Google Sheets on Android is more capable than it has any right to be on a phone screen. Basic data entry, formula editing, and even some pivot table manipulation are workable, and the collaboration features that make Sheets useful on desktop carry over: multiple editors, comment threads, version history. For reviewing a spreadsheet someone else built or making targeted edits on the go, it handles the job.
Building something complex from scratch on mobile is still painful. Formula bar interaction is cramped, cell selection accuracy on phones requires patience, and complex formulas with nested functions are genuinely difficult to write or debug on a small screen. The experience scales better on a tablet, where the extra real estate makes cell ranges and formula editing more manageable.
Like Google Docs, Sheets earns its high rating because it does something genuinely useful reliably across a billion installs. The caveats are predictable: touch interfaces have real limits for spreadsheet work and this app runs into them. As a tool for reviewing and light editing rather than heavy authoring, it delivers well.
Verdict: Genuinely useful for reviewing and light editing on the go, but complex spreadsheet authoring on a phone remains an exercise in frustration regardless of how good the app is.
