Riah Usage vs a spreadsheet
Direct answer
Use a spreadsheet if you only need occasional manual notes. Use Riah Usage when you want live (or refreshed) meters from multiple signed-in AI tools on your machine without retyping numbers.
Direct answer
Spreadsheets are great ledgers. They are bad auto-readers. Riah Usage exists to pull meters; sheets exist to store whatever you paste.
Honest limitations
Riah Usage will not do custom finance pivots like a sheet. A sheet will not refresh Cursor/Claude meters for you.
FAQ
Can I export to a sheet?
Treat Riah Usage as the live board; copy anything you need into your own records if you want a historical ledger.