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What Macabacus is, in one sentence
A Microsoft 365 productivity add in for finance: Excel modelling and formula auditing, keyboard shortcuts, linking Microsoft PowerPoint exhibits and text to Excel cells and charts, quick charts, a brand check and shared libraries.
What it is used for
- Building and auditing financial models in Excel faster
- Linking PowerPoint and Word exhibits to the model
- Chart shortcuts and brand compliance checks
- Shared team libraries
Who typically runs it: analysts in banking, private equity and corporate finance; the person who owns the model.
What it costs
Basic is $200 a year per license, Professional $360 a year per license, Enterprise on request. 14 day free trial, no credit card.
Source: macabacus.com, pricing page, read 20 September 2026. Prices change; check the vendor's page before deciding.
Side by side
| Macabacus | INSYNCR | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | On the user's PC in Microsoft 365 (Office 2016 and 2019 listed) | On the user's PC, inside PowerPoint. Nothing uploaded. |
| Data sources | Excel | Excel, Excel Online, SharePoint, Google Sheets, Access, JSON, XML, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Salesforce, Dynamics, ODBC, OData, OPC, text and files, by plan |
| Binds text boxes and tables, not only charts | Exhibits and text link to Excel cells and charts | Yes: text boxes, tables and charts bind to a cell, column or query |
| One deck or file per record | No | Yes: Snapshot, one slide or one file per record (PowerPoint, PDF, MP4) |
| Rules by value (color, hide a slide) | No data rules | Yes: conditional formatting and slide inclusion by value |
| Refresh for the next cycle | Update linked exhibits | One click, on demand, by any Viewer |
| Chart drawing and layout | Quick charts and add ons | Native PowerPoint charts, your template's formatting |
| Brand templates and libraries | Deck check and libraries | No library to adopt: it works inside the template you already use |
| Price, as published | $200 or $360 a year per license | €99.99 to €333.33 a month per Automator, billed annually; Viewer €27 a month. Billed yearly that is €1,199.90 to €3,999.90 and €324. |
| Minimum seats | 1 | 1 |
| Trial | 14 days | 7 days, full access, no card |
| Does report data leave the building? | No | No |
What it lacks for a recurring report
- Any source that is not Excel: databases, Salesforce, SharePoint, OData
- One deck or file per record from one template
- Rules by value on the slide
- Viewer seats for people who only refresh
Where Macabacus is better than INSYNCR
- Excel modelling productivity, auditing and shortcuts, which INSYNCR does not touch
- Price: $200 to $360 a year is well under an INSYNCR Automator seat
- Word linking as well as PowerPoint
Which to pick
Keep Macabacus for the model. If the deck built from that model recurs, goes to many clients, or must be refreshed by people who did not build it, bind it with INSYNCR. For a one off pitch from one workbook, Macabacus alone is enough and cheaper.
We describe Macabacus from its own website and public documentation, dated above, and say nothing about it we have not read there. If something is out of date or unfair, write to info@insyncr.com and we will fix it.