I am new to Tiller. I generally prefer excel over google sheets. It appears that possibly Tiller has more functionality with Sheets as opposed to Excel. Am I correct in this assumption? Would I be better suited to go with google sheets vs excel? Thanks.
Hi David,
Welcome to Tiller Money!
The core functionality is basically the same in both Excel and Sheets. It sounds like you may have already taken a look at both the Excel and Sheets “Show and Tell” subcategories where the community created solutions exist. Some of those solutions have been created for both Excel and Sheets by the creators. However, some only exist in one area or the other. I think your assumption is probably correct that there are probably more in Sheets right now.
BTW: Tiller allows us to have both an Excel template and a Google Sheets template. Since I was only familiar with Excel, I tried out Google Sheets to learn it and see if I liked it better. I decided to stay with Excel based on experience and comfort level and it met all my needs.
I hope this helps answer your question. I’m sure other will jump in and provide their perspective too.
Clint
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I think your assumption is correct, but my sense is that the gap is closing. Tiller started in Sheets, and it had a considerable head start over Excel. Tiller has been working to get Excel caught up, but it seems that Sheets is still ahead, especially when it comes to community-developed solutions, as @Clint.C said. (I’m a Sheets user–my employer is in the Google ecosystem so my preference was always for Sheets–so I can’t really personally testify to how far away Excel is from being caught up.)
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@Clint.C and @dmetiller
Thank you both for the feedback. It is very helpful and greatly appreciated!
David
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Here’s a guide with a few more details, but most of this has already been covered above ^ 
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Unless I am missing something in Excel, it seems that the Sheets version fills automaticaly even when you do not open the sheet, whereas in Excel you need to open and THEN fill.
This coud be problematic for some templates that you dont very often.
Is this true? or i am missing something?
That’s right @jorgeelizondom , and for your reference @davidcaradine , Google Sheets does have autofill capabilities because of the way it’s cloud hosted and respective APIs that allow access to the document to fill. Because Excel is desktop based access to the document is different.
Just to note: The automatic fill happens once a day in the very early morning and pulls new available spending and balances into your sheet. You will need to run a “Fill” for any new data that was pulled into Tiller after the Auto Fill ran for the day.