there is something even more tiny and useless..Monday1313Version: 10.1

Latest update-problemsI have been using Numbers for iPad since it first appeared. Generally speaking, it works fine. The desktop version is much more complete, but for quick entries, the iPad version works. However, this latest update has several problems. I’ve noticed several times that if you choose Numbers outright, sometimes it doesn’t bring up the recent files as it should. You need to go to the Apple Files Application to get to them. In addition, several times, now, once I do get a file open, strange things happen to cells. They get locked and you cannot get past that. The choice to edit is also missing. These issues were never present prior to the latest update..Nick-ggpVersion: 14.4

Useful, not idealAs a long time spreadsheet user, I am happy to have an implementation of this class software included iOS. However, I do find Numbers to be somewhat awkward and confusing at times. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that I am more accustomed to PC/MAC implementations and have high expectations as a result. I use this software to maintain a number of lists that I depend on to bring a little more order into my life and I am satisfied with the results well enough that I do not feel compelled to find a better alternative. I use the iPad version to maintain the lists and share them with the iPhone version, so I can consult the lists when I am out and about. Having a Bluetooth keyboard on the iPad greatly enhances the usability of the software..MrGofNpVersion: 13.0

Very workable spreadsheetI used VisiCalc on an Apple ][ and most spreadsheets since then, but I’m a newcomer to the Apple Numbers application. While this particular spreadsheet is very simple, my first impression with Numbers was really good especially because it is included on my phone and the iCloud spreadsheets automagically synchronize between MacBooks, iPads, and iPhones! My first experience converting a personal spreadsheet that I use weekly to the Numbers application from Excel was clunky because very little functionality was where I expected to find it. Lumo (an LLM) was really helpful. The documentation for Numbers was pretty good, but when nothing was where I looked for it a LLM was a huge help..YetAnotherSQLVersion: 14.4

I’d kill for MINIFS and formulas in CFIt’s amazing how robust this app is, given that it works on a phone. The recent updates are nice; the text options are pretty, and I appreciate how a couple of months ago Apple fixed a glitch I was experiencing where the contents of my pop up menus would get deleted any time I edited them. There are two functions I very regularly miss in Numbers compared to options I get with Excel: a function like MINIF or MINIFS, and the ability to make conditional formatting work based on a formula rather than just Apple’s predetermined options. The lack of a formula option also prevents the ability to format a cell based on the contents of another cell. Bonus points if there could be an option that let me hide non-editable fields in a form..JetetaquineVersion: 5.1

I can give a good rating once moreAs the huge glitch that had greyed out my work and made lots of work lost, the latest ios update corrected it. I will overlook that I had to catch up with 40 checkbook entries but glad it wasn’t more than that. Pages and numbers were effected by whatever had caused it. Fixing the issue of the ipad rebooting and as well semi-waking up with no help, that ios update fixed what went wrong with these issues. I was so hoping it would be fixed and had it not with an update of numbers I was going to delete numbers and never use again. But the ios update did work. The news said to not allow any notifications to be on before doing the update. And I did do that. Thanks for fixing the issue..PennybinkVersion: 3.3.1

Better than Excel/SheetsFor most every day tasks, I find Numbers far superior and more enjoyable to work with vs. Excel or Google Sheets… for one simple reason: The core of how Numbers works allows multiple independent tables to be on each sheet. This allows other objects (shapes, text, etc. to be on the page simultaneously, like a page layout program). But the true power shines from simply having independent tables that can be side-by-side referencing each other. In many ways, it can serve as a complement to Google Sheets and Excel because most formulas work cross-platform, so you can copy and paste tables between the different applications. Brilliant, Apple!.Alan AlfVersion: 14.2

Love number so much that I don’t even want to hesitate writing this review. I love your app. It’s juLove Numbers it’s just so useful. It’s such a useful app that I’ve ever developed. I just love being like that because with this I can create my own spreadsheet and I don’t have to like do what I have to do with the numbers previously when I had 14.1 because when I had 14.1 it wouldn’t let you write. It wouldn’t let you start writing and when I hit the creative spreadsheet button, it does the same thing so now that I have 14.3 I just love it. There’s an option for a new spreadsheet and I just like it please make more like this make one like Microsoft Excel maybe. RobertVersion: 14.4

ALMOSTThis is a really great app, it’s simple easy and fun to use. If I could humbly suggest two things then without a doubt this would be the best financial app out. First, I think it should have the option to connect to your bank, so after you’ve set your budget you can move money to the categories as needed and it’s in real time. Second is the notifications and reminders. Maybe I have them off so I won’t spend much time reviewing that but if not then I think it would be good to have notifications and maybe a widget so that you’re able to get quick views. All in all this is a really great app and everyone should be taking advantage of it, whether it’s personal finances or business..ChessMaster281Version: 13.0

New UserI am new to the world of Apple specific software, such as “Pages”, “Numbers”, and such. But, after deciding that Microsoft office was no longer a yearly expense we needed, we tried it all out. While some of the features were unfamiliar and seemed odd to an excel user, they quickly became user friendly and very simple. The biggest satisfaction that could be had from especially the “Numbers” app, is the ease of collaboration! That alone is worth the switch to Apple’s productivity software! Even after whatever update people are complaining about, this spreadsheet application is an amazing replacement for that other stuff. Thank you so much for your efforts!.JoramickVersion: 5.0.1

Update 5.2.1 - Everyone Needs to hard reboot phoneThis new version appears to not be working for most people. The solution I found is to uninstall, hard reboot and the. reinstall the app. All of your files should be saving to you Icloud, but you may want to verify before you delete the app. Mine were and all of my files were available when I went through these steps. I tried several other things like just re-downloading the software, but the hard reset was required for me to use my existing files and/or create new ones. I don’t use the app much therefore giving it a neutral rating in the middle. My rating doesn’t have anything to do with the actual functionality as the app is basic enough for me to see excel files using my phone..LJK7777Version: 5.2.1

AmazingI am a power user of desktop Excel. Lately though, I’ve been trying a lifestyle of living with just my iPhone — I don’t own a desktop/laptop anymore. So I turned to iOS spreadsheets. I came to Apple Numbers with low expectations (“it’s just a mobile app”) and keep getting delighted by all it can do, and what it makes easy! Numbers is an incredibly well thought out and powerful spreadsheet program. Its UI design is clearly mobile-first, but the features are closer to a full desktop spreadsheet program. This app alone has doubled the value and productivity that my iPhone brings me. Thank you, Apple!.Philip4gVersion: 4.2

Still cannot protect/lock individual cells, ora a specific range of cells.Wow! I’ve been using numbers since the original iWork suite was released on OSX. I’ve liked everything about it, and glad Apple has not abandoned it like they did Aperture. Nonetheless, I’ve maintained an MS Office subscription just to keep Excel. How is it that Apple still hasn’t added the basic functionality of protecting specific cells and or ranges of cells? You can only lock an entire table, or cover a range with an overlaid locked transparent rectangular graphical object. I kn so Numbers has had a paradigm shift from day one, which was ingenious, but it does have to live in a world where people also use Excel. ONTO A NEW ISSUE, why doesn’t the new document browser let you brows in column view???.KrunchDownVersion: 14.2

Page layout meets spreadsheets and graphics all made easy!If you don’t need every esoteric function and a million buttons, rather the main ones in a sleeker design with customizable layout (think multiple spreadsheets and graphics on the same page/sheet), Numbers is for you. It’s free for Apple devices, but will be around with Apple backing. Another way to look at it, is page layout meets spreadsheets and graphics all made easy. I love Numbers, and integration with iCloud and collaboration makes it family and small workgroup friendly. There is no trial, because it’s FREE!.Eric in RTPVersion: 14.2

More than uselessThis use to be the best ever. Since the last few updates it is terrible. Most of my files won’t open at all. Some will sometimes, and sometimes the same file won’t open back up. I have files on my iPad Pro that I really need for work. Most of my files, I have no way now to get back as I stopped using the cloud, after some of your other great updates, due to the fact it was so slow to open the file I needed to use. Fix the problems in Numbers and Pages or I will be forced to go back to excel and word, on a laptop..SweetiestdestinyVersion: 3.3.1

Good appI’m not sure why people are whining about Numbers. I have to use Excel at work and been using it for a longgg time and it’s fine with me, it gets the job done. But I do use Numbers for personal projects for home. It took me a while to get used to Numbers on IPad but I definitely like this app. Apple is more intuitive than Microsoft/ Windows ........ period! It’s also still free versus Microsoft Office 365 subscription. Numbers has beautiful features Excell doesn’t have. I’m using a Bluetooth keyboard from Fintie and it works just fine with my iPad and Numbers. I still give it a 5 ⭐️ !.Calypso2025Version: 10.3.9

Almost the best In ClassI have been using number to track my small business income and expenses and to track my portfolio. Developing equations and formulas is simple and intuitive. However, updating my portfolio is hit and miss. Some days it is up to date and the formulas work and some times it may take three or four days to update. The formula to get today’s price is probably the most problematic. The PE, dividend rate, and 52-week high work fairly well. I think they need to fix how it goes out and gets information but if that gets fixed- I won’t need Excel for any task..Tarmigan1Version: 14.0

Check registerI have been using Numbers for invoices and menu planning for several years and find it easy to use. Have also set up a sheet to track my blood pressure and blood glucose. Enjoy having these items at my finger tip. Since banks no long offer check ordering and all the companies you order checks from are now charging for check registers. It would be great to have one in the personal or business section of numbers. I hope at some point you will consider offering this as a part of your templates. I'm not sure I'm tech savvy enough to set this up on my own and a template would be so helpful..Shdld05Version: 10.3.5

Upgrades aren’t always progress!!When I came over to Numbers, quite a few years ago, I used it a lot and enjoyed the functionality for my needs. Lately you’ve made changes - there were a few things I didn’t care for. The most irritating is the new color selections. Previously there were many specific choices that could be precisely duplicated. Now you only have limited set colors and when you choose from the rainbow of colors, you’ll never get the exact shade twice. Can’t think of the other changes that bothered me - they surely weren’t as irritating!!.Wp -- In Nokomis FLVersion: 15.1

Great once it’s learnedTook me a little bit to get used to where everything was, but after using it for a little bit it’s really useful. I use it to track spending and it’s nice having it all synced up between phone and laptop, plus easy to share with the wife too. Something I love to see would be to make it easier, on a phone, to modify existing text within a cell. Even with a larger screen on a Max Pro, it’ll still want to grab the entire cell itself or will select several cells when trying to move the cursor to specific part of text. Overall though, great free tool..Bear huskableVersion: 14.4

Clean, Useful & IntuitiveLots of negative reviews due to a previous update. These issues have been addressed as far as I’m concerned but the reviews have not been updated. I love numbers. I use it for everything. There are some functionalities I miss having that are available in other software such as excel, but overall it is superior for my applications..Ccrawford9096Version: 5.0.1

No need to pay for excelIt has 100% of the features 80% of the people would ever need for free. Sure, you cannot link and ingest data from SQL, but I would pay for excel if I needed to..M3kw9Version: 5.1

Réduire le clavierJe gère mon budget sur Number depuis des années et je crois que c’est la meilleure app pour le faire. Si vous pouviez trouver le moyen de réduire le clavier ou d’en créer un qui s’arrime avec Number, de manière à ce que l’on voit davantage de surface de page, ce serait fantastique..JoQuebecCityVersion: 4.2

It WorksTook a little to get used to it, but once I got the hang of it, it did everything I wanted. The original spread sheets I imported from Excel and modified it within numbers. I can manipulate it without any problems and it’s fast, one does have to put time into it though to get used to Apple’s way of doing things. I use my iPad for this and export my sheets to my phone to send out reports. I have heard bad reviews here and can only imagine they didn’t take the time to learn how it works. I use it religiously for all sheets now..JonnRottVersion: 5.0.1

Looks empty yet powerfulI use spreadsheets everyday and this one I like very much. I'd like and even more powerful conditional style e.g. for a whole area. PS: I like Page too. iPhone, iPad, Mac, Web version wow..AlemvikVersion: 3.2

Freemium / When will the rug be pulled?A very impotent reason I stay within the apple ecosystem is its no strings attached iWork suite that also functions greatly. With Apple introducing this freemium Studio Suite stuff, I’m doubtful of the way forward. Also, I also really hate how the AI features are highlighted. Plz make them a more intuitively integrated instead of rubbing in ppl’s faces..D.SERICUSVersion: 15.2

Works just like ExcelHandy to have a full functioning spreadsheet on your phone. The gesture commands take a little effort to figure out but pretty much everything you can do on the desktop, you can do with this app..SinxdxVersion: 4.2

Way more user friendly than ExcelI use Numbers a lot. Its’s designed well enough that I was able to teach myself how to use it. Some of the functions are quite complicated but if you’re determined you can figure out how to use them without investing as much time as you would have to to with Excel..Roger SylVersion: 4.0

I used to like this appI have hours of work I can no longer access on my iPad. All I get “Can’t open spreadsheet”. For everything now as of yesterday. Please fix..Kremlin33Version: 5.2.1

Suivi BoursiersJ’utilise Numbers pour effectuer le suivie de plusieurs centaines de titres boursiers afin de gérer mes actifs. Application facile à utiliser. L’orsqu’on effectue un Recherche pour la première fois, on doit effectuer la commande 2 fois pour obtenir le bon résultat..Ti-JeanMVersion: 15.2

MehI tried this app thinking it would help me keep track of my finances but I just didn’t jive with the program. Paper and pen works better in my opinion..AFurbAmongUsVersion: 4.3

You’re the best5 stars.Mike MoradiVersion: 15.2

MrQuick,resourceful and easy to use💯.Karisimbi1Version: 15.2

À 95% génial!Pour la plupart de mes besoins, Numbers est parfait. Je déplore cependant qu’on ne puisse lier des fichiers entre eux, d’où les 4 étoiles..D du QuébecVersion: 15.2

NumberPas aussi convivial qu’Excel. Et pas aussi intuitif qu’on est habitué avec les produits Apple..Marlo 2025Version: 15.2

Problem with PasswordIn the current version of Numbers, although Face ID has been enabled, a Password must still be typed in before the file can be accessed!.Karateka55Version: 15.2

GoodESy.YuangoodgogogoVersion: 15.1

Bug in searchEver since iPadOS version 26, there’s a bug when you search in Numbers app. Say you have a Numbers file with multiple tabs. You search for a word, and a number of results come up across a few tabs. You click in any result, and instead of the app jumping to that row, IT JUMPS TO SOME OTHER RANDOM ROW. SOMETIMES IT JUMPS TO THE WRONG TAB. Then you have to search again SECOND TIME for the same word, get search results, and clicking on the desired row will actually get you there. Please fix it. Otherwise, the Numbers app is great! Thank you. iPad Pro 12.9, 6th gen, model MNXV3VC/A.Zee5467Version: 15.2

Hard to find various optionsThere’s lots of great functionality, and all the bells & whistles I could need, but it can be really hard to figure out where the options & commands you want are hidden. The interface buttons feel fairly unintuitive, at least for me. I’m sure it would be way easier to use on a Mac..Pinkie Love 777Version: 15.1

GoodI love it’s teaching me charting basics and that I can pretend as well.Jimmyfingerz778Version: 15.1

Great toolGreat.Jza42Version: 15.1

Perfect for my daily needsFrom budgeting to organizing trips expenses. Numbers is perfect. I use it to track my health (weight and blood pressure) and meds I take, my financial projects, and countless other lists and projects..CarbmacVersion: 15.1

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Numbers: Make Spreadsheets Negative Reviews

Refusing To Update To This VersionI learned long ago, read the release notes, read the reviews. This used to be free & would take some of the sting out of the high priced hardware. Now Apple is putting portions of this software behind a paywall & annoying us w/nagging ads to subscribe if you don’t. While I’m convinced that Apple would definitely posses the ability to extract blood from a turnip, why would you? Why do this to your LOYAL customers? Why force feed us yet another subscription? Y’all aren’t wealthy enough? Your office is literally a giant high tech spaceship. I don’t want to have to subscribe to Apple Creator Studio, I want to use Numbers/Pages/Keynote & know that I have access to all of it’s content & features having just shelled out over $2k on a 13” laptop or over $1,200 on a phone (a phone!) or whatever. So I will use my old version for as long as I can. Just disgusted. Also, the app icons are terrible. They don’t visually fit w/the rest of iOS, just like Clock & Camera (& arguably Preview), they look completely out of place on the screen. Now some are skeuomorphic, some are not. Scott Forstall would love it though..BrokenCylonVersion: 15.2

Useless. loss of once great features.I thought it was just me not understanding how to enter dates and durations as easily as I did in previous versions. But I'm not the only one who's frustrated and bewildered that Apple did away with the data entry keyboards based on cell format type. It used to be incredibly easy, and fun to use. Now it's not worth my time. Enter dates using querty keyboard instead of just tapping?! Forget it. I still can't figure out how to enter durations. After struggling to use the Help guide, I finally see how to format the cells to take the data, I just can't actually enter the data in an easy, quick manner. And the input forms don't match all the columns in the table, mysteriously skipping over columns formatted with pop up menus. They show up, but are skipped when hitting return, so I can't enter data unless I go back and click on that particular field, out of order. The pop up selections are indeed there, I just don't know why it doesn't cycle through. yeah, this isn't working for me. Apple loves to tinker and ruin things. Do they have that much time on their hands? Cuz I don't, so I won't be using this..There'sAFrogInMyTentVersion: 3.2

Nearly UnusableNot sure why it’s rated so highly. There are always too many taps to do simple things that are readily available in comparable spreadsheet apps. Recently, I’ve been trying to update a spreadsheet and it’s been frustrating. Whenever I switch over to another app and switch back, Numbers will have left returned to the document selection screen and then will — usually — load into it again automatically (there is an inconsistency to how long it takes to load and when it loads). When needing to repeatedly reference a different app this increases the work time by about 15%. In the process of doing the aforementioned, often a pop-up will declare that the spreadsheet is downloading (but as mentioned, it was already downloaded — I was working on it merely seconds before). One out of three times, the downloading pop-up will not close forcing me to kill the app and reboot it. It honestly feels like a ploy to get people to sign-up for creator studio..ChiefFungineerVersion: 15.1

Locks up frequentlyI have an iPad with 16GB of RAM yet working in an intermediate spreadsheet, it constantly locks up with an “Updating Spreadsheet” error message which causes me to have to force quit the app and come back, losing work. On the Mac the same spreadsheet shows “calculating” and it takes forever to get said calculations to fill. This spreadsheet isn’t even 5MB In size so it’s not like it’s some power house spreadsheet. If Apple wants its devices and apps to be taken seriously in the business world, it starts with focusing on the tools that people are using and really making sure what you’re offering is functional. Microsoft’s not doing you any favors by watering down their apps either because it creates the perception that Apple makes toys and everyone else makes productivity machines. You would really be doing yourselves huge favors by really focusing on your productivity apps and how they perform for the daily business user..Mytw0b1tsVersion: 14.1

I hope you’re happy with all the bad reviews you’re going to get!Congratulations on ruining this app! And why, just WHY is this new icon included in iOS 18? Wow. You just HAD to include it in iOS 18, didn’t you. It makes this app stand out from the others in iOS 18. Why is this not only in iOS 26? Also, in 2025 everything was free, and now it’s 2026 and it’s now a 50-50 split between the subscription, and the old stuff. You said “Unlock new intelligence features, premium content, and more with Apple Creator Studio. View, edit, and collaborate without a subscription.” Why did you lie about this? It’s bad enough to make your app worse, but straight up LYING?! Did you ever notice that you keep saying “CAN we do it?” but the real question is “SHOULD we do it?” **I mean no offense. This is just the truth. And this is my fancy way of saying, “PLEASE FIX THIS APP.”**.BigBac_67Version: 15.1

Works fine; don’t like the paradigm shiftI need a lightweight spreadsheet program for calculations that calculator cannot handle. It does the job, with some annoyances. It is very easy to wreck a spreadsheet. I would give it 3-4 stars, because there is room for improvement. However, I hate the general Numbers paradigm shift. I mean the input modes, having to switch between numbers, text, formulas, and functions. I just want to type the formula in the cell, but I could not figure out how to do it. It takes my input as text regardless of what I do. Also, I have to double click in order to see the formula in the formula bar. The formula is also a mix of the said modes. Not a plain text formula. I cannot simply copy it and paste it somewhere else. All this is very weird and inefficient. That was almost a non-starter for me. However, because the spreadsheets I create are relatively small, the paradigm shift does not affect me too much..Quod Erat DemonstrandumVersion: 5.1

Difficult to useNumbers is quite difficult to use, especially on a phone, as compared to Google Sheets, which is responsive and intuitive. For example, when I try resize a cell or a row by touching on the dark blue dot in the lower right corner the cell moves out of position, or highlights rather than resizing. With this program you pretty much can only use it on a desktop computer or a laptop where the controls are larger and there is a mouse or touchpad to use. Titling a spreadsheet is also difficult while using a cell phone, whereby with Sheets it is a simple touch and type, whereby Sheets resizes to accommodate a large title and centers it. Since I have several Apple products, I’m more forced to use Numbers because with another program like Excel or Sheets, they somewhat lose compatibility and functionality amongst the different devices..SA shade tree mechanicVersion: 14.1

Version 15 stinks, forgets you have docs openThis new version of Numbers is horrible. If you leave the app and go to another app (say doing research) and then return to update a spreadsheet you opened the app starts off by forgetting the app you had opened. So you are faced with the window to open a file from a template or new spreadsheet and overlaid across the bottom half of this window is the file chooser window. Then, if you are lucky, the window you were using re-opens. Not where you left off but that doesn’t matter really. Add to this the confusing addition of icons and UI elements for the new features of the “Creators Studio” that Numbers belongs in now. No idea how this is a Creator’s tool. Apple’s greed is getting the better of their common sense. Of course we have been seeing that for a while..AgingKeeperVersion: 15.1

From Useful to Hot GarbageThe new Numbers is TERRIBLE!!!! NO Stars! NO STARS!!!! BUGGY, KEEPS CRASHING, AND HAS LOST ALL FUNCTIONALITY!!! HORRIBLE AND WASTES TIME! I can’t control any margins, I can’t add a footer, there’s no way to put in file information on a spreadsheet, and the thing keeps crashing…but there’s a bright new button for creator’s studio upsell?! OH, and my user content is linked and tracked??? Please tell me I got that wrong. Not even getting started on the Generative AI. This is the most frustrating and infuriating experience!!! Not worth the time or effort! And definitely NOT worth a creative studio upsell!!! I guess this is how the previously useful Numbers dies. Reminds me of how GarageBand was useful once too. They killed their product to make more money and now all the creatives have moved on to the FREE DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight. HORRIBLE! SHAME ON YOU!!!.TGK-1Version: 15.1

IOS 13 is a mess!!!I use Numbers to log and track my blood sugars, food, exercise etc so its a life tool for me. iOS 13 has made everything mess. The problem is as follows so please fix this. I have a column on the far left that has a box for multiple scroll selection: breakfast, lunch, dinner etc... it’s a long list and now when I select that it fills the entire screen showing all rather than allow me to scroll. Why this is terrible is now I can double click to copy a cell to past elsewhere like I used to do. I have to close it and reopen to select and copy a cell. Y’all have some serious work to do and please stop releasing premature software. You’re becoming a lot like another company used to be known for... also my iPhone 10s Max crashes and has to be reset after every iOS 13 update! Very inconvenient..Kona BikerVersion: 5.2

Wish I had read the reviews before I updated.Loved this program last year for keeping track of vacation expenses. I foolishly updated the program and now it's useless for what I need. The quick date entry is gone. If I copy paste information from a website, it comes in with a black background which I don't want and can't get rid of. It's gone from being easy to use to frustrating..KjjjhtibfgugtjdrjdsttbdVersion: 3.2

Still crapLe keyboard takes all the screen. Can you just give us back the old version?.MimirubyVersion: 3.2

Date ????I don't care how many more features and functions are added in it, at the moment all I want is the freakin DATE keyboard and date functionality back to normal. Waited more than a month and still same S***t..FarziaVersion: 3.2

Bring back the old way of entering dates PLEASE!!!This is truly a step backwards. The old date entry was slick and easy to use. This new text-based nonsense is horrible..TonyMattheysVersion: 3.2

In-app Apple Creator Studio up-sell is insultingShowing ads to “upgrade” is so much worse than putting Intel Inside stickers on hardware. We all know what Steve Jobs thought of that. This is company-circling-the-drain levels of desperation, and we all know Apple’s not circling any financial drains..TantramarVersion: 15.1

🤑 Paywalled: does really Apple needs more $$$?Apple devices are already expensive enough and now you force us to subscribe to basic apps like Numbers or Pages?! I don’t need all the extra apps, just those two. Very shameful for Apple to go this way 🤑greedy !!.Microcosm34Version: 15.1

It was only a matter of time before Apple jumped the AI Shark TankI’ve been a big fan of the entire iWorks suite. I’ve been using it for over 10 years because I just think it works better better than competing products. But this latest move to incorporating a subscription content hub has effectively killed this product. The number of templates that are now considered premium products is ridiculous. One of the most common things people use spreadsheets for is budgeting. Didn’t miss a beat here! Every budgeting spreadsheet is a premium template. In fact, it looks like a good 65 to 70% of templates are now considered premium assets. The templates available to you without subscription are pretty sad, and some categories have absolutely no free templates. So either be prepared to go hunting online or create your own stuff from scratch, unless you want to pay. And it looks like this template approach is used in Pages and Keynote. Finally figured out how to monetize a product that has been bundled for free with Apple products for at least the last decade..BjorkwheatVersion: 15.1

Now a freemium app nagging you to SUBSCRIBE!Craig Federighi stood on stage in 2013 and declared Pages, Numbers, and Keynote would be free forever, but Apple’s definition of “forever” is 13 years. Numbers has gone freemium. $12.99/month for OpenAI-powered AI slop and some templates that barely justify the paywall. The new icon (all the ones one the creative suite really) make designers cringe on Reddit and makes me want to use Google Sheets. “But everything you had before is still free!” This misses the point entirely. Pages is now just another freemium product with greedy upsells, indistinguishable from the race-to-the-bottom app economy that Apple used to position itself against..Mr. WilliamusVersion: 15.1

Do not need Creator bundleAmazing, easy to use program. Bundling it and charging 12.99 a month with Final Cut Pro. Garbage idea..ErinRaeVersion: 15.1

Update June 2021Updated Numbers as recommended and now my saved spreadsheets won’t open and crash the app... was working just fine before the update.._yeesterVersion: 11.1

Apple Creator Studio ruined these apps🤮🤮🤮 Pass on the subscription for on-device features..ADPattVersion: 15.2

Allow menu item customization like macOSRecent update shoehorns in image generation, causing the sort/organize functionality to be a tap and scroll away. It used to be in the top menu—immediately accessible Provide options to allow menu item customization rather than forcing everybody to have the image generation button in the top menu.Doctor AtrociousVersion: 15.2

This was free and never great. Just adequateDon’t want stupid AI or subscription or upgrade ads.ZeekerspikeVersion: 15.1

Paywalled!💰🤑💲💴💶💳💵💸💷🪙I hate apple creator and I must pay! Does apple need more money 🤯🤬 Is apple guilty?.Ethan tianVersion: 15.1

Ads on my device???Hey Microslop… er, I mean “Apple” where in actual hell did you get the idea that putting ads for unwanted subscriptions, with more useless and annoying “AI” features on MY phone was a really clever idea???? Since you’ve already failed miserably to produce any sort of useful LLM features in my aging 16 pro, despite lying to my face about that, and have even begged Google to help, maybe just give up on this LLM nonsense and improve you OS instead of continuing to make it worse????.BonzorioisVersion: 15.1

Turning this into a freemium app is grossThe Apple advantage keeps disappearing. I honestly don’t know why I’m paying a premium for the hardware when their software has become so scummy. I dislike this company more with each passing day..R0bwVersion: 15.1

What are you doing? Charging, reducing privacy, adding AI garbage, and the in worst design possible?What happened to Apple? Are you becoming a Microsoft, Adobe, Google Frankstein? I HATE WHAT YOU ARE DOING. These other companies are evil, they have no respect for our privacy and rights. Maybe it is time to move away from Apple and explore alternatives..EdxsVersion: 15.1

PaywalledPaywalled.SkuleBusVersion: 15.1

Full of bugsThis App is keep shutting down when using. Many times when I try to open it, simply doesn’t work. It’s frustrating snd I wonder how Apple does not improve it. Very disappointing.Alex & RoseVersion: 10.3.5

Lost my budget 2021The application no work well. I dont not what happened but Its disapears. 😡.IsmojaVersion: 10.3.9

Suddenly can’t open docs/filesI opened a document earlier today. Suddenly, I can’t open them....????.KP329Version: 3.3.1

ProblèmeDepuis la dernière grosse mise a jour, il m’arrive souvent de travailler sur une feuille de calcul et que je dois recommencer car l’application bug. J’ai remarqué que ça arrivée souvent lorsque je met une couleur dans une cellule.J-M. BVersion: 15.2

BuggyFreezes 85% of the time I edit cell colour fill. Only solution is to force close the app and reopen. In this case any edits I have made during the session do not save.NickgjsjxjxVersion: 15.2

TerribleTried to sell you on a subscription.ChymotrpsinVersion: 15.2

Pas intuitifSincèrement, Google Sheet est tellement plus simples à utiliser et plus intuitif..Vive Google Slides :)Version: 15.2

Every update is a step backwardsAnother update that adds nothing useful and makes the app more complicated to use!.Martini 10Version: 15.2

App keeps crashingThe app itself is great, when it works. It keeps crashing on my iPhone 17 Pro Max. When it crashes, I lose data that I have inputted into my spreadsheets which is incredibly annoying..MattdrumswellVersion: 15.1

Difficult to useThis tool is extremely difficult to use..SortiledgeVersion: 15.1

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