Anthropic is giving Claude its own spreadsheets and shared whiteboards, expanding the AI assistant into a place where teams can build budgets, organize projects and work together without opening another app.
Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards launched in beta on November 10 for all paid plans. Claude Dashboards also leaves beta under a new name, Claude Data, although some of its new sharing and query features are still in testing.
The move brings Claude further into Google Workspace territory. Unlike the Claude add-on for Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, which edits Google’s files, these tools live inside Claude itself.
Claude already has collaborative document editing through Claude Docs, alongside the company’s design and presentation tools. Sheets adds another familiar office task to that growing collection.
Ask for a campaign tracker or hiring budget, and Claude Sheets can create tabs, formulas, charts and dropdowns. You can edit cells directly, leave comments and work in the same spreadsheet as colleagues and Claude. Changes from the AI are highlighted as they appear.
There are practical limits. Sheets supports up to 100,000 cells and 144 functions, but has no pivot tables, protected ranges, multi-column sorting or live data from connected apps. Existing Excel and Google Sheets files can be imported, while exports support .xlsx and CSV.
Whiteboards focuses on brainstorming: Claude can arrange ideas into diagrams, group meeting notes and turn a plan into a document or slide deck. Boards can also move into tools including Miro and Lucid.
Claude Data is aimed at teams working with connected business data. Its new features include certified queries for consistent metrics and live sharing so colleagues can view current dashboard results. Both are beta features.
For iPhone users, there’s a catch: Anthropic’s help documentation says Sheets offers only basic read-only access on mobile, with editing supported on web and desktop.
The Canadian App Store lists Claude Pro at $28 per month through iOS. Sheets and Whiteboards count toward your plan’s usage limits.
The launch follows Anthropic’s CarPlay voice mode update in late October and its November 5 Personal Finance beta, which remains limited to U.S. subscribers. Anthropic also introduced Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 on November 9, promising better coding and reasoning performance.
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