Bento goes 1.0
Written on January 09, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 1 person has commented
Back in November, FileMaker released a preview of their soon-to-be-released personal database app, Bento.
Yesterday they officially released the gold version of Bento.
The design in functionality of Bento is such that you’d think it was just another iWork application. It meshes extremely well with Apple’s design standards set in its iWork apps and has an almost limitless number of uses.
It’s available in a single-license and family-license at $49 and $99, respectively.
boB Rudis on January 9th, 2008 at 11:14 am
After grabbing the try-n-buy I was about to wail on Apple. No Web integration. No import of Nike+iPod data into the exercise log. No XML export. No “plain” theme… No über-cool .Mac support.
Then, I realized… It’s a $50 app from Apple with a very specific audience in mind (which I am not a part of). So much for our hopes of iStore (roll-your-own iWork DB name).
If you tried Bento, did it come across as “feeling” like a FileMaker app with some re-used Leopard/OS X eye candy?