Sheetgo vs Smartsheet

Run processes in your spreadsheets or in Smartsheet

Both tools help teams run processes with forms, approvals, and dashboards. Smartsheet manages projects and work in its own sheets. Sheetgo Workflows standardizes repeatable processes on the Google Sheets and Excel files your organization already uses. Your data stays in your own storage, where you can prepare it for BI and AI.

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The short answer

Choose by the work you manage

Both tools have forms, approvals, dashboards, and AI. Smartsheet focuses on project and work management. Sheetgo Workflows helps teams automate repeatable processes that depend on their existing spreadsheets.

Choose Sheetgo if

✓Your team already works in spreadsheets
Sheetgo Workflows runs on your existing Google Sheets and Excel files, so your team can keep working in them.
✓Your processes depend on shared data
Consolidate files, route approvals, and keep reports in sync across departments.
✓You produce documents from data
Generate PDFs and Google Docs and send mail merges from spreadsheet rows.
✓You need governance across the organization
Enterprise adds SSO and central admin. Sheetgo also operates an accredited European Data Space. Virtual Employees handle tasks in roles such as inventory or finance operations, with a person approving anything consequential.

Choose Smartsheet if

✓You manage projects in a shared platform
Smartsheet brings project work into its own sheets, with reports and dashboards for your team.
✓You need forms and approval requests
Every plan includes forms, reports, and dashboards. Approval requests are available as an automation.
✓You need specific compliance or regions
Smartsheet lists FedRAMP and offers data regions in the US, EU, or Australia.

At a glance

Sheetgo and Smartsheet side by side

Sheetgo

Smartsheet

Best for

Teams standardizing processes on existing spreadsheets

Teams managing projects in Smartsheet

Your existing spreadsheets

The core of the product: processes run on the Google Sheets and Excel files you already use; data stays in your own storage

Imports create new sheets; formulas aren’t preserved

Forms, approvals, dashboards

Forms, approvals, and dashboards in workflows

Forms, approval requests, reports, and dashboards

Documents and email

PDF and Google Docs generation; mail merge

PDFs via Document Builder (Business and up)

Applied to your processes: the AI Processor prepares spreadsheet data; Virtual Employees take on roles with human approval

Applied to work management: AI assistants for work inside Smartsheet

Governance

Enterprise SSO and central admin; no copy of spreadsheet data

SSO on all plans; Enterprise SAML; FedRAMP; US, EU, or AU regions

Pricing model

14-day free trial; Workflows Team is one plan for up to 3 seats

30-day free trial; paid plans priced per member

As of October 2026. See Sheetgo Workflows pricing.

Frequently asked questions

What teams ask before they choose

What is the difference between Sheetgo and Smartsheet?

Smartsheet is a work management platform where teams manage projects and data in Smartsheet sheets. Sheetgo Workflows adds forms, approvals, dashboards, and automations to the Google Sheets and Excel files your team already uses. Your spreadsheet data stays in your own storage.

Do I have to migrate my spreadsheets to use Sheetgo?

No. Sheetgo connects to your existing Google Sheets, Excel, and CSV files in Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Dropbox. Your files stay where they are, and your team keeps working in them.

Does Sheetgo do project management like Smartsheet?

The tools take different approaches. Smartsheet manages projects in its own sheets. Sheetgo Workflows connects and consolidates spreadsheet data, routes approvals, and keeps the files your processes depend on up to date. It suits teams that want to standardize work around their existing spreadsheets.

Does Sheetgo have AI agents?

Yes. Sheetgo Virtual Employees are AI agents with a job description, such as inventory or finance operations. They work in your Google Sheets files and report to your team in Slack or Google Chat. A person approves anything consequential. The AI Processor also cleans, translates, and summarizes data inside your workflows.

Is Sheetgo suitable for large organizations?

Yes. Enterprise plans for Sheetgo Automations and Sheetgo Workflows add SSO, Google Workspace domain-wide delegation, central admin, and data governance. They also include an SLA and a dedicated account manager. Sheetgo is SOC 2 Type II (audited by BDO), GDPR, and CASA Tier 3 compliant. It doesn’t store copies of your file content. Core infrastructure runs in the United States; you can choose the United States or Europe for AI processing. Teams at Spotify, PepsiCo, and Nvidia use Sheetgo.

Does Sheetgo only work with spreadsheets?

No. Spreadsheets are Sheetgo’s core, but it also connects to business systems. BigQuery works as both a source and a destination. The API connector pulls data from apps such as Salesforce, HubSpot, and QuickBooks, and webhooks receive data from other apps.

Does Sheetgo only run on a schedule?

Sheetgo supports schedules and event triggers. Schedules run from every 15 minutes to once a year. On plans with smart triggers, workflows can also run when someone submits a form, another app sends a webhook, another workflow finishes, or a Google Drive file or folder changes (in preview). You can run workflows manually at any time.

Is there a free plan?

Sheetgo Workflows has no free plan, but you can try it free for 14 days. Sheetgo Automations has a free plan for spreadsheet automations. Smartsheet has no free plan and offers a 30-day free trial.

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Start a free trial to build a workflow on your existing spreadsheets, or book a demo to discuss how Workflows and Virtual Employees could support your organization’s processes.

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