Turn the spreadsheets running your business into secure applications
Build sovereign workflows for regulated industries. No code required.
One tool, many solutions.
IT
Lock down insider risk by eliminating spreadsheet sprawl and controlling user access.
Manufacturing
Instead of forcing factory processes into rigid, out-of-the-box software, build the exact tools you need.
Construction
Work with spreadsheets? See how we’ve built a better foundation for your data.
…and more.
Grist is designed to be general purpose, and works for organizations in many industries.
Who uses Grist?
LaSuite
Grist is one of the open source foundations of LaSuite, France’s sovereign digital workspace. There are over 20,000 Grist users in multiple agencies and regions across the country.
Maddox
Maddox builds industrial transformers and runs Grist on-prem to augment and replace their spreadsheets, specifically KPI tracking and consolidation for production, manufacturing, and sales delivery.
E-J Electric
E-J Electric is a large electrical contractor with a dedicated instance of Grist that helps their many distributed worksites collaborate on relational data.
Professional Services
Grist Solutions
We’ll create a custom solution that makes your data more useful – now, and far in the future.
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Plan your solution
Work with us to identify workflow pain points and improvements.
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Customize based on your needs
We’ll create a solution that fits, and a solution that lasts.
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Build with experts
Not just a custom solution, but expert advice from those closest to Grist.
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Discover the better spreadsheet software.
Full-featured free plan, data privacy, no lock-in.
Templates
Ready-to-use templates
Get a running start with many templates to choose from,
to use as is or customize to your needs.
Investment Spreadsheet Template
Uncover trends by exploring investment data across categories and time using vibrant, dynamic charts.
Class Catalog and Enrollments Template
Manage class enrollment and student data efficiently with our easy-to-use relational spreadsheet.
Lightweight CRM Template
Manage customer info and interactions in a user-friendly, spreadsheet-style CRM template.
Developers
Power tools
Take it to the next level with our open source spreadsheet-database tool.
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Super-charged formulas
- Fully supports Python syntax and standard library in formulas.
- Includes many familiar Excel functions.
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Extensible
- Connect to anything via REST API, webhooks, or integrators.
- Create your own custom widgets.
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Unprecedented control
- Can be self-hosted, for intranet operation or compliance.
- Uses SQLite format, great for portability and backups.
“I love Grist. It’s crazy powerful. I still can’t believe what we’ve been able to achieve in it. It’s the dream that low-code was sold as for years – we can do incredible things in each column with Python and we can build our own widgets to run on those! Wild!”
Elliot Lee
User Researcher
“Grist has become our go-to for more complex, structured data. It sits somewhere between Excel and Access—powerful, relational, and flexible enough for prototyping real data-driven applications.”
Olivier Lambert
CEO at Vates
“The more I use Grist, the more I LOVE it. I have been surveying self-hosted database GUI tools, and I was consistently disappointed with their shortcomings or bugginess. Grist is the first to have tilted the balance the other way.”
Stephen S.
Publications, Personal City Guides
“Grist has given us incredible flexibility to solve data problems and find solutions, whether it is for a small team at the district, or at scale with the entire district staff. We’re really excited about the different ways we can use it going forward.”
Director of Product
EdTech Company
“What I like about Grist the most is its focus. It appears simple, but it’s very powerful in a focused way. Grist has really improved our workflow and communication.”
Chris Scott
Co-founder in Digital Marketing
“If people spend some time learning a new tool they’ll have more power to do their work and research. I said to one of my students, ‘You will be very very happy using Grist because you are miserable using Excel!'”
Eduardo Dalcin, Ph.D.
Biodiversity Informatics Expert
“Most CRMs don’t work the way Grist works. Grist’s layouts are simple and do exactly what we need.”
Jennifer Bledsoe
IT Tech at Law Firm
“I discovered Grist after becoming frustrated with the limitations of Excel and Google Sheets. Grist has been a breath of fresh air, especially with its ability to handle structured data in a way that feels familiar to anyone with experience in relational databases, but with the added flexibility of Python.”
Will Bailey
Small Business Manager
“Sharing an Access database is near impossible, but Grist makes sharing a relational database simple.”
“I needed an open-source master database that could connect to n8n and AI tools. After trying Notion, Airtable, Siyuan, Baserow, and NocoDB, I chose Grist for its Python-native AI support, flexible integrations, and simple n8n connections.”
“I’ve worked extensively with NocoDB, Notion, SeaTable, and Baserow, and Grist really stands out. The balance between spreadsheet-style flexibility and structured, low-code database design is excellent.”
Andriy Kostyuk
Automation Engineer, Founder at Enceladus
Support
We have your back
Caring team, detailed documentation, and excellent support to help you succeed.
Help Center
Detailed documentation, tutorials, and videos to help you unlock Grist’s full potential.
Community
Ask questions, find answers, help others, and share inspiration in the Grist user community.
Need help building your solution? Let us build it for you.
Enterprise Training
Grist Workshop
A free training workshop that equips teams to build their own complex solutions and workflows.
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From basics to mastery, fast
Multi-day curriculum covering fundamentals, data modeling, dashboards, reporting, and governance.
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Personalized building lab
A Grist expert works alongside your team to turn ideas into production-ready workflows.
Get Grist
Unlock a better way to organize data.
Experience the modern spreadsheet-database software — full-featured simplicity with unequaled power, for data that matters. Discover why our customers love using Grist.