FileMaker Pro for Mac
Quickly build custom apps.
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FileMaker Pro overview
FileMaker Pro is the tool you use to create a custom app. You also use FileMaker Pro to access your app on a computer. Start by importing data from a spreadsheet or using a built-in Starter app to manage contacts, inventory, meetings, and more. Or even quickly build a new app from the beginning
FileMaker Pro includes a set of advanced tools to help you design and develop custom apps faster and easier. Plus, you’ll get robust analysis capabilities, powerful diagnostic tools, and much more
Features:
- Start quickly - Create precisely the app you want using the intuitive graphical interface, flexible design tools, built-in Starter apps, and ready-to-use themes
- Import existing data - Bring your existing data into a FileMaker app. Import data types such as .CSV, Tab, XML, ODBC, and Microsoft Excel files
- Built-in reporting tools - Easily make summary reports, colorful charts, and executive dashboards using built-in reporting and charting tools. Save your information in popular Excel and PDF formats
- Out-of-the-box security - Centralize your information and safely access data using proven encryption standards. Manage group or individual user privileges - even for a single field
- Share with your team - Create custom apps that work together seamlessly across iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac, and the web. Securely share your app with others using FileMaker Cloud or FileMaker Server. Learn more
- Integrate with other programs - Connect with other popular apps and web services through powerful REST APIs. And create live, 2-way connections with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and IBM DB2 data sources
Advanced features:
- Script Debugger - Instantly pinpoint problem areas in scripts and Script Triggers directly in the Script Workspace. Turn off Script Triggers when debugging to fine tune the troubleshooting process.
- Data Viewer - Monitor fields, variables, and calculations while troubleshooting.
- Database Encryption - Enable AES 256-bit encryption to protect data on FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Server, or on a FileMaker client.
- Custom Menus - Create, change, or delete specific menu items or entire menu sets.
- Custom Functions - Build your own functions and copy, paste, or import them into any FileMaker file.
- Database Design Report - Run comprehensive reports on all elements of your database schema.
- Kiosk mode - Build applications where all menus are hidden.
Note: The price is based off of a yearly subscription. More information here
What’s new in version 21.1.1.41
Open Quickly
- Custom app developers can now control whether users can access any layouts and scripts from the Open Quickly box. The new Allow Open Quickly access to layouts and scripts privilege is deselected by default in all accounts without full access. For more on how this and other privileges and settings affect Open Quickly results, see Controlling Open Quickly access.
- For accounts with full access privileges, Open Quickly results can now include tables, fields, and table occurrences. Clicking a result opens the Manage Databases dialog with the result selected. And while in the Manage Databases dialog, you can use the Open Quickly box to search for only the items in Manage Databases.
- The Open Quickly box now by default limits the search for items that are within a file (for example, layouts and scripts) to only those in the current file. To extend the search to all open files, you can deselect the current file option.
- To help you distinguish between types of items, category headings now separate Open Quickly results for files, layouts, scripts, tables, fields, and table occurrences into their own groups.
Full list of changes available here
FileMaker Pro for Mac
$594.00
In English
Version 21.1.1.41
What users say about FileMaker Pro
Value: 2.0
Way over priced (should be $150 to at most $250) for what seems like a never ending series of releases that are listed as major but in actuality just point releases.
Other user ratings:
Ease of use | 4.0
Features | 5.0
Reliability | 5.0
Customer support | 2.0
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Nov 8 2024
Version: 21.1.1.41
Lots of money for a DB application with a scripting language of the early 90s. And even a lot more money for a new logo with an old brand name? Are you serious?
Mar 1 2024
Version: 20.3.2.201
Anyone using this for just its database features should look at Tap Forms. I used to use FileMaker Pro version 14 and after I saw the direction they were going I switched over to Tap Forms and have been really happy with it for what I need to use it for, which is a simple database.
Jan 21 2024
Version: 20.3.1.31
This app is the second longest lived consumer end product (aka app, not operating system) on the market, April 1985 (MS Word being released October 1983). I have been using it since that time and it has been at points a fantastic product, a good product, a decent product and always a product that could hold its own against generally any other database out there. It is, unfortunately, habitually limited (at points neutered) by its owner and combined with a pricing model that inhibits widespread adoption. FileMaker is one of the oldest and most venerable products on the market. Yet at nearly 40 years old, FileMaker still a niche product. If the technology was not so great (which generates the loyal following), the constant blunders of the sales and marketing of the product would have killed FileMaker decades ago. FileMaker is an Apple app that is not in (not allowed 🤔) in the macOS Apple App Store 😂😭. FileMaker is exceptionally expensive and stands in contrast to the software market as key features are frequently trimmed while its price continues to rise sharply. Now they are making it rental-ware by putting it in the cloud 💰🧛 .
Nov 20 2023
Version: 20.3.1.31
Great App. Improving all the time under the Claris banner.
Jul 15 2022
Version: 19.5.2
I think Claris/Filemaker really dropped the ball when they canceled Bento to just concentrate on Filemaker Pro. There are people who want the power of a database system with the simplicity of drag and drop. You already had the foundation built and you canceled the app. Now they have something called Claris Connect, which I can guarantee will be canceled because no one is going to switch over from Zapier to that. The direction of this company kind of baffles me.
