Comparison

Atelier Tables vs NexReader

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

Head to head
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

About

NexReader

Features
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Read Markdown the way it was meant to look. NexReader turns any .md file into a clean, comfortable page. Headings, tables, code, task lists and quotes are rendered natively β€” no web view, no clutter, nothing between you and the words. It is made for the documents you actually receive: notes, READMEs, specs, and the long answers AI tools write for you. BEAUTIFUL RENDERING β€’ Full GitHub-Flavored Markdown: headings, bold and italic, lists, task lists, quotes, tables and links β€’ Code blocks with syntax highlighting for 16 languages, and one-tap copy β€’ Tables that keep their alignment and scroll sideways instead of squashing β€’ Images you can open full screen and pinch to zoom MAKE IT YOURS β€’ Four reading themes: Classic White, Sepia, Midnight and AMOLED Black β€’ Four typefaces, including New York for long reads β€’ Text size, weight, line height, letter spacing and paragraph spacing β€’ Three reading widths, so lines never run too long on a big screen FIND YOUR WAY β€’ An outline of every heading, with your current section marked β€’ Find in document, with every match highlighted β€’ Opens exactly where you left off β€” even after you change the text size A LIBRARY THAT STAYS TIDY β€’ Real folders you can create, rename and rearrange β€’ Favorites, sorting, search, and reading progress on every document β€’ Your documents also appear in the Files app, in the same folders GET FILES IN EASILY β€’ Import from Files, or open .md files straight from other apps β€’ Wi‑Fi Transfer: drop files from any computer's browser onto your iPhone or iPad. No cable, no cloud, no account GREAT ON IPAD β€’ Your library and the page side by side β€’ Keyboard shortcuts for find, the outline, text size and moving between sections ALSO ON MAC β€’ Open any .md file from Finder in its own window β€’ The same library, themes and typography, with a full menu bar NO ACCOUNT NEEDED There is nothing to sign up for, and your documents stay on your device. NexReader collects no data at all: no analytics, no tracking, no ads.

Screenshots

Atelier Tables4 screens
NexReader4 screens

Verdict

The call

Atelier Tables and NexReader are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Atelier Tables versus NexReader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAtelier TablesNexReader
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size13 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJustin XinPhyo Myanmar Kyaw

In-app purchases

None

Atelier Tables

No in-app purchases

None

NexReader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Atelier Tables free?
Atelier Tables is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NexReader free?
NexReader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Atelier Tables or NexReader have ads?
Neither Atelier Tables nor NexReader shows ads.

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