Gregory Magee Jr. wrote to let me know that the US Apple Store has Bento 2 for $34 instead of $49.95 as part of its Black Friday promotional deals.

After a quick check I can confirm that the UK store also has a Bento discount today and it costs £24.01 rather than the usual £29.95.

Description
Geared towards improved legibility, the Neutrals theme pack includes three themes which make use of subtler tones and consistent fonts to provide a cleaner Bento work environment. The themes are:

  • Neutral – light gray with subtle darker highlights
  • Shade – darker charcoals
  • Chlorine – clean and bright

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Description
The Expenses template is a simple expense logging system. It consists of two libraries, one to store the top-level expense claim along with details such as when it was submitted and when it was paid and the other stores the expense claim items. Read more

Description
The Code Library template is designed to help developers store snippets of code or links to useful articles. Read more

NOTE: This theme has been superseded by Partick’s Neutral Theme Pack.


Patrick La Roque has created a theme which he has called Neutral, so named because it is designed to be clean and neutral. It uses Helvetica for the font and the colour scheme is whites and grays — no purple streak or Comic Sans.

Neutral Theme

The theme is available from Patrick’s web site as a free download and you can find it at http://www.diode.tv/neutral.

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