FileMaker
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Feb 19, 2026first mention
Oct 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“On the Mac, it's FileMaker”
“Maybe get back to what we used to have with apps like HyperCard, FileMaker and Microsoft Access”
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Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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All comments 6
“look at Filemaker”
“On the Mac, it's FileMaker”
“Apple still sells Filemaker.”
“Maybe get back to what we used to have with apps like HyperCard, FileMaker and Microsoft Access”
> I saw tables with more than a thousand columns. I used to work in a company that had all the tags in their SCADA system feed into SQL tables. They had multiple tables (as in tens of tables), because they ran out of columns ...
“He loves it.”