# Monday.com vs Smartsheet

> Monday.com and Smartsheet both organize collaborative work, but their product instincts diverge at the formula bar. Monday.com leads with visual boards, customizable status colors and many views, while its formula column calculates horizontally at the item level and cannot read another board. Smartsheet preserves familiar spreadsheet functions, sheet-level summaries and cross-sheet references. That makes formula fluency, rather than a feature checklist, the durable reason many spreadsheet power users may prefer Smartsheet.

## Achievements

- Smartsheet says its platform is used by more than 85% of Fortune 500 companies.
- monday.com evolved from a board product into a multi-product work platform and listed on Nasdaq in 2021.
- Smartsheet supports cross-sheet references and documents a library of spreadsheet-style functions.
- Monday.com offers multiple board views, including table, Gantt, timeline, calendar, Kanban and pivot boards.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Monday.com’s updated formula documentation continued to state that calculations are horizontal at item level and cannot read other boards.
- **2025-01** — Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners completed the approximately $8.4 billion acquisition of Smartsheet.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mondaydotcom
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/mondaydotcom
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mondaydotcom
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mondaydotcom/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mondaydotcom/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mondaydotcom

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Last updated: 2026-08-26