European alternatives to Google Sheets

Google Sheets is a browser-based spreadsheet with real-time co-editing, the usual formula language, pivot tables and charts, plus two things desktop spreadsheets lack: live functions that pull from the web (IMPORTRANGE, GOOGLEFINANCE, IMPORTHTML) and Apps Script, a JavaScript runtime that turns a sheet into a small application with triggers, menus and API calls.

That is also what makes it sticky. A finance or ops team’s Sheets estate is rarely a set of files; it is a web of sheets referencing each other through IMPORTRANGE, fed by Forms, scheduled by Apps Script triggers, and surfaced in Looker Studio dashboards. Export the cells and the values survive while the wiring does not — the cross-file references break, the scripts have no runtime, and the add-ons have no host.

Google Sheets is part of Google Workspace, from Google LLC in Mountain View. The European alternatives below are open-source spreadsheet editors, available self-hosted or as a managed EU service, that handle XLSX natively.