MacFamilyTree 10 - Genealogy for Mac

Discover and experience your personal family history, explore your origins, your ancestors, and how your family has evolved over the course of time. MacFamilyTree 10 offers you a wide range of options to capture and visualize your family history. Search the free FamilySearch archive, which contains billions of genealogical entries, and continue your research on the go, using MobileFamilyTree (available separately) for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

No matter how you want to document your findings, MacFamilyTree 10 is the perfect genealogy companion for you. Display your relationships in reports, visually appealing charts, the innovative Virtual Tree 3D view, or invite other users to contribute to your family tree in real time by using the free "CloudTree Sync&Share" feature.

Research, Discover, Visualize

MacFamilyTree offers support and assistance across all aspects of genealogy – from research to data entry, evaluation, and visualization. Add media such as photos and videos, document places where significant events have occurred, and have fun with the way MacFamilyTree turns facts and figures into captivating history lessons. Browse through MacFamilyTree’s wide range of diagrams, view reports, or explore your family history on the Virtual Globe and you’ll find it easy to see why it’s the perfect tool for your genealogy needs. Learn More…

Edit and Enter

There are a variety of ways to feed your family tree with information. Import GEDCOM or MacFamilyTree files, go on a free journey of discovery via the integrated FamilySearch function - or enter directly what you have learned from personal memory, conversations with relatives, or from old documents. MacFamilyTree 10 offers you a completely new edit section, which combines the best of two worlds: You can see all important facts about persons or families at a glance, or comfortably add further details.

CloudTree Sync & Share: Sync your trees – or collaborate with other users

Since the early days of MacFamilyTree, we have consistently received one specific request from our customers: How can I collaborate on my family tree with other family members? CloudTree Sync&Share opened up a new era in digital genealogy – and MacFamilyTree 10 as well as MobileFamilyTree 10 raise the bar even further. It’s faster and more powerful than ever.

Work on the same family tree with an unlimited number of MacFamilyTree and MobileFamilyTree users in real time, at no additional cost. All changes to your tree will be transferred and are available to all other users invited by you within a few seconds. Apple is known for placing the utmost priority on data protection. CloudTree operates in compliance with these very standards since it relies on Apple’s iCloud infrastructure. Learn more…

Exclusively Developed for Mac

Fast, reliable, smooth - and truly a feast for the eyes: You'll notice right away that MacFamilyTree is a native Mac application, exclusively and perfectly tailored for Mac. Developed specifically for macOS, MacFamilyTree harnesses the advanced and powerful core technologies of Apple's latest operating systems. You bought a Mac for good reasons – so you rightly expect software that's at home on the Mac.

Thanks to utilizing the latest Apple technologies, the interface feels buttery smooth despite the many animations and interactive elements. The impressive display of the Interactive Family Tree, the Virtual Tree or the Virtual Globe is only possible by using everything the Mac platform has to offer. Genealogy that generations of chroniclers have only dreamed of!

Apple: MacFamilyTree is App of the Year

Is there greater praise than being named “App of the Year” by none other than Apple? That’s exactly what happened: MacFamilyTree has won what is probably the most important award in the entire Mac world! After having already earned the “Editor’s Choice” award on the Mac App Store this year, an even more prestigious award has now followed.

According to Apple, MacFamilyTree is a particularly inspiring, innovative and high-quality app that has achieved extraordinary things in its 25 years of product history and 10 major releases. Of course, we also have to thank you, dear customers – because without your loyalty and support, that journey would never have been possible.

25 Years of MacFamilyTree

MacFamilyTree celebrated its 25th birthday this winter! We've released ten full versions and an almost infinite amount of smaller updates since then. Take a look with us at the interesting history of MacFamilyTree since the release of the very first version in 1998. There's an image of each version so you can see how the user interface has evolved over the past 25 years.

Languages & System Requirements

MacFamilyTree is available in 16 languages. The user interface, including all buttons, labels and menu entries, automatically adapts to the language settings in your Mac's System Preferences. Currently, the following languages are available:

MacFamilyTree 10 requires macOS 10.15 Catalina or higher (macOS Big Sur, macOS Monterey, macOS Ventura, macOS Sonoma and macOS Sequoia are fully supported). For synching between different devices an iCloud account is required. MacFamilyTree is available exclusively on the Mac App Store. MacFamilyTree is fully optimized for M1-, M2- and M3-based Macs.

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