Tougather compared with the tools you already use

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What these four pages are

Each one answers a single question — should I switch — and then stops. How to actually do a thing is the job of our step-by-step guides, and a comparison that turns into a tutorial is answering a question nobody asked on that page. So there is no formula lesson here and no deck outline; there are links to both.

They were written by reading the code rather than the marketing site, and it shows in the shape of the numbers. The spreadsheet library was counted at runtime, not estimated: 167 functions, of which nine are absent on purpose and say why when you type them. The storage ceiling was measured with a script — fifty thousand rows is 3.4 MB and opens in 0.56 seconds; a hundred thousand is 6.8 MB and the browser refuses the write. Where something could not be checked, it is not on the page.

Each page also carries a table in which several rows are losses. Six of the twelve rows on the Microsoft 365 page go to Microsoft; eight of the twelve on the Excel page go to Excel. That is the honest shape of a comparison written by the smaller product, and a page that came out any other way would be an advertisement with a table in it.

The trade, stated once

The gain is the same in all four comparisons. A project is not four files, it is one canvas of blocks in nine kinds — text, table, chart, slides, code, image, bibliography, contents and form. A chart holds the id of the table it reads from, so the two are one piece of data seen twice rather than a spreadsheet and a picture of a spreadsheet that stopped agreeing in March. Footnotes number themselves in document order, the contents page is derived on every render and never stored, and figure and table captions run as two sequences that renumber when you insert one in the middle.

The cost is also the same in all four, so it may as well be here rather than four times over. There is no email and no calendar — none, not a thinner version. Live editing is per block and last-writer-wins rather than a CRDT: different sections never collide, the same paragraph at the same second does. Administration runs only against a configured database, single sign-on is a hand-off to whatever providers a deployment names, and there is no SCIM. The spreadsheet has no macros and no spill model. PDF export is the browser print dialog rather than a generated file, and PDF import does not exist at all. Chat's model is real — channels, DMs, threads, passcodes — but the transport that ships under it is simulated.

Prices are fixed and worth having in front of you before you open any of the four. Free is €0, has no login, and includes 200 AI credits a month that stop rather than becoming an invoice. Pro is €14 a month and is not billed per seat. Team is €24 a seat, which is €1,440 a year at five seats and €5,760 at twenty. One thing better heard here than at the counter: nothing can be charged today, because every Stripe price ID in the billing code is still null.

The four comparisons

In the order most people read them. Each card ends with what that page concludes, which in every case is a tool somebody should keep.

• Tougather vs Microsoft 365

  The whole suite, including the half of it that has no counterpart here. It prices both sides at five and twenty seats, and it is exact about what a Word file loses on the way out: equations arrive as LaTeX source rather than Word equation objects, and page numbers are in the .docx but not in a browser print.

  Keep Microsoft 365 if Outlook, Teams or a workbook full of macros is load-bearing — six of that page's twelve rows go to Microsoft. What can move is the part you make things in, not the mail server.

• Tougather vs Google Workspace

  The closest fight, and the one about collaboration. It defines what a live session here actually is — presence, other people's cursors, changes sent as changes rather than snapshots — and then names the limit in the same breath, because “real-time collaboration” can mean four different things.

  Keep Google Workspace if two of you routinely write into the same paragraph, or if Gmail and Calendar are the centre of your day. Google merges character by character; sync here is per block and the last writer wins.

• Tougather vs Notion

  The same shape with different insides: one workspace, blocks rather than files, a page rather than a folder. Because the shapes are alike the differences are narrow, so the page states them precisely — databases and rollups on one side, a formula engine, slides and a page that prints on the other.

  Keep Notion if your workspace runs on linked databases, or if you read the same rows as a board and a calendar. There is no relation property here and no rollup, and there is exactly one view: the grid.

• Tougather vs Excel

  One component rather than a suite: 167 functions against the deepest spreadsheet there is, what survives a .xlsx on the way in, and the row count at which the browser refuses to save. It is the least flattering page of the four, which is why it is the most useful one.

  Keep Excel if you build financial models, run macros, or work past fifty thousand rows — eight of that page's twelve rows go to Excel. What moves is the other spreadsheet: the table that belongs inside a document.

If the question is how, not whether

A comparison is the wrong page for someone who has already decided. Our step-by-step guides take the other half: a thesis from topic to final draft, a twelve-slide deck, twenty formulas with the answer each one returned, and what genuinely still works when the connection drops. They name the same limits these pages do, because it is the same product underneath.