Comparison

CircleIt vs Treelore

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CircleIt

Send messages, cards, and gifts to loved ones in the future. Preserve family memories and build a digital time capsule for generations to come. Connect privately with end-to-end encrypted chat and schedule future deliveries.

Highlights
  • Send future messages and cards
  • Schedule future deliveries
  • End-to-end encrypted chat
  • Build family tree
  • Digital time capsule for memories
  • Guest mode for sending/receiving
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Just imagine if you could send a message to anyone in the future. Would you congratulate your grandchild on their wedding? Would you send your son or daughter advice on looking for jobs or raising their own children? Would you remind your spouse how much you love them, even after you’re gone? This is the magic of CircleIt, the world’s first generational platform. With CircleIt, you can: - Guest Mode: Experience the delight of sending and receiving digital cards and gifts with your friends and family without the need to create an account. Plus, you can use our future - delivery feature to send your card to any future date. - Create & send digital greeting cards for your family and friends, personalize them with attached media, and schedule them to be delivered to any future date. - Chat privately with loved ones on our end-to-end encrypted network. Schedule messages to arrive on any future date or time. So whether you need to wish your child good luck on a final exam, or remind your spouse you love them 20 years from now, you can do it with CircleIt. - Build and nurture your family tree, with information that will be discovered by future generations. Instead of keeping documents and photos in a box in the basement, you can store these precious memories in a secure digital time capsule for your family to cherish and enjoy. The CircleIt app is 100% free to use. We’ve been referred to as “Hallmark for the 21st century” by press and media outlets, and our 4 million+ happy members around the world are happily sharing memories with their families and friends. CircleIt is the perfect app for families. Parents can use it to store memories for their children. Grandparents can send gifts for important milestones in the lives of their grandkids. Terminally ill individuals can leave messages for those that they love to receive in the future. Police, firefighters and military personnel can have peace of mind knowing their families have mementos of their love. Children can create Mother’s Day cards and even send tulips, flowers, carnations, and other flowers to their mom or grandmother in advance. Download & install CircleIt today, and start preserving your legacy and sending cards & gifts to the future.

About

Treelore

Features
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Treelore needs a GEDCOM (.ged) file to use — the standard family-tree file you export from Ancestry, MyHeritage, RootsMagic, Gramps, or almost any genealogy software. Treelore does not build a tree from scratch and does not log into your genealogy account. It takes the tree you already have and turns it into two things: 1. A family wiki in your pocket. Every person becomes a page; every relationship is a tap away — wander your family the way you wander Wikipedia, with search, ancestor and descendant charts, and no dead ends. 2. A designed, print-ready book. Export a beautiful PDF family history at any scope — one person, a family, a branch, or your whole tree — with real typography, a title page, running headers, and an alphabetical index. Save it to Files, send it to any print shop, or AirPrint it. Built to respect your family's privacy. Your tree is imported and stays on your device unless you turn on the optional AI biographies. Treelore has no ads, no trackers, no account, and never logs into any service. Living relatives' details are automatically protected in anything you export. ALSO INCLUDES - "Fact-check my tree" flags date contradictions and research gaps — read-only; it never changes your data. - A free sample family tree so you can try everything before importing your own. - iPhone and iPad, fully localized in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch. Don't have a GEDCOM file yet? In your genealogy app or website, look for "Export" then "GEDCOM (.ged)". Or tap "Try a sample family tree" in Treelore to see how it all works first. AI BIOGRAPHIES SUBSCRIPTION AI Biographies is an optional auto-renewing yearly subscription that lets Treelore write a short life story for each person in your book, grounded only in the facts already in your tree. Your one-time Treelore Pro book exports are unaffected. - Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. - The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. - Manage or cancel anytime in your Account Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://djenterprises.ai/treelore-privacy

Screenshots

CircleIt4 screens
Treelore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CircleIt at none against Treelore's 2. CircleIt also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Treelore sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. CircleIt asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CircleIt ships an update every 10 days, Treelore every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
CircleIt versus Treelore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCircleItTreelore
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (326 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings326 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCircleIt IncDaniel Ehrlich

Bugs and requests

CircleIt

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Compatibility issues with older devices
  • Unreliable payroll and financial issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • Expand gifting and delivery options
  • Add more customization for cards and messages
  • Improve notification system
  • Integrate with other communication channels

Treelore

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

CircleIt

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Treelore

Subscriptions1
  • AI Biographies$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Treelore Pro$49.99

Questions

Is CircleIt free?
CircleIt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Treelore free?
Treelore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CircleIt or Treelore have ads?
Neither CircleIt nor Treelore shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CircleIt or Treelore?
CircleIt ships an update every 10 days, and Treelore every 2 weeks. Most recently, CircleIt was updated on November 2, 2026 and Treelore on October 31, 2026.

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