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Symphytum https://github.com/giowck/symphytum

A small cross-platform personal GUI database app for desktop, with support for images. A modern riff on the idea of MS Access (for those old enough to remember). I think I saw someone claim it's a clone of some Mac app, but I'm not a Mac person so I have no idea if that's true. It's my go-to app when I want to do some shopping research/comparison and collect my results, and I'm not yet sure what fields I will need in the DB. I like it more for that purpose than a spreadsheet.

The repo is archived (unfortunately), but the binary releases work for me for now.



For macOS/iOS there's a nice database app I use for different things called Collections https://collectionsdb.com

It's really good, I use it with Shortcuts and saves me a bunch of time on small things that I don't want to create an app for this.


Judging by the screen shots Symphytum is patterned after Apple/Claris FileMaker https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileMaker Which is one of Apple’s oldest products. (Maybe only the Macintosh itself has had a longer run, although the history is a little complicated)




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