Hi,
Today is the day I put Tap Forms back to its regular price of $8.99 USD. Basically the sale ran its course. After a while any iPhone app that hits the highs eventually also hits the lows, or in my case, plateaus at a comfortable amount. I apologize to anyone who missed the sale. But that's what sales are all about. They come and last for a while and then they go. I had originally planned on having the sale just for the US Thanks Giving weekend, but when I noticed my sales in Japan increase significantly I decided to ride it out a little longer.
Thanks to those who supported Tap Forms before, during, and after the sale. Even if you paid full price for Tap Forms, I strongly believe you have received your money's worth in a great product. I am still constantly improving it and adding new features. As I outlined in a previous blog post, the next update will include TextExpander integration and the ability to email file attachments from within Tap Forms. For future updates beyond that, I generally pick things from the list at my feedback site (http://feedback.tapforms.com). So if you have an idea for a new feature, please post it there so others may see it and vote on it.
The top most requested feature is a desktop app and as I've said in previous posts, I am currently working on Tap Forms Mac. Why just the Mac for now you may ask? Well, because I wrote Tap Forms for iPhone in Objective-C. Since regular Mac apps are also written in Objective-C, building the Mac version next enables me to reuse a lot of the code I have already written. Eventually when I get Tap Forms Mac out the door, I'll see about getting it ported to Windows. But for now it will be Mac first.
Thanks again for all your support.
Brendan
Fantastic! Desktop app for the mac. Wonderful! I hope you will consider making it so there is some sort of programmatic access for automation. For example, I’d like to be able to scrape weather data off the web and auto-populate specific record fields. In any case, I look forward to your desktop app. Tap Forms is terrific for fieldwork.
I would love a web based TapForms, especially if it integrated seamlessly with the iPhone version. It would be ideal if I could edit my forms from any web browser or from my iPhone without FTPing the data back and forth. Of course, I would just use a web browser version on the iPhone as well but I think the interface is fine tuned for the iPhone better than a web browser version would be.
Runner up to a web based version would be a Windows version.
How about a Mac version? :-)
Because that’s what I’m building at the moment…
Brendan
Terrific news! I was just starting to really hate the lack of Mac+iPhone options (I hit the limits of Bento within 20-30 minutes), when I found this blog post. Any more updates regarding the desktop app?
(FYI, the new icon introduced earlier this year is great!)
Hello Iaian7,
The latest news on the desktop version is that I’ve paused development of it while I finish out the iPad version.
Sorry for the delay. It will happen, but at the time I started, there was no iPad and lots of customers are requesting an iPad version, so that’s what I’ve been working on for the past while. I hope to continue on the Mac desktop version soon after.
Thanks,
Brendan
Good to know, understandable that iPad development would put a hamper on desktop development.
I tried the lite version, and was surprised to find the database links weren’t really linking entries at all – they were just embedding the forms within another form. I couldn’t link existing entries, and typing the same entry again resulted in duplicate (identical) entries.
Hello Iaian7,
What you’re describing is a many-to-many relationship. I have implemented a one-to-many relationship at the moment. I will be adding many-to-many functionality to a future update. The update will be free for everyone who purchased Tap Forms of course. But I haven’t yet finished adding this functionality. I have built the foundation to support it though.
Thanks,
Brendan
I’ve purchased the app today, and am looking forward very much to future updates! Looking forward to the mac client as well, as I’m truly hoping to avoid Bento (which is surprisingly outdated and unusable for pretty much anything but a basic list).
Are there any plans for a windows desktop compatible version of tapforms. I love the app. It’s great on iphone. But my database quickly out grew my iphone’s storage capacity.
Hi Mike,
I’m sorry but theres’ no plans for a Windows version. There is a Mac version though.
Thanks,
Brendan