Review of Five Years on Ninox
I am a personal user of Ninox, not a business and I only use it at its most basic level. But as a database it has been a real boon to organise and record my hobbies, holidays and interests. Essentially a diary of important events in my life. I wish to thank the team at Ninox and since there is no subscription I wanted to let them know what a great service they provide to any private individual who likes to organise their life with dates, descriptions and photographs. Many thanks Peter
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Recent problems
I have been using this for 10+ years now and have my team using it. Just over the last few days the app on my iPad is locking me out and the web version works but is very slow to upload images. Never had this problem before but it is a critical error as we are working as a team at a major trade exhibition and its failure is wasting time and money.
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Spectacular! Most powerful, relational DB available on iPad wo/expensive subscription fees
I dropped my rating from May 2025 by two stars due to degradation of performance in newest Ninox Versions. I am strictly a native app user on my Mac, iPad, & iPhone and using iCloud to sync between them. I’m also on latest iOS/iPadOS.
A year ago, opening Ninox was nearly instantaneous, allowing access to my database list, then nearly instantaneous opening any of my databases using a single click. Database manipulation once in your DB was snappy!
That’s all changed! Getting to my database list now takes nearly a minute, regardless of whether you are opening Ninox or closing one database to get to a different one. That’s like a couple of centuries of CPU time on an app that is not dependent on a WiFi connection to a server. Then after getting to my database list, opening a database often takes nearly another half a minute! I’ve asked Support to comment on this severe degradation in performance days ago and not received any explanation. Given Ninox’s blazing speed in the past and current poor performance, I’m being generous in giving the app 3/5. If you’ve the patience to wait, Ninox still works effectively, although slower. Hoping for some updates that restore Ninox’s past performance!
A year ago, opening Ninox was nearly instantaneous, allowing access to my database list, then nearly instantaneous opening any of my databases using a single click. Database manipulation once in your DB was snappy!
That’s all changed! Getting to my database list now takes nearly a minute, regardless of whether you are opening Ninox or closing one database to get to a different one. That’s like a couple of centuries of CPU time on an app that is not dependent on a WiFi connection to a server. Then after getting to my database list, opening a database often takes nearly another half a minute! I’ve asked Support to comment on this severe degradation in performance days ago and not received any explanation. Given Ninox’s blazing speed in the past and current poor performance, I’m being generous in giving the app 3/5. If you’ve the patience to wait, Ninox still works effectively, although slower. Hoping for some updates that restore Ninox’s past performance!
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Stunningly awkward & not completely reliable
Tiny and confusing controls make it all but impossible to use on a phone. Somewhat erratic as well. Syncs don’t always work and last night it would not log into my account.
Could do with CAPS and DARK MODE
Could do with a CAPS LOCK format for “fields”, and a dark mode so it’s easier on the eye
Freezes, poor documentation
Documentation exceptionally poor and sparse, infrequently updated. Uses its own language for functions and queries, but many language elements aren’t documented and behave inconsistently.
Can’t open iCloud database on iPad. App freezes, which means I now can’t access any of my data. Years of work gone.
Avoid.
Can’t open iCloud database on iPad. App freezes, which means I now can’t access any of my data. Years of work gone.
Avoid.
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Spectacular! Most powerful, relational DB available on iPad wo/expensive subscription fees
Think back on when 8086 PC’s and Apple 2e’s were powerful and useful! That was the benefit of text based processing. Ninox is a text based, extremely powerful relational DB with NO field or table limits. I’m retired now, but when I was working as a service technician, I duplicated all the workflow needed in a homegrown Ninox DB, and used my iPad Pro to track my daily work, inventory, parts usage, and orders in a fast, efficient fashion (Something the enterprise software on Windows utterly failed at. Was quicker to copy everything across at the end of the day !). There are many videos on YouTube to help you get started. A special shout-out to a very helpful company named Nioxus. They host Ninox webinars weekly dealing with all aspects of programming in Ninox and have been extremely helpful to me over the years.
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Solid
I'm just warming up with this but it looks very promising!
UI has a mind of its own
After spending time getting forms to look as I want on my iPad, each new version of Ninox seems to mess them up. The developer makes needed and welcomed improvements, but at the cost of user experience.
Love Ninox
I am a non business user of this database and it has been great to organise my life. I use is it as a document holder, important photographs, diary, event scheduler, the list is as long as you care to make it. Wonderful product, it worries me that there is little competition but as long as Ninox is there, I am happy. 😊
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Broken again
It seems I’m now logged out after this update, and login buttons in two places in the app do nothing, as if the buttons aren’t touched. So I can’t login anymore, and I only see old data.
Useless
the web based version is excellent and i use NINOX for my business advanced and comprehensive use. It works well and i do like it. The app itself is a waste of time it used to work well but just seems to have lots of bugs long delays in fixing it. Records from the cloud just dont update in the app making it useless in a cloud based mobile environment as you cant rely on the information being displayed as accurate. numerous attempts to get this fixed requests to support and via a third party developer NOTHING pick up your game and get the app sorted
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Love Ninox!
I have the application for my iMac and my iPhone/iPad. I love this application. I created my own database for tracking my health and medical appointments and the related bills to those. I had tried another application called Tidy Health, but that doesn’t seem to be a relational database and required multiple uploads of the same files and different areas. I love being able to customize the database to what I need.
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Best database app for MacOS and iOS
I have been using it for a few years with no problems. It syncs flawlessly across my Macs, iPad and iPhone. Supports drag and drop for documents and is very flexible and feature packed. Support is great, and the app gets frequent updates. On of the best apps I have, and one of the most essential.
No back/ undo button
Great application but its unfortunate the app and website version does not have something as simple as an undo button. I would hand over my money today if this a functionality was featured
It won’t run under Mojave (10.14)
Under system requirement it said Mac OS X 10.13. In fact it won’t run under Mojave (10.14). Be warned.
Проблемы с полем дата
1. Нет возможности быстрого ввода данных цифрами в поле дата, пока крутишь барабан с годами до нужного года можно состариться!
2. Нет поддержки динамических шрифтов, размер шрифта мелкий!
2. Нет поддержки динамических шрифтов, размер шрифта мелкий!
Amazing app!
I found that I can do some incredible things with this database application! There are not many databases that run on smart phones that are this sophisticated; perhaps this is the only one that is. I’m very impressed with how far they’ve come in the developing and enhancing of this product. It is fairly easy to learn to develop simple databases. Complex databases require much more technical understanding of database concepts and scripting, however. If you want to work with iPhones and iPads, and have your databases synchronized between the two, it will cost you nothing!
The biggest downside is the weak documentation. It is improving, but still needs more information and examples for how to use the functions.
The biggest downside is the weak documentation. It is improving, but still needs more information and examples for how to use the functions.
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Many Targets Broken for Mouse/Trackpad
Many of the targets are non-functional when using a mouse or even Magic Keyboard trackpad. For example, you can click and activate the ‘go to last record’ but not the ‘go to next/previous’ buttons. The only way to make them work is by physically touching the screen or using the up/down keys on keyboard. There are many/many other buttons that are not actionable using the mouse/trackpad. For those of us with disabilities, these omissions make this app a no-go. The developers are not testing the functionality on the iPad for all use cases. Too bad, so sad.
Side note: You cannot import lists of contacts from your iOS contacts, You can only import ALL of the contacts, I fail to see how this does anything but create a giant table that you then have to clean up, so what’s the point?
Side note: You cannot import lists of contacts from your iOS contacts, You can only import ALL of the contacts, I fail to see how this does anything but create a giant table that you then have to clean up, so what’s the point?
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For continually telling me this app will end
Every time I click anything the app tells me this app will be taken off the app store.
Please get it sorted, it's stopping me working with my database.
Please get it sorted, it's stopping me working with my database.
