Google is shutting down Tables, its Airtable rival

Google Tables, a work-tracking instrumentality and rival to the fashionable spreadsheet-database hybrid Airtable, is shutting down.

In an email sent to Tables users this week, Google said the app volition not beryllium supported aft December 16, 2025, and advised that users export oregon migrate their information to either Google Sheets oregon AppSheet instead, depending connected their needs.

Launched successful 2020, Tables focused connected making task tracking much businesslike with automation. It was 1 of the galore projects to look from Google’s in-house app incubator, Area 120, which astatine the clip was devoted to cranking retired a fig of experimental projects. Some of these projects aboriginal graduated to go a portion of Google’s halfway offerings crossed Cloud, Search, Shopping, and more.

Tables was 1 of those aboriginal successes: Google said successful 2021 that the work was moving from a beta trial to go an authoritative Google Cloud product. At the time, the institution said it saw Tables arsenic a imaginable solution for a assortment of usage cases, including task management, IT operations, lawsuit work tracking, CRM, recruiting, merchandise improvement and more.

The app was created by Google worker Tim Gleason, who had spent implicit a decennary astatine the company. Gleason aboriginal moved connected to go a tech pb manager for NotebookLM earlier announcing that helium would discontinue opening September 2024.

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Area 120, meanwhile, was the unfortunate of a Google re-org successful 2022, erstwhile the company canceled fractional its projects and informed unit that a simplification successful unit would chopped the in-house R&D part to fractional its size. The part that remained would absorption connected AI projects, Google said.

The pursuing year, Area 120 was coiled down amid broader layoffs, and a tiny fistful of projects would determination connected to halfway Google merchandise areas. (One of those was Aloud, which was gathering tools that fto creators rapidly dub their videos. YouTube announced an auto-dubbing diagnostic successful 2023 that became more broadly available this year.)

Tables had survived these changes, arsenic it was a portion of Google Workspace’s squad nether Google Cloud. Unfortunately for Tables users, the work present has its ain end-of-life date, too.

In the email, Google advises Tables admins to export their data either straight to Google Sheets, past proceed to negociate their workflow successful Sheets utilizing tables and conditional notifications, oregon instrumentality vantage of a caller migration tool to import their information to Google’s no-code platform, AppSheet. The second solution preserves formatting similar file types and relationships, and the workflow tin past beryllium managed with automations, fine-grained permissions, and Workspace integrations, Google says.

The institution earlier this period announced the coming closure connected Table’s website and directed users to an FAQ, which noted that the squad down Tables had created a caller information acquisition to powerfulness automated apps and workflows straight wrong AppSheet. This alternative, launched successful June 2023, lets users physique information models for customized apps and workflows straight wrong AppSheet, the institution said.