Rows alternatives after the May 2026 shutdown (for teams without a data team)

Your weekly numbers lived in Rows. A table pulled data in, a few formulas turned it into a dashboard, and you shared the link on Monday. Then Rows announced it was joining Superhuman, and on May 31, 2026, Rows.com wound down.

If nobody on your team is a data engineer, the replacement question is less about features than about the job Rows did for you. Some teams used it to pull data from other tools into a sheet. Others used it to share a clean dashboard built on a spreadsheet. Those are different jobs, and the best replacement for one is a poor fit for the other.

This guide compares 7 options on price, what they work from, and the question your manager will ask sooner or later: where did this number come from?

What happened to Rows?

On February 22, 2026, Rows announced it would join Superhuman. The same post said the team planned to gradually sunset the Rows product over the next three months, with Rows.com fully winding down on May 31, 2026. It also said current customers would get an email explaining what the change meant for their account.

Before the shutdown, the Rows documentation described a few ways out. You could download a whole spreadsheet as XLSX, download one table at a time as CSV, or export a chart as a PNG. The same page noted that some things don't survive the XLSX download, such as text blocks, Python charts, conditional formatting, merged cells and advanced pivots.

If you downloaded your files before May 31, you still have the data. What you lost is the layer on top: the refresh, the formulas that turned raw rows into a dashboard, and the shared link.

Which job did Rows do for you?

Start here, because it decides the shortlist.

• Pulling data in. You connected Rows to an ad platform, a CRM or a payment tool, and it filled a table on a schedule. Your replacement needs connectors.
• Sharing a dashboard. You pasted or uploaded data, built a few charts and numbers, and shared the page with your team or a client. Your replacement needs a clean shared view, and ideally a way to check each number.
• Both. Many teams did both in one place. You can keep that split: one tool fills a sheet, another turns the sheet into the dashboard people read.

For a team without a data person, 3 more questions matter more than feature lists: who keeps it working next week, what each reader has to pay, and whether a reader can trace a number back to the rows behind it.

How do the 7 alternatives compare?

Starting prices are from each official pricing page as of October 28, 2026, in US dollars. Prices change, so check the page before you buy. "Trace a number" is the feature that shows the data behind a number, as each vendor names it.

If you used Rows to pull data in

Coefficient brings data from business systems such as Salesforce and HubSpot into Google Sheets or Excel as an add-on. The Free plan covers 3 standard sources with manual refresh and imports of up to 5,000 rows. Starter is $49 a month billed yearly ($59 monthly) for one person, and Pro is $99 per user per month billed yearly for up to 5 people. Premium sources such as Snowflake, BigQuery and SQL Server need Enterprise.

Coupler.io moves data from more than 400 sources, including Facebook Ads, HubSpot, Shopify and QuickBooks, into Google Sheets, Excel, Data Studio, Power BI or BigQuery. The Free plan is one account, one destination and manual runs. Starter is $24 a month billed yearly ($32 monthly), a flat price rather than per seat, with one user, one destination, a daily refresh and 5,000 rows per run. Teams with more people start at Active, $99 a month billed yearly.

Both tools fill a sheet. They don't decide what your numbers mean. You still write the formulas, and the definitions live wherever you keep them. If Rows was your connector and your dashboard, plan for the second half separately.

If you used Rows to share a dashboard

Data Studio (Google renamed Looker Studio back to Data Studio in April 2026) is free for creators and report viewers, with Pro at $9 per user per project per month. It lists more than 1,400 data sources, including Sheets, Excel and CSV. While editing a report, Show underlying data opens a table of the dimensions and metrics behind a chart. Google's own connectors focus on Google products, databases and files, so other tools often need third-party community connectors.

Zoho Analytics has a Free plan for 2 users and 10,000 rows. Basic is $24 a month billed yearly ($30 monthly) for 2 users and 500,000 rows, with extra users at $6.40 a month billed yearly ($8 monthly). It imports CSV, Excel and JSON files and connects to 50 or more business apps. Click a point on a chart and View Underlying Data opens the rows in a table. Note that people you share with privately count as users, and view-only seats are sold in packs of 25.

Power BI Pro is $14 per user per month billed yearly, and a free account can't share reports. Readers need Pro too, unless your company has a large Premium or Fabric capacity. Show data point as a table lets a reader see the rows behind a value, with limits: it doesn't work when the value is a measure, and cards and KPI visuals don't support it. Power BI Desktop, where reports are built, runs on Windows only.

Is Google Sheets enough on its own?

For many teams, yes. Anyone with a Google Account can create in Sheets, and Workspace Business Starter is $7 per user per month with a yearly commitment. You can import XLSX and CSV files, which is exactly what you have if you exported from Rows.

Tracing a number is the weak spot. In a pivot table, open a value with See cell details and Sheets builds a new sheet with the source rows behind it. For a plain formula, you read the formula and follow the ranges by hand. Say your dashboard shows 412 active clients from a 1,284-row export. If a totals row slipped into the range, nothing on the page says so, and the number is quietly wrong until someone checks.

Where does Every Number fit?

Every Number, which publishes this guide, covers the sharing half of what Rows did. You upload the export you already download (Excel or CSV, up to 10 MB), and the first screen is laid out by fixed rules from your columns: what's late, money through the month, numbers by person, this period against the last, and a few more. A database counts every number, so no AI writes a figure, and every number opens its receipt: the definition, the rows it used, and the rows it left out.

If you saved your Rows tables as XLSX or CSV, you can drop one at everynumber.app/try with no account and see the dashboard in seconds. Unless you save it, it's deleted after 24 hours. Teams that sign up are free for 30 days, with no card. If you'd rather have it built, the $99 pilot delivers a dashboard in 5 business days.

It is not a fit if you need live connectors to an ad platform or a CRM, because you upload files rather than connect accounts. Pair it with Coupler.io or Coefficient if a connector fills your sheet. The export guides show where to download the file from 38 common tools.