Commabot vs Formula Dog

Commabot is a browser-based Excel alternative for CSV work: you upload a file and handle analysis, cleaning, and transformation in a chat interface instead of writing spreadsheet formulas. The homepage frames it as a conversational CSV editor for sales reports, survey results, financial records, and other tabular files.

The About page also describes specialized contact list prep workflows: deduplicating contacts, standardizing phone numbers to E.164, removing unsubscribes, merging multiple lists, and formatting exports for HubSpot or Salesforce import. That gives the product both open-ended CSV chat and CRM-ready contact cleanup paths.

You sign in with Google to upload files. Commabot runs on Google Cloud infrastructure and processes uploads in memory unless you explicitly save them to your account.

Formula Dog turns spreadsheet problems written in plain English into working Excel or Google Sheets formulas. You describe what you need, and the tool returns a paste-ready formula, often with a short explanation of how it works. The first five requests each day are free with no account required.

The product centers on a fine-tuned model trained on real spreadsheet formulas paired with human-written descriptions. That focus shows up in the output: fewer invented function names and syntax tuned for Excel, Google Sheets, VBA, regex helpers, and basic Airtable or Notion formulas.

It fits analysts, ops teams, and anyone who lives in spreadsheets but does not want to memorize every function variant. The site also ships a searchable cheat sheet, a playground with worked examples, and support for 12 interface languages.