One Workbook vs Simple Spreadsheet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
One Workbook
This app provides a digital notebook for organizing notes, journals, sketches, and coloring pages. It offers customizable templates for various creative uses, allowing users to write, draw, and import photos. Keep all your creative moments and notes together in one flexible digital space.
- Create notebooks from built-in templates
- Customize notebook covers with titles
- Write and draw directly on pages
- Import photos onto pages
- Save and access notebooks anytime
- Supports multiple brush sizes and colors
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OneWorkbook is a creative digital notebook app that helps you organize notes, journals, sketches, coloring pages, and more in one place. Create a notebook that fits what you want to do, give it a custom title, and start writing or drawing right away. From everyday note-taking to journaling, sketching, coloring, and fun activity pages, OneWorkbook makes it easy to keep everything together in a simple, flexible format. Whether you want a lined notebook, a journal, a sketchbook, a coloring book, or a playful activity notebook, OneWorkbook gives you ready-to-use templates designed for different kinds of creativity and everyday use. Features: - Create notebooks from built-in templates - Customize each notebook cover with your own title - Write and draw directly on the page - Use multiple brush sizes and colors - Import photos onto your pages - Save your notebooks and come back anytime - Keep notes, journals, drawings, and activities together in one app - Use on both iPhone and iPad Template types include: - General notebooks - Journals and diaries - Sketchbooks - Coloring books - Tic Tac Toe activity pages - Special-purpose notebooks like a New Year’s resolution journal OneWorkbook is great for capturing ideas, practicing writing, sketching for fun, keeping a journal, or giving kids and families a creative notebook space they can enjoy together. (Works well with Apple Pencil) Download OneWorkbook and keep your notes, drawings, and creative moments all in one notebook app.
Simple Spreadsheet
Create and edit spreadsheets with ease. Import Excel files, add charts, and generate PDFs. Offers templates and advanced cell editing features for various organizational tasks.
- Import and edit Excel (xlsx) files
- Create tables and charts
- Generate PDF and print sheets
- Insert images and checkboxes into cells
- Support for common Excel functions
- Export to Excel (xlsx) files
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This is a spreadsheet app can let you create sheets and edit sheets. Import excel(xlsx) files, create sheets, tables, charts, generate PDF, print sheets through AirPrint. Create sheets by templates. -Import excel(xlsx) files, view and edit worksheets in workbook. -Search in sheets. -When edit sheets, you can select multiple cells, select a whole row or column, even the whole sheet. -Support merge cells, adjust height of row and width of column. -You can insert image, checkbox and progress/column bar into cell. -Select range, then generate charts, share charts to friend. -Quick sum, insert formula, popular excel functions support. -Generate sheet to image, generate pdf. -Print preview, print through AirPrint. -Export to excel(xlsx) files, share to friends. Whenever you create class calendar, record expense and saving, todo list, grocery list, make travel plan, etc. Simple SpreadSheet may meet your needs. Please refer to our terms and privacy when you download and use this app. To use all the features this app provided, please unlock SpreadSheet PRO. by purchase it in the app. We provide one time purchease and auto-renew subscription year by year. *Subscription will automatically renew each year, within 24 hours of it's expiration. Your credit card will charged through your iTunes account.To stop auto-renewal, turn off the feature in your iTunes account settings at last 24 hours prior to your subscription's expiration. Current, active subscriptions cannot be cancelled. Any suggestions, please email to 354822@qq.com Terms of Use: http://sheetsliteus.qqzhuti.net/terms Privacy Policy: http://sheetsliteus.qqzhuti.net/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Simple Spreadsheet at 4.6 against One Workbook's 1.6. Simple Spreadsheet also leads on review sentiment (44% vs 13%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 12 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. One Workbook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Simple Spreadsheet sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Simple Spreadsheet holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Spreadsheet has 6.9K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of One Workbook's written reviews are positive against 44% of Simple Spreadsheet's.
One Workbook ships an update every 12 months, Simple Spreadsheet every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | One Workbook | Simple Spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (10 ratings) | 4.6 (6.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 43.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 6.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maochen Wang | WEN WU LI |
Customer experience
One Workbook
Simple Spreadsheet
Bugs and requests
One Workbook
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Simple Spreadsheet
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes and freezes
- Data disappearing or changing unexpectedly
- Inability to login or access purchased features
- Sync and backup issues across devices
- Overlapping UI elements and poor layout
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to zoom out and see full spreadsheet
- Option to insert and delete columns/rows
- Improved sharing and collaboration features
- More advanced formula and formatting options
- Better tutorials and user guides
In-app purchases
One Workbook
- Unlock all colors$0.99
Simple Spreadsheet
- Unlock SpreadSheet Pro 1 year3 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Unlock SpreadSheet Pro 1 Month$0.99
- Unlock SpreadSheet Pro 3 month$1.99
- Unlock SpreadSheet Pro 1 year$3.99
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- Unlock SpreadSheet PRO Forever$4.99
- Unlock SpreadSheet PRO Forever$9.99
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