By AppHub Editorial Team · Updated August 3, 2026

FamilySearch Tree

4.4 ★

Downloads: 10,000,000+ Reviews: 52,500 Content Rating: Everyone

Overview

Features

Harness the power of a worldwide, crowd-sourced pedigree to discover your family story. As you add information, FamilySearch will start searching for your family...

Curious about your family history? Add branches to your family tree with FamilySearch Tree, the world’s largest online family tree. FamilySearch Tree makes it easy and convenient to discover and document your own branches of the world’s family tree while preserving family memories, such as photos, written stories, and audio recordings. Harness the power of a worldwide, crowd-sourced pedigree to discover your family story. As you add information, FamilySearch will start searching for your family members while looking at historical records like birth and death certificates. Share information that others might not know, and add sources to confirm correct information. Update information and records easily so that everyone has accurate information. Browse your family tree branches, and see portraits of relatives you’ve never seen before. Discover facts, documents, stories, photos, and recordings about your ancestors. Easily add new life details, photos, stories, and audio recordings for your relatives. Find and share meaningful, heart-turning family stories that will make an impact on your life and the lives of your loved ones. Genealogy at Your Fingertips

●Family history has never been easier to track and build.

●Build your family tree by finding or adding family members directly through the app.

●Once you add a deceased relative to the family tree, FamilySearch will try to connect you to any information it has about that person in its database.

●Discover new family members and descendants in the community tree.

●Explore your heritage in maps that show where the key events of your ancestors’ lives took place. Ancestors, Relatives, and Family

●Find your ancestors in the billions of records on FamilySearch. org to learn more details of your family story.

●Discover facts, documents, stories, photos, and recordings about your ancestors.

●Easily add new life details, photos, stories, and audio recordings for your relatives.

●See which ancestors FamilySearch has already found in historical records, and get ideas for what to do next.

●Discovering your own family history potentially helps others in their search.

●Explore your heritage in maps that show where the key events of your ancestors’ lives took place. Collaborate with Others

●Connect with other family members, and share information that others might not know.

●View, add, and edit information about your ancestors.

●Enhance your tree by adding photos, stories, and documents.

●Add sources to confirm correct information.

●Communicate and collaborate with other FamilySearch users from within the app with in-app messaging.

●Connect with family near and far. You may find a relative who has visited the same graves, asked the same questions about—and even learned to love or admire—the same ancestors. Watch your family tree grow. Discover family, learn your family history, and help map the family tree for mankind with FamilySearch Tree. NOTE: Content you provide for deceased individuals will be publicly available. See our privacy policy for more details.

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Ratings breakdown

52,500 reviews

5★

75%

4★

10%

3★

2★

1★

Developer contact

Name

Familysearch International

Address

50 E North Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84150 United States

Website

https://www.familysearch.org

Phone

+1 801-240-9040

Support

fsandroiddeveloper@familysearch.org

Privacy

View policy

Frequently Asked Questions

Is FamilySearch Tree free to download?

high

Yes. The app metadata lists FamilySearch Tree as free.

Source: app_metadata

What do sampled users complain about in FamilySearch Tree?

low

FamilySearch Tree has sampled reports of bugs, crashes, lag, or reliability problems. Only 1 sampled review supports this theme, so confidence is low.

Source: user_reviews

What do sampled users like about FamilySearch Tree?

low

FamilySearch Tree is praised by sampled reviewers for features, customization, or flexibility. Only 1 sampled review supports this theme, so confidence is low.

Source: user_reviews

How to Use

Curious about your family history? Add branches to your family tree with FamilySearch Tree, the world’s largest online family tree. (app_description)

Getting Started

Source: app_description_and_user_feedback_noted

Install FamilySearch Tree from the appropriate app store.
Open the app and start with the free experience.
Review the main features described in the app listing.
Check settings or support resources if you run into sampled issue patterns such as familysearch tree has sampled reports of bugs, crashes, lag, or reliability problems.

Key Features (from app listing)

Source: app_description

Books & Reference app experience
Free download
From FamilySearch International
10,000,000+ downloads listed

Pro Tip: Start with the areas reviewers praised: FamilySearch Tree is praised by sampled reviewers for features, customization, or flexibility.

Theme 'features, customization, or flexibility' identified in recent_reviews #5. Review #5 praises features, customization, or flexibility.

How this content was created

Content type: pattern_analysis_of_user_reviews_and_metadata

AI generated: Yes

Data sources:

Google Play user reviews (12-20 preferred; may be smaller if source data is limited per app), July 20, 2020 to March 08, 2026
Google Play ratings distribution
App Store listing metadata

Limitations:

Review samples are not statistically representative of all user sentiment
High-engagement negative reviews can overrepresent complaints
Claims labeled 'low confidence' are based on single-review observations only
No real-world app testing was conducted
Feature availability may vary by region, device, and app version

Pros & Cons

Based on analysis of Google Play user reviews

Pros

Largest online family tree with crowd-sourced data to discover ancestors.

Theme 'Large family tree' identified in app description and recent_review #5.

Evidence (1)

“FamilySearch Tree, the world’s largest online family tree.”
Rating: 5★ N/A
Enables temple work and family history research for religious purposes.

Theme 'Temple work' identified in recent_review #1.

Evidence (1)

“I love FamilySearch! It has enabled me to do much temple work.”
Rating: 4★ March 08, 2026 7 likes
Clean layout and features that are more user-friendly than other genealogy sites.

Theme 'User-friendly layout' identified in recent_review #5.

Evidence (1)

“The layout and the features are actually very clean, friendlier than other sites.”
Rating: 5★ July 20, 2020 444 likes

Cons

Buggy app with issues like photos not saving, children missing, and frequent sign-in prompts.

Theme 'Technical bugs' identified in recent_review #1, #3, #4.

Evidence (2)

“App is buggy and not as user friendly as website. For example, I'll upload a photo and label the picture. After coming back from viewing another family member, the photo is gone.”
Rating: 3★ December 13, 2025 19 likes

“The app itself is buggy lately and I have to sign in again every few minutes, often.”
Rating: 4★ March 11, 2024 334 likes
Persistent spam notifications about errors even when the app is not in use.

Theme 'Spam notifications' identified in recent_review #1.

Evidence (1)

“I get around seven of these throughout the day, even when I haven't opened the app! They've been coming for a few months”
Rating: 4★ March 08, 2026 7 likes
Difficult to correct errors if information is added to the wrong person or place.

Theme 'Error correction difficulty' identified in recent_review #4.

Evidence (1)

“If you locate info that's isn't there, and for example, add it to the wrong place or person, it's almost impossible to correct sometimes.”
Rating: 4★ March 11, 2024 334 likes

Recent Reviews

Judy Slade

4★

I love FamilySearch! It has enabled me to do much temple work. Still, I've been experiencing a lot of technical issues, like things not loading or not saving, or getting spammed notifications. The notifications say "Unable to edit memory. An unknown error occurred. Memory could not be edited." I get around seven of these throughout the day, even when I haven't opened the app! They've been coming for a few months, ever since the app crashed when I was trying to edit a memory. Please fix! <3

March 08, 2026 7 likes

Jayne Marasa

4★

Search is definitely improved. Can now go back to the search results without having to start over each time. There are nice pop-out arrows on the computer, but not on the app, that allows one to see siblings in the tree view without having to click on the parent and look at the Person, then view tree again. I really like the Groups function...but choosing a starting person shouldn't translate to "me"... Thx

January 30, 2026 40 likes

J Smith

3★

App is buggy and not as user friendly as website. For example, I'll upload a photo and label the picture. After coming back from viewing another family member, the photo is gone. When I go to upload the photo again, it returns an error message saying the photo was already uploaded - but not visible in app or website. Another example is recently all children of family members are missing. Only after refreshing every family member do the children reappear. And how about passkey login?! SMH

December 13, 2025 19 likes

Nicole

4★

It's a pretty good app. There are inaccuracies, but you can get a place to begin. If you locate info that's isn't there, and for example, add it to the wrong place or person, it's almost impossible to correct sometimes. The app itself is buggy lately and I have to sign in again every few minutes, often. That's so aggravating when attempting to research, refine, compare, etc. After all, what's the point in an app when I could likely do better just signing in to the site through a browser?

March 11, 2024 334 likes

Peter Hoffman

5★

Definitely a learning curve when developing the family tree, though once you stick with it and are very detail, the reward will be great. The layout and the features are actually very clean, friendlier than other sites. I happen to go big, so my wife's tree is way over the top compared to many other trees. It took me a lot of trial and error to really get the hang of the app, but it really is well thought out.

July 20, 2020 444 likes

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