Sheetward User Guide

Turn an Excel or OpenDocument workbook (or Google Sheet) into a multi-user web app — forms, validation, lookups, import/export and more.

Standalone app

A Standalone app is your app packed into a single folder you can run anywhere — even with no internet at all. When you export one, Sheetward packages the compiled screens, a slimmed copy of the same rule-checking engine, and your app's data. Each cloud piece is swapped for a local one: a SQLite file instead of PostgreSQL, a plain data/ folder instead of cloud file storage, and no outside services at all.

One ZIP — everything included

frontend/

The same web UI, precompiled

React

sheetapp/ · run.py

A slim copy of the same API runtime

FastAPI

app.db

All records & lookups in one local file

SQLite

data/

Attachments on local disk

Your machine or server

Unzip, install, run — works offline, no cloud services required

Python 3.10+

Same code, smaller footprint: a standalone app enforces exactly the same roles and validation rules as the hosted app — the difference is that it runs on a machine you control. See Running a standalone app for the quick start.

Runs offline. A standalone app needs no internet connection and calls nothing outside itself. The optional Google sign-in and Sheets integration wake up only if you provide their keys when you start it.

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