Formula Dog vs Arcwise AI

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.

Arcwise AI is a spreadsheet analytics copilot and decision platform for teams that live in Google Sheets and warehouse data. It began as a Chrome extension for ChatGPT-powered formulas and data cleanup, and now also sells traceable metric explanations tied to Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and internal documentation.

The Sheets extension still ships as a free Chrome add-on with keyboard shortcuts, $AI.TRANSFORM and $AI.CLASSIFY functions, and PDF table extraction. That side competes with formula copilots, while the platform side targets analysts who need audited answers instead of generic chatbot guesses.

Arcwise backs explanations with source tracing rather than open-ended model text, which matters when finance or ops teams need to defend a number in a review. The stored listing URL at /old-ai now returns 404, so the live product homepage is arcwise.app.