# TreeView — user reviews > 56 indexed App Store user reviews of TreeView by Genealogy Supplies (Jersey) Ltd, rated 2.00/5 from 4 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/treeview/id816156669/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/treeview/id816156669.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 0 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## Newest reviews (14 of 56) ### 2/5 — Awful *2024-08-29* Please get rid thanks ### 2/5 — Can’t add collaborators *2023-11-22, version 2.0.22* Two main problems: 1. You cannot share your trees with others from working the app. You have to login to the Genealogist website. This is not obvious. 2. When you invite collaborators to your tree, they can only view and comment suggestions. They cannot make edits themselves. Seems very pointless! ### 3/5 — Ok. *2023-08-11, version 2.0.22* This is the best family tree software I’ve found so far that I can use on my tablet. However, it’s not nearly as good as ones you can get for a PC. The process of adding more information to each individual is much more laborious than it needs to be. Also, I would really like to be able to choose to make some of the extra facts I enter visible in the main tree view. It will show the person’s name and date of birth and death, but I would like to select things like nickname to be shown. If there is a way to do that, I can’t find it. ### 2/5 — Images *2022-12-26* Wouldn’t upload images from my iPhone 11 ### 3/5 — Kind of basic but works great; could use some more features and a software refresh *2021-07-22, version 1.1.0* The apps works fairly well for the most part, but it’s a little basic and the software looks about 10 years old (even though the last update was only about 2 years ago) and could really use some a refresh and modernization to improve user-friendliness, speed (slightly laggy for today’s standards though not too bad), ease of navigation, and visuals. Additional suggestions (in no particular order): 1. Ability to view full tree and/or more generations at a time. I’ve read at least one other review asking for this. 2. Ability to add/show adoptive children and parent(s), and support for children of parents that were never married, and support for half-siblings. There’s a way to do half siblings if the parents were ever married, but it’s a bit complicated. You have to add the other parent as another spouse of the shared parent first, then add the half-sibling as a child of the non-shared parent. But it doesn’t work if they were never married. 3. I don’t like that middle names are abbreviated in the tree. There should be a setting to turn that off. 4. More fields for other names, like maiden/birth name(s), former name(s), names in other languages, etc. 5. Support for cultures that write their family names first. 6. Ability to denote sibling order without birth dates. I’m sure it is very common to only know sibling order for ancestors. 7. It’s a bit annoying that you can’t add a sibling without adding a parent first. Right now you just have to add a father or mother and just type unknown or something random before you can add siblings. 8. A checkbox for “name unknown”. Sometimes you have to skip a generation, or an ancestor is known to have sibling(s) but name(s) are. unknown. This would also be a workaround for #7, though it’d be easier if you could just directly add a sibling. 9. Ability to change date order preference, and add day of the week. 10. Ability to denote person is deceased without a death date. 11. Ability to invite others to edit. There might be a way actually as I see a setting for it but I can’t figure out how to invite. ### 3/5 — Moving siblings according to age *2020-11-19, version 1.1.0* Is there a way to move siblings around according to order of age. I am finding that when you enter a sibling that’s the order they stay in. It’s quite possible that you don’t have birth dates when you enter a name. I would like to see the list of siblings I order of their ages - oldest to youngest. ### 4/5 — Subscription? *2020-07-09, version 1.1.0* I have been finding this app really good, and I would rate it five stars but when i search and I look for “In Other Trees” It says I need a subscription to continue but there are no subscriptions availiable! ### 4/5 — Hope this works *2020-01-17, version 1.1.0* I have made many family tree game enime and if this doses not work I don’t now what will ### 4/5 — Great App and Free *2019-12-04, version 1.1.0* It worked for me! ### 2/5 — S**h *2019-01-02, version 1.0.0* Keeps crashing and I don’t like the sign in feature ### 3/5 — I like it but... *2018-06-01, version 1.0.0* It’s a great family tree app if you want something simple. I just wish you could change the orientation of how the tree sits. Also wish there was a way to view the entire tree. ### 1/5 — Disappointing :( *2017-09-24, version 1.0.0* After having to download twice every attempt to open the app has produced a 'fatal error' ### 1/5 — Confusing *2017-07-15, version 1.0.0* Very confusing. Could not enter middle names. When trying to enter father's death date, continued to get "fatal error" advisory. Gave up & deleted app. Surely there's a better app. ### 3/5 — Eh... it's okay but... *2017-07-11, version 1.0.0* This is the only family tree app that isn't really really really really really stupid! It's so confusing though! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Sign in FIRST *2025-08-16, version 2.0.22* Nope, deleting… ### 1/5 — 2 Issues Resulting Low Rating *2024-08-24, version 2.0.22* The app is good, it has both Ancestor & Pedigree Chart maps, and stores names neatly, unfortunately this app DOES NOT PROVIDE SHARING OR EXPORT OPTION on the IOS. fix that, you'll have the #1 Family Tree Creator App available in the AppStore/ or on IOS. There is no use of storing data or syncing data if that data is NOT AVAILABLE to be transferred externally. ### 1/5 — Bad design & marketing *2021-05-19, version 1.1.0* Two main problems: - price of app not indicated anywhere - Importing a GED file requires you do it at the developers web site. No privacy! ### 1/5 — Keeps coming up with fatal errors on both iPad App. *2021-03-14, version 1.1.0* Fatal Errors on start up and having actually managed to get going, I can’t delete a tree file. Again fatal errors. ### 1/5 — Tired of account-based apps *2019-06-19, version 1.1.0* Not sure why I need an account if I only want to use it for personal data. Deleted it. Found another app that let me use it without jumping through hoops. Really tired of nearly every app taking this approach. I don’t need to share ‘everything.’ ### 1/5 — Rubbish *2019-05-13, version 1.1.0* Totally useless. Keeps crashing and coming up stating fatal error, then when it finally works it just wants to sell me a complete app. 100% would not recommend or reuse. ### 1/5 — Not great *2019-04-04, version 1.1.0* Spent hours creating my family tree only to have the app crash! Had to delete app to get out of it. Haven’t reinstalled so unaware if data still accessible. ### 1/5 — Some siblings don’t have the same dad!!!!!!!!! *2019-03-06, version 1.1.0* This app will not allow you to assign different fathers to siblings!!!!! Apparently they expect every relationship to work out perfectly. They need to fix this cause it’s not a perfect world ### 1/5 — Pay to print *2019-03-02, version 1.1.0* Pointless, at least tell people they need to pay to print or email the tree! ### 1/5 — After registering I got spam mails. *2018-06-25, version 1.0.0* I know it's from them cause i chose a different name. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — It great but *2022-09-09, version 1.1.0* I love the app and but the problem is how can I download the family tree that I made to my photo image to my mobile other than that the app is great. ### 5/5 — Okay *2021-11-22, version 1.1.0* I’m using the app for my made up story. The only problem I have is the siblings is not in the right order. I don’t like it as birthday order. ### 5/5 — Great for the Novice *2018-04-07, version 1.0.0* I am fairly new to researching my family tree, and have found TreeView so easy to navigate, but has all the features of far more expensive packages, I am so impressed I decided to use this and The Genealogist instead of Ancestry online ### 5/5 — Simple & Very good *2017-04-25, version 1.0.0* Simple & Very good ### 5/5 — So far, very good! *2016-04-23, version 0.0.15* I've already spent a great deal of time entering five generations and I'm not nearly half done. So far I really like what I see. Organization is very good and people can be navigated and added in a fairly easy way. It certainly could be better, it has not been updated for the latest screens, I think, and there are a few small bugs here and there. Dates could be dates rather than an open text field. Using the coolest phone in the world, people could be tied to Facebook profiles and birth/death locations could be tied to a map, for instance. But it does much better than you will do after 30 attempts on a laaaaarge sheet of paper. I still need to add all the extended family, I have good info and everybody seems to have parents, children and siblings. So far I worked on my favorite branches as well as my own. The rest will follow. I wish they made the software more beautiful. Facebook sharing would be nice as well. The thing hasn't asked me for a cent yet, as the others mention in the reviews. Let's see... ### 5/5 — TreeView is Brill *2014-04-25, version 0.0.13* Like it loads, brilliant tech support. Can't wait for the latest features ### 5/5 — The best tree building app I've seen *2014-03-08, version 0.0.13* The way you don't need to be online is perfect for record offices and showing my relatives my research ### 5/5 — Great tree building app! *2014-03-05, version 0.0.13* Simple to use, clean interface. Works as a great add on to the website. ### 4/5 — Its okay *2026-04-27, version 2.0.22* The app is generally okay I’ve had it for about 2 weeks it does well however I don’t seem to be able to export it. It works pretty well but there are definitely improvements to be made like it can be a bit confusing. There aren’t really any videos online that are under 6years old. One of my main problems is that I cannot see the whole tree at the same time and I’m unable to export it which is annoying as id like to share it with family members. Overall it’s not the worst but it’s not terrible and there are no major problems. ### 4/5 — Useful to use *2023-06-17, version 2.0.22* Useful to use but would like to suggest it being possible to use the app without creating/logging into account first, the whole tree to be shown without having to click onto people individually, it being made easier to add people from different relationships such as half sibling and their other parent, it being easier to remove people from the tree, it being possible to add sibling before adding at least one parent first. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-11.*