Free Kutools for Excel Alternatives

The best free alternative to Kutools for Excel is DataXL Excel Productivity Add-in. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Kutools for Excel and 13 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Kutools for Excel are Essential Excel Add-In, Professor Excel Tools, Duplicate Data Filter and Business Functions.

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Kutools for Excel alternatives are mainly Spreadsheet Apps, but if you're looking for Duplicate File Finders you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Microsoft Excel + Open Source. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Kutools for Excel.
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Kutools for Excel alternatives page was last updated Sep 17, 2024
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  1. 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

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
    Ribbon

    DataXL Excel Productivity Add-in Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Excel Add-in
    3. Microsoft Excel icon  Excel integration
    4.  Worksheet
    5.  Scientific data analysis

    DataXL Excel Productivity Add-in VS Kutools for Excel

     

    • DataXL Excel Productivity Add-in is the most popular free alternative to Kutools for Excel.

    • DataXL Excel Productivity Add-in is Free and ProprietaryKutools for Excel is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Essential Excel Add-In icon

    Essential Excel Add-In

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    Essential Excel Add-In is a 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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
    Essential Excel Add-In screenshot 1

    Essential Excel Add-In Features

    1.  Excel Add-in
    2.  Support for regular expressions
    3.  Macro Recording

    Essential Excel Add-In VS Kutools for Excel

     

    • Most users think Essential Excel Add-In is a great Kutools for Excel alternative.

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

    • Essential Excel Add-In is Free and Open SourceKutools for Excel is Paid and Proprietary
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    Professor Excel Tools

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    Boost productivity in Microsoft Excel: Professor Excel Tools is a lightweight Excel Add-In with more than 125 features. All functions are located on a new ribbon in Excel.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
    Box Professor Excel Tools

    Professor Excel Tools Features

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Excel Add-in
    4. Microsoft Excel icon  Excel integration

    Professor Excel Tools VS Kutools for Excel

     

  5. 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.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Duplicate Data Filter screenshot 1

    Duplicate Data Filter Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Filtering
    3.  Filters

    Duplicate Data Filter VS Kutools for Excel

     

  6. Business Functions

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

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel

    Business Functions Features

    1.  Excel Add-in

    Business Functions VS Kutools for Excel

     

  7. 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.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    The Excel Utilities Features

    1.  Batch conversion
    2.  Excel Add-in

    The Excel Utilities VS Kutools for Excel

     
  9. PlusX Excel Add-In icon

    PlusX Excel Add-In

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    100% Free Excel Add-In for Waterfall, Gantt, QIGS, Mirror, BubbleX & Double Donut Charts and Live FX Rates. Also features usefull shortcuts and Excel-internal Web Browser. Supports 9 languages (EN,FR,DE,ES,TR,RU,AR,CH,IN).

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • TR flagTürkiye

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Waterfall Chart

    PlusX Excel Add-In Features

    1.  Gantt-charts
    2.  Waterfall Chart
    3.  Data visualization
    4.  Mirror Chart
    5.  Excel Add-in
    6.  Double Donut Chart
    7.  Graphs
    8.  QIGS Chart

    PlusX Excel Add-In VS Kutools for 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.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
    The TrueXL Add-in adds this ribbon control which shows all the tools included.

    TrueXL Features

    1.  Gantt-charts
    2.  Unit converter
    3.  Excel Add-in
    4.  Waterfall Chart
    5.  Dashboard
    6.  Export to PowerPoint
    7.  Graphs

    TrueXL VS Kutools for Excel

     
  11. 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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

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

    Daniel’s XL Toolbox Features

    1.  Excel Add-in
    2.  Data visualization

    Daniel’s XL Toolbox VS Kutools for Excel

     
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    Someka Excel Solutions

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    Someka Excel Solutions provides a wide range of ready-to-use Excel spreadsheet templates for personal, home and business needs.

    35 Someka Excel Solutions alternatives

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
    Automatic Family Tree Maker

    Someka Excel Solutions VS Kutools for Excel

     
  13. Excel Column Extractor icon

    Excel Column Extractor

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    In your daily work, you may often encounter dozens of Excel files, each containing the same type of data such as name, email, address, etc., but they are in different columns in different files. When you are going to do data aggregation or merging, is there a way to extract the...

    License model

    • Free Personal • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Excel Column Extractor screenshot 1

    Excel Column Extractor Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  Import CSV Data
    3.  Worksheet

    Excel Column Extractor VS Kutools for Excel

     
  14. Planning Helpers icon

    Planning Helpers

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    Productivity add-ins for MS Excel and MS PowerPoint

    • Quickly create special charts in Excel, such as stacked waterfall charts, rotated waterfall charts
    • Automize agenda and divider slide creation in PowerPoint
    • Free and commercial add-ins.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Powerpoint
    • Microsoft Office Excel
    Planning Helpers screenshot 1

    Planning Helpers Features

    1.  Charts
    2.  Excel Add-in
    3.  Waterfall Chart
    4.  Data visualization

    Planning Helpers VS Kutools for Excel

     
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