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Modern family history
Among genealogy apps, MacFamilyTree has quite a history. The app debuted over 25 years ago—back when researching your ancestors relied more on a visit to your great-aunt than mail-in DNA analysis and AI-powered research tools. Ever since, MacFamilyTree has helped genealogy sleuths from around the globe document, organize, and visualize their family history.
3D models you won't find in any other app or service bring your family's history to life. It starts with the Interactive Family Tree, which gives you multiple views of your family and lets you dig into (and edit) the details of each member. Or use Person View to browse immigration documents, job histories, awards, and other ephemera—you can even import data directly from the massive FamilySearch database.
Optimized for Metal and Apple silicon, MacFamilyTree’s intuitive charts and gorgeous maps render in a flash. The app’s Virtual Globe brings your family history into vivid relief by mapping each ancestor’s journey over land and sea. And sophisticated filters make it easy to quickly view, say, all relatives with brown eyes who ever lived in Boston, or anyone born in Spain whose records are missing relative data.
The app is also designed to make fleshing out your family quick and easy. For example, when adding geographic details, Place Templates help you document many people from the same area, the app autofills details for locations you’ve previously used, and you can search for places via Maps and Wikipedia—you can even see Wikipedia images and article previews right in the app.
Interested in your family’s history but want something deeper than data and dates? MacFamilyTree can turn those facts and figures into a fleshed-out narrative. (Just go to the Reports section and click Person Report.) Got a box full of photos in the attic? Use the app to scan, enhance, and colorize them in an instant—automatic face detection centers the subject’s face in the Interactive Tree and other views.
Is documenting your ancestors itself a family affair? MacFamilyTree lets multiple people edit info, whether they’re oceans apart or sitting across from each other at the kitchen table. And the CloudTree function securely syncs your data across your Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
When you’re ready to share your research, save everything as a PDF, easily make a searchable website, or create an official book. You can even split your tree for personalized sharing. (The cousins on your dad’s side may not be interested in your great-great-grandfather on your mom’s side.) What better gift to your family than your family?