Airrange

What It Is

Airrange is a no-code app builder that starts from a spreadsheet. You bring an Excel workbook or a Google Sheet, pick the cells, ranges or tables you want to expose, and publish them as a responsive web app, calculator, form, dashboard or API. It is for people who already do their thinking in Excel: the page names sales managers, project teams, HR and backoffice staff, and calculation-heavy work such as quoting tools in insurance, finance and real estate. The company's pitch is that its formulas "stay 100% intact", so the people who built the model can ship it without a developer.

The site is available in English and German, offers a demo booking, and lists sister products under the same roof: SpreadAPI for turning spreadsheets into REST APIs and ListPlus for B2B data enrichment. This entry covers Airrange, the app builder.

What You Build and How

The core idea. The FAQ says "Airrange starts from your existing Excel file. Your formulas become the app engine." There is no data model to define first: you open the workbook and build from it. The page lists VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, SUMPRODUCT, array formulas and named ranges as working "exactly as in Excel." The build takes 4 steps on the company's how-to: open your Excel file, select inputs and outputs, design the interface, and publish. Inputs can be text fields, dropdowns, sliders or date pickers, and the company says Airrange auto-detects your formulas and cell relationships. In the design step you arrange labels, descriptions, charts, images and navigation, create multiple pages, group related fields and apply your branding.

Calculators, quotes and forms. The FAQ lists what people build: "Calculators, pricing tools, quote generators, forms, dashboards, APIs, internal tools, and more," for anything where Excel formulas drive the logic. On the home page the editor is described as drag and drop, with pages, input controls and protected formulas, so end users do not need Excel and cannot overwrite the formulas. A lead generation calculator on your own website can capture verified emails and forward every lead to your CRM. The use-case list adds pricing and quote tools where customers configure products and get instant pricing, internal tools for approval processes, cost tracking and project calculators, and insurance and finance apps for tariff calculations, risk scoring and premium estimators. For forms, the page describes "Data Collection Forms": structured data entry that feeds into your spreadsheet, with validation, conditional fields and multi-step forms.

Database-style apps from Excel tables. A separate features page covers turning Excel tables into apps. You select a table, choose a template and share with one click. The templates it names are:

• Pivot, for evaluating lists with recurring categories.
• Grid, an Excel table opened in database mode with a detail dialog and fields to scan, view or add data.
• Checklist, quick to complete on mobile and written back to the original table.
• Kanban, for following projects and moving to-dos along.
• Calendar, with filtering by category and drill up or down between hours, days, weeks and months.
• Map, for country, city or longitude and latitude values in a table.

The page also says every view works on mobile like an app interface. The table stays in Excel, and Airrange adds database-style views and sharing on top, which is why it also sits among the table-based workspace tools here.

Excel and Google Sheets. Per the FAQ, Airrange works with local .xlsx files, Microsoft 365 workbooks, Hosted Files, or imported and synced Google Sheets. A free Excel add-in is listed in the navigation.

Sharing and permissions. Sharing is by range rather than by workbook: recipients "see only what concerns them" and, if you allow it, enter changes in the browser, which you review and accept with a click. A change history is listed among the benefits, and the features page says data can stay in your secure Microsoft environment. For HR, it says employee databases can be shared on record level.

Publishing, embedding and hosting. Publishing gives each app a shareable URL. You can embed it on your website through an iframe, share it by link, add it to Microsoft Teams, or expose the calculations as a REST API through SpreadAPI. Apps are described as responsive on all screen sizes. Your Excel file is read directly in the browser, and only an encrypted app runtime is created for sharing. For hosting the page offers its EU cloud on AWS Frankfurt, or your own server for VPN-only access with no external internet required.

APIs and AI. The same models can be exposed as secure APIs, so developers consume them as a web service while Excel experts keep control of the logic. The page says this can connect apps, workflows or AI agents with a single click.

Updating. When rates or regulations change, you update the Excel file and republish, with no app redesign or deployment pipeline, according to the company.

Pricing, Security and Support

The pricing facts are brief. The FAQ answers "Can I try Airrange for free?" with: "Yes. You can sign up and build unlimited apps for free," with no credit card required. Publishing and sharing is paid: "To publish and share your apps, paid plans start at €59/month." The call to action promises "no credit card, no file upload required." So a builder can model and test an app at no cost and pays once it goes in front of users.

Security claims are about architecture. The company says files never leave your device, only an encrypted runtime is created, hosting is in an EU cloud on AWS Frankfurt, and your own server is an option for VPN-only access. The site has a dedicated "Data Compliance & Security" section, and the features page says data can be shared "with full compliance" from within a Microsoft environment.

The site links a page of "Inspiring Customer Examples" and a section titled "Monetize your Excel skills." Support starts with a demo booking, and the site runs in English and German.

Who It Suits and Who It Does Not

Airrange suits a team that already has a working Excel model, such as a pricing sheet, quote tool or financial calculator, and wants a branded, shareable front end without rebuilding the logic. It also suits a sales or HR team that wants to share parts of a workbook safely, and a developer who wants a spreadsheet exposed as an API. The idea that tested, audited formulas should not be rewritten is the strongest argument for it.

It is a weaker fit when nothing exists in a spreadsheet yet. The company describes the product as ideal for "calculation-heavy apps where the logic already exists in Excel," so a team that wants to design a relational data model from scratch gets less from it. The product's value rises with the quality of the workbook behind it: a messy spreadsheet becomes a messy app.