Plans and pricing

No — and that’s by design. Sheetward reads your workbook as a blueprint: sheet layouts, field names, data types, lookup lists, rules and formulas. Cell values are only used as samples to infer each field’s type. A new app starts empty; your team enters records in the app or bulk-imports them, where every row is validated and audited.

No. Only the person designing the app touches a workbook. Everyone else uses a normal multi-user web application in their browser — forms, dropdowns, search, exports — on any device.

Yes. Upload a revised workbook with the Change action: the schema migrates, existing records are preserved, and master-data lists are updated in place (matched rows update, new rows insert — manual additions survive).

Data belonging to one app is isolated from every other app, enforced by the database itself rather than by application code alone. Sensitive fields are encrypted at the application layer before they reach the database, card numbers are stored last-4 only, and you can export everything to Excel, CSV or JSON whenever you want.

Yes — a standard app can be exported as a standalone app: a self-contained deployment with its data, ready to run on your own infrastructure, independent of Sheetward hosting. Survey apps stay hosted, because responses belong to your workspace’s members.

Yes. Name a sheet Survey_ and you get a survey app: publish it, share the link or QR code, and every response arrives as a record with a live results dashboard. One workbook builds one or the other — Form_ sheets for an operational app, or a Survey_ sheet for a survey.

Yes. Sheetward itself runs in English, German, Japanese or Arabic — pick your language at sign-in or in Settings, with right-to-left support for Arabic. Each generated app can offer the languages you choose; anyone whose language an app doesn’t include simply sees it in English. And everywhere, dates, numbers and currency display in each viewer’s own regional format, while the stored data stays standard.

You can create and modify apps with plain-language prompts. Draft with AI produces an App Specification workbook you review and approve — the build itself never uses AI.

You are warned long before anything breaks. Once a workspace passes 90% of its storage or bandwidth limit, every member sees a banner, so an admin can free space or move up a plan while everything still works normally. At the limit Sheetward stops the action, not the workspace: a new record or upload is refused with a message naming the exact limit, while everything already stored stays readable, searchable and exportable. File storage and bandwidth also get a grace band above the limit before anything is blocked at all. Nothing is ever deleted for being over a limit, and there is no overage invoice — a limit is a limit, not a meter that keeps charging.

A monthly plan can be cancelled at any time from the admin console. It simply stops renewing and stays fully usable until the period you have already paid for runs out, and you can resume it before then if you change your mind. Annual plans can be cancelled in their first two weeks or during the final 30 days of the term — and one thing is worth knowing before you buy: exporting a standalone app does not prevent cancellation, but it does end refund eligibility for that annual term, because you already hold a copy of the app that runs without us. Cancelling stops the next renewal and takes effect at the end of the paid term. After a plan expires there is a grace period in which an admin can still restore the workspace before anything is removed.

Everything, in formats you can open without us. Records export to Excel, CSV or JSON whenever you like, master-data lists ride along in the Excel export, and a workspace backup packages the lot as a single zip. The App Specification stays a workbook you own outright — it never turned into a proprietary file only we can read. And on an annual plan you can export a standalone app: a self-contained copy of the app with its own database, ready to run on your own server, independent of Sheetward hosting. That is the difference between exporting your data and keeping your app.

There is no published non-profit or education price list yet, but we do offer discounted pricing. If you are a registered non-profit organization or an educational institution, reach out through the Contact Sales form, tell us who you are and what you would like to run, and we will reply personally — usually within one business day.