TreeView

The app is good, it has both Ancestor & Pedigree Chart maps, and stores names neatly, unfortunately this app DOES NOT PROVIDE SHARING OR EXPORT OPTION on the IOS. fix that, you'll have the #1 Family Tree Creator App available in the AppStore/ or on IOS. There is no use of storing data or syncing data if that data is NOT AVAILABLE to be transferred externally.

The apps works fairly well for the most part, but it’s a little basic and the software looks about 10 years old (even though the last update was only about 2 years ago) and could really use some a refresh and modernization to improve user-friendliness, speed (slightly laggy for today’s standards though not too bad), ease of navigation, and visuals. Additional suggestions (in no particular order): 1. Ability to view full tree and/or more generations at a time. I’ve read at least one other review asking for this. 2. Ability to add/show adoptive children and parent(s), and support for children of parents that were never married, and support for half-siblings. There’s a way to do half siblings if the parents were ever married, but it’s a bit complicated. You have to add the other parent as another spouse of the shared parent first, then add the half-sibling as a child of the non-shared parent. But it doesn’t work if they were never married. 3. I don’t like that middle names are abbreviated in the tree. There should be a setting to turn that off. 4. More fields for other names, like maiden/birth name(s), former name(s), names in other languages, etc. 5. Support for cultures that write their family names first. 6. Ability to denote sibling order without birth dates. I’m sure it is very common to only know sibling order for ancestors. 7. It’s a bit annoying that you can’t add a sibling without adding a parent first. Right now you just have to add a father or mother and just type unknown or something random before you can add siblings. 8. A checkbox for “name unknown”. Sometimes you have to skip a generation, or an ancestor is known to have sibling(s) but name(s) are. unknown. This would also be a workaround for #7, though it’d be easier if you could just directly add a sibling. 9. Ability to change date order preference, and add day of the week. 10. Ability to denote person is deceased without a death date. 11. Ability to invite others to edit. There might be a way actually as I see a setting for it but I can’t figure out how to invite.

I've already spent a great deal of time entering five generations and I'm not nearly half done. So far I really like what I see. Organization is very good and people can be navigated and added in a fairly easy way. It certainly could be better, it has not been updated for the latest screens, I think, and there are a few small bugs here and there. Dates could be dates rather than an open text field. Using the coolest phone in the world, people could be tied to Facebook profiles and birth/death locations could be tied to a map, for instance. But it does much better than you will do after 30 attempts on a laaaaarge sheet of paper. I still need to add all the extended family, I have good info and everybody seems to have parents, children and siblings. So far I worked on my favorite branches as well as my own. The rest will follow. I wish they made the software more beautiful. Facebook sharing would be nice as well. The thing hasn't asked me for a cent yet, as the others mention in the reviews. Let's see...