A real spreadsheet for iPad
The same Rust engine as the desktop app.
Keyboard-grade shortcuts. Touch-native.
Buy once. No subscription. No account.
VisiGrid for iPad runs the full desktop formula engine natively on your tablet — not a viewer, not a thin client to someone's cloud. Your files live in the Files app and never leave your iPad unless you send them.
Your iPad deserves more than a viewer.
$9.99 one-time · App Store
Spreadsheets on iPad are rentals or toys
Excel on iPad wants a Microsoft 365 subscription to do real work. Google Sheets is a thin client to a data center. Numbers is fine for invoices.
Every one of them assumes the iPad is a second-class device: view here, edit later, sync everything through an account you had to create.
Meanwhile the iPad in your hands runs an M-series chip that outbenchmarks most laptops.
Your spreadsheet should run on your iPad — not in someone else's data center.
VisiGrid for iPad is the desktop engine, compiled for the tablet. Same formulas, same files, all local.
The whole engine, not a companion app
VisiGrid for iPad ships the same Rust engine as VisiGrid on Mac and Linux: 123 formula functions, live recalculation, multi-sheet workbooks, conditional formatting, undo across everything.
It opens and saves Excel (.xlsx) and CSV — formulas survive the round trip. A 100,000-row file loads, scrolls, and edits smoothly.
Column layouts round-trip with the desktop app, so a workbook started on your Mac looks right on your iPad and comes back intact.
One codebase, every platform: the engine is shared Rust, bridged to SwiftUI.
Keyboard-grade. Touch-native.
With a Magic Keyboard it behaves like the desktop: ⌘-arrows jump data blocks, ⇧-arrows extend selections, Tab and Enter flow, AutoSum on ⌘=, and the ⌘K command palette reaches every action by fuzzy search.
Formula point mode works the way Excel power users expect: type =, arrow to a cell, sweep a range with ⇧.
Without a keyboard it's a real touch app, not a port: drag-select, a fill handle, pinch zoom, long-press menus, and a context-aware format bar.
Scriptable — on an iPad
The built-in Lua console has live access to the sheet: sheet:set("B1", "=A1*2") and the grid updates instantly. Every script action is undoable, like any other edit.
Themes come along too, including the VisiCalc green-phosphor homage to the spreadsheet's 1979 roots.
No other spreadsheet on the App Store gives you a scripting console. This one costs $9.99, once.
When it matters
Offline, anywhere
Planes, trains, client sites with no Wi-Fi. The engine is on the device; nothing needs a connection.
Client meetings
Hand over the model on a tablet instead of a laptop. Edit live, no account walls in front of your work.
Excel refugees
No 365 seat just to edit a spreadsheet on a tablet. Your xlsx files work, formulas intact.
Desktop parity
Same engine and files as VisiGrid on Mac and Linux. Start at a desk, finish on the couch.
Get VisiGrid for iPad
One-time purchase on the App Store. No subscription, no account, no cloud requirement.
$9.99 · buy once, keep forever