Video: What's new in Version 11

What's new in MacFamilyTree 11

New Photo Colorization, Enhancement, and Editing Features

• New Colorization Models: Choose from multiple colorization models for your photos instead of being limited to one suggestion
• Photo Restoration: Restore old and damaged photos and images
• 4x Super-Resolution: Upscale small images and improve text readability in hard-to-read documents
• Advanced Image Adjustments: New tools for customizing photos (exposure, gamma, channel-specific adjustments, etc.)
• AI Background Removal: Automatically remove backgrounds from portraits or other photos
• Faster AI Processing: Significant speed improvements of our AI servers
• Improved User Interface: Enhanced interface with help texts, especially for iPad and iPhone

Completely New Places Management

• Configurable Place Templates: Pre-configured templates for major countries
• Completely customizable place citation styles, configurable for each place template individually
• Favorites and Default Templates: Mark frequently used templates for quick access
• Diagram and Report Options: Specify which citation style to use in diagrams and reports
• Improved GEDCOM Support: Properly incorporates format information for places
• Grouping Options: Group editing views by the first or second administrative level
• Integrated Maps: iPad now displays a detailed map alongside place editing, similar to Mac
• Flags and Pins: Optional flags for easier identification and movable pins for adjusting coordinates
• Map Styles: Select map styles while editing places

Completely New: Place Details

• Detailed Place Descriptions: Specify exact locations within a place (e.g., address, hospital, cemetery)
• Coordinates and Maps: Display notable locations on maps with geographic coordinates
• Integration with Existing Places: Easily convert places into notable locations
• Support in Reports and Diagrams: Includes notable locations

New: Search for coordinates and alternate names

• Results from a massive database of locations
• Multilingual, including historical place names
• In addition to the geographic database, Apple Maps search can also be used to locate significant places
• Precisely configurable to determine which components of a place name are adopted in which language
• Once downloaded, the new geographic database is fully usable without an internet connection
• With data stored locally, location searches are impressively fast

Completely New: Search for Geographic Coordinates for All Locations

• Comprehensible presentation of all found coordinates for locations and significant places
• Significantly faster than the previous server-based search
• No internet connection required once the location database is downloaded

Wikipedia Integration for Places

• Auto-Loaded Images: Display images from related Wikipedia articles
• Direct Article Links: View Wikipedia references while editing places
• Preview Articles: Access article previews directly in the interface
• Completely integrated in new places search, which also show Wikipedia articles
• Save as Media: Add Wikipedia content as media attachments

New Website Creation

• Highly Customizable: Tailor website templates to personal preferences
• Integrated Search: Built-in search functionality on exported sites
• Reduced File Size: Smaller storage requirements for exported family trees
• Many included website styles ranging from plain to playful designs
• A website may include more than one style a visitor may choose from
• Multilingual Support: Websites can switch between multiple languages
• Easy Hosting: No server/database required; simple static file hosting is sufficient
• Completely new user interface for exporting websites
• Significantly faster website exporting
• Management of multiple websites with different configurations per family tree
• Website settings are synchronized via CloudTree and iCloud Drive
• Share button for quickly sharing the website
• Continued support for uploading to FTP and MacFamilyTree.com – or burning to CD/DVD on Mac

New Feature: Influential Persons

• Customizable Relationships: Define various relationship types between a person and their most influential persons
• Icons for Relationship Types: Assign unique icons for each relationship type
• Date Range Settings: Specify dates or date ranges for each relationship
• Notes and Sources: Add notes and citations for each relationship
• Reports and Diagrams: Updated to display influential persons
• Additionally, the kinship report shows influential persons of the start person
• GEDCOM Compatibility: Import and export support for influential persons
• Interactive Tree: Easily add and visualize influential persons using a new mode
• Indicators for Influencers: Mark individuals with attached key influencers in the Interactive Tree

Completely New Diagram: Sociogram

• Display Influential Persons: Visualize all influential persons of a relative
• Entire context: Optionally show children, parents, and their influential persons
• Display all connections: Even highlights relationships when influential persons are linked to multiple people

Improved User Interface

• Significantly improved navigation with better clarity
• Enhanced representations in all editing views
• Larger title images in the person-editing and family-editing views, where space permits
• Improved dark mode for higher contrast display
• Improved dark mode in the editing section
• Improved structure in almost all dialogs
• Noticeable performance improvements
• Enhanced list views (better fonts, alignment, etc.)
• Improved integrated browser (now supports forward/backward navigation, and websites can be added as media)

Completely New Welcome Screen

• Modern Design: Enhanced layout for better tree organization
• Color Labels: Assign labels to manage large collections of trees
• Favorites: Mark trees as favorites for quick access
• iCloud Tree Management: Improved download process for trees stored on iCloud Drive
• Collapsible Sections: Collapse sections for better organization

Charts

• Many new, customizable styles for persons added
• New diagram templates introduced
• New styles and templates for the fan chart
• Noticeable performance improvements for most charts
• Distribution chart can now also analyze places of death

Interactive Tree

• Improved Family Editing: Access all options from the regular family editing view
• Quick Family Selection: Select families linked to a person via a dedicated button
• Zoom Feature: Quickly zoom to the tree section of the starting person
• Enhanced Action Buttons: More visible and user-friendly buttons

Customizable Title Images

• Editable Header Images: Configure the display of header images in editing sections
• Family Photo Composites: Automatically generated from family members pictures
• Placeholder Options: Use placeholders instead of images

Favorite Functions – your personal MacFamilyTree

• Quick Access: Mark frequently used functions as favorites
• Dedicated Category: All favorite functions are grouped in a separate category for easy navigation
• Customizable: Fully configure which functions are shown as favorites
• Re-order Favorites: Adjust the order of functions to suit your workflow
• Highlight Key Functions: Certain functions can be emphasized and displayed as larger icons for faster recognition

New Backup Feature

• iCloud Drive Backup as an alternative to local backups: Backups can now be stored on iCloud Drive and are accessible across devices
• Configurable location where Backups should be stored
• Improved Management: New interface for viewing and managing backups
• It is now possible to define how each family tree is backed up individually
• Improved automatic saving, which can now also be configured per family tree

CloudTree

• Noticeably improved performance, especially when downloading new family trees or processing many changes
• Faster setup

Performance Enhancements

• Performance: Improved editing, diagram rendering, and app start-up times
• Speed optimizations in the edit section
• Performance improvements when editing diagrams
• Faster app launch

…and so much more!