Every developer on a serious codebase has Git. FileMaker teams never really did, until now. MakerLabs is our web-based version control platform that shows you exactly what changed between versions of a FileMaker solution, down to the last script line and field option.
If you build or maintain FileMaker systems, you know the quiet dread. Someone edits a script, tweaks a field's validation, changes a privilege set, and weeks later something breaks. What changed? Who changed it? When? In most FileMaker shops the honest answer is: nobody really knows.
Unlike modern code, a FileMaker solution doesn't hand you a clean history of every edit. There's no line-by-line diff, no commit log, no easy way to compare "version from March" with "version from June." You're left comparing files by hand, or trusting your memory. On systems that cannot go down, that's a real risk.
Every field, every option, every change — finally versioned, compared, and visible.
MakerLabs is a web-based version control platform for FileMaker projects, built by ABAX. You feed it your FileMaker DDR (Database Design Report) XML exports, and it turns them into something you can actually read, compare and trust: a full, versioned history of your solution's structure and logic.
It's the tool we always wished existed while modernizing FileMaker systems for our own clients — so we built it. As we like to put it: comprehensive tools designed by FileMaker developers, for FileMaker developers.
MakerLabs takes the parts of a FileMaker solution that are hardest to track and makes each one diff-able across versions:
Let()s or conditional blocks. Track specific step changes like Sorts, Finds, Go To Layout, parameters and dialog settings.The result is a single, honest source of truth: see every change, understand every impact.
MakerLabs is for the FileMaker professionals whose systems carry real weight — high-volume data, operational teams, integrations that have to work every single day. If a FileMaker review crosses your desk, if you inherited a solution nobody documented, or if you simply want to stop guessing what a "small change" really touched, this is built for you.
DDR files describe the guts of your business, so confidentiality is a primary design goal. Your DDR content and database metadata are treated as highly confidential — used strictly to analyze your solution and present results to you, never to train generalized AI models or shared with third parties for their own purposes. And for teams with the strictest requirements, MakerLabs can be installed behind your own firewall for total data sovereignty, integrating with your existing systems on your timetable.
FileMaker professionals who finally have complete visibility into their own systems — that's the whole point.
ABAX focuses on FileMaker systems that cannot go down. Over years of modernizing and reviewing those systems, one gap kept costing everyone time: the inability to see, precisely and quickly, what changed. MakerLabs closes that gap. It's the same discipline modern software teams take for granted — version history, diffs, audit trails — brought to the FileMaker world with the precision the platform deserves.