What best excel add in

Excel is by far the most used application for data analysis, and mastering it is a must-have skill in many companies. It can also be a huge time-saver: an Excel master can be tens or hundreds of times more productive than a beginner. And add-ins can play a significant role in improving your efficiency with Excel, bring you the tools you need to perform well.

What is an Excel add-in?

Excel add-ins are small programs that can be installed to enhance the capabilities of Microsoft Excel by adding new custom features.

There are hundreds of Excel add-ins on the market, covering a wide range of functions.

In this post, we list and describe over 75 add-ins, plugins and apps that complement Microsoft Excel with additional features and options to be even more productive and impress with your abilities with Excel. Some of them are free and some are not, but each of them perform tasks that can greatly help you becoming an Excel rock star.

What are the best Excel add-ins?

Here are 75 of the best add-ins for Microsoft Excel (free or not):

1. Power-user

2. Tableau desktop

3. F9

4. Excel Stock Market Functions

5. Kutools

6. Advanced Formula Environment

7. PowerPivot

8. XLGL

9. ASAP Utilities

10. MonteCarlito

11. Intis Telecom

12. Analystix Tools

13. People Graph

14. Analysis ToolPack

15. Solver

16. Power Query

17. StatPlus:mac

18. FRED

19. Simtools

20. Formlist

21. NXPowerLite Desktop 8

22. Jensen

23. Anomaly Server

24. XLSTAT

25. Operis Analysis Toolkit (OAK)

26. Table Analysis Tools and Data Mining Client

27. Dose

28. Supply Chain add-in

29. Office Tabs

30. ParallelDots

31. vIcons

32. Random Number Generator

33. Random Sorter

34. Audit Tickmark Toolbar

35. QR4Office

36. Geographic Heat Map

37. Password Recovery

38. Ultimate Suite

39. Lucidchart

40. Supermetrics

41. GIGRAPH Network Visualization

42. Selection Diff Tool

43. XY Chart Labeler

44. Hoadley Finance

45. ModernCharts

46. Microsoft Dynamics

47. Risk Analyzer

48. Panel Chart

49. BulkQuotesXL Pro

50. Vertex42 Templates Gallery

51. Model Analyzer

52. Weather by Visual Crossing

53. Spreadsheet123

54. Capital Budgeting

55. Inventory

56. Bubbles

57. Excellent Analytics

58. SEOTools

59. SEOGadget

60. Checkbook Assistant

61. Loan Assistant

62. Flash Card Assistant

63. ActiveData

64. Mekko Chart Creator

65. Conditional Row Delete

66. Power Utility Pack

67. Exchange rates

68. Mini Calendar and Date Picker

69. Favorite Bookmarks

70. Functions Translator

71. RDBmail

72. Intrinio

73. Excel training and tips

74. Power Reconcile

75. Microsoft Flow for Excel

1. Power-user

Power-user is an add-in for Excel, PowerPoint and Word. It has dozens of impressive features designed for anyone who use the Office Suite on a frequent basis:

• Ability to create new charts like Mekko and Sankey charts,

• Robust Excel-PowerPoint links,

• Powerful new functions like SumColor, CountColor, CountVisible, IsFormula, IsMerged, LastCell, LastRowNumber, LastColumnNumber, SumFromAllSheets, VlookupMax, SlicerItems, CAGR, etc.

• Copy and paste visible cells only,

• UnPivot a crosstab table, changing it into a database,

• Quickly format numbers, currencies and dates in Excel,

• Tools to clean your data from merged cells, remove empty cells or simplify formulas

• Swap the position of cells or charts,

• Easily format your tables with horizontal or vertical borders,

• …and more!

​But Power-user also brings amazing new features for PowerPoint and Word:

• A rich library of 700 beautiful PowerPoint templates,

• 350 editable maps,

• 7,000 vector icons and flags,

• 1+ million high-quality pictures,

• Dashboard tools such as Gauges, traffic lights, Harvey balls, etc.

• Value chains, circular, relationship or pyramid diagrams,

• An automatic Agenda builder,

• A robust link to easily connect PowerPoint charts and tables to Excel data

• Waterfall, Mekko, Sankey, Tornado or Gantt charts,

• … powerful formatting tools to align titles, harmonize fonts or colors, clean a presentation, edit multiple charts, align or move shapes, change languages, etc.!  

Click to watch the demo video of Power-user:

2. Tableau Desktop — $999 to $1,999

Tableau is a data visualization add-in. You have to start by connecting it to your data. It can come from an Excel spreadsheet, but also from one of the data sources provided with the add-on. Then you start creating reports or dashboards by using drag and drop on the Tableau work space. Tableau claims its software is one of the fastest on the market; a well-created Tableau report should allow to quickly filter or zoom on part of the data to answer a specific question. Tableau is available on both Windows and iOS.

3. F9 — On quotes only

F9 allows you to work on your accounting data, preparing and distributing financial reports to a group of contacts throughout your organization. Some of your data can be linked between Excel and your accounting system. F9 is available on working on PC only, for versions 2003 to 2019, but not on Mac iOS.

4. Excel Stock Market Functions — Free

This add-in provides new user-defined functions that can be used to retrieve stock markets data from the web directly into Excel. Using these functions, you can for instance download the market capitalization of a company by entering its market symbol, the dates of the period and the frequency of the quotes (ex: daily). This add-in is ideal to build a dashboard of your personal portfolio, and then just refresh it on a regular basis. Excel Stock Market Functions is available on Windows only.

5. Kutools — $39

Kutools provides a very large number of little tools and Excel functions that can turn out useful time-savers in several situations. The cons of this add-in is that is has a lot of features, but a large numbers of them you will probably never use. The pros is that several tools can be really useful, such as the possibility to paste data only to visible cells, to count cells by colors or to combine sheets. Kutools works with Excel 2007 to 2019 on PC.

6. Advanced Formula Environment — Free

This Excel add-in is provided by Microsoft itself. It offers a new, modernized environment for writing named formulas and Lambda functions. Compared to the usual formula bar, it allows syntax highlighting, inline errors, comments and formatting. It’s also perfect for importing Lambda functions. The app works with Microsoft Excel 2013 and later on PC, Mac or the web.

7. PowerPivot — Free

PowerPivot is a Microsoft add-in designed to turn Excel into a business intelligence software. Basically, PowerPivot could be described as «Microsoft Access for dummies». You can build tables with relationships that will be much faster than the time-consuming classical VLOOKUP function in Excel. However our personal experience with PowerPivot is that it still lacks stability and it often causes Excel files to be corrupt… Since Excel 2013, PowerPivot is built-in and doesn’t need to be downloaded. You can activate it like any add-in. For prior versions of Excel, you need to download it from the Microsoft website.

8. XLGL — $299

XLGL is an accounting and reporting tool that fetches data from accounting software Sage to update Excel spreadsheets. GL stands for the accounting term General Ledger. Using XLGL, you can use formulas to work with updated data on customer orders, employee hours, inventories, etc. It is also provided with report layouts. XLGL works on PC with Excel version 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019.

9. ASAP Utilities — $49

ASAP Utilities is an Excel add-in focusing on saving time. Although many features are not rocket-science, some are interesting like the possibility to sort tabs alphabetically or by color, or the tool to insert cells before or after each cell in the selection. ASAP is one of the only add-ins available starting with Excel version 2000 and works with every version on PC up to Excel 2019.

10. MonteCarlito — Free

As the name suggests, MonteCarlito is designed to run Monte-Carlo simulations in Excel, as well as other statistical analysis to compute mean, median, standard error, variance, skewness, kurtosis, etc. It is quite an old and simple add-in, but MonteCarlito works with both Windows and Mac iOS versions of Excel.

11. Intis Telecom — FREE

The Intis Telecom plugin allows you to send SMS directly from Excel. Select a range with phone numbers in your spreadsheet and the plugin will send them the SMS of your choice. The plugin is free but requires to purchase credits to send SMS. Intis Telecom is compatible with Excel 2003 to 2019 on PC. It is not available on Mac.

12. Analystix Tools — Free

Analystix provides a free Excel add-in meant for financial analysis. It includes tools to calculate CAGR, WACC (weighted average cost of capital), Black & Scholes formula, as well as an histogram builder to visualize distribution and a date arranger. Analystix Tools works on Excel 2010 and later on PC.

13. People Graph — Free

This plugin lets your create and update people graphs, a typical tool for infographics. This add-in works on PC with Excel 2013 to 2019, on Excel 2016 for Mac, Excel Online and Excel for iPad.

14. Analysis ToolPack — Free

The Analysis ToolPack is a Microsoft add-in that allows statistical analysis such as correlation analysis, descriptive statistics or histograms. It is provided on every computer using Excel 2007 and later, Mac or PC. You just need to load the add-in.

15. Solver — Free

The Solver is a tool that is also provided by Microsoft with Excel 2007 and later. It can be used for what-if analysis, to find optimal value for a formula in a cell under constraints limiting other formula cells. Basically, the Solver will determine the maximum or minimum value that a formula can take while changing several other cells.

16. Power Query — Free

This Microsoft add-in is made to help access and explore data in Excel like with Business Intelligence tools, by allowing to import, transform or combine multiple data sources. Power Query requires Excel 2010 or 2013 on Windows.

17. StatPlus:mac — €189

StatPlus:mac is one of the very few Excel add-ins for statistics that works on Mac. It is a statistical analysis package allowing to analyze correlations, run regressions, time series or data processing analysis, to create statistical charts, etc. StatPlus is actually available on both PC (2007 to 2019) and Mac (2004 to 2016).

18. FRED — Free

Provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, this free add-in provides access to macroeconomic data from multiple sources such as the BEA, OECD, BLS or Census. Time series can be inserted into Excel with a few clicks, and you can then automatically calculate growth rate or change the data frequency. You can even refresh your spreadsheet with the most up to date data and see your entire dashboard adapt to it. The FRED add-in works with Excel 2010 and 2013.

19. Simtools — Free

Simtools adds 32 statistical functions to perform Monte Carlo simulations and risk analysis in Excel spreadsheets. Functions cover cumulative probability, correlations among random variables, decision analysis, analyzing discrete probability distributions, regression analysis, or random generation of discrete distributions. Simtools works on PC with Excel 2003 and later.

20. Formlist — Free

Formlist is an auditing tool that provides procedure for displaying the formulas of any selected range of cells in Excel. It is a very simple add-in with limited possibilities, but it’s free, and it works on Excel 2003 and later for PC.

21. NXPowerLite Desktop 8 — $50

Not exclusively for Excel but working with PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, as well as JPEG or PDF files, NXPowerLite compresses files and optimize them for screen, print or mobile devices. It can also automatically compresses your email attachment files, a feature that you can also temporarily disable if you don’t want it. NXPowerPointLite does not work on Mac iOS.

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22. Jensen — Free

Jensen has actually created multiple Excel add-ins performing various tasks, mainly for statistics analysis purposes. One is for Markov analysis, one for random variables, one for decision analysis, one for simulation, etc. These add-ins are quite old and were designed for Excel 2003 on Windows.

23. Anomaly Server — Free

This tool helps you identify anomalies and outliers in a data set. the US directly into Excel from data.gov. This Excel tool works with Excel 2016 and  up for PC and Mac, as well as with Excel Online.

24. XLSTAT — $235 to $940

XLSTAT works as an add-on with about 100 features for advanced statistical analysis: linear or non-linear regressions, k-means, principal component analysis, etc. XLSTAT is highly compatible, working on PC for version 97 up to 2019 and on Mac with Excel 2011 and 2016.

25. Operis Analysis Toolkit (OAK) — £311.66

This Excel add-in aims at helping you understand complex spreadsheets and reduce the risk of errors. The main features are a workbook summary, a spreadsheet structure map, a formula walker and other solutions to compare, audit and search Excel workbooks. OAK is compatible with Excel on Windows, but not with Mac iOS. 

26. Table Analysis Tools and Data Mining Client — Free

These 2 add-ins for Excel are provided by Microsoft for data mining. Table Analysis Tools for Excel leverages SQL Server 2012 data mining models from an Excel spreadsheet, while Data Mining Client lets you explore data mining models. These tools require Excel 2010 or 2013 on Windows.

27. Dose — €33.84

Dose is a great collection of tools for Excel. It contains many, many features such as a date picker, an auto back-up solution, powerful functions, tools to find duplicated, list files, manage rows, clean data, count words and more. The add-in is compatible with Excel 2007 to 2019 on PC. 

28. Supply Chain add-in — Free but requires subscription

This Excel plugin helps you build powerful geographical visualizations. Not only can you create data-driven maps, but also geocoding, distance calculations, warehouse locations optimizations and more. It works with Excel 2016 and later on Windows, Mac and web.

29. Office Tabs — Free

The Office Tabs add-in creates an easy interface allowing to switch between the windows opened on any Microsoft Office application. It creates a tab bar on your standard PowerPoint, Excel or Word window, displaying a tab for each currently open document of the same application. Just like on your Internet browser, you can click on a document’s title to switch to it. You can also save all open documents in one click, instead of saving them separately. Office Tabs works on Office 365 and all Office version above 2003, but non on Mac iOS.

Nota Bene: this tool is comparable to the Tab Explorer feature included in the Power-user add-in

30. ParallelDots — Free for limited use

This powerful gives you access to an AI for text analysis. Among the great tools it provide, you can use the AI API for sentiment analysis, keywords generation, text classification (taxonomy), to find abusive content and more. The add-in requires Excel 2010, 2013, 2016 or 2019 (64 bit only) on Windows 7, 8 or 10.  

31. vIcons — $99

vIcons is a library of 600 icons that can be inserted in Excel, Word or PowerPoint. Search icons using keywords or just pick them up in the library. vIcons works on Office 2007, 2010 and 2013 for Windows, but the add-in does not run on Mac.

Nota Bene: this is an equivalent to the Icons Library included in the Power-user add-in that contains over 4,000 vector icons.

32. Random Number Generator — $29.95

As the name suggest, this Excel add-in generates numbers randomly. It could be seen as an improvement of the RAND() Excel function, since you can choose the format of the data you want to generate: dates, boolean, integers, real numbers etc. It can also be used to generate strings of characters in order to create random passwords. Random Number Generator works on Windows computers with Excel version 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019. It does not work on Mac.

33. Random Sorter — $29.95

Random Sorter can be really useful if you need sometimes to extract randomly 25% of your population, to make a poll for instance. The add-in will shuffle your data. Random Sorter works on Windows computers with Excel version 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 or 2019. It does not work on Mac.

34. Audit Tickmark Toolbar — $25

This small toolbar can be useful for audit, accounting or finance, allowing to add tickmarks to show GL (for General Ledger account), PBC (Prepared By Client), PY (agrees to Prior Year), TB (agrees to Trial Balance), etc. The toolbar works with Excel 96 to 2019 on PC but is not available for Mac.

35. QR4Office — Free

The QR4Office plugin creates QR codes that will allow to open your document with a pre-defined url of your choice. You can use it to make your Excel file or PowerPoint presentations more interactive, so that people can check it with their smartphone or vote for a poll, for instance. QR4Office is available for versions of PowerPoint, Word and Excel later than 2013 on Windows, as well as version 2016 on Mac.

36. Geographic Heat Map — Free

The Heat Map Excel app lets you display data-based colors on the map of the USA or the World map. You can move your mouse on each state as well to display its name. This app works with Excel 2013 and later on PC, and with version 2016 on Mac.

NB: for a broader choice of 200 map of continents, regions, countries or counties, you can use instead the Power-user add-in and insert one of the many Data maps from this tool. See how it works here in video.

37. Password Recovery — $29

If you protect Excel files with passwords and you tend to forget them, this plugin can be of use to you. Success is not guaranteed though, and recovering a password can take up to 36 hours so don’t rely on this if you are in an emergency situation. Password Recovery works with Excel versions 2003 to 2010 on Windows. It is not available on Mac.

38. Ultimate Suite — $99

This suite regroups all add-ins from the office-addins website (a company that is independent from Microsoft). Those tools include Password Recovery, the Random Number Generator and Random Sorter, as well as tools to find and remove duplicates, to split columns, to clean data from multiple sources, find broken links or cells similar to your selection, etc. This package is available on Excel versions 2003 to 2010 on Windows but is not available for Mac.

39. Lucidchart — Subscription required

This app for Excel lets you create flowcharts, UML, wireframes, mockups, org charts and more in your workbook. The app works for Excel 2013 or later on Windows, and for Excel 2016 on Mac.

40. Supermetrics — $99/mo

Supermetrics is a great tool for people in digital marketing, looking for a solution to analyze data in Excel. It can connect to a great number of sources like Google Analytics, Google Ads, Social networks and more, allowing you to crunch the numbers for traffic and conversions directly in Excel. You can also use it to create dashboards, refreshing them and emailing them automatically. It is available for Excel 2016 and 365, online and offline.

41. GIGRAPH Network Visualization — Free

GIGRAPH creates network diagrams that can be used to visualize relationships between multiple persons or entities. Your data would need to be organized for one-way or two-way relationships, for instance with a ‘from’ and a ‘to’ columns. GIGRAPH is available on Windows computers with Excel 2013 Service Pack 1 or later, as well as Excel Online.

42. Selection Diff Tool — €3.99

If you need to compare two strings of text and identify the differences between them, this tool is made for you. This app works on Excel as well as on Word, where it can be of great help if you are reviewing a different version of a document that was not made using Track Change. The app does not work on Mac and is supported by Excel and Word 2013 and later.

43. XY Chart Labeler — Free

This plugin lets you take back control of the chart labels in Excel. Working with labels can be very annoying, and you have limited options. So this plugin lets you add labels to data points on your XY chart data series or move XY labels. The XY Chart Labeler actually works not only for XY charts. It is available on Windows and on Mac 2011, but not on Mac with Excel 2016. 

44. Hoadley Finance — $AU176

For people working a lot on Excel in finance, this add-in can be a useful addition. It allows you to perform portfolio analysis, calculate option prices, volatility, value at risk, asset allocation, company valuation, and even more. Formulas can also be used to stream quotes values in real-time from Internet sources. The Hoadley Finance add-ins works with Excel 2003 to 2019, on Windows but not on Mac.

45. ModernCharts — $4.99/mo

This Excel app allows you to reveal what your data contains with a number of charting tools and options. It can be helpful to create infographic charts in Excel or PowerPoint, relying on a comprehensive chart library. The app is available on all versions above 2013, including on Mac. 

46. Microsoft Dynamics — Free

Connect your Excel spreadsheet to your Microsoft Dynamics data, read it, analyze it or feed your dashboard, and publish data changes back into Microsoft Dynamics. On Word, you can manage templates that will be fed by data from Microsoft Dynamics. If your company is using this CRM, then you will need this app. It is available on Excel and Word 2016 versions and later.

47. Risk Analyzer — $49.95

This add-in lets your perform Monte Carlo risk analysis, histograms and tornado charts, what-if analysis, etc. It does not work on Mac iOS, but is compatible with Excel 2007 and above on Windows.

48. Panel Chart  — $29.95

When you create Excel line charts with many series, it can easily become impossible to read as lines cross one another or as the size of the legend increases. with the Panel Chart add-in, you can separate lines by categories in different panels, so that you chart is much easier to read and understand. Panel Chart works on Excel 2007 and above on Windows, but is not available on Mac.

49. BulkQuotesXL Pro — $74.95

This Excel add-in allows you to download free quotes from multiple data sources directly into spreadsheets. The tool can access data from Yahoo! Finance historical prices and dividends, to Google Finance historical prices, to PiFin historical prices and to CBOE. BulkQuotesXL is available on Windows computer with Excel 2010 and later, but not on Mac.

50. Vertex42 Templates Gallery — Free

Vertex42 provides a gallery of over 150 professionally designed templates for Excel and Word. Templates include calendar, planners, budgeting, inventory, invoices or financial statements. The app works on Excel and Word 2013 and later for Windows. 

51. Model Analyzer — €354

This Excel add-in brings multiple solutions for Excel modelling. You can centralize input and output variables in your spreadsheets, but also perform statistical analysis, such as what-if analysis (with tornado charts, spider charts and sensitivity tables), scenario analysis, multiple goal seek, break-even analysis or Monte-Carlo simulations. Model Analyzer is made for financial analysts, economists and researchers. It is only available on the 32 bit version of Excel 2007 and 2010. It is not compatible with Mac either.

52. Weather by Visual Crossing — $5/mo

This small add-in for Office lets you get weather and climate records and forecasts directly into Excel. The data is available down to the hour. It also includes geocoding allowing to get the weather for a specific address.

53. Spreadsheet123 — Free

Before starting to build spreadsheets from scratch, you might sometimes want to pick up a nice template and work on it. That’s exactly what you can do with Spreadsheet123, a library of templates with financial statements, budgeting, payroll, invoicing, time sheets, checklists or inventory management templates. Spreadsheet123 works with Excel and Word 2013 Service Pack 1 or later as well as Excel and Word online, but is not available on Mac.

54. Capital Budgeting — Free

This Jensen add-in is made to identify optimized portfolios. Define a potential portfolio by providing its initial investment, annual return, salvage value and life. The model will use the standard deviation to estimate risk and will identify the optimized portfolio.

55. Inventory — Free

This Jensen add-in computes inventories, with the possibility to integrate backorders, lost sales, finite or infinite replenishment rates. The model identifies the optimum lot size with cost breaks. 

56. Bubbles — Free

This app lets you create nice and colorful bubble charts, to display 3 or 4 dimensions of information. Use the horizontal and vertical axes, bubble size and colors to display complex information in a simple way. Bubbles works on Excel 2013 and later on Windows, as well as Excel 2016 for Mac.

57. Excellent Analytics — Free

Excellent Analytics is the must-have add-in to dig into your Google Analytics data directly from Excel. Use it to crunch your Analytics data and identify how you can bring more traffic to your website.

58. SEOTools — €79

This add-in lets you integrate data from Google Analytics, Google Adwords, the Google Search Console, SEMrush, Youtube, Ahrefs, Moz and other platforms directly into Excel so you can work your SEO data and identify key trends on your website.

59. SEOGadget — Free

SEOGadget lets you analyze your analytics data into Excel. It can access data from Majestic SEO, Moz and Grepwords and bring it to Excel for you to work on it and identify how you can boost your website’s ranking. The tool works on Windows with Excel versions 2010 and above, but does not work on Mac iOS.

60. Checkbook Assistant — Free

This add-in can help you manage your personal finance, letting you do you checkbooks and bank statements with Excel. You can move rows up or down in a single click, so you can align your Excel records with your bank statements. The tool detects and highlights the first unprocessed row. The Checkbook Assistant works with Excel 2007 and later on Windows, but is not available for Mac.

61. Loan Assistant — $19.95

This plugin lets you easily compute loans, playing with the annual flat interest rate, load amount and balloon payment at the end of the load to calculate the actual payment per period and total interests to pay. The plugin can also create a load detail year by year with the due capital and interest payments, as well as the remaining capital. The Loan Assistant works with Excel 2007 and later on Windows, but is not available for Mac.

62. Flash Card Assistant — Free

Turn Excel into a Q&A software with this simple plugin. Define a list of questions and their answers, choose the order or make it random and run it to get questions asked like flash cards and make it a game in a private or professional situation. The plugin is free and works with Excel 2007 and later. It is not supported on Mac.

63. ActiveData — $249

ActiveData adds data analytics and time-saving worksheet and workbook management features into Excel. Features include join, merge, query, summarize, find duplicates, split data, etc. The tool works with Excel versions 2007 and later on Windows, but is not available for Mac.

64. Mekko Chart Creator — $29.95

Create Marimekko charts with this tool, so you can display 3 dimensions of data in an appealing way. This plugin works with Excel 2007 and later on Windows only.

Nota Bene: for more advanced Mekkos that are editable, you can use instead the Mekko feature of the Power-user add-in for PowerPoint, Excel and Word. 

65. Conditional Row Delete — Free

This small add-in simplifies the process of deleting rows selectively, based for instance on the value in a specific column.

66. Power Utility Pack — Free

For Mac users, this add-in is one of the best available options. Created by Ron de Bruin, it contains a collection of utility tools that can be relevant time-savers in several situations. 

67. Exchange rates — $35.94

This plugin helps you by converting currencies with with real-time rates from the Internet. Rates are accessed from the MSN Money Central Investor website. The tool works on Windows only, for any version of Excel above 2000.

68. Mini Calendar and Date Picker — Free

When working with dates in Excel, it can be a pain — and a possible source of errors — to type manually multiple dates. With this app you can now just pick a date in a calendar and it will be automatically formatted as date. The app works with Excel 2013 or later on Windows, on Excel 2016 on Mac and on Excel Online.

69. Favorite Bookmarks — Free

Use this add-in to bookmark your favorite workbooks, sheets or range, so you can find and open them anytime from other Excel spreadsheets. The tools is available on Windows only, for Excel versions 2007 and later.

70. Functions Translator — Free

This add-in from Microsoft helps you translate functions and formulas between languages supported by Excel. It works with Excel 2013 and later on Windows, Mac and Excel Online.

71. RDBmail — Free

This mail add-in for Excel from Ron de Bruin lets you automate the process of sending sheets, data or workbook. When you have a workbook open, you can just click on the buttons on the ribbon to send it in an Outlook email, with options to send the entire workbook, just the active worksheet, or to send is with values instead of formulas. RDBmail works with Excel 2007 to 2019 on Windows.

72. Intrinio — Free

Intrinio lets you screen all equities in the United States, using filters on 500 parameters to identify the equities that meet your requirements, such as current stock price, return on equity, dividend yield, price to earnings ratio, sector, employee count, etc. Intrinio only works on Windows with Excel 2013 or later.

73. Excel training and tips — Free

This app helps you learn some Excel with a list of formulas to learn, for beginners, intermediates or Excel experts, Q&A on formulas and other information you need to know if you are to use Excel frequently. The app works with Excel 2013 and later on Windows as well as with Excel 2016 for Mac.

74. Power Reconcile — Free but $9.99/mo subscription required

This add-on is very relevant for people in finance who need to reconcile reports between vendor and accounts payable. The report will be created automatically, highlighting perfect matches or partial matches, saving you potentially a lot of time compared to a manual reconciliation. It is compatible with Excel 2013 and later on PC or Mac as well as the web version.

75. Microsoft Flow for Excel — Free

This add-in by Microsoft helps you create workflows between different applications like Excel, Outlook, Planner, Twitter, Trello, MailChimp and others. These workflows can include approval process, mobile push notifications, email sending etc. It is compatible with Excel 2013 and later on PC, Mac or the web.

Conclusion:

Excel is among the most used software in the world, and a key tool for business in most companies. However immensely rich and complex, the standard version of Excel is still just a fraction of what can be done on it by using the variety of add-ins that have been created around it.

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Published in Apps on 13/05/2022, last updated 27/02/2023.

Who hasn’t used an Excel spreadsheet at least once? If you’re not an expert, it can feel like a bit of a slog. The learning curve can be pretty intense, and it seems like there’s always a new problem to solve. But if you know what you’re doing, Excel can be an absolute powerhouse. Hell, you might even be able to run your entire workflow in your spreadsheets. And if you combine them with the right Excel add-in?

Think of Excel add-ins like expansion packs for your spreadsheets. Some give you the ability to build reports in half the time, while others can turn a single spreadsheet into an SEO powerhouse. There’s no shortage of things an Excel add-in can do. Here are just a few of the best ones.

Unito: Best Excel add-in for integrations

We had to start with our own add-in. Unito is no-code workflow management solution with the deepest two-way integrations for Excel and some of the most popular tools on the market. As an Excel add-in, Unito gives you the ability to sync data from your spreadsheet to any other tool in your stack, whether that’s a database tool like Airtable, a project management tool like Asana, or any other of our 30+ integrations.

Unito’s two-way sync feature means any information you sync out of Excel into other tools will be automatically updated in both tools automatically. No more asking which spreadsheet is up to date, and no more file names like ExpenseReport_Final_1_REAL.

Pricing

Unito’s pricing plans count the number of work items you’re syncing with it — each Excel row counts as a single work item. Plans start at $10/month for 100 items in sync, scaling up to $975/month for 15,000 items.

Power User: Best Excel add-in for productivity

Power User is a complete add-in for Excel that aims to help you save time on recurring tasks, get more done, and make your spreadsheets look better while you do it. This add-in provides the discerning Excel user with over 500 templates for Excel (and the rest of the Office suite), dynamic diagrams, Gantt charts, and a ton of other features.

The result? You can probably tell the difference between someone using Power User in their spreadsheets and someone who isn’t. They’re the person building smarter spreadsheets that pop in half the time.

Pricing

You can use Power User for free forever, but the paid plans give you access to the bulk of its features. The Premium plan is $18.75/month/user for up to nine users, while the Premium Enterprise plan ranges from $9 to $15/month/user for 10+ users.

Lucidchart: Best Excel add-in for presentations

Wish you could go from data to presentation in less time? That’s the pitch from Lucidchart. This Excel add-in makes building simple flowcharts and diagrams feel the way it should with a simple drag and drop interface and no learning curve. All without leaving Excel.

Lucidchart also lets you both export and import Microsoft Visio files, so you can work more effectively with Microsoft’s own flowchart builder. The add-in also has integrations with G Suite, Facebook, YouTube, and a ton of other tools built for your data needs.

Pricing

Lucidchart’s free plan lets you work with up to three Lucidchart documents and three boards. Beyond that, you’ll need one of the paid plans. Individual users can get a plan for $11.93/month, while teams need to pay $13.50/user.

Wikipedia: Best Excel add-in for better research

Do you find yourself clicking back and forth between Excel and Wikipedia? Constantly copying links into your spreadsheets? With the Wikipedia Excel Add-in, you can automatically search for the right Wikipedia article just by highlighting a word. That might just save you a few keystrokes and a bit of scrolling, but it really adds up.

Even if you’re building reports and datasheets in Excel, you can get a lot out of this add-in. Always answering the same questions about common acronyms or concepts? Just link to Wikipedia right from your Excel sheet. How many Slack messages do you think that’ll save you?

Pricing

The Wikipedia Add-in for Excel is completely free to use.

Infor F9: For financial reports

If you’re often using Excel to report on budgets and finances, Infor F9 might just be your new secret weapon. A purpose-built reporting tool, Infor F9 is easy to use, fast, and powerful. Instead of manually building your reports, this Excel add-in lets you automatically format real-time data, saving you time — and more than a little effort.

The Infor F9 add-in can support budget reports, multiple currency reporting, consolidations, drilldowns, and more.

Pricing

The company behind Infor F9 doesn’t make the pricing available publicly. You’ll need to get in touch with them to get a custom pricing package.

Are you one of those marketers that wish they could run everything out of Excel? If your work involves SEO, then the SEOTools Excel add-in might be just what you need. Think of it like an all-in-one SEO package, built right into Excel.

Backlinks, on-page SEO, interlinking, you can do it all with SEOTools. The add-in also has integrations for some of the most important tools in your stack, from Google Analytics to Ahrefs, as well as social platforms.

Pricing

SEOTools charges 99€ per user, per year, which amounts to about $102 USD. They also offer a 25% discount for packs of five licenses and 30% for packs of 10.

Supermetrics: Best for marketing data

Ever wish you could set up your marketing data visualization in one place? That’s the pitch from Supermetrics. Usually, if you want to get data from your marketing tools into Excel, you either need to copy and paste it manually or endlessly export and re-import CSV files. It’s not hard, sure, but it takes a ton of time.

Through automation and integration, Supermetrics lets you pull data automatically from social media advertising platforms, Google Ads, and Google Analytics. You can also import data from tools like HubSpot, Mailchimp, and more.

Pricing

The pricing plans for Supermetrics scale according to the number of data sources you need. The Essential plan supports seven data sources for $119 a month. The Core plan covers 22 data sources for $239 while the Super plan allows for 42 data sources at $579 a month.

Time to excel

The right Excel add-in can completely transform the way you use your spreadsheets. Whether you’re looking to hasten your reporting workflows, build better presentations, or run your entire workflow in Excel, you’ll be well-served by any of the add-ins in this list.