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Steward for Mac

Personal database for organizing everything.

$14.99
In English
Version 2.3
4.3
Based on 3 user rates

Steward overview

Steward is a personal database for organizing everything. It tries to fill the market. space left after the discontinuation of Bento. It’s designed for ease of use helping non-tech savvy users to build their custom database to manage information.

Steward Features
  • 10+ prebuilt templates (Password, Personal Collection, Notes, Home Inventory, etc.)
  • 9 different field types (Text, Number, Image, Date, Attachment, Rating, Checkbox, Choice, Website)
  • Search
  • Import and export CSV and TAB file
  • Backup and restore
  • Undo and redo
  • Printing
  • Customizable table icon with a builtin icon library
  • Quicklook image and attachment

What’s new in version 2.3

Version 2.3:
  • Small bug fix

Steward for Mac

$14.99
In English
Version 2.3
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4.3

(3 Reviews of Steward)

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  • User Ratings

Sampler
Sampler
Apr 4 2017
2.1
3.0
Apr 4 2017
3.0
Version: 2.1
I really hoped to use this app for serious work. Field creation is easy. There is a form layout view as well as a spreadsheet view. I especially like the "advanced find", which identifies records that satisfy search criteria applied to different variables. However there are some issues that prevent me from buying the program now ($25). Some of them are:

• Sporadic Bugs
- The "advanced" search is supposed to limit the number of shown records to those that satisfy search criteria. It doesn't always work.

- In spreadsheet view, there is an option to show for any field a count of observations with a valid value for that field. That count is sometimes inaccurate.

- Export to CSV sometimes fails to export a chosen field.

I reported the first two of these bugs, with screen shots of a simple data set, to the developer, but got no response.

• Export is poorly designed. You must move fields one at a time to an export column. The mac standard would be to use shift or control to select multiple . items. . One cannot save export profiles: Want to do another export? Start from scratch. Thus regular export is impractical.

• There's no way to create a compact layout for data entry. The standard vertical layout has the virtue of simplicity, but it does mean that a form with many fields is unwieldy to navigate.

• Strange design All data are are saved inside a single file located deep inside user system folders.

Backups (of that single file or of extracts) can be located anyplace. They can be opened by double-clicking, but the opening is accompanied by a message that "The document cannot be opened" and that "Steward Backups cannot be opened by "Steward".

• GUI problems: Some controls (sidebar with table list, top controls including choice of view) are hidden unless one enters the shortcut for "advanced find". "Update" and "Save" buttons appear unpredictably.

I hope that the program will be improved. For simple needs (no advanced search), I now use the free program EagleData.
Tim27
Tim27
Jan 16 2017
1.8
0.0
Jan 16 2017
0.0
Version: 1.8
The interface is kind of a ripoff of Tap Forms. Developer, please come up with your own ideas!
nellistephens
nellistephens
Aug 2 2016
1.4
5.0
Aug 2 2016
5.0
Version: 1.4
Wow, it's a treasure for a perfectionist! Now everything you have on your Mac can be sorted, organized and ordered. I've found this app very useful for real, it has a a wide range of categories. The interface is so smart and nice-looking. You can even organize a wine collection. Steward has also a function of importing, exporting and backup that is important too. I recommend this app to everyone who dreams to have excellent shape of a Mac.
zebraapp180
zebraapp180
Jun 5 2021
2.3
5.0
Jun 5 2021
5.0
Version: 2.3
Sampler
Sampler
Apr 4 2017
3.0
Apr 4 2017
3.0
Version: null
nellistephens
nellistephens
Aug 2 2016
5.0
Aug 2 2016
5.0
Version: null