Has anyone found a substitute for Filemaker Pro. It has become too expensive and way too complicated for me to use.

Has anyone found a substitute for Filemaker Pro that can be used with the new Apple OS? I’d really like to have a program that would import existing files and enable me to work on them.

iMac 27″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Feb 15, 2021 6:01 PM

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