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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stork, post: 3124296, member: 71642&quot;][USER=79167]@Johnnie Black[/USER]&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>ReCollector is set up to sync via dropbox (for the app/main program to communicate) so there is online backing up involved if I understand that correctly.&nbsp; You can also generate web page content and at least one user commenting on another thread basically would upload his coins to his personal webpage as part of his system. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t recall anything specific about Exact Change.&nbsp; No app associated, so I&#039;m guessing any cloud back up is a manual thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tap Forms has an app for my phone I haven&#039;t gotten yet.&nbsp; You can generate a back up file (automated on quit, though I still need to set this up...your question prompted me to go looking for the information).&nbsp; The location can be set to dropbox or iCloud apparently.&nbsp; I have done a manual back up to try out restoring from it (just as I was starting playing on the sample form so it wasn&#039;t a risk).&nbsp; It sat on my desktop (which IS on iCloud) but I could have easily put a copy on dropbox manually.&nbsp; Long story short, it appears there is an easy way to automate this to either iCloud or dropbox.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m turning into a bit of a fan for Tap Forms...I look around my house and start thinking of things to do with it like home inventory, vet records, tracking medical stuff due.&nbsp; We&#039;ll see if I can keep up the momentum.&nbsp; And, this is why I chose it.&nbsp; Same cost as reCollector, but more generic in functionality.&nbsp; Both were ~$50 (vs. ~$80 for ExactChange...but that one had the extras for the US/World collectors).&nbsp; The app will cost extra for TF, it might be free for ReCollector.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are 1001 other programs out there but I didn&#039;t find them...and these three took enough of my time as I gave them all reasonably serious trial runs (not to mention the straight up spreadsheets too). </p><p><br /></p><p>These are also very Lite programs.&nbsp; I am no way super computer savvy so no Filemaker, Access, coding or anything a real database pro could manage on short notice.&nbsp; The fact I even understand as much as I do is all because of coins now.&nbsp; But give me drag/drop website building and a prefab database platform please for this former/borderline Luddite.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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