KinTerm
Chinese kinship & family tree
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
At Lunar New Year, weddings, family banquets — the most awkward moment is "what should I call this uncle's grand-aunt?"
KinTerm tells you the correct kinship term in one second. Starting from yourself, tap through the relationships — father, mother, sister, cousin... — and the app instantly shows how to address that person. It covers up to five generations of family relations, with the complete Chinese kinship vocabulary used in Taiwan, plus the legal kinship degree (Taiwan Civil Code Article 968). Three small tools come with it: family tree, festival greeting templates, and red envelope records.
■ Core features (free forever)
· Kinship calculator
Tap through relationships starting from yourself: Father → Mother → Sister → Son...
Instantly shows the correct kinship term (e.g. Father's mother = Grandmother / 奶奶).
Up to five generations, full Taiwanese kinship terminology built in.
Reverse lookup: "who is my granduncle's granddaughter?" works too.
Includes legal kinship degree based on Taiwan Civil Code Article 968 — useful for inheritance, marriage taboo, and legal contexts.
· Family tree (up to 5 members)
Add family members and the app auto-draws the relationship graph.
Tap any member to see their kinship term, distance, and generation relative to you.
Supports photos, birth year, and deceased status.
· Festival greeting templates (10 per category)
Templates for Lunar New Year, Mid-Autumn, Dragon Boat, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and more.
Copy with one tap and send to elders, clients, or group chats.
· Red envelope records (up to 5 entries)
Track who you gave money to, how much, on what occasion, in which year.
Auto-cumulative, so when the next festival comes you can check what you gave last time and avoid the never-ending escalation.
■ Pro unlock (NT$60 one-time purchase, lifetime)
· Unlimited family tree members
Build out three, four, or five-generation family trees in full.
· Regional terminology switching
Switch between 7 regional kinship vocabularies: Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Hokkien (Min-nan), Hakka, Singapore, and Malaysia.
· TTS pronunciation
Not sure how to pronounce a term? Tap to hear it in Taiwan Mandarin, HK Cantonese, or Mainland Mandarin (voice options depend on system-installed voices).
· Full festival templates
Unlimited templates per category, in four styles: letter, card, SMS, and group chat.
· Unlimited red envelope records
Keep all your years of red envelope history, view ten-year trends.
· Surname signature
Greeting templates auto-include your surname (e.g. "Chen Family", "Respectfully from the Lin Family").
■ Why KinTerm?
· 100% on-device
Family member names, red envelope amounts, all your data stay only on your phone.
No server. Nothing uploaded. Nothing synced to any cloud (unless you yourself enable Pro's optional cloud backup).
· Zero ads, zero tracking
No ads anywhere — clean interface from top to bottom.
We do not analyze what you tap or track what features you use.
· No unnecessary permissions
No camera, no photo library, no location, no contacts, no microphone, no network.
All calculations run locally on your phone.
· Works offline
Use it in airplane mode, on a high-speed train heading home — kinship calculation never needs the internet.
■ Privacy promise
· We do not ask for your email, name, phone, or birthday.
· No registration. No account.
· The family member data you enter never leaves your phone.
· We do not analyze, do not track what you do, do not record what features you use.
· Delete the app and all your data is gone — we have nothing on our side.
Full privacy details: see "Settings → Privacy Policy" inside the app.
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Supported languages: Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese
For everyone in the family, including elders.
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What's new in 1.2.0
New:
・Almanac tab: daily guidance, calendar, fortune, culture
・Worship day and festival reminders, sent a day ahead (Pro)
・Birthdays, anniversaries and your own occasions in one place, next 30 days at a glance
・Family album: photos for every member (Pro)
・Red envelope book: what you gave and received
・Name matching for compatibility and naming
Improved:
・Family tree, birthdays and almanac share the same dates
・Existing members, birthdays and records carry over
The developer, KUN WEI TU, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- KUN WEI TU
- Size
- 39.2 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- KinTerm Pro $1.99
- Copyright
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