# Alternatives to Google Tables

A spreadsheet-database hybrid for work tracking, born in Google's Area 120 incubator. Google turned it down on 16 December 2025, pointing users to Sheets and AppSheet.

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Category: No-code databases

## Overview

- **Who it's for**: Google Tables was aimed at small teams and business operations staff—like project coordinators, recruiters, or ops managers—who needed to track shared work (requests, approvals, inventory, applicants) without building custom software.
- **What you get**: It was a spreadsheet-database hybrid: structured tables with typed columns, multiple views, and row-level detail records like a lightweight CRM. Its distinguishing feature was 'bots'—automated rules that could send notifications, update fields, or trigger actions when data met certain conditions. It included templates for common workflows (bug tracking, approvals, event RSVPs) and integrated with Gmail, Calendar, and Drive.
- **How it works**: Users created a table from a template or by importing a spreadsheet, defined columns and views, then configured bots to watch for changes and automatically fire notifications or updates. Google shut Tables down in 2022, folding its underlying technology into Google AppSheet.

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## Ranked alternatives

| # | App | Alt Score | Licence | Platforms |
|---|-----|-----------|---------|-----------|
| 1 | [Airtable](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/airtable.md) | building | Proprietary | Web, macOS, Windows, iOS |
| 2 | [Baserow](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/baserow.md) | building | MIT (core/OSE); premium and enterprise directories under separate licenses | Web, Linux |
| 3 | [Grist](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/grist.md) | building | Apache-2.0 | Web, Windows, macOS, Linux |
| 4 | [NocoDB](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/nocodb.md) | building | Sustainable Use License (fair-code) | Web, Linux, Windows, macOS |
| 5 | [Rows](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/rows.md) | building | Proprietary | Web |
| 6 | [SeaTable](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/seatable.md) | building | Proprietary (with open-source components) | Web, Linux |
| 7 | [Stackby](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/stackby.md) | building | Proprietary | Web, iOS, Android, macOS |

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