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BentoVersion: 1.0.3

Developer: FileMaker, Inc.

Age rating: 4+

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Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later

Filed Under: Productivity

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Manage libraries of information when you’re on the go

by Jeffery Battersby, Macworld.com

If you’re familiar with Bento 2 (), the easy-to-use personal database application for your Mac, then you won’t be surprised to learn that Bento for the iPhone and iPod touch is as capable and powerful a database application as is its desktop counterpart. Think of FileMaker’s $5 Bento as a “two-mints-in-one” application that can be used by itself on your iPhone or iPod touch or in tandem with its desktop counterpart.

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Good but not Great

This is a 1.0 type of app, which has room for improvement but is still very good already. After using it for less than a day, I bought the desktop version, too, but therein lies the rub. Databases ("libraries") I created on the iPhone then refined on the desktop showed some strange glitches. Some fields created on the desktop wouldn't show up on the iPhone after I resync'd, which was discouraging since I'd already entered a number of records. Perhaps it would be better to start on the desktop. The lack of documentation for the iPhone version was depressing, and might have avoided this problem, but overall I'm happy with it and will use it extensively. Even without docs, I was able to dive right in and do some pretty amazing and useful things. I'm looking forward to updates that clean up some of the problems and further enhance this already outstanding product.

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