FreeUp to 100 people, no card needed
Start with one face. Add parents, partners and children in a click, keep their photos and voices, and build it together with the people who remember. Right in your browser.
Works in any browserAlso on iPhone, iPad and Mac
Inside the web app
Album, Tree, Moments and Share. The same four tabs you’ll see the moment you sign in.
Album
Every relative gets a round portrait, their dates and places, their closest family and a gallery. Tag the whole family in a group photo and it lands on each person’s page.
Tree
Ancestors, Descendants, Hourglass, Fan chart and Everyone, all drawn from the same family. Click anyone to bring them to the center; drag to pan, scroll to zoom.
Moments
Moments gathers today, what’s coming up and every event in your family’s history by decade, so birthdays, anniversaries and remembrances arrive when they come round.
Share
Invite parents, cousins and aunts with a link and choose who can edit and who can view. Turn a birthday or the whole family into a card for messages, or print a poster and the family book.
How it works
No software to install and nothing to learn first. Most families have their first three generations in before the kettle boils.
Create a free account with email or Google, add your name and a photo. You’re the first face in the album.
Parents, partners, children and siblings are one click from any page or portrait in the tree.
Send a link to the relatives who remember. They fill in their branches, you all see one tree.
Already have a tree elsewhere? Import a GEDCOM file from Ancestry, MyHeritage or FamilySearch.
Features
Genealogy-grade structure underneath, a calm photo album on top. Here’s what comes with it.
Ancestors, Descendants, Hourglass, a fan chart and Everyone, smooth with thousands of people.
Round portraits, galleries and photo tagging, so faces come first and names follow.
Record memories in the browser with interview prompts, then type them out for the book.
Invite relatives to edit or view. Everyone works on one shared, always-current tree.
Bring your research from Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch or Gramps, and export it any time.
Step, adoptive and foster parents, remarriages, partners and separations.
Print any view up to 36 × 24 inches, or a book with a page for everyone.
See where everyone lived, decade by decade, from Galway to Seattle.
No public profiles, no ads, no tracking. Download or delete everything whenever you like.
Private and everywhere
Trees are private to you and the people you invite. No public profiles of your relatives, no ads, no trackers. Open it on a laptop, a tablet or the phone in your pocket, or use the app for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Exactly what is stored, and where, is in the privacy policy.
Pricing
No ads on any plan. Plus starts with a 7-day free trial.
$0forever
Everything you need for a family of up to 100 people.
$39.99a year
After a 7-day free trial. Cancel any time in Settings.
$129once
Everything in Plus, paid for once.
Prices in US dollars, paid securely through Stripe. If Plus ends, nothing is deleted: your family stays in your account, ready to view and edit. Purchases in the iPhone app are made through Apple. See the terms and how the trial works.
Questions
Yes. The Free plan covers one family tree of up to 100 people, with photos, recorded memories, all five tree views, Moments, sharing with family, and GEDCOM import and export. There are no ads on any plan and no card is needed to start. Plus ($39.99 a year, after a 7-day free trial) and Lifetime ($129 once) add unlimited people and trees, imports of any size, posters, the family book and the family map.
Create a free account, add yourself, then add your parents, partner, children and siblings straight from your own page or from the tree. Drop in a photo for each person, and invite relatives to fill in the branches they know. The tree draws itself as you go. The getting started guide walks through it step by step.
No. Family Trees runs in any current browser (Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox) on a computer, tablet or phone. Sign up with your email or Google. There is also an app for iPhone, iPad and Mac if you prefer a native app.
That is what Family Trees is built around. Every person gets a round portrait, a photo gallery on their page, and you can tag the whole family in group photos, so a wedding picture appears on each guest’s page.
Yes. Send an invitation link by text or email and choose whether each person can edit or only view. Everyone sees the same tree from any device, and joining a shared tree is free; the owner’s plan sets its size.
Yes. Export a GEDCOM file from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Gramps, RootsMagic or any other genealogy program (a FamilySearch tree comes out through a partner program such as RootsMagic) and import it online with Plus or Lifetime (the 7-day free trial includes it). Exporting your family as GEDCOM is free on every plan (see the GEDCOM guide), so you are never locked in.
Five: Ancestors, Descendants, Hourglass, Fan chart and Everyone. Click anyone to bring them to the center, drag to pan and scroll or pinch to zoom. Pick any two people and Family Trees tells you how they are related in plain words, such as second cousin once removed.
Only you and the people you invite. Trees are private by default, there are no public profiles of your relatives, no ads and no tracking, and we never sell or share your family’s information. You can download everything or delete your account at any time.
With Plus or Lifetime you can print a poster of any tree view, from letter size up to 36 by 24 inches, or save it as a PDF or image. The family book gives everyone their own page, ready to print and share.
They share the same backup format. Download a backup from the web and restore it in the iPhone, iPad or Mac app, or bring an iPhone backup into the web from Import. Live sync between the two is not available yet.
Something else? Write to [email protected] or read a guide:
Everyone you come from, in one calm place your whole family can share. Free for up to 100 people.
