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About

Build apps like a boss. Take on digital transformation with Claris FileMaker. Quickly build custom apps that solve your business problems today — and tomorrow. Accelerate your business, unlock your team’s creative potential, and drive to better outcomes. Need an app to solve a really sticky business problem? Build it with FileMaker. It’s got all the tools you need to roll up your sleeves and DIY — or team up with pro developers for next-level expertise. And by today, we mean today. With built-in templates, drag-and-drop design, and an intuitive graphical UI, you’ll be app-building in no time. And your work goes live the second you’re ready, across every device — that’s the power of FileMaker. Need an app now but crunched for time? Odds are you’re not alone. Explore Marketplace to find the perfect jumping off point for your own custom app — from templates and components to fully-completed vertical market apps.

About

platformOS works with brands like Intel, Arab Bank, NEOM.com, Hallmark, UiPath, Spark Digital (NZ), and funded startups, delivering 100% business rule flexibility for web applications, with a strong pedigree in multi-sided marketplaces. Whether Progressive Web Apps, IoT integration, native Mobile or any Web Browser supported frameworks like React, Angular, Node.js etc, platformOS meets the Enterprise scaling needs to build and run any and every business application scenario. As an APIs-for-Everything 'low code' application development platform’, platformOS offers an advanced developer / web agency supported ecosystem supporting Channel Partners and Enterprise Clients building powerful, zero limits, API centric solutions; with a much shortened time to market (lower cost) that what is typical, especially for multi-sided marketplaces. In addition, platformOS provides multi-cloud devops infrastructure support “out of the box” which saves many thousands in operational costs.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Teams of all sizes

Audience

Front End Developers and Marketplace Owners

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$21 per user per month
Billed annually
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$50.00
Specialised hosting includes system devops in a box that is infrastructure agnostic, and includes support.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 4.5 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.3 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 4.3 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It's a desktop database app that evolved over decades conservatively without jamming in thoughtless features. You can prototype a fair amount but if you limit yourself to their tools, you'll have the fastest rapid solution creation of anything else out there. This is probably good for a version 1 of many database related apps - even if you have grand plans, you never really know the whole picture until using it and this is probably the best place to begin. Make your custom app from scratch someday but if you want rapid changes and results this is the thing to use. Change around your table structure without hardly any labor or mistakes; unlike SQL.
  • It's an extremely powerful platform, and it walks the line perfectly between a simple tool that's easy to start with, and a full-fledged development environment where the sky is the limit.

Cons

  • It can take many years before they make a useful change you wish they would implement. There are plug-ins and the ability to make standalone apps but the plug-in system is a last resort in my opinion. MOST your needs are built-in if you start to need extensions then you should move to making an app... but then when you realize the TIME it'll take you to recreate it... you end up staying. They push for subscriptions like everybody; but they will sell you an expensive perpetual license still; which I prefer and worry someday they may stop... migrating between large leaps in versions is always painless (like MS products.)
  • The only limitation I've found so far is that an application will scale to about 1,000 concurrent users, but that hasn't presented any kind of problem for me.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • The design team is outstanding - we continually get compliments on how professional and intuitive our app is - they truly made us look good. The tech dev team is brilliant and solution orientated. All are accessible and willing to help us succeed on their platform. The dev ops platform enabled us to get our start-up off the ground in a scalable way.
  • The power and flexibility of the platform is exactly what we were looking for. We wanted a tech stack that allowed us to achieve whatever project we needed to build for our customers, whilst not handling the devops and raw infrastructure. That is all taken care of for us, including all of the security and reliability that we need.
  • The right balance between having control and not having to control everything. We can build pretty much anything but leave the DevOps to the experts. Finding that balance of performance, security, reliability, scalability and flexibility is extremely hard especially at the right price point.
  • For my application, flexibility and performance are the biggest pros of building on PlatformOS. Not needing to manage the infrastructure is also a huge benefit. The documentation is also very easy to use and understand.

Cons

  • The project took more time than expected and we had to give up on some scoped items in the end.
  • Knowing all the pieces to the puzzle to achieve your solution. The control you get is amazing, however that comes with responsibility. I wouldn't say it is a con as the freedom allows us to create solutions we couldn't do on other platforms, you just need to do your homework and know how the pieces all fit together.
  • There is a learning curve but it's 100% expected if you want this level of control and flexibility. They have worked hard to make the onboarding as easy as possible and have won various awards for how they've gone about this. Pricing is usage based and you have to be clear on your own pricing model, again this is expected from a PaaS platform but something to be aware of.
  • Not necessarily a con, but there is a learning curve.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Claris
Founded: 1985
United States
www.claris.com/filemaker/

Company Information

platformOS
Founded: 2013
United States
www.platformos.com

Alternatives

Alternatives

Ninox

Ninox

Ninox Software
MetaBiz

MetaBiz

MetaSys Software

Categories

Categories

Low-Code Development Features

AI-Assisted Development
Business Process Automation
Collaborative Development
Data Aggregation and Publishing
Deployment Management
Drag & Drop
Integrations Management
Iteration Management
Performance Monitoring
Requirements Management
Templates
Visual Modeling
Web / Mobile App Development
Workflow Management

Application Development Features

Access Controls/Permissions
Code Assistance
Code Refactoring
Collaboration Tools
Compatibility Testing
Data Modeling
Debugging
Deployment Management
Graphical User Interface
Mobile Development
No-Code
Reporting/Analytics
Software Development
Source Control
Testing Management
Version Control
Web App Development

No-Code Development Features

AI-Assisted Development
Business Process Automation
Collaborative Development
Data Aggregation and Publishing
Deployment Management
Drag & Drop
Integrations Management
Iteration Management
Performance Monitoring
Requirements Management
Templates
Visual Modeling
Web / Mobile App Development
Workflow Management

Low-Code Development Features

AI-Assisted Development
Business Process Automation
Collaborative Development
Data Aggregation and Publishing
Deployment Management
Drag & Drop
Integrations Management
Iteration Management
Performance Monitoring
Requirements Management
Templates
Visual Modeling
Web / Mobile App Development
Workflow Management

DevOps Features

Approval Workflow
Dashboard
KPIs
Policy Management
Portfolio Management
Prioritization
Release Management
Timeline Management
Troubleshooting Reports

Marketplace Features

Catalog Management
Category Management
Fee / Commission Management
Order Management
Payment Processing
Promotions Management
Returns Management
SEO Management
Shopping Cart
Vendor Portal

Integrations

Burst SMS
Claris Connect
Core CRM Pro
DataTrium
Devart ODBC Drivers
Direct Mail
HostPresto
Loader.io
Passware Kit
PayTrace
RazorSQL
Sails
Stackreaction
Stripe
Style Intelligence
Tableau
Twilio
n8n

Integrations

Burst SMS
Claris Connect
Core CRM Pro
DataTrium
Devart ODBC Drivers
Direct Mail
HostPresto
Loader.io
Passware Kit
PayTrace
RazorSQL
Sails
Stackreaction
Stripe
Style Intelligence
Tableau
Twilio
n8n
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