From a development standpoint, it couldn't be easier. Even users new to creating databases can be up and running very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Support can be very slow. While it's actually owned by Apple, the support does not live up to their normal standards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Holds up a large amount of data. Excellent database tool for a large-size enterprise or industry. It can be used for all departments, such as quality control, quality assurance, finance, marketing, inventory and supply. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been using this application for over eight years, and it constantly improves. We integrate this platform with other applications which we use. It requires constant maintenance and up-date which is a good point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very easy to get started with Filemaker. You can get a new database or application running in no time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a lot options...maybe too many. The pricing is a bit steep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-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.

-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.

Filemaker is incredibly flexible and comes with many templates to get you started with your App. Training resources are available everywhere. Getting your first app launched and in team members' hands usually takes just a couple of days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would love to see improvements in font handling inside the Filemaker Pro desktop application. When building apps and choosing a font, the list is cumbersome to browse and cluttered with ALL machine fonts. This area needs improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part is we don't have to write the long codes just for UI design, which helps us to save lots of time. In short, it's a LOW CODE, NO CODE & a PRO CODE.

For the most part, drag and drop programming.

Its a Cross-platform (Mac OS X, Windows, iOS).

Its includes starter solutions so we don't have to start from scratch.

We have got very interesting addons in the new FM version .

We can now use the Siri Shortcuts and Apple's Core ML.

Use Near Field Communications (NFC) tag reading.

Its easy to Integrate the external API's and use inside it, like Google API's, AWS and many more.

Its Plugins extends the functionality and helps us to optimiz our solutions and do lots of cool stuffs using this like Audit, Barcode generator , communicate with UI and many more.

JSON data creation and parse is easy as it has lots of inbuilt funtions which helps us to do it.

Its had built in support for importing exporting excel, cvs, tab-formatted.

Back Up feature .

Scripting is easy .

FM Documentation is good and easy to understand.

For each user login type we can specify the privilege to access the file and ready /write.

and it has Claris FM Community which helps us to solve our queries ,

They provide FM Custom Funtions to use inside our applications which save our times to write a long codes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Commonly, applications close unexpectedly. It shows not responding and doesn't let us do anything.

It's bit slow when we have lots of data to handle.

It's unstored calculated fields may slow down execution and reading .

It's expensive.

If we are a Window user than we are limited to use some of its cool feature, Like ML ,but we can still use this if make our own ML API and access it inside FM.

Some of its Plugin is also expensive.

even if its very old platform, but very limited firms uses this , so this is a big problem for FileMaker Developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy and quick to prototype and implement custom applications. Easy to automate workflows and processes including integrating with other software, web services and APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Web form building and access for high-traffic websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that FileMaker has the potential to store and maintain many different types of information. You can generate reports of various complexities. We have also set up a sort of mail merge capability that allows us to create lists to create letters using templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FileMaker is a bit complex to learn. However, many parts of it are straightforward. It has taken numerous training sessions for me to understand the basic methods of working with our database. We also hired an outside company to set this system up.

I wish that it could connect to other outside databases. Also, I wish that updating records was easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FIlemaker is completely customisable to suits our needs because we fabricate it as we need it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes hard to program if you don't master it :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It manages our inventory, invoicing, quoting as well as many other things that we need to to operate. We like the fact that we can program it to do what we want it to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the tools are a little hokie. it has issues with some of the tools that we use for making it look like we want it to. It also is a little slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.