Google Tables, a work tracking tool and competitor to the popular spreadsheet database hybrid that is aerial, shutting down.
In an E email sent to the users of the users this week, Google said the app will not be supported after December 16, 2025 and advised that users export or migrate their data to either Google Sheets or Appsheet instead, depending on their needs.
Launched in 2020, tables focused on making project tracking more efficient with automation. It was one of the many projects that came out of Google’s internal app incubator, Area 120, which at that time was devoted to pulling out a number of experimental projects. Some of these projects were later trained to become part of Google’s core offerings across cloud, search, shopping and more.
Tables were one of the early successes: Google said by 2021 that the service moved from a beta test to become an official Google Cloud product. At that time, the company said it saw tables as a potential solution for various use cases, including project management, IT operations, customer service tracking, CRM, recruiting, product development and more.
The app was created by Google employee Tim Gleason, who had spent over a decade in the company. Gleasure later went on to become a technical manager of the Notebook LM before announcing he would retire from September 2024.
Area 120 meanwhile was the victim of a Google Re-Ororg by 2022, when the company canceled half of its projects and informed the staff that a reduction in effect would cut the internal R&D division to half its size. The division that remained would focus on AI projects, Google said.
The following year, area 120 was wound up in the middle of wider layoffs, and a small handful of projects would advance to core Google product areas. (One of them was high, built tools that let the creators quickly dub their videos. YouTube announced an Auto-Dubbing feature in 2023 that became more widely available this year.)
Tables had survived these changes as it was part of Google Workspace’s team under Google Cloud. Unfortunately for tables users, the service now also has its own life life date.
In the email, Google advises tables administrators to export their data either directly to Google Sheets, continue to manage their workflow using tables and conditional messages or take advantage of a new migration tool to import their data into Google’s platform without code, appsheet. The latter solution preserves formatting as column types and conditions, and the workflow can then be controlled with automations, fine -grained permits and workshop integrations, Google says.
Earlier this month, the company announced the upcoming closure on Table’s website and led users to a FAQ, which noted that the team behind the tables had created a new data experience for Power Autometed Apps and Workflows directly inside the appsheet. This alternative, launched in June 2023, allows users to build data models for custom apps and workflows directly within the appsheet, the company says.