Natara Software was founded in 1998 in Naperville, Illinois to provide applications and development services to the handheld device market. Natara's first product, Project@Hand, was developed to provide project managers the convenience of "on-the-go" information collection. Following Project@Hand, Natara released DayNotez journaling application (and one of Handheld Computing Magazine's Best Products of 2002), and the outliner program, Bonsai, another Handheld Computing Top Pick. Natara's most recent releases include: Project@Hand 2, a new project management application featuring an advanced scheduling engine; Bonsai 5, a major update to Bonsai with a long list of new features, and three new products, Comet, a communications log for owners of Palm Treo devices, DatePak, an innovative calendar distribution product and Quanto, a easy to use time measurement tool.

Natara's development philosophy is simple: Handhelds are an extension to the desktop, not a replacement. For that reason, we believe it is important to provide strong ties to desktop applications. Our products either provide a desktop application (Bonsai, DayNotez, Comet and DatePak), or synchronize with existing desktop applications (Project@Hand).

We listen to our customers by incorporating their suggestions and ideas into our new products as well as our updates. We collect valuable feedback through Natara's User Forums and e-mails and then implement the suggestions into our applications. Customers frequently contact us to say how pleased they are that one of their recommendations was actually utilized.

In the future, Natara hopes to continue developing products that provide useful solutions for the PDA and Smartphone market targeting our user's everyday organizational and management needs. Our customers can be certain that every new product we develop will be the result of the dynamic combination of customer-driven insight and professional expertise.

Currently, Natara partners with the following re-sellers: PalmGear.com, PocketGear.com, Handango, MobiHand and pdassi (a company serving the German speaking market).