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Apple Numbers

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28 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Apple Numbers?

Numbers is a spreadsheet application developed by Apple Inc. as part of the iWork productivity suite. It is available for Mac and iOS, or for Windows in a browser via its cloud edition.

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Apple Numbers - Surprisingly Helpful Tool for Pastors.

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Steve Crawford
Associate Pastor at Grace Bible Church of Hutchinson, KS (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Apple Numbers for various tasks in my role as a pastor. I use it to help plan conferences, organize schedules, and coordinate my preaching opportunities. I've also used it to keep track of how much money students in the youth group have individually raised through a plethora of fundraisers for our annual summer camp.

Pros

  • Organizing Data.
  • Collating different schedules into one schedule.
  • Keeping track of conference registrants.

Cons

  • Could make the function keys a little more intuitive.
  • Could offer an increased variety of fonts.
  • Could offer an increased variety of font colors.

Return on Investment

  • Helps me be more coordinated as a preacher, as a I preach 2x to 3x a week.
  • Helps our church be more professional in implementing conferences, in which we host 200 to 300 attendees.
  • Helps me keep track of my thoughts as we work with my 6 coworkers when we map out future programs at our church.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets

Other Software Used

Todoist, Google Slides, Apple Keynote

Number #1 for Apple Numbers!

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François LavalléeView profile
president in Human Resources at Aliter Concept (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apple Numbers is my number 1 application for calculation and graphs production.
I have always had an aversion to Excel.
I found in Apple Numbers an application that circumvented al the obstacles that Excel threw at me.
Moreover, being and avid user of Apple Keynote, the integration with my slides is seamless and graphically impressive.
Apple Numbers help my organization in so many ways!
I love it!

Pros

  • easy of use
  • amazing charts and graphs
  • Seamless integration with other Apple product
  • Copy and paste into word processor and prensetaito software from Apple
  • Easy to use formulas
  • Professional looking tables
  • Easy Use of cell formatting features

Cons

  • Excel still rules for macros
  • Importation from Excel not perfect
  • Importation from Excel does not work well for complex macros
  • Very advanced Excel features still not available in Apple Numbers
  • Exporting to Excel (essential or non-Apple Clients) sometimes is defective

Return on Investment

  • Apple Numbers is a free software ...huge ROI!
  • Apple Numbers is upgraded frequently and automatically without charge
  • Enormous time saver when integrating Apple Numbers spreadsheet into word processor and presentation software
  • easily exporter in pdf format. Ideal to share information
  • On the negative side , it misses some advances macro and programmable functions features present in Excel
  • Exportation as an Excel document sometimes defective
  • Importation from Excel sometimes missions some features

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Apple Keynote, Microsoft Excel, Apple iCloud, Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal), Apple iWork, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Teams, Final Cut Pro, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Access

Other Software Used

Apple Keynote, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Excel

Apple User? Apple Numbers is for you!

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Josh EdneyView profile
Executive Pastor in Corporate at Bridge Church (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Apple Numbers for any type of spreadsheet -- analyzing growth trends, financial reports, and account balances. Because Apple Numbers is apart of Apple's iWork, I can use numbers across my Apple devices seamlessly. I'm very familiar with Excel, but Excel is clunky on Apple's operating systems. I find Apple Numbers to be a more user-friendly software.

Pros

  • Handing off from one Apple device to the another Apple device
  • The simplicity of the layout
  • Creating formulas are easy to implement

Cons

  • The ability to go live and present a spreadsheet during a meeting in real time
  • Make it simpler to add custom fonts to the font packages

Return on Investment

  • My clients are in their 20s and 30s. Apple Numbers is a cleaner spreadsheet so it presents my business are being modern to my clients.
  • For my clients that don't "speak spreadsheets," Apple Numbers doesn't overwhelm them. The formatting is visually more appealing than alternative spreadsheet software.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Excel

Other Software Used

Apple Keynote, QuickBooks Desktop for Mac, Slack, monday.com

Apple Numbers to the rescue Price savings and organization in one easy to use tool

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Verified User
Employee in Sales (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization uses Apple Numbers for reporting, tracking and staying organized in day to day operations. I manage all content for the rev org, and I export reports to Apple Numbers to get informed on how that content is doing and what needs to be actioned. By creating filters I am early able to organize crucial information in a matter of seconds and follow up with each individual in a timely manor to make sure our content is in the best state possible.

Pros

  • Filtering lots of information
  • Mathematic equations
  • Minimalistic look and feel that is easy to understand

Cons

  • Doesn’t have all the bells and whistles as excel.
  • Sometimes you have to save it in a different format for others to view
  • Could include more options on the menu bar rather than clicking on some of the drop downs.

Return on Investment

  • Improved tracking of kpis
  • Saved time reporting
  • Helped the team and sub teams stay organized and work efficiently

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets

Other Software Used

Google Sheets, Seismic Content, Google Slides, Google Drive

Okay in a Pinch, but not ideal

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Christine Sako
Head of Internal Ops and BI at XY Labs (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I've tried to use it as an alternative to Excel when I did not have Excel installed on a certain computer. It was hard to adjust to, and was not as intuitive (perhaps because I am used to Excel). It got the job done, but it was difficult to perform some operations due to my unfamiliarity with it.

Pros

  • Functions
  • UI
  • Pivoting

Cons

  • Intuitive Formulas
  • Features
  • Cell Management

Return on Investment

  • Allows baseline management in a crunch
  • At least able to open and view datasets
  • Is not intuitive enough for efficiency needed in projects

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets

Other Software Used

Jupyter Notebook, GitHub, Turnitin Gradescope, Canvas, Miro