Comparison

Numbers vs SunTable

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Numbers

Design impressive spreadsheets with a flexible canvas, interactive charts, and powerful functions. Collaborate with others and access your work across devices. Includes tools for data analysis and text composition.

Highlights
  • Apple-designed templates
  • Flexible canvas for layout
  • Interactive charts and pivot tables
  • Hundreds of powerful functions
  • Cross-device compatibility via iCloud
  • Collaboration and real-time editing
  • Import/export Excel and CSV files
Features
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Numbers is now part of Apple Creator Studio, an amazing collection of Apple’s most powerful creative apps designed to help you bring your ideas to life. The suite includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus premium content and intelligence features in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform, all in one simple plan. Creating, viewing, and editing spreadsheets in Numbers, as well as collaborating in real time, does not require a subscription. Create gorgeous spreadsheets with Numbers on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Get started with Apple-designed templates for everything from a home budget to an invoice. Add tables, charts, text, and images anywhere on the flexible canvas. Animate your data with interactive charts, find patterns with pivot tables, and use hundreds of powerful functions. Get Started Quickly • Work from iPhone, iPad, Mac, or even a PC with iCloud.com • Select from a wide variety of Apple-designed templates • Add from a library of shapes, tables, and charts with pre-defined styles • Import and edit Microsoft Excel and CSV files Create Beautiful Spreadsheets • Place tables, charts, text, and images anywhere on the flexible canvas • Create a form on iPhone or iPad to quickly enter data on the go • Draw or write with Apple Pencil on iPad Formulas for Everyone • Choose from hundreds of powerful functions, including XLOOKUP and RegEx • Search the integrated function browser for built-in help and sample formulas • Easily add stock information to spreadsheets • See results from a single formula across multiple cells using spilling arrays Everything Adds Up Beautifully • Use pivot tables and categories to see your data in a whole new way • Quickly organize and summarize tables to gain new insights • Insert gorgeous 2D and 3D charts, including bar, column, line, area, pie, donut, and radar charts • Animate data with interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts • Easily filter through large tables for specific values, text, or duplicate entries • Change values in cells using sliders, steppers, checkboxes, pop-ups, and star ratings Share with Anyone • Share your spreadsheet publicly or collaborate with specific people using iCloud or Box • Make changes from any device and see a list of changes from others in real-time • Export your spreadsheet in CSV, TSV, PDF, and Microsoft Excel Apple Intelligence • Use Writing Tools to proofread, rewrite, summarize, and compose text • Create your own fun images with Image Playground based on a description Some features of Apple Creator Studio require an Apple Intelligence–capable device. For full system requirements and usage limits for Apple Creator Studio intelligence features, see Apple Support article 125029.

About

SunTable

Create and edit tables and forms with a minimalist interface. Offers templates, video tutorials, and robust data security features like drafts and a recycle bin. Supports xlsx/xls import/export and common table functions.

Highlights
  • Minimalist interface
  • Template library
  • Video tutorials
  • Drafts and recycle bin
  • xlsx/xls import/export
  • Common table functions
  • One-click filling
Features
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Table Maker is a unique mobile table making software, Our design concept is minimalist, and the goal is to solve the complex and difficult problem of making forms for ordinary people The software is mainly divided into four modules Homepage supports quick creation of blank forms and selection of templates designed by us to create forms The file page can quickly view the table, which can be sorted in descending or ascending order according to creation time and update time, for faster selection The video tutorial page provides video tutorials that we have carefully recorded for you, and Xiaobai can also get started quickly mine? Recycle bin, draft box to escort your data security, and online customer service to contact and communicate at any time, ask questions if you don't understand, and solve all your doubts~ Our advantage: - Simple! ! ! Get started in one minute with video tutorials. - Various styles, support schedules and data tables, and facilitate the creation of billing type tables and class schedules and other scheduling tables - Various templates, create forms through form templates, can quickly complete the work - Powerful functions, support all common table functions such as modifying table fonts, backgrounds, borders, merging, formulas, etc. - Support importing and exporting xlsx and xls files, restore the original appearance of the table one-to-one, and support cross-platform work requirements - Drafts box, the phone is out of power and shut down? Phone freezes? The form is not lost, go back to the software and continue to edit and use it in the draft box - Deleted the wrong one? Go to the recycle bin, there will be surprises - Wrong? Support one-click withdrawal, at least the last 50 operation records can be withdrawn - Withdrawing too far? Why not try to go back to the next step~ - 12345 Little Tiger Up the Mountain, this kind of regular content, why not try the one-click filling function? - Calculations are too complicated? Why not try to select and then click SUM/AVERAGE/MAX/MIN/COUNT?, the original calculation can be so simple? - A screenshot of a form sent by a good friend? Why not try to paste it directly after scanning? It turns out that the rows and columns can be automatically recognized, and the pictures can be changed directly into tables~ - What, Caton? Caton is impossible to Caton? If you don't believe me, try it~ - quick! ! ! Open forms fast, edit fast, make fast! - Stable, safe and reliable. Perfect mechanism and algorithm to ensure data security and reliability Some services within the software require the purchase of membership, including a one-time purchase of a permanent membership and a year-to-month continuous subscription membership. Instructions for continuous subscription members: - Subscription period: 1 year or one month - Payment: Pay via iTunes Store account - Cancel subscription: If you need to cancel the subscription, please manually turn off the automatic subscription in Apple ID settings management 24 hours before the current subscription expires - Renewal: Debit the payment through the iTunes Store within 24 hours before the expiration date, and the subscription cycle will be extended for one year or one month after the deduction is successful - Privacy Policy: http://www.onlybiaoge.cn/policy-ios/ - Terms of use: http://www.onlybiaoge.cn/terms-ios/

Screenshots

Numbers4 screens
SunTable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Numbers at none against SunTable's 4. Numbers also leads on ratings volume (215K vs 89) and review sentiment (50% vs 33%). SunTable's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SunTable sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Numbers asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Numbers against 4.7 for SunTable. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Numbers has 215K ratings behind it against 89, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Numbers's written reviews are positive against 33% of SunTable's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Numbers ships an update every 3 months, SunTable monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Numbers versus SunTable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNumbersSunTable
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (215K ratings)4.7 (89 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.1% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings215K — better89
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size620 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppleGuangzhou Yeion Network Technology Co., Ltd

Customer experience

Numbers

All ratings215,159 ratings
Positive91.0%
Neutral3.5%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews4,879 reviews
Positive50.1%
Neutral9.6%
Negative40.3%

SunTable

All ratings89 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Bugs and requests

Numbers

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Frozen headers issue
  • Keyboard and text editing problems
  • Spreadsheet data loss after updates
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
  • Slow performance and loading times

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to lock individual cells
  • More advanced formula and function support
  • Improved collaboration and sharing options
  • Better mobile interface and keyboard integration
  • Customizable templates and formatting options
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  • Pivot table and data analysis features

SunTable

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Numbers

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

SunTable

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly subscription$1.491 Month
  • 表格制作器季度会员$2.993 Months
  • Annual subscription$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Forever Vip$19.99

Questions

Is Numbers free?
Numbers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SunTable free?
SunTable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Numbers or SunTable?
SunTable is rated higher. Numbers averages 4.6 out of 5 from 215K ratings, while SunTable averages 4.7 from 89 ratings.
Do Numbers or SunTable have ads?
Neither Numbers nor SunTable shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Numbers or SunTable?
Numbers ships an update every 3 months, and SunTable monthly. Most recently, Numbers was updated on September 24, 2026 and SunTable on August 8, 2026.

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