Kinchart

Version 1.0 · Coming to the App Store

Your family,on one wall.

iPad, the Carter family
The Carter family tree on iPad, a wider chart of the same family.
The Carter family tree on iPhone, a chart of four generations on cream paper.
iPhone, the Carter family

Add people one tap at a time. Kinchart lays out every generation, then prints the chart as a poster.

Coming to the App Store for iPhone and iPad.

Questions before launch: support@silkway.studio

Pick two people and the app names the relationship and lights the path between them. Here it is for Jack Bennett and Ava Brooks.

Kinchart on iPhone showing the banner Jack Bennett is Ava Brooks's first cousin once removed, with the path through the tree highlighted.
iPhone, the relationship finder.

Add people one at a time.

Select a person, add a parent, partner, child or sibling, and type a name. A test tree of 10 people takes 22 taps.

Kinchart on iPhone while adding a person to the Carter family.
iPhone, quick-add.

Three kinds of chart.

A family tree, a genogram and an ecomap, from the same people.

A family chart with remarriages and half-siblings on iPhone.
Family chart: remarriages and half-siblings stay readable.
The Ancestors view of the Carter family on iPhone.
Ancestors: the same family, one line up.
A genogram of the Ortiz family on iPhone, with its legend.
Genogram: McGoldrick symbols, with a legend.

Four chart themes: Classic, Heritage, Modern and Night.

The ecomap draws the same way. The genogram notation has not had a clinician's review yet.

Print it as a poster.

Export a PDF or PNG, share it, or print. Poster paper presets split a big tree across sheets.

The export sheet on iPhone with a preview of the chart.
iPhone, the export sheet.

Bring your GEDCOM.

Kinchart imports and exports GEDCOM, a 5.5.1 and 7.0 subset, tested on a corpus of 22 files. It has drawn a tree of 3,010 people.

It is a subset, so a file from another program may not round-trip.

Your family stays yours.

On your device

Trees stay on your device. There is no account, no ads, no tracking and no analytics. The App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected.

iCloud, if you turn it on

Sync is off by default. When you turn it on, it uses your own iCloud.

Lock and anonymise

Lock the app with Face ID. Export an anonymised copy when you share a chart.

Free, and Pro.

Kinchart is free for up to 50 people. Pro is $24.99 a year with a one-week trial, or $19.99 once. Both can be shared with your family on the App Store.

FeatureFreePro
People in a treeUp to 50No limit

Launch prices. They may change before release.

A note from the maker

I built the sample family hard on purpose: remarriages, half-siblings, an adoption and a cousin marriage. If the layout holds there, it holds for yours.

Version 1.0