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Apple subsidiary FileMaker Inc., just announced they shipped over 1 million units of Bento, their personal database tool currently available for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Originally released in 2008, Bento is now available in seven languages with dedicated clients for iPhone and iPad ($4.99) that sync with Bento for Mac currently available on the Mac App Store for $49.99.
Vice President of Marketing and Services for FileMaker, Inc., Ryan Rosenberg said the following in a statement:
“Bento’s elegance has led to sales of more than a million units, meeting the needs of customers ranging from ranchers and mobile dentists to personal trainers and rock bands. With Bento on your iPad, iPhone, or Mac it’s easy to organize your contacts, track projects, plan events and manage just about anything.”
The full press release is available after the break.
FileMaker was gracious enough to provide TiPb with a walkthrough of their just-released Bento for iPhone and iPod touch ($4.99 - iTunes link). Coming as it does from a wholly-owned Apple subsidiary, Bento shows every bit as much polish as the built-in iPhone apps. Features include:
- 25 pre-designed, ready-to-use templates that can be quickly customized with a few taps.
- Create your own forms to organize virtually any data on an iPhone or iPod touch.
- Tap to call a contact, view a Web site, send an email or display a map all while in a Bento library or collection.
- Manage anything from contacts and club members to projects, parties, medical bills and vehicle maintenance.
- View libraries and collections, create new records, edit details, sort data, modify forms – even use the iTunes-style search to find information quickly on the go.
- Select from 15 field types including text, numbers, choice, checkbox, media, time, date, durations, currency, rating, address, phone number, email, URL and IM Account.
- Wireless Synchronization between Bento for iPhone and iPod Touch and Bento 2 for Mac
- Works with built-in iPhone apps Contacts, Safari, Phone Dialing, Mail and Google Maps
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An updated version of Bento 2 for the Mac is shipping at the same time, which is required for the sync to function. There's no support for multiple iPhone to Bento 2 Mac sync yet, though you can manually sync one device after the other. Likewise, Apple doesn't allow hooks into the Calendar (yet?!) but for things like Contacts, Bento for iPhone's ability to mirror the built in Contacts database, and then transparently superset it with extra data (i.e. you could add a star rating to all your friends) is very impressive.
Most impressive, however, is the typical Apple-esque ease of use. Bento does a lot of heavy lifting so users, whether exclusively on the iPhone, or syncing between iPhone and desktop, don't have to.
If you have any need at all to organize personal data on your iPhone, give Bento for iPhone a look and let us know what you think!
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