Tables is a brilliant app. Fast, reliable, nice to look at, with clever features like showing calculation links across cells in color, etc. I looked and looked for a food spreadsheet (Mesa doesn't work, NeoOffice is very slow, Numbers is weird, Mariner is ugly). I missed Tables because the description on MacUpdate isn't very good and it's not immediately clear it's a spreadsheet. One request to the developer: please add a few icons at the top. There's plenty of room! I miss an icon for copy/paste style, move decimal point right/left, insert/delete column/row. Also, I can't find any way to box or underline cells. Other than that, this is very good. I'm still on the 30-day trial deal but I'll definitely buy this app!

First there was Mesa, then there was Numbers...and I dumped Numbers fast for Tables. For me, Tables is far superior when it comes to managing huge amounts of data (especially multiple-sheet spreadsheets), and it's incredibly easy to use. The program seems to be developing well, and the developer is, as has been stated before, highly responsive. This is, hands down, the best spreadsheet I've yet used for OS X.

Very Mac-like spreadsheet application. However, it did crash a lot with my Excel worksheets. The more complex they are, the less likely Tables can cope. With Apple's Numbers just weeks away I'm going to wait before making a decision. However, if Numbers won't be in the iWork package I think Tables might be a good alternative to Excel. If only the crashes would be fixed and compatibility improved.

Tables is lean, fast, easy to use and runs stable. Bugs are fixed very quickly (thanks again Daniel). Smooth collaboration with Excel, importing from and exporting to Excel is very satisfying. It's totally great to work with Tables.

I am not a heavy user of spreadsheets, but I need them from time to time, and I have always found Excel not very pleasant, despite its powerful features. Quite often, I was going back to AppleWorks, and then completing the work in Excel.

Tables has solved my problem and provided an elegant substitute. I bought it once it got the ability to export to Excel. And export works well: I do all the work in Tables, then export the finished work to Excel, without any problem.

What I like is that Tables is that it is rather easy to use - there is a learning curve for people like me who are not very comfotable with spreadsheets, but it is not steep, and I assume there is no learning curve at all for somebody who is more familiar with spreadhseets. Moreover, Tables offers a very pleasant environment, Mac-like: I had tested the other spreadheet applications for Mac, none was as easy to use, none provided the same comfort and elegant, uncluttered, bright environment. Thanks to Tables, I find spreadsheets much less intimidating than they used to be!

In addition, I should mention that support is top quality. Each time I asked a question, I received a courteous, precise, detailed reply from the developer a few hours later. Always very helpful, taking time to explain even simple things which I had not understood properly.

Regarding stability, never any problem. Once again, I am not a heavy user, but from my own experience for the past two months, I can only praise that application. There is still some room for improvements, but, for all people like myself, who need spreadsheets from time to time but want a simple, understandable environment, I have the feeling that Tables is on the way to become THE right solution on the Mac.