Android app for genealogy

Bring your family history to life, branch by branch.

Enter names, dates, places, life events, and cherished photos into your relatives' profiles. Define how they connect to one another, and automagically watch your family tree take shape.

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GEDCOM 100% Compatible
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Refreshing Simplicity

Genealogy without the clutter

Designed from the ground up to respect your time, your privacy, and your family memories.

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No ads

We all know that advertisements ruin the user experience. Enjoy a clean, peaceful workspace dedicated solely to your research.

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Free of charge

The basic version of Family Gem is completely free. Create unlimited trees and add as many people, events, and photos as you wish.

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No account

You can immediately start to play, with no username and password. Your trees live safely offline on your Android device.

Step by Step

How your family tree takes shape

Whether you are interviewing grandparents at Sunday lunch or organizing decades of archive notes, Family Gem makes every step effortless.

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Start fresh or import

Create a brand-new empty tree, explore the built-in Simpsons sample tree to learn the ropes, or import an existing GEDCOM file in seconds.

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Collect stories & faces

Record birth and death dates, hometowns, occupations, nicknames, personal anecdotes, archival citations, and portrait photographs.

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Link relatives together

Connect parents, spouses, siblings, and children. Family Gem automatically computes generations and draws the complete diagram for you.

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Share & preserve forever

Export print-ready PDF charts, share trees with relatives across the globe, or back up everything in standard formats you truly own.

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Your Task

Craft rich profiles for every ancestor

Create a family tree from scratch entering names, dates, places, events and photos. Every person in your tree gets a dedicated profile organized into Media, Facts, and Relatives.

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    Detailed Life Events

    Log births, baptisms, marriages, graduations, occupations, residences, burials, and custom facts with flexible historical dates.

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    Photos & Archival Media

    Attach portraits, scanned certificates, and family group photos, or link a dedicated media folder on your device.

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    Real-World Family Complexity

    Effortlessly represent multiple marriages, maiden names, nicknames, notes, and sources without rigid limitations.

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Universal Standard

GEDCOM ready

Exchange your family tree with any other genealogy program through a GEDCOM file. Your research is never locked inside a proprietary cloud.

Seamless Import

Bring `.ged` files from desktop programs or online genealogy websites straight onto your phone or tablet.

Standard Export

Export clean, standards-compliant GEDCOM 5.5.1 files at any time to continue editing on your computer.

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Visualize & Preserve

Navigate generations & export to PDF

Explore your ancestry on an interactive, color-coded tree canvas. Tap any relative to recenter the diagram around their branch and trace lineages across centuries.

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    Save Diagram as PDF

    Generate crisp PDF documents of your family tree diagram, ready to print as a poster or share at family gatherings.

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    Complete ZIP Backups

    Pack your tree and all its attached photographs into a single `.zip` backup file for effortless safekeeping and recovery.

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Connect Generations

Share with relatives worldwide

Share the tree you created with family members all over the world. Genealogy is even more rewarding when cousins, aunts, and grandparents can contribute their own memories.

Send a link to your tree so relatives can open it in Family Gem, browse their ancestors, add missing dates or family photos, and send their updates back to you.

Inside the App

Designed for clarity on every screen

Scroll or use the arrows to inspect real screens from Family Gem.

New tree creation and import options in Family Gem
1. Start or Import a Tree
Navigation drawer showing Diagram, Persons, Families, Media and Notes
2. Organized Workspace
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3. Interactive Tree Diagram
List of 60 persons with portraits, birth dates and places
4. Persons Directory
Media gallery displaying family photos and portraits
5. Rich Media Gallery
Individual profile screen showing Media, Facts and Relatives tabs
6. Detailed Person Profile

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Downloads worldwide

Trusted by genealogists, historians, and families on every continent.

Get Started Today

Download Family Gem

Install from Google Play for automatic updates, or download the standalone APK package directly.

Family Gem is for Android only.
Windows, iOS and other operating systems are not supported.

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Documentation & Wiki

Get help

Have a question about organizing complex branches or managing media files? The official Wiki covers every feature in detail.

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Don't you know how to import a GEDCOM with images?

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Do you want to add multiple spouses to one person?

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Does your cousin have a nickname?

Family Gem Help
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Get in Touch

Give a feedback

Found a bug, have a feature idea, or need advice on a tricky GEDCOM file? Choose a meaningful subject and write in English:

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Unlock Extra Power

Family Gem Premium

Some features, such as merging two trees, are included in Family Gem Premium, which is available at a modest lifetime price.

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Support the project

If you want to support this app, the best way is to subscribe for Family Gem Premium. Otherwise you can always buy me a coffee.

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Global Community

Translate

You are invited to translate Family Gem into every language.

Translation takes place on Weblate: with an account you can freely work there, without an account you can anyway provide suggestions. Help make genealogy accessible in your native tongue!

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Open-source

Family Gem is open-source. You can inspect, star, or contribute to the code on GitHub.

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The Creator

About

Michele Salvador is an Italian developer and genealogy enthusiast based in Conegliano (Treviso), crafting tools that make family history accessible to everyone.