Zoho Sheet
Free collaborative spreadsheet with Zia AI and built-in data cleaning
Zoho Sheet is a databases & spreadsheets tool for Small businesses and Freelancers, offered as free. Founded in India in .
About Zoho Sheet
Zoho Sheet is the online spreadsheet in Zoho's office suite. It is built by Zoho Corporation, the privately held software company from Chennai, India, that runs more than 50 business apps from CRM to accounting. Its core job is the same as Google Sheets: create, share and edit spreadsheets in the browser with a team, with no desktop Excel license required.
The editor ships more than 350 functions, pivot tables, close to 40 chart types, conditional formatting, pick lists, checkboxes, buttons and data validation. Zia, Zoho's AI assistant, answers questions about your data in plain language, suggests charts and pivots, and writes formulas. A dedicated data cleaning tool finds duplicates, missing values and inconsistent spellings. Macros can be recorded and written in VBA, and Excel, ODS, CSV and TSV files import cleanly. The editor is free; businesses usually get it inside paid Zoho Workplace or Zoho One bundles.
Zoho Sheet fits small teams that want a capable free spreadsheet, and companies already on Zoho CRM, Books or Projects that want live data pulled into sheets. It has a much smaller template and add-on ecosystem than Google Sheets, fewer people know it, and power users of Excel will still miss Power Query and the desktop app's depth. Airtable and Grist are better if you really need a relational database rather than a grid.
A practical tip: if your company already pays for Zoho Mail or Workplace, you have Sheet at no extra cost, with cell-level locks, audit trails and version history that make it reasonable for shared finance or operations trackers.
Key features of Zoho Sheet
- Zia AI answers data questions and suggests charts, pivots and formulas
- Data cleaning tool that finds duplicates, missing values and inconsistencies
- More than 350 built-in functions plus Deluge-based custom functions
- Pivot tables and close to 40 chart types including Pareto and histograms
- Cell and range locks per user, audit trail and version history
- Macro recording and VBA code support for automation
- Live data connections to Zoho CRM, Books and Projects
- Publish or embed sheets on the web with export controls
Pros and cons
Pros
- Genuinely free editor with AI assistance and data cleaning included
- Imports Excel files and keeps most formatting intact
- Desktop apps for Windows and macOS with offline editing
- Tight fit with the wider Zoho stack for CRM and finance data
- Granular locking and audit trails useful for shared trackers
Cons
- Much smaller add-on and template ecosystem than Google Sheets
- Advanced Excel features like Power Query and Power Pivot are missing
- Few outside collaborators already have Zoho accounts
- Best integrations assume you use other Zoho apps
- Zia's AI answers are less capable than Copilot or Gemini in rival suites
Zoho Sheet pricing
Zoho Sheet uses a free model.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Full editor, Zia AI, data cleaning and real-time collaboration |
| Zoho Workplace | Custom | Sheet is bundled with Mail, WorkDrive and Writer in paid suites |
Source: www.zoho.com · checked on Oct 20, 2026
How Zoho Sheet compares in Databases & spreadsheets
- Rank by votes
- #1 / 17
- Starting price
- $0
- Free alternatives
- 4
0 votes from members
Category median is $12/mo
Free or open-source tools in Databases & spreadsheets
Zoho Sheet ranks #1 of 17 databases & spreadsheets tools by community votes and is not directly comparable on price.
Common use cases
- 1Shared sales or pipeline trackers fed live from Zoho CRM
- 2Cleaning messy CSV exports before analysis or import
- 3Budget and expense sheets with locked cells per department
- 4Collecting Zoho Forms responses into an analysis-ready sheet
- 5Small business reporting without buying Microsoft 365
Best for
Small businesses and Zoho customers that want a free, collaborative spreadsheet with AI help and live links to their Zoho data.
Not ideal for
Teams that live in Google Workspace or Excel power users who need advanced data modelling (Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, Airtable).
Integrations
- Zoho CRM
- Zoho Forms
- Zoho Flow
- Zoho Books
- Zoho Projects
- Zoho WorkDrive
- Microsoft Excel files
Our take
Zoho Sheet is one of the most capable free spreadsheets available and a natural pick for anyone already in the Zoho ecosystem. Outside Zoho, Google Sheets remains the safer default because of its ecosystem, but Sheet's data cleaning and locking features make it worth testing.
FAQ
- What is Zoho Sheet?
- Zoho Sheet is a Databases & spreadsheets tool: Free collaborative spreadsheet with Zia AI and built-in data cleaning.
- How much does Zoho Sheet cost?
- Zoho Sheet is Free; there is no mandatory paid plan.
- What does Zoho Sheet integrate with?
- Zoho Sheet integrates with Zoho CRM, Zoho Forms, Zoho Flow, Zoho Books, Zoho Projects, Zoho WorkDrive and more.
- Which platforms does Zoho Sheet support?
- Zoho Sheet is available on web, windows, macos, ios, android.
- Who is Zoho Sheet for?
- Small businesses and Zoho customers that want a free, collaborative spreadsheet with AI help and live links to their Zoho data.
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