Easy-to-use but powerful database app!

Tap Forms is a fantastic app that keeps improving dramatically with every update. The developers have been incredibly responsive whenever I’ve had any kind of question/issue/suggestion.

Overall, Tap Forms is an ideal Bento replacement database app for situations where FileMaker would be overkill. It actually feels more Mac-like than Bento or FileMaker in many ways.
No need to go into all the features, but here are a few highlights for me:

• Many-to-many (and one-to-many) relationships are quite easy to set up.
• Date calculation fields: If a project always has a due date of x days from the start date, you can set the due date field to be filled automatically as soon as you enter the start date; plus the start date can be set automatically to be the date that the project record is created. So basically both date fields can fill themselves as soon as you create the record.
• Customizing the view of forms on the Mac is basically a matter of dragging things around and resizing them, so it’s easy to make your forms look how you like or just split up information for forms that have many fields.
• On the Mac, files can be linked from the hard drive (like aliases) or actually copied into the database. With the files copied in, you can view them on other synced copies of Tap Forms without previously having those files stored. This is especially handy to be able to view those files on the iPad/iPhone, which dont really have their own file management.
• Syncing via iCloud or Dropbox (right now you need to push changes up to the cloud, but this seems likely to improve into an invisible syncing process)
• iPad and iPhone apps (latter comes with Watch app!)

I can’t imagine working without Tap Forms!

Lin Ai about Tap Forms Organizer and Secure Database