11 Facts About Claris

Claris International Inc, formerly FileMaker Inc, is a computer software development company formed as a subsidiary company of Apple Computer in 1987.

Also in 2019, Claris acquired Italian startup, Stamplay, a cloud-based integration platform which connects web services like Dropbox and Slack without writing code, and announced they would rename their product offering as Claris Connect.

Claris was given the rights to several lesser-known Apple products such as MacProject, MacDraw, and the hit Apple II product AppleWorks.

At first Claris provided only trivial upgrades, limited to making the products continue to run on newer versions of the Macintosh operating system.

In 1988, Claris purchased FileMaker from Nashoba Systems and quickly released a rebranded version called FileMaker II, to conform to its naming scheme for other products, such as MacWrite II.

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In 1990, Apple decided that Claris should remain a wholly owned subsidiary, as opposed to being completely spun off in an initial public offering.

In September 1992, Claris released a cross-platform version of FileMaker for both the Mac and Windows; except for a few platform-specific functions, the program's features and user interface were the same.

Many of the developers refused to move to Claris, leading to a serious split in development that delayed future releases of both products.

In early 1989, Claris published SmartForm Designer, software to design forms, and a companion product, SmartForm Assistant, software to fill forms created by SmartForm Designer.

In 1994, Claris published Amazing Animation, software aimed at children and young teenagers, allowing them to produce their own short animated films.

In 1995 Claris purchased and released Claris Home Page, which enjoyed popularity as one of the few truly GUI-based WYSIWYG HTML editors of the time.