If you need an easy way to create databases on your Mac that almost anyone can use, Knack is incredibly user friendly.

How To Play Among Us On Mac Advertising Disclosure Contact Advertising Sponsorship Privacy Policy 14 Best Access Alternatives Database Software For Mac MacHow2 Last Updated: August 14, 2020 If you want to create, manage and maintain databases on your Mac, weve looked at the best alternatives to Microsoft Access for Mac that make it easy.

Access For Mac has never been released but there are several apps here that can open and edit non-password protected MDB databases on a Mac.

Weve looked at some incredibly user friendly solutions and found the best Access for Mac alternative is Knack which makes database creation so much easier, quicker and elegant than using Access.

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Youll also find here the best Mac data management software that make it incredibly easy to build databases for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and more.

Note that if youre looking for an alternative to Filemaker for Mac because it wont work on macOS Mojave and Catalina or a replacement for Bento for Mac which is discontinued, then youll find plenty of good solutions here.

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Knack 2. Ninox Database 3.

Wizard 4. MDB ACCDB Viewer 5.

Access Database Manager 6.

MDB Explorer 8. ACCDB MDB Explorer 9.

MDBLite 10. FileMaker Pro 11.

Actual ODBC Driver For Access 12.

Tap Forms 1. Knack Knack is the best database software for Mac users by some distance.

Knack is everything that Microsoft Access and traditional database software isnt elegant, simple to use yet still powerful.

Although its Cloud based, its still better than any other database software on Mac thanks to how easy it makes database creation and management.

Its used by everything from small associations and businesses to blue chip companies ranging from Intel and Panasonic so its very scalable and accessible to all.

Knack allows you to quickly create a database from scratch or speed things up by providing you with database templates which you can quickly tweak and modify for your own custom solution.

Simply define the data your app (Knack lingo for database) will store and use, structure your data with fields and then connect it all together.

You then simply build an interface by dropping in elements that define how your users view and update your database.

You can choose interfaces such as tables, lists, search fields, maps or forms.

You can then deploy your app by embedding it in websites, show different pages to different users and display on mobile devices.

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If you want to deploy your database online, you can either use your own domain name or you can use a Knack subdomain as you get a certain amount of free storage space with each plan.

Monitoring database activity is made clear and easy with data delivered to charts, graphs and pivot tables in real time.

You can also connect Knack to third party applications via Zapier such as Mailchimp, Google Docs and Dropbox so that it dynamically updates databases.

Knack is also integrated with payment solutions such as Visa, PayPal and Stripe if youre building an e-commerce database.

Although Knack cant import MS Access files, it can if you convert them to CSV format (Comma Separated Values) format which is the most common way to export databases from Access, Excel and other database tools.

Knack plans start at 39 per month for up to 20,000 records, 2GB of storage, 3 apps and basic support.

There are corporate and enterprise solutions however for needs of almost any size.

All data stored in Knack also remains the property of the owner at all times, not Knack itself.

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