--- title: Claris FileMaker Reviews meta\_title: 'Claris FileMaker Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 578 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Claris FileMaker works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 578 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Rapid Application Development (RAD) url: https://www.g2.com/categories/rapid-application-development-rad --- # Claris FileMaker Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Claris FileMaker but has limited features. Are you part of the Claris FileMaker team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Make tech work for you, not the other way around. The Claris platform is uniquely suited to help businesses like yours build, test, and rapidly iterate customized, integrated solutions faster and more efficiently than any other platform on the market. Unlike other software applications out there that are too lightweight and not customizable or too complex and rigid, Claris is flexible enough to meet your specific and evolving needs. Organizations just like yours — whether they’re SMBs, nonprofits, or educational institutions — use Claris apps to help them run their business the way they want and thereby significantly boost productivity and efficiencies across the board. Learn more — www.claris.com * * * Seller [Claris](https://www.g2.com/sellers/claris) Discussions [Claris FileMaker Community](https://www.g2.com/products/claris-filemaker/discuss) Languages Supported German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese (Simplified) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Ed Staton (Senior Marketing Program Project Manager) Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Claris FileMaker. ### Claris FileMaker Free Trial ### On-Premise $16.50 [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/claris-filemaker/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Salesforce Headless 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Salesforce Headless 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform)") Salesforce Headless 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform) 4.5/5(3,994) ](https://www.g2.com/products/agentforce-360-platform-formerly-salesforce-platform/reviews) [ ![Quickbase](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Quickbase") Quickbase 4.5/5(1,632) ](https://www.g2.com/products/quickbase/reviews) [ ![Zoho Creator](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Zoho Creator") Zoho Creator 4.3/5(165) ](https://www.g2.com/products/zoho-creator/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/claris-filemaker/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 578 real user reviews. Implementation Time 3 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Claris FileMaker Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Apple Mail ](https://www.g2.com/products/apple-mail/reviews) Show More PD Peter D. Owner Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/19/2018 "Rapid development with surprising depth" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Claris FileMaker? I can build a multi-user relational database app for Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad and web out of the box. Improved Javascript integration opens up a world of code libraries on top of existing ability to read/write external SQL databases and integrate with 3rd party APIs. FileMaker is an excellent tool for integrating various data sources into one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Claris FileMaker? User interface is somewhat old-fashioned, although FMI appears to be taking steps to improve this. Built-in controls are a little dated and limited but this can be overcome with the excellent inline web viewer control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Claris FileMaker: If you're looking for a cross-platform database/rapid application development environment with a very shallow learning curve, I highly recommend FileMaker Pro. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Claris FileMaker solving and how is that benefiting you? I've built quick 'n' dirty one-off apps to massage data and I've built full-featured ERP systems... FileMaker's simplicity belies its power. The ability to make schema or layout changes to a hosted file and have those changes take effect before your users' eyes is priceless. FileMaker is an excellent tool for a business whose model and/or processes don't fit the norm. Build in your own business rules, logic, and processes. Use custom privilege sets to limit data and functionality access. Sign in with oAuth (Google, Facebook, Azure), or Open/Active Directory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/4/2024 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Printing](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Printing") IP Verified User in Printing Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/4/2024 "Filemaker allowed a novice like me to take our business into a totally paperless company" 5/5 What do you like best about Claris FileMaker? The combination of graphical page layout design features alongside very easy to understand scripting technologies and connecting that to real world systems is amazing. The online Community and 3rd party forums and groups are very mature and growing. That alone is worth diving into the Filemaker universe. If you don't know how to do something help for ease of implementation is just a click away. I would call that the best customer support on earth. I took our entire company operation into Filemaker and completely did away with every last piece of physical paper. We use it every minute of every day to run our business. And, it seemed pretty easy for me to integrate considering the complexity of the task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Claris FileMaker? Some technologies, such as connecting to cloud storage should be easy right at the start. We have a great 3rd party service and really shouldn't have to pay for that. However, overall Claris is paying attention, listening to users and developers and much has changed in the last few years. Absolutely game changing on my fronts. Installing a local server and ssl was previously a pain in the neck, but Claris has improved that and just about everything 10 fold in the past few years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Claris FileMaker solving and how is that benefiting you? It is becoming easier to do most everything now, because of the focus on low-code development and listening to the big time developers. A few years ago it seemed Claris was taking things in a different direction that would leave people like me behind. I now feel secure that the future looks bright and the many hundreds of hours invested in the product will continue to evolve in a manner to last. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Daniel F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Daniel F.") DF Daniel F. Senior FileMaker Developer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/4/2024 "FileMaker Developer since 1996" 5/5 What do you like best about Claris FileMaker? Visual development environment with concepts that more closely match the layperson's assumptions about how things should work. Allows people without an IT background to create useful tools for themselves and their colleagues. Rapid development. Create something that works for one person, share it with the server version and it instantly scales to multiple users (compare and contrast to MS Access where you need to rewrite code to deal with the database tables being moved to SQL Server). Instantly deploy to Mac, Windows, iOS (iPhone/iPad), web browser. Build stand-alone iOS app easily. Integrates well with other products/solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Claris FileMaker? Some development tasks involve too many dialog boxes. Performance with large numbers of users can be slow. Pricing can be confusing. Hard to follow standard development practices like versioning, continuous delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Claris FileMaker solving and how is that benefiting you? Business requirements are always changing and the sooner the applications can be modified to match, the better. FileMaker does this well. Integrating with data sources external to the business allows faster and more accurate record-keeping. FileMaker is adequate for this. Being able to deliver the applications via the browser rather than a dedicated client reduces the impact on IT department resources. FileMaker does this well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Ian R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ian R.") IR Ian R. Pastoral Care - Professional Supervisor Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/7/2024 "Not For Profit Developer, 30 years using FileMaker" 5/5 What do you like best about Claris FileMaker? FileMaker is easy to use for rapid, staged, development. It is good to be able to be agile when users desire a new feature in a solution. FileMaker's continual upgrading while being careful no to break solutions which do not use the new features is a big plus. The FileMaker Community is very responsive and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Claris FileMaker? For small, not-for-profit, clients, the licensing structure and costs can be a barrier to taking it on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Claris FileMaker solving and how is that benefiting you? The powerful Scripting of FileMaker allows for very innovative solutions to be developed in a relatively short time period. The WebDirect interface for FileMaker is very important to many of my solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Paul M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Paul M.") PM Paul M. Engineer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/21/2023 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "FileMaker Pro Gave Me a Professional Career" 5/5 What do you like best about Claris FileMaker? Easily the best thing about FileMaker is the ease in which a new user, and even a new developer, can started building useful tools. For the office stuck in Excel Hell, using siloed spreadsheets instead of true databases, FileMaker is a great platform to use to introduce security, sharing, and automation of data flows. The second best thing about FileMaker is the fantastic degree to which it can be extended to support more and more complex requirements and processes. The third best thing about FileMaker is the great community of active developers ready to give advice and help. But my favorite thing about FileMaker is that it has given me a 25+ year career that has allowed me to support my family in better fashion than anything else I've ever found. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Claris FileMaker? All software has it limits, but FileMaker continually improves to extend its limits and add new features, and simplify existing capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Claris FileMaker solving and how is that benefiting you? When I needed a simple sign-up tool for a Christmas Party yesterday, I built it from scratch and hosted it with backups and security inside of 90 minutes. In 2020, when I was working with a COVID-19 testing lab and they needed a patient-accession database that would allow patients to enter their information on-line, I built it in FileMaker in three hours, and hosted it using WebDirect and it was ready the next morning. That app eventually was extended to track patients, schedule appointments, take in test results and report them in human-readable format, report to the state, bill insurance companies, and much, much more. My team just used FileMaker to build a tool for a start-up that would expand a Bill of Materials into Purchase Orders for the various vendors, changing an hours-long manual process that the business had twice previously failed to automate, into a simple task taking seconds. These are only a few of many examples of businesses from tiny to very, very large using FileMaker to quickly solve problems around information storage and management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Henry C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Henry C.") HC Henry C. Webmaster Marketing and Advertising Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/20/2023 "Filemaker is my task automation toolset" 5/5 What do you like best about Claris FileMaker? I have been using Filemaker as long as I can remember. I love it's powerful graphics engine for creating beautiful user interfaces and robust database management tools. The product has really matured over the years and has kept pace with the latest trends in information technology keeping very relevant over time. The natural language script coding and reference tools make transforming algorithms into working programs a breeze. Combine ChatGPT's code writing skills with Filemaker and have you a powerful duo. Wrap all this around Filemaker server for the total workplace automation engine on the market today. The Filemaker community support is amazing. I am usually able to get answers to questions within 24 hours. It's like having free paid support. Looking to taste Filemaker on a limited budget? Checkout a Filemaker Developer Subscription. What more can I say. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Claris FileMaker? The server placing model needs more work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Claris FileMaker solving and how is that benefiting you? Great for automating manual and repetitive tasks like spreadsheets and form letters as well as emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign CS Carl S. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/19/2023 "Powerful and simple rapid application development" 5/5 What do you like best about Claris FileMaker? FileMaker can be extended to do ANYTHING and deploys anywhere. It fits the bill of RAD: Rapid application development environment. It's functionality is always increasing. It has a great foundation - it's been around since the 80's and is not lacking features, and it's pace of development of new features is quick, it is fully functional and modern. FileMaker integrates with anything which is important these days. Customer support is great, development can by DIY or professional or a mix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Claris FileMaker? I have no compaints for it's target audience. I'm a software development house and I nearly exclusively reach for FileMaker for every project, whether for backend, frontend, or both. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Claris FileMaker solving and how is that benefiting you? Business maganement - Easy integration with other systems, user interface that deploys anywhere, secure and stable. App Development - Backend for custom/native iOS and Android apps to integrate via a REST API. The server is secure, stable, and performant for business applications. Data Analysis - Rapid application backend development for GPS trackers for example. Server side scripting for grabbing data from a variety of sources and sending custom reports. Web backend for web forms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign FC Fred C. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/21/2023 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "A multifaceted tool to get your job done" 4/5 What do you like best about Claris FileMaker? Out of the box, you can get running with template solutons, or if you make your own, it can really be quite simple. Then as your knowledge grows you can grow it into an extremely complex interactive database solution (or "app," as they like to call it now). Your user base can be small or huge, it can grow, and you can expand your licensing with your business or organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Claris FileMaker? Although Claris FileMaker is easy to use, a new user is in no way leveraging its capability, the learning curve can be long, so for a fully customized product you will likely need to hire a developer. Also the some users are a little suprized at the licensing cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Claris FileMaker solving and how is that benefiting you? I use a maintain a personally designed app that allows me to track client licensing. As well as recording my work time for my employer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") UM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/9/2024 "Claris Filemaker" 5/5 What do you like best about Claris FileMaker? The depth of detail it goes into on contacts and companies is vast and you can find contacts and companies based on many search criteria Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Claris FileMaker? It takes a while to learn hacks to improve searches Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Claris FileMaker solving and how is that benefiting you? Claris is a an excellent platform to contain huge amounts of data and search through it quickly and effectively Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ML M L. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/5/2024 "FileMaker Continues to deliver amazing results for developers and their clients" 5/5 What do you like best about Claris FileMaker? Integrated client, server, and development environment. Rapid application development. Drag and drop design. Claris Community is amazing. Claris support is very responsive. I can integrate with almost any other software platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Claris FileMaker? There are a few amazing developer tools put out by the developer community that might be integrated into the product directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Claris FileMaker solving and how is that benefiting you? Totally custom development for my clients. Ease of development means lower costs for me and my clients. Time to market is exceptionally fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ## Questions about Claris FileMaker? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Claris FileMaker ](https://www.g2.com/products/claris-filemaker/discussions/new) ![Marcia R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Marcia R.") 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