You can also share both templates and database contents with other Database for iPad users. Database for iPadĭatabase for iPad is a free and simple database app that can sync with Google Docs spreadsheets. Templates include projects, contacts and files.īento for iPad costs $4.99, but you’ll need to also own the desktop version if you want to backup/sync your data. Unlike FileMaker Pro, Bento is designed to be even easier than FileMaker’s flagship database product, and offers several templates for getting started. FileMaker offers a couple tools itself, and there are third party tools for working with FileMaker databases as well.īento is “personal database” for both the Mac, the iPhone and the iPad. We’ll look at apps for accessing larger scale databases in the future.įileMaker has a long history of providing database tools for Apple computers (and is now an Apple subsidiary), so it’s only natural to look to the company for database tools for the iPad.

Personal databases can provide similar functionality, but give individual professionals more control over how they organize and work with information. We’ve previously looked at project management and SharePoint apps for the iPad. Personal databases are typically small database management systems designed to be used by only one person to organize information (see our guide to data terminology for more information on what databases are and how they work).

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