# Folklore: Family Tree — Genealogy & Family History

> Genealogy & Family History (iPhone/iPad app by Hello Good Day LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/folklore-family-tree/id6803038052 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Hello Good Day LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1720039558)
- Category: Lifestyle, Reference
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 8 MB
- Languages: Haitian Creole, American English, Dutch, European Spanish, Italian, German (Germany), Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), French (France), Japanese
- Released: 2026-09-15
- Data updated: 2026-10-12

## What is Folklore?

Folklore is the private family tree you can actually share — build it together with your family over iCloud, with partners, half-siblings, and adoptive ties recorded the way they really are.

Build your family tree, record the people who matter, and keep every name, date, story, and photo in one place — stored on your device and synced through your own private iCloud. Your family history is yours alone. We can't see it, and it never lives on our servers.

BUILD YOUR TREE
- Add parents, partners, children, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and step-relatives
- See your whole family in a clean, zoomable tree — hold your iPhone upright and big families run top to bottom, so names stay readable
- A family summary shows how many people and generations you've gathered, and your oldest known ancestor
- Add life events, places, occupations, and research notes, and color-code people to keep branches clear
- A short tour shows how to read each tree style the first time you open it

SEE YOUR FAMILY IN NEW WAYS
- Family Poster: portraits that fade softly into the page, for your close family or the whole tree, ready to share as an image
- Radial chart: one person in the middle, with every descendant spread around them in rings by birth year
- Fan chart and a map of the places your family lived
- Photos of two people together — partners, parents and children, siblings, and cousins

RESEARCH WITH CARE
- Mark each date, place, and event as Confirmed, Likely, or a Guess, and see how many sources back it up
- Note searches that found nothing, so you never look in the same place twice
- Family checkup finds impossible dates, parents who would have been too young or too old, loops, and likely duplicates
- Merge two copies of the same person, keeping every relative
- The relationship calculator tells you exactly how any two people are related — "second cousin once removed" and more

BUILD IT TOGETHER
- Invite family through private iCloud sharing — no accounts, no public links, only the people you invite
- Everyone you invite can add relatives and fill in details, and changes sync to all of you
- Removing someone always comes back to you for approval, so nothing disappears without the owner's say-so
- Prefer to keep control? Invite someone view-only and they can still send you suggestions to approve or decline

BRING OLD PHOTOS BACK TO LIFE
- Restore and enhance faded family photos entirely on your iPhone — repair, de-yellow, sharpen, and brighten
- Nothing is ever uploaded; all processing happens on your device

KEEP YOUR RESEARCH PORTABLE
- Import standard GEDCOM files, including photos, so research you've already done comes with you
- Export to GEDCOM or a printable Family Book PDF, with the option to hide the details of people who are still living

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
- No account, no login, no ads, no tracking
- Your tree lives on your device and in your private iCloud

FOLKLORE PRO
Folklore is free, and a free tree holds up to 40 people. Folklore Pro removes that limit and unlocks:
- Inviting family to build the tree with you
- The Family Poster, the Radial chart, the fan chart, and the places map
- Photos of two people together
- On-device photo restoration
- Recorded voice stories, and adding relatives by speaking, from an obituary or a link to one, or by scanning a funeral program
- GEDCOM export and the printable Family Book PDF
- Birthday and anniversary reminders

Folklore Pro is available as a one-time Lifetime purchase, or as a monthly or yearly subscription. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://www.hellogoodday.com/privacy

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yearly | $9.99 | per year |
| Monthly | $2.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Folklore Pro | $19.99 | one-time |


## Is Folklore safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Folklore.

## Is Folklore legit?

Folklore: Family Tree appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Folklore is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0.3 — 2026-10-10

What's new in Folklore 1.0.3:
• Profiles, the poster, suggestions and the family checkup now fully translated
• Radial chart (Pro): one person in the middle, descendants in rings by birth year
• Photos of two people together (Pro): partners, parents and children, siblings and cousins
• Hold your iPhone upright and big family trees run top to bottom, plus a new family summary
• Family checkup finds impossible dates, loops and likely duplicates
• Mark facts Confirmed, Likely or a Guess, see source counts, and note searches that found nothing
• Merge duplicate people
• Hide living people's details when you export
• A short tour for each tree style
• Softer poster portraits, and photos no longer vanish when you zoom

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-23

Family Poster (Pro): turn your whole family tree into a beautiful poster, like the ones you see shared online. Pick a colour theme or your own colours, add a family quote, tap anyone to add their photo, then zoom, pan and share it.

Also new:
- A clearer family tree: generations line up properly, and each spouse's family stays on their own side
- Long names wrap instead of being cut off
- A cleaner people list with photos or initials for everyone
- Labelled fields on each person, with their details first
- A tidier Settings screen
- On iPad, the tree legend opens full size

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-22

Build your tree together.

Fixed: sharing your tree now works. A bug stopped invites from going through in 1.0 — family you invite now see your tree and their changes reach you.

Invite family through private iCloud sharing and everyone can add relatives and fill in details — changes sync to all of you. Removing someone always comes back to you for approval, so nothing disappears without your say-so. Prefer to keep control? Invite someone view-only and they can still send suggestions.

Also new:
- Add relatives by speaking out loud, or by pasting an obituary
- Set the focal point on any photo so faces stay centred on every card
- A places map for where people were born, lived, and died
- Fan chart view, plus a legend explaining what the lines and borders mean
- Place-name autocomplete when typing birth and death locations
- Faster photo restoration, and tips throughout the app on first run

### 1.0 — 2026-09-15

No release notes.

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