What do you like best about Claris FileMaker?
-If you know what you're doing, the time you can save building a complete app around a database is phenomenal.
-Ease of use.
-Referencing system that helps update something at only one place.
-Fast learning curve that potentially helps you learn pro code languages later faster
-Versatile: with enough coding, you can easily replace several software with one or integrate with others through APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Claris FileMaker?
-The marketing around it is super annoying. They keep pushing the low code aspect of it, which is detrimental and not what they should concentrate on. They could be much more today.
-Because of that marketing, too many non-developers jump on board with this. This can be a good thing for people using it for personal uses, or very small companies. Unfortunately, when you don't know what you're doing, it doesn't matter that the software is easy to use. The code always break somewhere and someone will pay for it. I can't count the number of times we had a client wanting to save homemade software that was not kept up to date and poorly coded. It's almost impossible to do it right when it's a mess; it's always better to start from scratch, and people don't appreciate the amount of time needed that could have been saved if done right the first time.
-Licensing is expensive and sometimes hard to sell to clients.
-A few hard-to-debug errors that are unlogical and only happen because Filemaker was too strict implementing a functionality, while at the same time not following what every single other language does for the same thing. You will probably need to visit forums often to dig deep.
-When things get complex, it will be a lot slower than any pro code software would be. You really need to know every corner of Filemaker and how to use it to optimize everything so you can delay the slowdowns as much as possible.
-Record locking can be a good thing, but there should be tools to control it because it will ALWAYS lead to record squatting, which will cause problems.
-Poor printing management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
