Formulize 8 is out, and you're invited to the party

Formulize 8 was released in June 2025. Plenty of people had heard about it for long enough to reasonably wonder whether it would ever happen. Well, it did happen, and the most powerful features in Formulize have been radically streamlined and made easier to use than ever before.

To celebrate, there were a few gatherings, complete with snacks, so you know it was a party:

• July 30, 2025 — an informal meetup and drop-in to see Formulize 8, at 192 Spadina Avenue in Toronto.
• September 8, 2025 — another meetup, same general idea.
• October 17, 2025 — the second Formulize Summit: a full day with other users and developers, sharing ideas, tips, tricks, demos, wishlists and roadmaps.

The version 8 cycle also introduced AI integration to Formulize. There is always a great deal of hype around AI, and you would be right to be skeptical. But honestly, with AI assistants now able to go beyond their chat windows and connect to other tools, like Formulize, this is the most revolutionary thing since the Internet became widely available thirty years ago.

Formulize started with the dream of building an open source alternative to commercial database systems, and empowering anyone to create their own forms and databases and manage their own data in ways tailored to their own needs. A lofty vision! But as Thoreau said, if you have built castles in the clouds, now it is your job to put foundations under them.

With version 8, plus AI, the foundations finally reached the ground.

So this really is a huge milestone in the history of the Formulize project, and many people have helped make it possible in ways large and small. Thank you.

Join the mailing list, or find us on Slack and Discord, and you will hear about the next one.

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