Comparison

Family Tree Maker Connect vs Precinctly

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

Head to head
About

Family Tree Maker Connect

Access your Family Tree Maker genealogy data on your iPhone or iPad. View your own trees, explore shared family trees, and add sticky notes for relatives. Syncs with desktop software via cloud services.

Highlights
  • View Family Tree Maker trees on mobile
  • Access shared family trees
  • Add and send sticky notes
  • Navigate families and generations
  • View person information and notes
  • Explore famous trees
Features
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Family Tree Maker® Connect (FTM Connect) is a companion app to the FTM 2024 desktop genealogy software. It allows you to view your own up-to-date Family Tree Maker tree on an iPhone or an iPad, view trees your relatives have shared with you, place Relative Hint™ sticky notes on any person in a tree and send them to your relatives on the fly. Top Features: • Take the latest up-to-date copy of your Family Tree Maker tree with you anywhere! Powered by TreeVault® cloud services.* • Navigate easily through families and generations using the Family view (hourglass chart), or use the Index of Individuals — now with advanced options similar to those in Family Tree Maker version 2024. • NEW! View and comment on Family Tree Maker trees your relatives share with you.** Sharing is totally risk-free, as trees can’t be edited via FTM Connect. • NEW! Create a FREE TreeVault guest account directly from the FTM Connect login screen. • NEW! Send hints to your relatives with Relative Hint sticky notes. Through the magic of TreeVault, the notes you place in FTM Connect are added instantly to the Source tree in Family Tree Maker version 2024, landing right on that person, next to Ancestry and Family Search hints. Or, if it’s your own tree, add “notes to self" on the fly. • NEW! View and search through all your Sticky Notes in a handy browser, sorted by person. • View Person Info with facts and color coding information from the Family Tree Maker tree, plus relationships, person and research notes, and Web links. Go to any related person's info right from the Relations tab. • NEW! Identify yourself in a tree to see exactly how other people are related to you in Person Info views and Sticky Notes. • NEW! Explore the collection of Famous Trees. *Requires Family Tree Maker version 2024 desktop software, a TreeVault account, and an Antenna Tree™ uploaded to TreeVault cloud services. **Requires a FREE TreeVault guest account.

About

Precinctly

Explore detailed voting data for specific areas, from individual blocks to entire states. Discover partisan leanings, historical trends, demographic information, and income levels for any location. Includes widgets for real-time precinct information.

Highlights
  • View precinct profiles
  • Analyze partisan leanings
  • Track election trends
  • Explore demographic data
  • Access state-level summaries
  • Home and lock screen widgets
Features
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Precinctly is a map of how America votes, precinct by precinct. A precinct is the small area where votes are counted, often just a few city blocks. Open it and it finds the precinct you are standing in. Tap anywhere in a covered area to see another one: its latest presidential result, how it voted in earlier races where results exist, who lives there, and what people earn. What you can do: - Tap any precinct for its full card: partisan lean, presidential results over time, race and ethnicity, median household income, college degrees, age, housing and estimated turnout. - Tap any number on the card to see how it ranks against every other precinct in the state or county. - Open By the Numbers to see how a whole state or county spreads out, from lean and recent swings to income, education, age and density. Tap a bar to list its precincts, sorted highest or lowest first. - Search for any address or place in a covered area. - Share any precinct's card as an image. - Add a Home Screen or Lock Screen widget that shows the precinct you are in right now. Coverage today: California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Texas, and the DMV core, meaning Washington, DC, Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland, and Northern Virginia. 54,718 precincts in all. Every precinct is stored on your phone. There is no account, no ads and no analytics.

Screenshots

Family Tree Maker Connect4 screens
Precinctly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Precinctly at 5.0 against Family Tree Maker Connect's 3.3. Precinctly also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Family Tree Maker Connect's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Precinctly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Family Tree Maker Connect ships an update every 7 months, Precinctly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Family Tree Maker Connect versus Precinctly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFamily Tree Maker ConnectPrecinctly
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (7 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews19.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB159 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSoftware MacKievETHAN GAO

Customer experience

Family Tree Maker Connect

All ratings7 ratings
Positive57.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative42.9%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive19.5%
Neutral4.9%
Negative75.6%

Precinctly

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Family Tree Maker Connect

No in-app purchases

None

Precinctly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Family Tree Maker Connect free?
Family Tree Maker Connect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Precinctly free?
Precinctly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Family Tree Maker Connect or Precinctly?
Precinctly is rated higher. Family Tree Maker Connect averages 3.3 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Precinctly averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Family Tree Maker Connect or Precinctly have ads?
Neither Family Tree Maker Connect nor Precinctly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Family Tree Maker Connect or Precinctly?
Family Tree Maker Connect ships an update every 7 months, and Precinctly fortnightly. Most recently, Family Tree Maker Connect was updated on November 6, 2026 and Precinctly on October 31, 2026.

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