The collaborative spreadsheet that minds its business.
Build relational data apps that feel like a spreadsheet. Open-source, secure, and under your control.
Features
General purpose, on purpose
Streamline your unique workflow with Grist’s versatile UI and robust feature set.
AI Assistant
Chat with your data and have productive conversations.
- Analyze your data and formulas in plain language.
- Create and modify records and formulas.
- Work on your data with integrated conversational context.
Forms & surveys
Collect and analyze data easily.
- Create simple and effective forms.
- Share your form with a single click.
- Analyze data in real time.
Flexible layout
Arrange your data on screen to maximize your and your team’s productivity.
- Drag-and-drop widgets to make custom layouts.
- Link data to quickly pull up details and related records.
- Turn rows into data cards, and attach relevant images and files.
Access rules
Collaborate with confidence and peace of mind, using unique system of granular data permissions.
- Control who sees what, down to each row and column.
- Share data in part or in full, and still collaborate in real-time.
- Share limited views of relevant data with third parties.
Visualizations
See what matters at a glance, from big trends to small details.
- Summarize data into charts or pivot tables to see the big picture.
- Link charts to update dynamically to visualize segments of data.
- Show data in new ways with a gallery of custom widgets, or build your own.
More features
Streamline, control, and drill into your data. Discover the endless possibilities of our full-featured relational spreadsheet software.
- Formulas with Excel functions and Python power.
- Automatic backups and snapshot history.
- Conditional styles, and cell formatting.
- Localized into 20+ languages.
- APIs and integrations.
Professional Services
Grist Solutions
We’ll create a custom solution that makes your data more useful – now, and far in the future.
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**Plan your solution
**Work with us to identify workflow pain points and improvements.
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Customize based on your needs
We’ll create a solution that fits, and a solution that lasts.
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Build with experts
Not just a custom solution, but expert advice from those closest to Grist.
Templates
Ready-to-use templates
Get a running start with many templates to choose from,
to use as is or customize to your needs.
Uncover trends by exploring investment data across categories and time using vibrant, dynamic charts.
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Manage class enrollment and student data efficiently with our easy-to-use relational spreadsheet.
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Manage customer info and interactions in a user-friendly, spreadsheet-style CRM template.
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Developers
Power tools
Take it to the next level with our open-source spreadsheet-database tool.
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Super-charged formulas
- Fully supports Python syntax and standard library in formulas.
- Includes many familiar Excel functions.
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Extensible
- Connect to anything via REST API, webhooks, or integrators.
- Create your own custom widgets.
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Unprecedented control
- Can be self-managed, for intranet operation or compliance.
- Uses SQLite format, great for portability and backups.
“I love Grist. It’s crazy powerful. I still can’t believe what we’ve been able to achieve in it. It’s the dream that low-code was sold as for years – we can do incredible things in each column with Python and we can build our own widgets to run on those! Wild!”
==Elliot Lee
==User Researcher
“Grist has become our go-to for more complex, structured data. It sits somewhere between Excel and Access—powerful, relational, and flexible enough for prototyping real data-driven applications.”
==Olivier Lambert
==CEO at Vates
“The more I use Grist, the more I LOVE it. I have been surveying self-hosted database GUI tools, and I was consistently disappointed with their shortcomings or bugginess. Grist is the first to have tilted the balance the other way.”
==Stephen S.==
Publications, Personal City Guides
“Grist has given us incredible flexibility to solve data problems and find solutions, whether it is for a small team at the district, or at scale with the entire district staff. We’re really excited about the different ways we can use it going forward.”
==Director of Product
==EdTech Company
“What I like about Grist the most is its focus. It appears simple, but it’s very powerful in a focused way. Grist has really improved our workflow and communication.”
==Chris Scott
==Co-founder in Digital Marketing
“If people spend some time learning a new tool they’ll have more power to do their work and research. I said to one of my students, ‘You will be very very happy using Grist because you are miserable using Excel!’”
==Eduardo Dalcin, Ph.D.
==Biodiversity Informatics Expert
“Most CRMs don’t work the way Grist works. Grist’s layouts are simple and do exactly what we need.”
==Jennifer Bledsoe
==IT Tech at Law Firm
“I discovered Grist after becoming frustrated with the limitations of Excel and Google Sheets. Grist has been a breath of fresh air, especially with its ability to handle structured data in a way that feels familiar to anyone with experience in relational databases, but with the added flexibility of Python.”
==Will Bailey
==Small Business Manager
“Sharing an Access database is near impossible, but Grist makes sharing a relational database simple.”
==Walt Rice
==IT Consultant
“I needed an open-source master database that could connect to n8n and AI tools. After trying Notion, Airtable, Siyuan, Baserow, and NocoDB, I chose Grist for its Python-native AI support, flexible integrations, and simple n8n connections.”
==Robin A.
==Project Manager
“I’ve worked extensively with NocoDB, Notion, SeaTable, and Baserow, and Grist really stands out. The balance between spreadsheet-style flexibility and structured, low-code database design is excellent.”
==Andriy Kostyuk==
Automation Engineer, Founder at Enceladus
Support
We have your back
Caring team, detailed documentation, and excellent support to help you succeed.
Help Center
Detailed documentation, tutorials, and videos to help you unlock Grist’s full potential.
Community
Ask questions, find answers, help others, and share inspiration in the Grist user community.
Support
We are here to help you and your team get the most from Grist.
Need help building your solution? Let us build it for you.
Enterprise Training
Grist Workshop
A free training workshop that equips teams to build their own complex solutions and workflows.
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From basics to mastery, fast
Multi-day curriculum covering fundamentals, data modeling, dashboards, reporting, and governance.
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Personalized building lab
A Grist expert works alongside your team to turn ideas into production-ready workflows.
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Get Grist
Unlock a better way to organize data.
Experience the modern spreadsheet-database software — full-featured simplicity with unequaled power, for data that matters. Discover why our customers love using Grist.