Open-source alternatives to Excel

One open-source project is offered as a replacement for Excel: Grist. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.

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  Grist11,972 stars · permissive · active

  Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets.

  Also replaces Airtable, Google Sheets

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