Tap Forms Organizer 5 Database5.3.39 - App Store

Tap Forms 5 is the digital filing cabinet for life’s scattered details. Now with Scripting and Siri Shortcuts support!

Accounts, recipes, expenses, inventory - life is full of things that we don’t want to forget or misplace. Tap Forms 5 helps you organize all kinds of things in one place - secure, searchable, and accessible on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch (Mac app sold separately).

How can one app organize everything? Because not only can you use and customize the more than 30 built-in templates but you can create your own “forms” for inputting any kind of information, even if that information includes pictures, doodles, audio recordings, calculations, file attachments, ratings, or even links to other forms. This makes it almost like building your very own customized organization app.

. Capture your way: Snap a picture, type or scribble some text, record an audio note, scan a barcode - there are 23 different types of information that can be captured with Tap Forms

. Organize your way: Create and design custom forms exactly how you want to for optimal organization. Get started with one of our ready-to-go form templates, or easily make a custom one from scratch with our integrated form building tools.

. Store confidential data with confidence: Tap Forms' security settings let you optionally require a password or a Touch ID scan, and even auto-lock when idle for a custom period of time. Using AES encryption, you can rest easy knowing your data is safe and secure.

. Import, Export, Share: It’s easy to import your data from existing files, so getting started is a breeze. Import your data from text, CSV, Bento and more. One-tap exporting allows you to share with Mac, Windows, and Linux users.

Advanced Features:

. Scripting support for writing JavaScript code for performing all kinds of operations on your forms and records.
. Siri Shortcuts let you record a voice command to execute any Form script.
. Multi-column (table) view of your records.
. AirDrop records to your nearby contacts.
. Sync with Tap Forms for iOS and Mac using iCloud, IBM Cloudant, Nearby (WiFi), or with your own Apache CouchDB sync server.
. Saved search rules with multi-field record filtering
. Built-in Backup & Restore
. 1Password Extension integration for logging into your Cloudant sync account.
. Document Picker support for accessing iCloud and other document service providers.
. Pick lists for quick data entry
. AES-256 bit encryption
. Import & Export standard CSV files from Excel, Numbers, or other systems
. Print record details
. Lightning fast search
. Share form templates with friends, family, and co-workers
. Notify you of things that need your attention using alerts
. Barcode scanning of UPC/EAN and QR codes (iOS only)

Store 25 different types of information, such as:

. Script
. Table
. Link to form (relational links between forms)
. Inverse relationships
. File Attachment with multi-file support
. Email address
. GPS location
. Contact
. Text
. Date
. Time
. Date & time
. Number
. Rating
. Web site address
. Check mark
. Note
. Audio notes (record on iOS, playback on Mac)
. Photos
. Drawings (draw on iOS, view on Mac)
. Phone number
. Section headings
. Calculations
. Signatures

Includes more than 30 built-in forms, including:

. Audio dictation
. Bank accounts
. Clients
. Client call log
. Credit & debit cards
. Daily journal
. Expenses
. Frequent flyer numbers
. Health insurance
. Homework assignments
. Loyalty cards
. Personal health cards
. Security alarm codes
. Serial numbers
. Vehicle insurance
. Website accounts
. Wine collection

Version History This app has been updated by Apple to prepare for watchOS 27 compatibility. No new features are included.

Fixed issue with iPad layout of fields on record edit view. This fix necessitated the use of the new iOS 18 tab bar style where it appears at the top instead of the bottom.

Fixed crash when dragging photos to rearrange them within a Photo field. 5.3.39 04/28/2025 Added Upgrade to Tap Forms Pro feature on the Tools tab for easy migration of your database documents to the new Tap Forms Pro. 5.3.38 04/26/2025 Fixed an issue with displaying movie files from a File Attachment field and on the Files screen on iOS 18. The video was showing full screen but the player controls and navigation controls were not displaying. 5.3.37 09/27/2024 Fixed an issue with saving date values on iPad in split view slide over mode. Tap Forms was closing the document instead of going back to the record edit view. 5.3.36 03/11/2024 Fixed issue with Note field freezing when dismissing view on some older iPad models. 5.3.35 02/27/2024 Fixed an issue with the Add to Calendar and Add to Reminders buttons not appearing on the Date & Time field entry screen on iOS 17.
The date and time picker buttons on the Date & Time field entry screen should no longer hide when tapping onto other fields. 5.3.33 12/03/2023 • Fixed an issue that caused the Date field to hang on iPadOS 17 when choosing a date value. It also fixes an issue where the date selector controls would disappear or get squished after you selected a date or time.
• Fixed a crash when selecting fonts on the Note field edit screen.
• Fixed a crash with the Photo field when you tap on a photo to view it larger. 5.3.32 10/30/2023 • Fixed an appearance issue with the multi-photo select screen. The buttons were not displaying in light and dark mode and the navigation bar was transparent.
• Fix for Script Edit screen's white Cancel and Save buttons being displayed on a white background on iOS 16 making them nearly impossible to see that they're there.
• Fixed Pick List values editing crash
• Fix issue with not being able to add an event to the calendar using JavaScript
• Fixed weekdays calculation hang
• Fix for crash when dragging a category on the Forms list.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.31 05/18/2023 Fixed an issue with Nearby Sync on iOS 16. The device name was showing as the device model instead of the device name, preventing sync from recognizing other devices on the network.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.30 10/12/2022 Fixed a crash when editing Note fields.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.29 09/08/2022 • Fixed an issue where the multi-select photo picker was showing thumbnails zoomed in instead of filling the thumbnail square.
• Fixed an issue where on some picker screens the buttons and title in the navigation bar at the top were showing white on white, so you couldn't see them but they were still there.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.28 07/29/2022 In my haste to fix the hardware keyboard crash bug, I introduced a new bug that caused values not to be saved on the iPad version. The developer (me) has been severely reprimanded and promises to test releases more thoroughly next time.

5.3.27 Fix:
• Fixed bug that caused field values not to be saved.

5.3.26 Fixes:

• Fixed a crash when restoring a backup file.
• Fixed an issue where exporting a Tap Forms Archive was not putting the archive into the Exports folder as it should.
• Section headings now have a light grey background again on the records list view.
• Fixed a crash on iPadOS when you have a hardware keyboard connected and you tap the back button to go back to the forms list.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.27 07/21/2022 • Fixed a crash when restoring a backup file.
• Fixed an issue where exporting a Tap Forms Archive was not putting the archive into the Exports folder as it should.
• Section headings now have a light grey background again on the records list view.
• Fixed a crash on iPadOS when you have a hardware keyboard connected and you tap the back button to go back to the forms list.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.26 07/20/2022 • Fixed issue where Apple Watch was not displaying the list of records for the selected form.
• The forms will now display automatically on the Apple Watch when the app is launched without you having to tap on the Refresh Forms button.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.25 07/13/2022 5.3.24:

• Fixes an issue where saving a Number field value would not save unless you saved a different field type too.

5.3.23:

• Fixed issue setting the Increment Amount property on the Number field type. It wasn't saving properly and wasn't supporting decimal increments properly with the Stepper control.
• Fix for Enable Data Detectors switch on the Note field options not remembering its state between launches.
• Fixed value colour button action changing label colour value instead.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.24 03/21/2022 • Fixed issue setting the Increment Amount property on the Number field type. It wasn't saving properly and wasn't supporting decimal increments properly with the Stepper control.
• Fix for Enable Data Detectors switch on the Note field options not remembering its state between launches.
• Fixed value colour button action changing label colour value instead.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.23 03/16/2022 • The Script edit window now goes full screen.
• If you set prompter.cancelButtonTitle = null; then the Cancel button won't appear on the Prompter in the Script engine.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.22 01/19/2022 A little light on changes in this release. But rest assured, I'm still very busy working on great new things for Tap Forms for Mac and iOS.

* Fixed an issue that caused Tap Forms to crash when you repeatedly switched to another application and then back to Tap Forms.
* Fixed issue with file attachment viewing screen having white buttons against a white background making it appear that the button to close and share the file was not there.
* Changed record navigation key commands to now require the control key to be pressed along with the command and arrow keys to navigate from record to record.
• Modified by Device name is now displayed on Table fields.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.21 11/08/2021 • When compacting the database, Tap Forms will now purge data from the records for fields that have been previously deleted. It worked this way on the Mac version, but not the iOS version. Now there's synergy in behaviour. This would cause records to still show up in searches when the fields were deleted. Fixed.
• Fixed bug unlinking inverse one-to-many relationships. The links were not being deleted.
• Encode URLs when calling JavaScript JSUtils functions that require a URL.
• Fix for adding photos to a field with JavaScript. Was crashing when the URL had spaces in it.
• VoiceOver improvements on Tools screen and Sync Settings screen.
• Fix for crash when tapping on the Script Favourites button at the top of the records list view. The crash happened only on the iPad version.
• When emailing a record, you can choose to now Save the PDF version of it in the Exports folder in the Files area.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.20 07/12/2021 • Fixed crash selecting Table field sub-field on Script Editor from the Fields list.
• Fixed issue with tab key not working to move from field to field on the record edit screen on iPad. It was jumping to the top editable field.
• Changed record select key from up/down arrows to command up/down arrows.
• Fixed an issue where hidden fields in a Table field were not being hidden when displayed on the record details screen.
• Changed the first field command-key to command-e to tell Tap Forms to put the keyboard focus on the first focusable field on the record.
• Filenames in a File Attachment field can now be searched in a Saved Search. 5.3.19 02/10/2021 • Fixed an issue with emailing forms that have Note fields set to Plain Text Note. The values were being displayed as (null).
• The Modified by Device field was not printing or emailing. Fixed.
* Importing a CSV file will now setup defaults when new records are created during the import process.
• Photo filenames were not being exported if you chose not to also export media. Fixed. 5.3.18 12/09/2020 • Fixed an issue with the Date, Time, and Date & Time fields dismissing the date and time pickers before you've finished selecting a date or time.
• If the same image is referenced also in another Photo field, deleting the photo from one field will no longer delete the photo from the other field too.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.17 09/26/2020 • Fix for passcode entry screen not displaying when the app is running in the background and you bring it to the foreground.
• Fixed issue with Website field where hashtags in the URL were incorrectly being encoded.
• Some iOS 14 compatibility fixes.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.16 09/22/2020 • Fixed an issue with Nearby Sync stopping sync when Tap Forms goes to the background, but not starting up again when it comes to the foreground until you close and re-open the document.
• Fixed an issue where a 'dummy cell' could display on the record edit screen for a Table field if you hid a field.
• Fixed an issue where the New Record command didn't work from the record edit screen when you were editing the contents of a Table field's record.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.15 08/03/2020 • Fixed an issue with the new Modified by Device field not displaying properly on iOS.
• Fixed an issue where the keyboard would dismiss as you started typing on iPadOS. It was triggered by the device rotation notifications when jiggling the device.

If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan 5.3.14 07/31/2020