Comparison of genealogy software
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This article compares several selected client-based genealogy programs. Web-based genealogy software is not included.
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General information [edit]
| Software | Latest version | Latest release | Free to use | Free software | Software license | Windows | OS X | Linux |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agelong Tree | 4.5 | 2012-10-03 | No (40 Person Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | No | Wine[b] |
| Ages! | 2.02 | No (Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | No | Wine[b] | |
| Ahnenblatt | 2.74 | 2012-11-15 | Yes | No | Proprietary | Yes | No | Wine[b] |
| Aldfaer | 4.2.0.15 | 2011-09-12 | Yes | Yes | Freeware | Yes | No | ? |
| Ancestral Quest | 14.0.7 | 2012-11-06 | Yes (Basics version) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | No | Wine[b] |
| Ancestris | 0.7.0 | 2012-06-18 | Yes | Yes | GNU GPL | Java[a] | Java[a] | Java[a] |
| Brother's Keeper | 6.6.8 | 2013-04-24 | Yes (Unreg. ver.) |
No | Shareware | Yes | No | Wine[b] |
| Family Historian | 5.0.7 | 2012-06-20 | No
(30-Day Free Trial and Read-Only Demo) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | No | Wine[b] |
| Family Tree Builder | 7.0 | 2013-04-17 | Yes (Free ver.) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | No | Wine[b] |
| Family Tree Maker (Windows) | 2012, 21.0.0.723 | 2012-11-30 | No | No | Proprietary | Yes | No | Wine[b] |
| Family Tree Maker for Mac[1] | 21.2.4.475 | 2012-07-19 | No | No | Proprietary | No | Yes | No |
| GEDitCOM II | 1.8 | 2012-09-30 | No
(15-Day Free Trial, Read-Only afterwards) |
No | Proprietary | No | Yes | No |
| Genbox Family History | 3.7.1 | 2007-11-17 | No (30 Day Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | No | Wine[b] |
| GenealogyJ | 3.0 | 2010-02-18 | Yes | Yes | GNU GPL | Java[a] | Java[a] | Java[a] |
| Généatique | 2012, 1.0.9 | 2012-05-04 | No (50 Person Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | No | ? |
| GenoPro | 2011, 2.5.4.1 | 2012-01-17 | No (25 Person Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | No | Wine[b] |
| Gramps | 4.0.0 | 2013-05-21 | Yes | Yes | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Heredis | 13.3 | 2013-02-07 | No (50 Person Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | No | ? |
| Heredis Mac (Blue) | 2.1.1 | 2013-03-15 | No (50 Person Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary | No | Yes | No |
| Heredis PC (Blue) | 13.3.0.0 | 2013-02-07 | No (50 Person Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | No | ? |
| iFamily for Leopard | 2.885 | 2013-01-21 | No (16-Day Free Trial, No Export) |
No | Proprietary | No | Yes | No |
| Kith and Kin Pro | 3.2.1 | 2013-03-22 | No (30-Day Free Trial) |
No | Shareware | Yes | No | ? |
| Legacy Family Tree | 7.5.0.219 | 2013-02-15 | Yes (Standard Edition) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | No | Wine[b] |
| LifeLines | 3.0.62 | 2007-10-06 | Yes | Yes | MIT License | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MacFamilyTree | 6.3.9 | 2013-05-11 | No
(Free Trial, but you cannot save or export your entries) |
No | Proprietary | No | Yes | No |
| MyBlood | 1.31 | 2010-07-24 | No
(Time-limited Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | ? |
| ohmiGene | 5.34.7 | 2013-03-13 | Yes
(509 person limit, watermarked reports) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Personal Ancestral File | 5.2.18.0 | 2002-07-23 | Yes | No | Proprietary | Yes | No | Wine[b] |
| Reunion | 10.0.5 | 2013-01-21 | No | No | Proprietary | No | Yes | No |
| RootsMagic | 6.0.0.4 | 2013-01-08 | Yes (Essentials) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | No | No |
| SmartGenealogy | 3.0c | 2013-01-06 | Yes | Yes | Freeware | Yes | No | No |
| The Master Genealogist | 8.05.0000 | 2013-03-22 | No (30 Day Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary | Yes | No | Wine[b] |
Features [edit]
| Name | Unicode Support | Individual view | Family view | Pedigree view | Chronology view | Ancestor charts | Ancestor narrative reports | Ancestor pedigree reports | Descendant charts | Descendant narrative reports | Fan charts | Research Manager | DNA charts | Research Guidance | Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agelong Tree | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Ahnenblatt | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Aldfaer | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Ancestral Quest | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Ancestris | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Brother's Keeper | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Family Historian [a] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Family Tree Builder | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Family Tree Maker (Windows) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Family Tree Maker for Mac | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes |
| GEDitCOM II | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Genbox Family History | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| GenealogyJ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Généatique | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| GenoPro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes |
| GRAMPS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Heredis | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Heredis Mac | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Heredis PC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Legacy Family Tree[b] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| LifeLines | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| MacFamilyTree | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| MyBlood | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ? | No | No | No | Yes |
| ohmiGene | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Personal Ancestral File | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| Reunion | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| RootsMagic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SmartGenealogy | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| The Master Genealogist | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | ? |
- a Family Historian provides mapping and a chronology view using free plugins (access to the Family Historian plugin store is integrated into the program).
- b Legacy Family Tree can also save DNA Test Results and Print the values. Mapping is included to automatically pinpoint and plot important locations in ancestors’ lives.
Languages [edit]
Available user interface languages
| Name | English | Afrikaans | Danish | Dutch | French | German | Italian | Norwegian | Polish | Spanish | Swedish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agelong Tree | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Ahnenblatt[a] | Yes | No[e] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Alfdaer | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Ancestral Quest[j] | Yes | No[e] | Yes | No[e] | Yes | Yes | No[e] | Yes | No[e] | Yes | partial |
| Ancestris | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Brother's Keeper | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[e] | Yes | Yes | No[e] | Yes |
| Family Historian | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Family Tree Builder | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Family Tree Maker (Windows) | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Family Tree Maker for Mac | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| GEDitCOM II | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Genbox Family History[b] | Yes[f] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | partial | Yes | partial | partial |
| GenealogyJ | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Généatique | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| GenoPro[h][i] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GRAMPS[c] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Heredis | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Heredis Mac | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Heredis PC | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Legacy Family Tree[d] | Yes | public test |
Yes | Yes | public test |
Yes | public test |
Yes[f] | No | public test |
Yes |
| LifeLines | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| MacFamilyTree | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MyBlood[e] | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| ohmiGene | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Personal Ancestral File | (v4.x/5.x) | No | No | No | (v4.x) | (v4.x/5.x) | No | No | No | (v4.x) | (v5.x) |
| Reunion | Yes | No | No | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | No | Yes* | No | No | No |
| RootsMagic | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| SmartGenealogy | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| The Master Genealogist | Yes[g] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | partial | Yes | No[h] | No[h] | Yes |
- a Ahnenblatt is also available in Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Turkish
- b Genbox Family History is also available in Russian, Slovak, Slovenian; partial translations are available for Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, and Vietnamese.
- c GRAMPS is also available in Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Esperanto, Finnish, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, and Slovak.
- d Legacy Family Tree is being tested in Finnish.
- e Can be created by available translation program.
- f Includes both nynorsk and bokmål
- g Includes U. K. English and U. S. English.
- h Can be created using the built-in translation tables.
- i GenoPro is also available in Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian/Lettish, Russian and Vietnamese. Partial translations are available in Portuguese (Brazil), Indonesian, Dutch, Hebrew, Swedish, Portuguese (Portugal), Lithuanian, Turkish, Chinese Traditional/Taiwan (Big5), Albanian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Icelandic, Scots Gaelic, Chinese simplified (GB2312), and 18 more languages translated less than 50%.
- j Ancestral Quest also has partial translations in Chinese (Traditional) and Finnish.
References [edit]
- ^ Planetspriv (2010-11-04). "Family Tree Maker software (Mac) Message Board". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
External links [edit]
- Genealogical Software Report Card[dead link] - Bill Mumford's opinions on the important features of genealogy software, with charts showing features available in common products. Very dated information. (Historical)Archive copy at the Wayback MachineRIP
- Genealogy Software Reviews - User reviews and ratings of genealogy software.
- RootsWorks PDA2001 Genealogy Software Comparison - Deals with genealogy software running on portable digital assistants (PDAs).
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