Family Tree Maker Connect 4+
Take your family tree with you
Software MacKiev
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- Free
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Description
Family Tree Maker® Connect (FTM Connect) is a companion app to the FTM 2024 desktop genealogy software. It allows you to view your own up-to-date Family Tree Maker tree on an iPhone or an iPad, view trees your relatives have shared with you, place Relative Hint™ sticky notes on any person in a tree and send them to your relatives on the fly.
Top Features:
• Take the latest up-to-date copy of your Family Tree Maker tree with you anywhere! Powered by TreeVault® cloud services.*
• Navigate easily through families and generations using the Family view (hourglass chart), or use the Index of Individuals — now with advanced options similar to those in Family Tree Maker version 2024.
• NEW! View and comment on Family Tree Maker trees your relatives share with you.** Sharing is totally risk-free, as trees can’t be edited via FTM Connect.
• NEW! Create a FREE TreeVault guest account directly from the FTM Connect login screen.
• NEW! Send hints to your relatives with Relative Hint sticky notes. Through the magic of TreeVault, the notes you place in FTM Connect are added instantly to the Source tree in Family Tree Maker version 2024, landing right on that person, next to Ancestry and Family Search hints. Or, if it’s your own tree, add “notes to self" on the fly.
• NEW! View and search through all your Sticky Notes in a handy browser, sorted by person.
• View Person Info with facts and color coding information from the Family Tree Maker tree, plus relationships, person and research notes, and Web links. Go to any related person's info right from the Relations tab.
• NEW! Identify yourself in a tree to see exactly how other people are related to you in Person Info views and Sticky Notes.
• NEW! Explore the collection of Famous Trees.
*Requires Family Tree Maker version 2024 desktop software, a TreeVault account, and an Antenna tree uploaded to TreeVault cloud services.
**Requires a FREE TreeVault guest account.
What’s New
Version 2.0.1
• Improved design and usability
• Guest access to FTM trees others share with you
• New Relative Hint™ sticky notes and sticky note browser
• Enhanced Index of Individuals with more options
• Enhanced Person Info with more options
• Library of Famous Trees
• Improved login
• Guest account creation
• Improved tree downloading and updating
• Improved stability and performance
Ratings and Reviews
Waste of time
I upgraded to try out the new item, Tree Vault. To try it out one must have a subscription, which I didn’t know that before hand. What you get without the subscription is a program called Connect. And all that does is enable one to have the tree of their choice on their phone or IPad. Cannot edit add or anything else other than delete it. If one wants to pay a monthly fee to be able to do anything then upgrade to FTM 2019. If not, then stay with FTM 2017 as there is not enough changes to make the upgrade worth it. For the first time since I have had FTM, which has been almost two decades, I am extremely disappointed.
Disappointed
I don’t mind that FTM Connect is read only—this permits family sharing without anyone editing my database. I like the info tab that includes earliest and most recent births, average lifespan, etc. However, navigation is clunky and the data displayed are limited. To see any useful information (for example: relationships, facts, locations, sources) I have to go to my MacBook and use FTM 2019, which renders FTM Connect mostly useless. I am especially disappointed that I have found no way to see relationships in FTM Connect, and this is one of the most frequent things I search. Unless Mackiev updates FTM Connect to access and display much more information, I definitely won’t pay for a subscription once the free membership expires. After all, “Connect” suggest that one is able to connect to the entire FTM database.
Pretty good for view only purposes
I like being able to access my tree on my iPad or phone to show off my tree. The bad reviews seem to only complain because you can’t edit. I like that it also keeps my main tree in a cloud to backup. The only thing I would change is that I agree it needs a relationship calculator and I would like to see being able to add guest login. I want family to have access without having to give out my personal password.
I get having to pay for media upload because it can take a lot of space but perhaps the basic without media should be free and not a trial.
App Privacy
The developer, Software MacKiev, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Software MacKiev
- Size
- 36.6 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 The Software MacKiev Company.
- Price
- Free