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Sheetward turns an Excel or OpenDocument workbook (or Google Sheet) into a working web app for your team. Lay out your columns and rules in ordinary spreadsheet tabs — an expense claim, a purchase order, a price list. Sheetward builds the rest: data-entry forms, validation, dropdown lookups, calculated fields, and a searchable records grid with import and export.
Every app keeps its data in its own separate store, so your expense records can never mix with your price list. And when an app needs to live outside Sheetward, you can publish it as a standalone, self-contained package that runs on its own.
Tabs / Sheets define the forms, fields, rules, lookups and formulas.
Builds your app — no coding.
Data-entry forms, validation, dropdown lookups, calculated fields, security, data masking and encryption.
You stay in control without learning a new design tool. Instead of dragging widgets around a canvas, you describe your app in the workbook you already know. That workbook is your App Specification — one structured place that defines the forms, fields, business rules, validations, calculations, security and workflows you want. Because it is a spreadsheet, it is easy to review with colleagues, tweak a rule, and upload again. Your app improves in quick, low-risk rounds.
Every Sheetward app includes:
| What you get | What it means for your team |
|---|---|
| Role-based access control | Workspace and per-app roles decide who can see and change what — the payroll app is not open to everyone. |
| Field-level protection | Sensitive fields such as salaries or card numbers are masked on screen and in exports, and encrypted before they are stored. |
| Business rules and validations | Required fields, formats, ranges and conditional logic, checked on every save — bad data never sneaks in. |
| Change history and audit logs | Every record shows who changed it and when; workspace actions land in an audit log. |
| Backup and restore | Scheduled backups, a recycle bin and non-destructive restore — an accidental delete is recoverable, not a crisis. |
| Reports and dashboards | KPI tiles, an interactive pivot and charts, straight from your records — no separate BI tool. |
| Multilingual apps | Apps run in English, German, Japanese or Arabic, with each viewer's own regional formats. |
AI assistance, when you want it. Describe the app you need in plain language and Sheetward drafts an App Specification for you to review and refine. You stay in charge: the app is always built from the specification you approve, and the same workbook produces the same app every time. Sheetward implements what you define — it never guesses how your app should work.
For any size of team. Sheetward works for a one-person business tracking invoices and for a large company running approvals across departments — the same workbook, the same app.