Comparison
A Airtable alternative that writes straight to Google Sheets.
Forward a document to an address of your own and it adds its rows to a Google Sheet, within seconds. No parsing rules to build and no template to train first — drop one of your own files below and compare what you get.
Drop a document here
PDF, photo, scan, Word or PowerPoint — up to 50 pages
No account. No card. Your first sheet is free.
Example of what your sheet will look like
| A | B | C | D | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Document | Date | Party | Reference | Amount |
| 2 | WO-44118 | 07/14/2026 | Halden Foods | R. Alvarez | 3.5 |
| 3 | WO-44119 | 07/14/2026 | Northstar LLC | P. Nowak | 6.0 |
| 4 | WO-44127 | 07/15/2026 | Bridgeport Mfg | S. Ibrahim | 1.5 |
| 5 | WO-44131 | 07/16/2026 | Cascade Supply Co. | R. Alvarez | 8.0 |
This is an example. Your columns come from your own document.
ToSheet.ai and Airtable
A database is built to hold records, and getting a document into one is a step you assemble: an automation, their AI, or somebody typing. Here that step is the product, and the destination is a Google Sheet rather than a base — which is the trade, plainly. If the base is where your work already lives, keep it.
Where Airtable is strong: An excellent structured database with views, automations, interfaces and its own AI, well beyond what a spreadsheet offers.
| ToSheet.ai | Airtable | |
|---|---|---|
| Turning a document into a record | Automatic, from a forwarded file. | Typed in, or extracted with their AI inside an automation. |
| Where records live | A Google Sheet. | An Airtable base, with richer field types and views. |
| Getting documents in | An address belonging to the sheet. | Attachment fields, forms, or an integration. |
| Who can edit | Anyone with the link. | Per-user permissions. |
| First result | A real sheet before you make an account. | Account and base first. |
Questions people ask
- I need Airtable's views and permissions.
- Then keep them. This writes to a Google Sheet and nothing else, so if the base is where your work lives, the honest answer is that we are not a replacement for it.
- Can I try it against a document from the product I use now?
- That is what the dropzone above is for, and it needs no account. Use a real file — a clean sample proves nothing about the ones that actually give you trouble.
- Where does my data end up?
- In a Google Sheet on an unguessable link that anyone holding can edit. We keep the extracted row, not your document — the file is discarded once the sheet is built.
- I work in Excel. Can I get the data out of Google Sheets?
- Yes, and it is Google's feature rather than ours: Google Sheets will download any sheet as .xlsx or .csv from its own File menu, and it opens in Excel from there. What we build and keep filling is the Google Sheet itself — we never produce an Excel file, so anything forwarded later adds a row to the sheet and not to a copy you have already taken off it.
- What if one scan holds several documents?
- Each one becomes its own row. We tell you how many we found before the sheet is created, and you can correct it in one click if we got it wrong.
- Do photos from a phone work?
- Usually, yes — including stamped, stapled and hand-annotated copies. If a photo of a document is too blurry to read we say so rather than inventing a row.
- Who can see my Google Sheet?
- Only people you give the link to. The link is unguessable, anyone holding it can edit the sheet, and we never share it with anyone else.
- Do you keep my documents?
- No. We keep the extracted row, not the document. The file is discarded once your sheet is built.
- How does forwarding work?
- Your sheet gets its own address at in.tosheet.ai. Forward a document there — from your own mailbox, or straight from whoever sends them to you — and ToSheet.ai adds its row within seconds. You never have to open this site again.