Quick Family Tree 4+

SIMPLE and FAST at the fundamentals.

I married into a family with a ton of new cousins and aunts and uncles, and already wasn’t great at mentally keeping track of my own extended family. I didn’t need a genealogy service with a family tree maker tacked on. I’ve looked for an app before that could put together a simple family tree, FAST, that would provide a great visual tree layout. I finally found it in this app. Sitting down with my parents and my wife I was able to throw together a easy to navigate family tree VERY quickly that gave me the fundamentals I needed - who’s related to who and how. You CAN add some birthdays, death dates, and extra info if you want, but that’s not really the strength of this app. It’s about being fast and streamlined. If you don’t expect it to be something it’s not, this app is great.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your review. I'm happy that you liked this app.

For anyone who makes fictional family trees… (+Suggestions)

First off- this is a great app! I use it for making fictional characters and studying their genetics. The app’s name fits, as it is very quick. The inputs are simple and easy to learn, and the option wheel is satisfying to use. However, there are some things that make me doubt this app, and have caused me to research other ones. By nature, humans are visual learners. The app could really benefit from adding the option of linking extra pictures, other than the main face one. Also, I have noticed that whatever I put in the image blurs. I have to zoom in on the character’s face so that it doesn’t blur, but then I can’t show a full body drawing like I would prefer. I have resorted to linking the extra images onto another website, which is very inconvenient and time-wasting. I also have trouble with finding different family lines, which are usually closed off to save space. Because of this, I cannot directly see a character’s aunt or cousin. It would be nice to have a on/off switch of having desaturated and faded markers of where these hidden characters might be, and how to see them. Finally, not all characters made live on earth. Many of my characters do not use our calendar system, and this limits how I can customize them. Also, for some reason, I can only put the year of birth as 1582 or 2025. Overall, this is a great app, and I believe that it will keep improving.

Complaint

I've been using this family history tracking app for over a year and a half, but I've encountered some issues. The main problem is that whenever I try to update a family member's profile, any information I had entered about their date of death, including the month and year, disappears. This forces me to retype all that death detail data, which is a real hassle. To prevent losing that critical information, I now have to maintain a duplicate record of each family member's date of death in a separate app.

As for potential improvements, I think adding an obituary feature and a timeline to record important life events like marriages, births, birth location residences, death, and death location would be very helpful. Additionally, a section to visualize connections and relations between family members would be a valuable addition. Overall, I find the app quite useful, but a few updates could really enhance its functionality and make it even better for tracking my family's history.