App Settings

The App Settings window is accessible from the Tap Forms Pro menu. This window allows you to change the default folder where Tap Forms looks for documents to display on the main Database Documents window, the app’s Dock icon, and the app’s theme (Light, Dark, or Automatic) to use.

Documents Folder

Here is where you can choose which folder on your drive you want Tap Forms Pro to look for your documents. Click the Choose… button to select a folder on your hard drive where Tap Forms should look for and store its documents. Click the *Reset to Default” button to reset Tap Forms Pro back to its default documents location. Tap Forms Pro will not move the documents for you. You must move them yourself.

!Before moving a document, make sure that it’s not currently opened in Tap Forms Pro. Or for safety sake, just quit Tap Forms before moving a document.

!Make sure you don’t store your documents on a network or cloud based volume such as Dropbox or iCloud Drive. There are facilities to sync your documents using iCloud and Dropbox (and other sync services), but the database file should be stored either on an internal or external physical hard drive. Not a network volume such as a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. This is because database file corruption could occur if you store your document on these kinds of volumes.

Appearance

The Appearance setting allows you to choose which appearance theme you would like Tap Forms Pro to default to when it’s running. You can choose between Light, Dark, or Automatic. Automatic will use whatever Appearance setting you’re using for your system currently.

App Icon

Tap Forms Pro provides a variety of professionally designed app icons to choose from. The first icon at the top-left is the default icon provided by Tap Forms Pro when you first install it. The other icons can be used to make Tap Forms a little more customized for your enjoyment. The icon in the dock will change to whatever icon you choose while Tap Forms is running. It will also change the app icon for all alerts and other parts of Tap Forms Pro where the application icon is displayed.

AI Integration

Here’s where you can enter your ChatGPT or DeepSeek API keys. You will need to get your own API key from one of those services to make the AI Form Generation function work. Once you have your key(s) entered, choose which service you’d like to use. Once you have your key(s) entered, when you go to create a new form, there will be a Generate Form with Fields button you can press to have Tap Forms Pro use the AI service to generate a new form for you. All you need to provide is a form name and optional description. In the description field you can enter in any specific information that will help the AI service generate a better form for you. For example, you could ask it to generate specific fields that you will need in your form. It may take a few minutes to generate the form, but it will save you a lot of time without having to create them yourself. However, not every form generated is going to be exactly what you want, so you can use it as a starting point and customize the form to your liking.

*The app icon will revert to the default app icon when Tap Forms Pro is not currently running.