OrcaSheets

Maybe it's great at what it does, but I wouldn't know because it lacks even the most basic accessibility settings. Actually, it has almost no settings at all. You can't change the font size; it automatically resizes based on the width of the window. The cells have much more padding than necessary, so the text becomes extremely small when splitting the screen between multiple windows. I like very small text, but this just doesn't make sense to me. The scaling is inconsistent, so some sizes cut off overflow and others shrink the entire contents to fit within the cell. I get the impression that UI was an afterthought across the board. The basics are missing. For example, to see the keyboard shortcuts, you have to open the help menu, go to your browser, and download a PDF containing them.

OrcaSheets works like magic on my Mac. Having recently moved into the health tech domain, my data analytics needs changed dramatically from the cybersecurity world. In cybersecurity, I had access to expensive cloud-based analytics tools—in fact, I was developing the big data analytics pipelines and tooling myself. But moving to health tech changed the nature of the data I handle dramatically. The sensitivity and privacy requirements were dialed up a few notches, and I could not rely on tools sitting outside my laptop since that would require moving data off my machine. Strict data governance requirements meant month-long approval cycles and tool audits. OrcaSheets brought the entire flexibility and power of cloud analytics tools right to my laptop at a penny-to-the-dollar cost. I didn’t feel for a second that I needed any other tool for the kind of analytics I do in the payer-provider domain of health tech.

While the concept is great, as other users have mentioned the UI is not configurable enough. when i’m on a 43in widescreen UHD monitor - more than half the UI is taken up by locked sidebars and bottom drawers. If data is the priority, why aren’t we given the ability to SEE all of the DATA?