Microsoft 365 Copilot vs Microsoft Excel

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R15] Microsoft 365 Copilot 3/5 · US missing functionality: when you have moved from Microsoft Office suite to Microsoft Copilot, many of the applications are missing functionality that has been embedded for years
2. [R9] Microsoft 365 Copilot 3/5 · US Still missing so many features: Still missing so many features but I appreciate you all getting this beta out. One bug I keep experiencing is that when viewing a chat it keeps scrolling to the top automatically.
3. [R75] Microsoft Excel 3/5 · US App is missing a lot of functionality: App for Excel is missing many simple features that are in the desktop version.
4. [R66] Microsoft Excel 3/5 · US Almost the Excel I know for my PC: Microsoft deliberately makes using this software on an iPad more difficult and less efficient. Some basic, non complicated features, like holding control to select multiple cells, are not available. Lots of things like that which are just strange not to allow and really destroy efficiency. Overall I can still get the job done, it just feels intentionally limit
5. [R6] Microsoft 365 Copilot 3/5 · US Why is this here?: I have no idea how to use this!
6. [R53] Microsoft 365 Copilot 1/5 · US No tutorial: I just purchased one drive and cannot figure out to edit my docs and photos with no tutorials. Everything you read is directed to using the desktop with browser. We don’t always that available and I need to use the mobile app. Nothing is working. You advertise such ease of use but presume customers have inside information about how to use it. That is not good.
7. [R69] Microsoft Excel 3/5 · US Not great: Not user friendly
8. [R111] Microsoft Excel 1/5 · US Clunky non-intuitive button placements: This is a software that I wish people did not use. It is bulky and has oft-used menu elements hidden in non-obvious places. Also, its functionality on an iPad is atrocious with standard keyboard shortcuts having been overridden. When you have to take recourse to searching help pages for so many common tasks, that is irksome.
9. [R4] Microsoft 365 Copilot 1/5 · US By far the dumbest AI: Constantly forget instructions, makes basic mistakes and even lies at time! Don’t ask it anything more than proofreading things or translations. Honestly Microsoft should pay us to use this joke of an AI.
10. [R10] Microsoft 365 Copilot 1/5 · US What is this garbage?: This app used to be a one stop shop for all of my documents in OneDrive. It was convenient for use on an iPhone (since I didn’t want all those apps here). Now it’s a disconnected version of their CoPilot app. I.e. None of the existing CoPilot history appears to be accessible here. tl;dr. This is garbage and if allowed, I would rate it a 0.
11. [R79] Microsoft Excel 1/5 · US Excel syncs “sometimes”: Not a great app. Buggy and doesn’t always stay in sync with desktop version. Prefer Google sheets
12. [R97] Microsoft Excel 2/5 · US Disappointing… data loss, crashes: The iOS version is fine, the iPadOS version is unstable. Crashes a lot and losses data entered. Charts sometimes don’t display. Print chart crashes the app and loses changes. Couldn’t be less happy with Excel on the iPad
13. [R22] Microsoft 365 Copilot 1/5 · US Utter garbage: I pay monthly for 365 but this garbage app doesn’t acknowledge my purchase, so I can’t use it.
14. [R51] Microsoft 365 Copilot 1/5 · US Slop generator: This app was formerly the way I could access my PowerPoints and Word documents for work and presentations, and now it does nothing but scrape my data, chugs battery life, and tries to shove AI down my throat. I can't access any of my files easily anymore, and to open/view my files I need to have at least 4 (!?) other apps installed for the same tasks I used to do. AI is garbage, an
15. [R72] Microsoft Excel 3/5 · US Typical Microsoft: Does not support vba macros Does not support editing without paying Wow i can see my data but….. Sometimes the bottom and top toolbars disappears when you scroll down and you have to hit fx to get it back or scroll up. This is not always convenient. This is cumbersome and can lead to errors
16. [R117] Microsoft Excel 1/5 · US Deliberately difficult to use due to login amnesia: Microsoft wants everyone to be on a 365 subscription plan, but then makes it impossible to use the subscribed product by constantly and deliberately logging out the subscriber from the fully-paid account. Since other apps can remember logins, this “login amnesia“ must be a deliberate product strategy because Microsoft makes more profit when custo
17. [R12] Microsoft 365 Copilot 3/5 · US Getting better: Was glitchy the first time I used it and didnt really get the task or made me repeat what was asked as if I didnt ask. Its much better now since the update and looking forward to the future advancements it will bring.
18. [R106] Microsoft Excel 1/5 · US Linking to my MS Account: Found it hard to link up to my MS Office account