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What think-cell is, in one sentence
A Microsoft PowerPoint add in for consulting style charts: 40 plus chart types including waterfall, Mekko and Gantt, plus agendas, smart tables and layout tools.
What it is used for
- Drawing waterfall, Mekko, Gantt and other consulting charts fast
- Layout and labelling that looks like a strategy deck
- Excel links for a chart's data range, and linked tables
- A Tableau integration and a JSON automation API
Who typically runs it: consultancies, banks and strategy teams; the person who draws the deck.
What it costs
Published, per user a month and billed annually, across four packages: Essentials at €7.90, Suite at €23.90, AI Suite at €38.90 and AI Suite Plus at €83.90. Volume discounts apply and a free trial is offered on the Suite packages and above.
Source: think-cell.com, order page, read 4 October 2026. Prices change; check the vendor's page before deciding.
Side by side
| think-cell | INSYNCR | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | On the user's PC in PowerPoint; Citrix supported | On the user's PC, inside PowerPoint. Nothing uploaded. |
| Data sources | Excel ranges, a Tableau integration, JSON through its API | 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 | Charts and linked tables; text boxes and rules by value are not the product's job | Yes: text boxes, tables and charts bind to a cell, column or query |
| One deck or file per record | No: one deck, drawn by hand, per template | Yes: Snapshot, one slide or one file per record (PowerPoint, PDF, MP4) |
| Rules by value (color, hide a slide) | No | Yes: conditional formatting and slide inclusion by value |
| Refresh for the next cycle | Update linked Excel ranges | One click, on demand, by any Viewer |
| Chart drawing and layout | Excellent: 40 plus chart types, the category leader | Native PowerPoint charts, your template's formatting |
| Brand templates and libraries | Style files | No library to adopt: it works inside the template you already use |
| Price, as published | €7.90 to €83.90 per user a month, billed annually, across four packages | €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 | Free trial offered | 7 days, full access, no card |
| Does report data leave the building? | No | No |
What it lacks for a recurring report
- Generating one deck or one file per client, company or student from one template
- Binding the text and the tables around the chart to the same source as the chart
- Rules that color a value or drop a slide by value
- Connecting to a database, a CRM or SharePoint rather than an Excel range
- A Viewer role: someone who only refreshes
Where think-cell is better than INSYNCR
- Drawing charts. If the question is how to make a waterfall look right, think-cell is the answer and INSYNCR is not
- Agendas, Gantt and process flows
- Adoption inside consultancies; your new hires may already know it
Which to pick
If the deck is one off, think-cell. If the same deck goes out every month with new numbers, bind it with INSYNCR and draw the one off charts with think-cell. INSYNCR binds native PowerPoint charts; a think-cell chart keeps its own datasheet, so recurring charts go on native objects.
We describe think-cell 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.