Steward Database Lite 4+

This is finally a replacement for Bento that I have been looking for! Yea!! And actually, it's simpler than Bento, but has both a form and a spreadsheet layout which is all I need. Please don't quit on me like Bento did!

I was looking for an inexpensive database, and Steward seems to be the closest to what I need. The functionality could use a bit of a boost, though. Two examples are: (1) having a way to move records between tables and (2) allowing the user to backup tables to specific folders and backing up on demand. Maybe these operations can be performed in the current version, but I haven't yet figured out how to do it. I wrote to the devs to ask, but there has been no reply yet. Also (and this is this a third example), the video documentation is good for getting started, but it falls well short of being instructive on many of the operations in this DB. True, it is very simple, and the user can figure out some of this stuff, but a little more documentation can do a lot of good. They should look at the user documentation for Banktivity to see how good it can be. For now, I will stick with Steward, because I had to buy it to try it (more than 5 records) and the others are even worse.

This is a very nicely designed simple database; something the Mac desprately needs, but Steward is held back by not having a companion iOS apps and syncing. If it had reliable iOS apps and field level encryption for keeping passwords, etc. then this would be a 5 star app which would probably be very popular. I hope the developer keeps up with the development.