Essential Excel Add-In Alternatives

Essential Excel Add-In is described as 'Microsoft Excel Add-In, written in VBA, that contains useful User Defined Functions (UDFs) and Macros to performs a number of different tasks that either Excel does not provide' and is a duplicate file finder in the file management category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Essential Excel Add-In for Windows, Microsoft Excel, Mac, Linux and iPhone. The best Essential Excel Add-In alternative is Kutools for Excel. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try DataXL Excel Productivity Add-in or Professor Excel Tools. Other great apps like Essential Excel Add-In are ASAP Utilities, Duplicate Data Filter, The Excel Utilities and Business Functions.

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  1. Kutools for Excel icon

    Kutools for Excel

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    Adds over 300 advanced tools to Excel, enabling batch processing, data merging, and one-click tasks like removing blanks, renaming files, and organizing large datasets for efficient spreadsheet management in professional or personal use cases.

    26 Kutools for Excel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Excel
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    • Kutools for Excel is the most popular Windows alternative to Essential Excel Add-In.

    • Kutools for Excel is the most popular commercial alternative to Essential Excel Add-In.

    • Kutools for Excel is Paid and ProprietaryEssential Excel Add-In is Free and Open Source
  2. DataXL Excel Productivity Add-in icon

    DataXL Excel Productivity Add-in

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    Crunch huge data tables in seconds with help of our free DataXL automation add-in! It is not a new thing that we want to give you better and smarter tools day by day.

    17 DataXL Excel Productivity Add-in alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
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    • DataXL Excel Productivity Add-in is the most popular free alternative to Essential Excel Add-In.

    • DataXL Excel Productivity Add-in is Free and ProprietaryEssential Excel Add-In is Free and Open Source
  4. Professor Excel Tools icon

    Professor Excel Tools

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    Windows Excel add-in offering more than 125 features on a dedicated ribbon, enabling enhanced copy-paste, bulk operations, advanced formatting, file merging, links breaking, batch symbol insertion, file size reduction, quick sharing, and resource-friendly operation.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Excel
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    ASAP Utilities

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    ASAP Utilities is a powerful Excel add-in that fills the gaps in Excel. Since 1999 it has grown to become probably one of the world's most popular add-ins for MS Excel.

    A few of the tools that add new functionality to Excel and that are guaranteed to save you time and speed.

    19 ASAP Utilities alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
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  7. Duplicate Data Filter

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    Seperate unique and duplicate strings, numbers from a long list of raw data like phone numbers, email address, full names, places, cities etc. with this easy fast simple utility.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. The Excel Utilities

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    Powerful Excel add-on, to simplify many common functions for managing a work sheet. Also has a feature to remove styles that are not used.

    15 The Excel Utilities alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     

  10. Business Functions

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    Business Functions is a function library for Microsoft Excel that's been around since 2002.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
     
  11. FormulaDesk Math icon

    FormulaDesk Math

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    FormulaDesk Math is an Excel add-in that brings real symbolic math to Excel. View formulas as equations, plot formulas…instantly. All the tools that engineers and students need every day, now inside Excel.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
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  12. FormulaDesk FormulaSpy icon

    FormulaDesk FormulaSpy

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    Multiple step-by-step views show how a formula's value is calculated. Pinpoint errors in formulas - instantly see exactly where the error is, especially useful in very long formulas. Style Explorer gives you total control of the styles used in your spreadsheet, showing...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
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  13. FormulaDesk Navigator icon

    FormulaDesk Navigator

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    Tools to cut the time you spend in Excel. Multi-row sheet tabs, vertical sheet tabs, track active cell, bookmarks, Quick Navigator, bulk-edit sheet properties.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
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    TrueXL

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    TrueXL is an add in for MS Excel. TrueXL makes it easy to create charts and includes charts that are not standard in Excel like gantt charts, histograms, etc. It also features dashboard controls and many other tools to improve productivity.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
    The TrueXL Add-in adds this ribbon control which shows all the tools included.
     
  15. Daniel’s XL Toolbox icon

    Daniel’s XL Toolbox

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    Daniel’s XL Toolbox is a free, open-source add-in for the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software that helps you to analyze and present data and increases your productivity. Its target audience are life scientists, but it has proven useful for industry as well.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
    Chart after using the error bar function
     

    • Daniel’s XL Toolbox is the most popular Open Source alternative to Essential Excel Add-In.

    • Daniel’s XL Toolbox is Free and Open SourceEssential Excel Add-In is also Free and Open Source
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