Family Tree Builder Pro vs DigiChess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Family Tree Builder Pro
Bring your family history to life by adding photos and important milestones for each member. Easily create and print or download your family tree to share with loved ones. Discover your unique story and preserve memories for future generations.
- Add photos to profiles
- Fact summary with milestones
- Add relatives easily
- Customize appearance
- Download or share tree
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Bring your family story to life with photos & help preserve memories so they can be shared for generations to come. Create and print or easily download your Family Tree in no time. Begin your journey & Discover your story. Features: - Add photos - Get a fact summary for each member detailing the important date milestones including birth, marriage, siblings, grand children and great great grand children. - Easily add relatives to each member - Customize look and feel via the inbuilt color picker - Download or Share to the recipients of your choice
DigiChess
Instantly convert chess board images into interactive digital representations. An AI recognizes pieces, eliminating manual setup and saving preparation time. Export positions to analysis engines or popular chess platforms.
- Image to digital board conversion
- AI piece recognition
- FEN description generation
- Save and edit positions
- Export to Lichess/Chess.com
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DigiChess will let you instantly transform a picture taken of a 2D position into a dynamic representation on the screen. The trained AI will recognize all the pieces for you and accurately place them on the board, eliminating the need for any manual setup. Cut out all the preparation time and get straight to the material that follows a diagram! - Take a picture of the board and the position comes to life instantly - Makes use of an AI to quickly and accurately recognize all the pieces - Easily export the positions into analysis engines and studies through the FEN description generated by the AI - Save the positions for future reference - Make changes and corrections to the positions - tweak the playing perspective and piece types - One button export to Lichess or Chess.com analysis.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DigiChess at 100% against Family Tree Builder Pro's 12%. Family Tree Builder Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (12 vs 15.2). 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
Both are free to download. DigiChess sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Family Tree Builder Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Family Tree Builder Pro ships an update every 11 months, DigiChess every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on June 3, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Family Tree Builder Pro | DigiChess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 11.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12 — better | 15.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IWT SOFTWARE LABS LLC | Solnatrix Inc. |
Customer experience
Family Tree Builder Pro
DigiChess
In-app purchases
Family Tree Builder Pro
No in-app purchases
DigiChess
- DigiChess Premium No Advertisements$7.99
