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Description

A cloud-based spreadsheet tool commonly used by designers to manually track and organize competitor research data, features, and observations in a structured format.

Market positioning

General-purpose productivity tool used as a workaround for design research, not a dedicated solution

Target audience

Designers, UX researchers, product managers conducting competitor analysis

Use cases

Manually tracking and organizing competitor research data, features, and observations in a structured spreadsheet format. Teams use it to log competitor features, pricing, UX patterns, and notes in a shared, cloud-accessible document.

Company information

Company size

Large Enterprise (100,000+ employees)

Revenue

$350B+ annually (Alphabet Inc.)

Scale

Global

Number of users

Hundreds of millions globally (Google Workspace has 3B+ users across products)

Features

Cell comments for additional notes, Cloud-based access, Collaborative/shared access for teams, Conditional formatting for visual pattern recognition, Hyperlinking to competitor pages, Sorting and filtering by variables, Spreadsheet-based data organization

Pricing

Pricing modelFreemium
Starting price$0 (Free); Google Workspace Business Starter from $6/user/month
Billing periodMonthly (Google Workspace paid plans); Free tier available with no billing

Rating

4.6/5

No Trustpilot link available

Pros and cons

Based on: (AI summary)

Pros

  • Widely adopted and familiar to most designers
  • Free to use
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Flexible and customizable structure
  • Easy sharing with stakeholders

Cons

  • Manual data entry is time-consuming
  • Not purpose-built for design research
  • No visual screenshot management
  • No automated competitor tracking
  • Research is scattered across separate tools

Feature Comparison

Top features across 19 competitors (most common first)

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Text-to-image generation
Design system management
Behavior flow diagrams
Funnel visualization
Goal setting and conversion measurement
Out-of-the-box data collection
Traffic and usage tracking
User path analysis
Onboarding flow analysis
Session recording and playback
Support trigger analysis
User behavior observation
User segment filtering
Cohort analysis
Event and action tracking
Feature impact measurement
Funnel analysis
User behavior history
User segmentation
Brand kit