Comparison

Type Shhh vs Atelier Tables

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

Head to head
About

Type Shhh

This app allows you to discreetly take private notes in public spaces. It offers a way to hide your text if you feel observed, ensuring your thoughts remain confidential. You can easily share your notes to other applications when needed.

Highlights
  • Private note-taking
  • Discreet typing interface
  • Hide text when observed
  • Easy sharing to other apps
Features
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Type Shhh is for taking private notes in public. Hide the text of your notes if you think someone is watching, and continue typing. Easily share your note to another app whenever you want.

About

Atelier Tables

Features
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Edit spreadsheets on your iPhone and iPad, wherever your files live. Tables is a spreadsheet editor for the Excel and CSV files you already have. Open them from the Files app, edit them with formulas, charts, comments, and macros, and save them back where they came from. Files - Open and save Excel workbooks (.xlsx) and macro-enabled workbooks (.xlsm) in place - Open and save CSV and TSV files - Share a workbook as an Excel file, or the sheet you're viewing as CSV or TSV - Undo and redo any change Formulas - Type formulas into the formula bar, just like on a computer - More than 500 built-in functions, covering every Excel function except those that need a web service, a server, an add-in, a pivot table, or phonetic data - Dynamic arrays that spill, including XLOOKUP, FILTER, SORT, UNIQUE, LET, LAMBDA, GROUPBY, and PIVOTBY - Financial, statistical, engineering, database, and regular expression functions - References to Excel tables, and union and intersection operators - Search the function library, and sum a selection in one tap Charts and Objects - Create column, bar, line, area, pie, doughnut, and scatter charts from your data - Choose stacked or percent-stacked layouts, and place the legend where you want it - Select, move, resize, and delete charts, plus the pictures and shapes already in a workbook Comments - See at a glance which cells have comments - Add, reply to, resolve, and delete comments and notes - Comments move with their cells when you insert or delete rows and columns, or copy and paste Macros - Run the VBA macros in a workbook, including prompts and message boxes - Edit modules in a code editor with syntax coloring and automatic indentation - Add standard and class modules, or start a macro project in any workbook - A built-in help book explains what macros can and can't do in Tables Shortcuts and Siri - Get, create, read, change, and save workbooks with Shortcuts actions you can chain together - Read cells and ranges, find rows, set values, append rows, sort, and clear ranges - Add, rename, and delete sheets - Ask Siri to calculate a formula or create a new workbook Formatting - Bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough - Text and fill colors, font sizes, alignment, text wrapping, and rotation - Style borders edge by edge, in a range of line styles - Merge and unmerge cells - Number formats for currency, accounting, percentages, dates, times, and more, plus custom format codes Sheets and Rows - Add, rename, duplicate, hide, and reorder sheets - Insert, delete, hide, and resize rows and columns - Select several ranges at once: hold one finger on a selection and pick more with another Built for Touch - Full dark mode support - VoiceOver support

Screenshots

Type Shhh4 screens
Atelier Tables4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Atelier Tables at every 3 days against Type Shhh's every 6 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Type Shhh ships an update every 6 months, Atelier Tables every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Type Shhh versus Atelier Tables: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterType ShhhAtelier Tables
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS26.226.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMark MolchanyJustin Xin

In-app purchases

None

Type Shhh

No in-app purchases

None

Atelier Tables

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Type Shhh free?
Type Shhh is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Atelier Tables free?
Atelier Tables is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Type Shhh or Atelier Tables have ads?
Neither Type Shhh nor Atelier Tables shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Type Shhh or Atelier Tables?
Type Shhh ships an update every 6 months, and Atelier Tables every 3 days. Most recently, Type Shhh was updated on November 5, 2026 and Atelier Tables on November 10, 2026.

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