Google Sheets
Google Sheets is a web-based spreadsheet app for creating, editing, analyzing, and sharing spreadsheets across devices and with other people.
What is Google Sheets?
Google Sheets is an online spreadsheet application that helps people create tables, track data, build budgets, analyze information, and work together in shared spreadsheets. It is part of Google Workspace and is commonly used by students, teams, businesses, and individual users who want browser-based spreadsheet tools without needing a traditional desktop office suite. Sheets supports real-time collaboration, comments, sharing controls, templates, charts, formulas, and revision history for ongoing work. It also works with Microsoft Excel files and can be used from a web browser on macOS and other platforms, with mobile apps available for phones and tablets. On Mac, users often encounter Google Sheets through a browser, Google Drive workflows, or desktop shortcuts created by Google Drive for desktop.
Key features
- Create and edit spreadsheets in a web browser
- Collaborate with other people in real time
- Use formulas, charts, tables, and templates to organize data
- Share sheets with view, comment, or edit access
- Open and work with Microsoft Excel files
- Review version history and restore earlier edits
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Google Sheets itself is a legitimate Google productivity product. On Mac, the bundle ID com.google.drivefs.shortcuts.sheets is associated with a Google Drive for desktop shortcut-style app entry rather than a full native spreadsheet application. That background is consistent with opening Sheets from Google Drive or the web. Check that the item was installed with Google Drive for desktop or your browser-based Google tools, and be mindful that spreadsheet content may be stored in Google accounts and shared online.
Recommendation: Keep this item if you use Google Sheets or open spreadsheets from Google Drive on your Mac. If you do not use Google Drive for desktop, browser shortcuts, or Google Workspace tools, you can remove the shortcut-style app without affecting unrelated macOS features, though it may stop quick launching for Sheets from local integrations.
Common paths
/Applications/Google Drive.app~/Applications/Chrome Apps.localized/Google Sheets.app
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Google/DriveFS
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