Google to shut down Tables, its Airtable alternative, by December 2025

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Google has announced that it will discontinue Tables, its work-tracking tool positioned as a rival to Airtable. The service will no longer be supported after 16 December 2025, with the company urging users to export their data or migrate it to Google Sheets or AppSheet before that date.

Tables was launched in 2020 through Google’s experimental incubator Area 120, with the aim of simplifying project management through automation. It moved from beta to become an official Google Cloud product in 2021 and was promoted as a solution for use cases such as customer service tracking, CRM, IT operations, recruiting, and product development.

Despite its early promise, Tables has not survived Google’s recent strategic refocus. Area 120 was significantly downsized in 2022 when the company shifted its in-house incubator’s focus to AI projects. The following year, the division was dissolved, with only a few projects absorbed into Google’s core offerings, such as YouTube’s dubbing tool Aloud.

The app was originally created by Tim Gleason, a Google veteran of more than a decade, who later worked on NotebookLM before announcing his retirement in 2024. While Tables survived the initial restructuring, Google has now confirmed its end-of-life timeline.

In its email to users, Google recommended exporting data to Google Sheets for continued use with tables and conditional notifications, or migrating to AppSheet. The latter retains formatting, relationships, and automations, offering deeper workflow integration across Google Workspace.

Google also noted on the Tables website that the team behind the product has already shifted efforts into AppSheet, launching a new data modelling experience in 2023 to help users build automated apps and workflows.