Comparison

Tutorial for MS Excel vs Excel Exercises

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

Head to head
About

Tutorial for MS Excel

Learn Microsoft Excel from basic formulas to advanced PivotTables and dashboards. This app offers step-by-step lessons with real screenshots and practice tasks for both Windows and Mac users. It includes guided projects and a comprehensive function reference.

Highlights
  • Step-by-step lessons
  • Real screenshots and sample data
  • Quizzes and practice tasks
  • Guided workbook projects
  • Function reference
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Windows and Mac support
Features
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Learn Excel step by step, from your first formula to PivotTables, dashboards, budgets and tax records. For beginners and anyone who wants to work faster. Tutorial for MS Excel is a complete, up-to-date course for Microsoft Excel on Windows and Mac, including the Microsoft 365 features. 58 clear lessons explain each skill in short pages with real screenshots and sample data, then let you check what you learned with a quiz and a hands-on practice task. Step-by-step courses then take you from an empty sheet to a real, working workbook. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN • Getting started: the ribbon, workbooks, entering data, rows and columns, worksheets, AutoFill and Flash Fill • Formatting: fonts and borders, alignment, number formats, conditional formatting, styles and themes • Formulas and functions: references, SUM to SUMIFS, IF and IFS, XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCH, text, dates, named ranges, fixing errors • Working with data: sorting, filtering, Tables, drop-down lists, cleaning data, freeze panes, subtotals • Charts and analysis: charts, sparklines, PivotTables, slicers, Goal Seek and data tables • Printing and sharing: page layout, PDF, co-authoring, comments, protecting sheets • Microsoft 365: FILTER, SORT and UNIQUE, LET and LAMBDA, TEXTSPLIT, Power Query, Copilot, checkboxes and pictures in cells • Guided projects: a monthly budget, invoice, gradebook, task tracker, loan calculator and sales report COURSES: BUILD A REAL WORKBOOK, START TO FINISH • Build a Home Budget: one transactions Table, budget vs actual, a year view with charts and a savings tracker • Bookkeeping for a Small Business: ledger, invoice register, profit and loss, cash flow and a year-end page • Keep Track of Your Taxes: income, claims with receipts, VAT, a tax estimate, deadlines and a year-end page, for your own country's tax year • Build a Sales Dashboard: number cards, PivotCharts, filters and targets on one screen, ready to send as a PDF • Plan Projects with a Gantt Chart: a task Table, a self-drawing Gantt chart, status labels and owner roll-ups • Track Stock and Inventory: live counts and value, alerts, supplier orders and monthly reports • Timesheets and Pay: a protected shift log, weekly overtime and pay, and a printable timesheet • Make a Teacher's Gradebook: weighted grades, letters, at-risk flags, student reports and attendance • Clean Up Messy Data: from a bad export to a validated list, with a repeatable Power Query cleanup Every course has a free first chapter, a checklist at the end of each chapter and a final quiz. FUNCTION REFERENCE • 465 functions in 12 categories, each with syntax, arguments and worked examples • Search by name or by what you want to do FEATURES • Steps for both Windows and Mac, with Mac differences called out • Real screenshots you can open full screen and zoom • A quiz and a practice checklist in every lesson • 128 keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Mac, with examples and flash-card practice • Search every lesson, function and shortcut • Bookmarks, saved pages and progress tracking • Light and dark mode, adjustable text size ONE-TIME PURCHASES, NO SUBSCRIPTION • Free: 36 lessons, the full function reference, all 128 shortcuts and the first chapter of every course • All Lessons: every lesson and guided project, plus shortcut practice • Each course: unlock one course • Everything: all lessons and every course, including courses added later Any purchase removes ads. Already bought Pro in an earlier version? Tap Restore Purchase to get Everything at no extra cost. This is an independent learning app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft and Microsoft Excel are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

About

Excel Exercises

Master Excel with this fun and engaging app. Learn functions, keyboard shortcuts for Mac and PC, and use flashcards to memorize popular formulas. It works offline and serves as a handy reference.

Highlights
  • Learn Excel functions
  • Practice formulas
  • Master keyboard shortcuts (Mac/PC)
  • Offline reference
  • Flashcards for functions
Features
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Become the Excel master of your office! Excel Exercises is the #1 fun and engaging way to learn Excel. The Excel Exercises app works offline and serves as a reference for all the Excel information you might need. Read about functions to write formulas in Excel, and learn the keyboard shortcuts, for both Mac and PC, to save time while working. Flashcards also help you learn what the most useful and popular Excel functions do.

Screenshots

Tutorial for MS Excel4 screens
Excel Exercises4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tutorial for MS Excel and Excel Exercises both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Tutorial for MS Excel's written reviews are positive against 50% of Excel Exercises's. Tutorial for MS Excel also leads on ratings volume (46 vs 4). Excel Exercises's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). 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. Tutorial for MS Excel sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Excel Exercises asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Excel Exercises holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tutorial for MS Excel has 46 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Tutorial for MS Excel's written reviews are positive against 50% of Excel Exercises's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tutorial for MS Excel versus Excel Exercises: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTutorial for MS ExcelExcel Exercises
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (46 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings46 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 14 months—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJakir HossainApp Factory, LLC

Customer experience

Tutorial for MS Excel

All ratings46 ratings
Positive97.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Excel Exercises

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Tutorial for MS Excel

One-time10
  • Build a Home Budget$1.99
  • Bookkeeping for a Small Business$1.99
  • Build a Sales Dashboard$1.99
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  • Plan Projects with a Gantt Chart$1.99
  • Track Stock and Inventory$1.99
  • Timesheets and Pay$1.99
  • Make a Teacher's Gradebook$1.99
  • Clean Up Messy Data$1.99
  • Keep Track of Your Taxes$1.99
  • Everything$9.99
None

Excel Exercises

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tutorial for MS Excel free?
Tutorial for MS Excel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Excel Exercises free?
Excel Exercises is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tutorial for MS Excel or Excel Exercises?
Excel Exercises is rated higher. Tutorial for MS Excel averages 4.8 out of 5 from 46 ratings, while Excel Exercises averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Tutorial for MS Excel or Excel Exercises have ads?
Both Tutorial for MS Excel and Excel Exercises show ads.

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