Comparison

Spreadsheets, inbox, shouting. Honestly compared.

For teams with no tool yet, wondering whether they need one.

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In our own cause

This page is ours, so it is not neutral. That is why it also says when you should stay with your spreadsheets, which is more often than we would like.

Guido Boyke, founder

// Fairly, first

What spreadsheets do well

There already, and free

No rollout, no training, no meeting where someone explains a new tool to the team.

Completely free-form

A spreadsheet imposes no workflow, so it fits every one. That is its strength, as long as the workflow fits in two heads.

Everyone can use one

Nobody has to learn how to insert a row, and nobody refuses to.

// In detail

The comparison in detail

This means the usual mix of spreadsheet, inbox and shouting across the room, not one particular program. Teams who keep their sheets in strict order get further than these rows suggest.

Question	Spreadsheet and inbox	Lalabase	Verdict
Who does what	A name in a column, current if someone maintains it	Assignment on the ticket, to several people if needed, with history	Lalabase ahead
What is the state of this	Whoever saved last knows	On the ticket, with time and person	Lalabase ahead
How many hours was that	A second sheet, pieced together at month's end	Recorded on the ticket, billable per session	Lalabase ahead
Where is the documentation	A folder of files, state unclear	From the repository, with the commit it came from	Lalabase ahead
What was said in the client call	Notebook, inbox, or memory	An object of its own with transcript, summary and derived tasks	Lalabase ahead
What does the client see	Whatever you send them, when you remember to	An account with read rights, taking no paid seat	Lalabase ahead
Where was that again	Search inside the file that happens to be open	One question across every source, answered with sources	Lalabase ahead
Two people at once	File locked, or two versions appear	Everyone in the same project, changes traceable	Lalabase ahead
Someone is away	The state sits in that person's head	The state sits on the task	Lalabase ahead
Data protection towards your clients	Yours to handle, paperwork included	Hosting in Germany, data processing agreement included	Lalabase ahead
What it costs	Nothing extra, you already have the program	Subscription, tiered by team size	Spreadsheet and inbox ahead
Getting started	None, anyone can insert a row	About an hour, then it runs	Spreadsheet and inbox ahead

// Not a sales pitch

When you should stay with spreadsheets

There are two of you on one project and you talk daily anyway. Then a tool answers a question you do not have.

Nobody asks you for a state you do not already know. The value starts where being asked costs time, and not before.

Your clients want an invoice and a result, not an account. Then you are paying for doors nobody uses.

// For switchers

What is in there comes along.

Send your sheet and you get back a set-up environment with your real projects, instead of clicking through demo data.

Talk about the sheet

You send the sheet

As a file, exactly as it is. Messy is fine, we have seen worse.

We set it up

Projects, tasks, statuses and the fields you actually use. By hand, not by an assistant that guesses half of it wrong.

You take a look

At your own material rather than at demo data. If it does not fit, you have lost nothing but the time for one email.

There is no self-service spreadsheet import, and we do not pretend otherwise. The way in is manual work, and the structure is right afterwards.

See it rather than believe it.

Create an account, drop in your own sheet, and see whether it gets better.

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