App Garden

Formula Explainer

Prices

Explaining a cell is free and always will be. What you pay for is documenting the whole model — every formula on a sheet at once, deduplicated, as something you can hand to somebody else.

Checkout is not open yet. The price below is final; the buy button switches on when the licence server for this add-in can mint a key. Email support@appgarden.co.uk if you want telling when.

Free

£0 no account, no expiry, no metering

  • Every cell, every workbook, unlimited
  • The plain-English sentence, the steps, and every value it reads
  • Typed-in values, counted across the sheet
  • The fragility warnings — what will break this formula
  • Copy the explanation out as Markdown or plain text

Nothing to buy and nothing to enter. Install it and it works.

Pro

£29 per year, or £3.50 a month

  • Everything in Free
  • Explain a whole sheet at once, deduplicated by pattern — a column of 400 identical formulas is one entry, not 400
  • The handover pack: every formula pattern, its inputs, the hardcoded constants and the fragility list, as one document
  • A glossary of every defined name and table column
  • A model summary — which sheets are inputs, which calculate, which are output
  • Three installs, so your desktop and your laptop both count

The annual price is the same licence for two months less. Both grant exactly the same features; the monthly one is there so a single handover does not need a year's commitment.

Your key is shown on screen at the end of checkout, on a page you should keep. It is not emailed — the key is issued by this site, not by the payment provider.

The explanation is never paid for

Selecting a cell and reading what it does is free permanently, and so is copying that explanation out to send to somebody. Five free websites do a context-blind version of it; charging for the version that can see your workbook would still be charging for the part of this that is a commodity.

What a licence covers

Practices and teams

If client workbooks arrive every week, email support@appgarden.co.uk — five seats are sold direct rather than through this page.

Refunds

Ask and you get one, within 30 days, no reason needed. Refund policy.

Already have a key?

In Excel, open the pane from Home › Explain formula, expand Enter a licence key at the bottom, paste it in and press Activate.

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