But with FileMaker’s marketing muscle behind it, Bento sold well, shipping more than one million units as of January 2012.ĭespite those sales numbers, FileMaker has announced that it is discontinuing Bento, as of 30 September 2013, to “increase focus on FileMaker Product Line software.” Read FileMaker’s Knowledge Base article for more details. Although FileMaker improved Bento over the years, adding an iPhone version of the app, and later an iPad version, and even gaining adherents for whom Bento’s limitations weren’t deal-breakers (see Charles Maurer’s “ Wine with Bento,” 20 August 2008), Bento never struck a chord with It was a worthy goal, but as even the title of Jeff Porten’s coverage of the preview edition indicated - “ FileMaker’s Bento: Undercooked and Slightly Fishy” (14 November 2007) - it was an uphill battle from the start.
released a new database program called Bento, designed to bring simple databases to the masses.