Bento Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

With Bento update, lack of App Store upgrades is front-and-center again

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 20th, 2012)

FileMaker released a meaty update to the iPad version of Bento on June 19, pushing it from version 1.15 to 4.0. But with this comes a move previously seen with Tweetie 2 before it became the official Twitter app: the original Bento was pulled from the App Store after a few hours of overlap, ...

New Bento 4 for iPad adds design tools for customizing database solutions

by Michael Rose (Jun 19th, 2012)

It's a bit hard to believe that Apple software subsidiary FileMaker has been marketing Bento for more than four years now. The Mac version of the personal database debuted in early 2008, and separate iPhone and iPad versions can be had on the iOS App Store. Today the company is jumping the iPad ...

Filemaker offers free holiday kits for Bento users

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 1st, 2011)

Filemaker has released free holiday-themed goodies for Bento users. The Bento Holiday Kit has templates for cards and labels, a party planner and a gift list. To take advantage of this, you need to have Bento 4 for Mac installed. A free trial is available for those who want to see the program ...

Bento for Mac 4.0 arrives with label printing and location features

by Michael Rose (Mar 16th, 2011)

The "database for the rest of us," FileMaker's Bento for Mac, has hit version 4 today along with revised builds of the iPhone and iPad editions. It's a little bit surprising to realize that Bento has actually been on the market for three years now; in this edition, the product team has added ...

New Bento templates aimed at students

by Michael Rose (May 25th, 2010)

It may seem like odd timing; with the US about to head into the unofficial pre-summer period with the imminent Memorial Day long weekend, the last thing on most students' minds is getting organized for next year. Nevertheless, today Filemaker is setting the Bento 3 Student Survival Kit loose ...

Bento for iPhone / iPod touch reaches sales milestone

by Steven Sande (Dec 8th, 2009)

While it's no big deal for a free game or social networking app to reach a million downloads from the App Store, it is definitely news when a brand-name productivity app sells 100,000 copies. Bento for iPhone / iPod touch [US$4.99, iTunes Link] reached that milestone today, according to a press ...

FileMaker's Bento 3 announced, available immediately

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 29th, 2009)

FileMaker has announced the release of Bento 3, the next version of its database program for the Mac, available for purchase immediately. The upgrade comes just a couple weeks shy of a year from the debut of Bento 2. Changes in Bento 3 include: iPhoto integration, allowing you to use your ...

Bug-bashing Bento 2.0v5 is now available for download

by Steven Sande (Aug 19th, 2009)

FileMaker issued an update to their Mac database application Bento this morning. Bento 2.0v5 is a bug-fix release, with no new features added to the application. According to the download notes, Bento 2.0v5: Resolves an issue related to duplication of Address Book and iCal information when ...

Real World Bento: the formidable, personal database

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 14th, 2009)

It suddenly occurred to me that my needs for software have changed. It was while I was browsing for a native Mac application for monitoring weight loss that I realized that little out there would suffice if it couldn't sync with my iPhone. While there are several popular online sites for tracking ...

TUAW Review: Bento for iPhone

by Steven Sande (May 12th, 2009)

FileMaker, Inc. provided one of the surprise announcements of the last couple of weeks with the introduction of Bento for iPhone and iPod touch. Designed a both a standalone database management application and companion app to the Mac version, Bento for iPhone is an inexpensive, well-designed, and ...

First Look: Bento for iPhone and iPod touch

by Steven Sande (May 5th, 2009)

iPhone owners who are searching for an easy-to-use database management app for their iPhones can stop looking. Today, FileMaker Inc. announced the immediate availability of Bento for iPhone and iPod touch (click opens iTunes), a US$4.99 portable edition of Bento for Mac. The app comes with 25 ...

Filemaker's Bento goes 2.0

by Michael Rose (Oct 14th, 2008)

When Filemaker introduced Bento, the 'relational database for the rest of us,' at Macworld Expo this year, the response from the marketplace was pretty solid; as of August, the $49 multipurpose data organizer had been downloaded over 400,000 times. Still, the product was a clear 1.0 with a lot of ...

Winners in the Back-to-School giveaways

by TUAW Blogger (Sep 8th, 2008)

If you entered one of our snazzy back-to-school giveaways in August you might want to check your email (and junk mail folders) today. We've sent confirmations to everyone who won. Congratulations to you, randomly-selected recipients! Here's a look at what we gave away: Ten licenses of ...

Win a copy of Bento from FileMaker and TUAW

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 19th, 2008)

We've covered the personal database app, Bento, a few times in the past, and Brett mentions it in his "Collecting and Organizing Information" post, but our friends at venerable FileMaker want to give you a chance to try it yourself. So we're giving away three boxed copies of Bento today! Use it to ...

Filemaker releases Bento 1.0v2

by Dave Caolo (Mar 9th, 2008)

Bento is the end user database software from Filemaker that was released as a beta a couple of months ago. We took a look at Bento in November. If you're coming from Filemaker Pro development, you'll find Bento a bit limiting, but the number of users who could potentially find it useful, like ...