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Apple Numbers
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2014–2026), in 11 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Spreadsheets are so slow to work with they're practically unusableUnreviewed
20142026- Spreadsheets were so slow to work with they were practically unusable2025-05-01
- Numbers is basically unusable for most spreadsheet tasks2022-06-23
- Spreadsheet editing on touch devices is terribly error prone2014-02-28
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Quitting only offers 'save and quit', so unwanted documents keep reappearing as uncommitted and must be dismissed one by one2026-08-21
- Numbers app repeatedly shows an upgrade popup that blocks the user's work2026-03-01
- Spreadsheets were so slow to work with they were practically unusable2025-05-01
- Typed true sometimes capitalizes to TRUE or needs a quote prefix, unpredictably2025-03-28
- Numbers is a poor app for editing CSV files2025-03-26
- Becomes unbearably slow when used for anything beyond simple formulas2024-11-02
- Numbers is basically unusable for most spreadsheet tasks2022-06-23
- Features are buried inside an icon-based interface, hard to find2021-11-16
- Numbers becomes unusable with tens of thousands of rows2019-07-16
- Autocomplete keeps overriding typed text even after the user cancels it2016-09-07
- Spreadsheet editing on touch devices is terribly error prone2014-02-28