“Bento has been one of the leading productivity apps for the Mac and iPhone for some time and we’re very excited to now bring a great version to iPad at an incredible price,” said Ryan Rosenberg, FileMaker vice president of marketing and services.
The new Bento for iPad provides gesture support navigation on iPad and takes full advantage of the innovative device’s big screen. The app works in both portrait and landscape views, automatically switching between views as the user rotates the iPad. Users can simply touch the screen to edit information in choice, date and rating fields and checkboxes. A new quick tap lets users watch videos, view photos and send e-mails. Customers can even browse web links in Bento without leaving the app.
The app features cool new notebook, clipboard, and glass themes that you can apply to any Bento library to make your database look as great as it works. It also includes 25 pre-designed customizable templates ranging from event planning, time billing, recipes, classes, dieting and more—all designed to make organizing iPad content and activities easy. All templates are fully modifiable, and users can create their own libraries to suit any type of task. To make it easy to bring together all your information, the new Bento for iPad supports 15 field types including text, numbers, choice, checkbox, media, time, date, durations, currency, rating, address, phone number, email, URL and IM Account.
Bento for iPad is priced at $4.99. Available today (in English only) from the U.S. Apple App Store, Bento for iPad will be available in other countries when iPad is available there.
More info and purchase link via Apple’s iTunes App Store here.
FileMaker, Inc. is the leader in easy-to-use database software. Millions of people, from individuals to some of the world’s largest companies, rely on FileMaker software to manage, analyze and share essential information. The company’s products are the FileMaker Pro line — versatile database software for teams and organizations, for Windows, Mac and the Web — and Bento, the personal database for Mac, iPhone and iPad. FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple.
Source: FileMaker, Inc.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Wow, $4.99 for a fairly full-featured database. The app store/signed apps strikes again!
Hmmm…Bento for iPad or one issue of Time magazine for iPad…some people just don’t get it…
And so it starts. The iPad will be Apple’s biggest platform by a wide margin
Ok now how about FileMaker Pro Advanced for the iPad. That would be awesome!
So for less than $35, one gets Bento, Keynote, Notes and Numbers. That being the case, who needs Office?
mw: million – as in how many iPads they’ll sell in June quarter
I’m hoping Pixelmator are working on a App for the iPad…
The June quarter will see 3 million iPads sold, easily.
@Yimmie
Agreed. I can’t wait. According to FM, they’re working on it.
Great price!
At that price point most people will come to the conclusion that they can’t afford NOT to have this application. They’ll buy it even if they don’t have an immediate use for it. Which will more than make up for the low price for Filemaker.
Smart move. Now if Time would get a clue … but that’s another story.
You can also deploy FileMaker Pro on your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch using FMTouch. FMTouch allows you to run FileMaker as a fully relational database system using scripts and calculations. You can also sync to FileMaker and to Runtime solutions via wifi or your internet connection.
This is a cross platform solution that works on both Mac and Windows.
Here are some screenshots of FMTouch running FileMaker databases on the iPhone.
http://twitpic.com/1cnsqh – Fully relational FileMaker database
http://twitpic.com/1cnsir – editing a FileMaker record
In Kindness
Stephen Knight
http://www.fmtouch.com
Great product, great price–way to go, FileMaker!
Add a touch-enabled graphics (drawing/painting) app to Bento and the iWork trio, and you have AppleWorks for iPad.
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Next: some form of IDE?
@ken1w – SketchBook Pro for iPad $8. The suite is complete. How sweet, this suite.
@ken1w – Also, OmniGraffle, if they rethink their pricing structure. I love the company and their apps, but better to sell 200 @ $5.00 that 10 @ $50.00. OmniGraffle can sell enough copies to clean up at the right price.
They desperately need to allow synching more than one mobile device with Mac Bento. I hardly want to make an either or choice between synching my iPhone or ipad.