Comparison
A Mailparser 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 email 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 | Load L-772104 | 07/14/2026 | TQL | Laredo, TX → Aurora, IL | 3,100.00 |
| 3 | Load L-772119 | 07/15/2026 | CH Robinson | Memphis, TN → Denver, CO | 2,450.00 |
| 4 | Load RC-88214 | 07/16/2026 | Landstar | Portland, OR → Reno, NV | 1,880.00 |
| 5 | Load L-772140 | 07/18/2026 | TQL | Aurora, IL → Houston, TX | 2,940.00 |
This is an example. Your columns come from your own document.
ToSheet.ai and Mailparser
Mail parsers work on text — the body of the message, and attachments that carry text inside them. The line that matters is the one their own documentation draws: images and scans are not supported, and it points you at a separate OCR product for those. That is the half of the post that arrives as a photo from a phone, and it is the half this reads.
Where Mailparser is strong: Strong at recurring, structured email — the notification mail that arrives in the same shape every time — and at the text attachments that come with it.
| ToSheet.ai | Mailparser | |
|---|---|---|
| What it reads | The attached document — PDF, scan, photo or Office file. | The email, and text-bearing attachments: csv, xlsx, docx, pdf, txt. |
| Scans, photos and handwriting | Read the same as clean files. | Not supported. Their own docs send you to an OCR product for these. |
| Setup per format | None beyond choosing your columns once. | Parsing rules per format — generated for you, or built from their templates. |
| The destination | A Google Sheet, created for you and appended to. | A file you download, or one of many connected apps. |
| First result | A real sheet before you make an account. | Account first. |
Questions people ask
- My data is in the email body, not an attachment.
- Then a mail parser is probably the right tool and this is not. The line is simple: text in the message is their problem, a document attached to it is ours.
- 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 emails?
- 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 an email 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 emails?
- 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.