Family Tree Maker Connect vs Precinctly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- View precinct profiles
- Analyze partisan leanings
- Track election trends
- Explore demographic data
- Access state-level summaries
- Home and lock screen widgets
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Family Tree Maker Connect | Precinctly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 159 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Software MacKiev | ETHAN GAO |
Customer experience
Family Tree Maker Connect
Precinctly
In-app purchases
Family Tree Maker Connect
No in-app purchases
Precinctly
No in-app purchases






