Comparison

Paper vs Genogram Creator

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

Head to head
About

Paper

This app offers an immersive sketching experience with intuitive tools and gesture-based controls. Easily create collages, paintings, and drawings without distracting menus. Organize your creations into journals and sync them across devices.

Highlights
  • Intuitive sketching tools
  • Gesture-based controls
  • Photo collage creation
  • Layer-free editing
  • Journal organization
  • Cross-device syncing
Features
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Over 30 million people set their ideas free with Paper®, the award-winning immersive sketching app. SKETCH WITH CONFIDENCE Paper’s perfectly-tuned tools make it easy to sketch, collage, paint, draw—wherever your thoughts take you. Wave goodbye to distracting menus and let natural gestures guide you, keeping you in your creative flow. GET CREATIVE (WITHOUT THE MESS) Add multiple photos to a single page and cut, stick, move, and fix without the fuss of complex layers. From mood boards to storyboards, pull in inspiration from anywhere and get your ideas moving. YOUR IDEAS, YOUR WAY Wherever and however you get your ideas, it’s never been easier to put them on Paper. Organize pages into beautiful journals and sync them across your devices, ready to pick up where you left off. CREATE LIKE A PRO Take creativity to the next level and subscribe to Paper Pro for more tools, features, and journals. Subscription is optional and you can cancel anytime. To upgrade, simply visit the Paper Pro section in your Settings menu. * Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account once you confirm the purchase. * Your subscription will automatically renew at the end of your subscription period. To opt out, you must turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. * Manage changes to your subscription in the iTunes Account Settings. * Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited when you purchase a Paper Pro subscription. Love Paper? Leave us a review! Thanks to your comments, reviews, and tweets we can continue to evolve Paper with you in mind. Questions? Shoot us an email at support@wetransfer.com. Terms of Service: https://paper.bywetransfer.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://paper.bywetransfer.com/privacy Patents: https://paper.bywetransfer.com/legal/patents

About

Genogram Creator

Create detailed family trees with emotional and medical histories. This tool maps complex family structures and relationships across generations, ideal for therapists and genealogists.

Highlights
  • Map family structure across generations
  • Record emotional relationship types
  • Track medical and mental health history
  • Visualize cultural heritage and religion
  • Professional-grade visual canvas
  • Import GEDCOM and JSON files
  • Export to PDF, PNG, and SVG
Features
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Genogram Creator is a professional genogram tool for iPhone, iPad and Mac — a visual canvas for mapping a family across generations, with all the structural detail clinicians need and an editorial design that's pleasant to look at. PLANS AND PRICING Genogram Creator is free to download, and you can try it before you pay. The app shows what's included for free (a free plan or a free trial, depending on the current offer) and the exact price before any purchase. Paid plans are auto-renewing annual subscriptions: • Standard — $49.99/year: up to 20 genograms, full editor, all symbols, PDF/PNG/SVG export without a watermark, GEDCOM/JSON export, Family Report • Unlimited — $99.99/year: everything in Standard plus unlimited genograms, JSON/GEDCOM import, and premium templates A free trial, when offered, includes the plan you pick, which starts automatically when the trial ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel on iPhone or iPad in Settings > [your name] > Subscriptions; on Mac in the App Store app > [your name] > Account Settings > Subscriptions; or in the app under Settings > Manage or Cancel Subscription. A genogram is a family tree with feelings. Beyond names and dates, it captures emotional patterns, medical history, cultural heritage, religion, social class, and the relationships that hold (or strain) a family together. It's the standard tool used by family therapists, social workers, genealogists, and researchers. WHAT YOU CAN MAP • Family structure across generations — marriages, divorces, partnerships, parent-child, adoption, surrogacy, donor conception • 41 emotional relationship types — close, distant, conflict, cutoff, fused, hostile, caretaker, and more • Twins (fraternal and identical), step-families, blended families, multi-partner relationships • Medical conditions, mental health history, cause of death • Cultural heritage with 80+ pattern fills and country flags • Religion, social class, education level, sexual orientation • Custom notes, secrets, family groups, and free-floating annotations DESIGNED FOR PROFESSIONALS • Visual canvas with 60fps rendering and smooth pinch-to-zoom • 80+ person properties per node • Auto-arrange layout engine — drop in nodes and the canvas tidies itself • Two-finger pan, one-finger drag-to-pan, lasso select • 20-level undo/redo • Family group support — visualize entire households at once • Layered view modes — toggle religion, heritage, social class, medical, location independently IMPORT, EXPORT, AND SHARE • Import GEDCOM and JSON files (Unlimited plan) • Print-ready PDF (paper sizes, tiling, black and white), PNG and SVG export • Files.app integration — your genograms live alongside your other documents • Works offline: no account, no analytics, your genograms are never uploaded 48 TEMPLATES (Unlimited plan) • Family structures — three-generation, blended, single parent, same-sex with adoption, adoptive, foster care, grandparents raising grandchildren, chosen family, co-parenting • Clinical patterns — anxiety, depression, substance use, PTSD, bipolar, ADHD, enmeshment, cutoff, parentification, triangulation, grief, military deployment, elder care, genetic counseling • Cultural and community systems across six traditions • Historical families — Freud, Darwin-Wedgwood, Queen Victoria, Kennedy, Curie, Tubman and more PRIVACY-FIRST Your genograms stay on your device (or in your own iCloud Drive if you enable it) and are never uploaded to us. No analytics. No third-party SDKs. Tutorial videos stream from genogramcreator.com, and problem reports are sent only if you choose to send one. Your family is yours. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Plans, prices, free options and how to cancel are listed under PLANS AND PRICING above. Terms: https://genogramcreator.com/terms. Privacy: https://genogramcreator.com/privacy.

Screenshots

Paper4 screens
Genogram Creator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Paper at 4.6 against Genogram Creator's 4.0. Paper also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and ratings volume (73K vs 5). Genogram Creator's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, 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. Paper sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Genogram Creator sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $49.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Paper holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paper has 73K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 44% of Paper's written reviews are positive against 50% of Genogram Creator's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Paper ships an update every 2 months, Genogram Creator every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Paper versus Genogram Creator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaperGenogram Creator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (73K ratings) — better4.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews43.7% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings73K — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size168 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperEvernote CorporationC6 Labs LLC

Customer experience

Paper

All ratings72,370 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral4.7%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews1,025 reviews
Positive43.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative45.2%

Genogram Creator

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Paper

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Pages disappearing or getting corrupted
  • Unreliable cloud sync and data loss
  • Erratic scrolling and navigation issues
  • Inconsistent behavior of drawing tools
  • Compatibility problems with Apple Pencil

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add text editing and formatting options
  • Improve palm rejection and precision
  • Implement layers and advanced compositing
  • Allow more customization of journal pages
  • Bring back popular features from older versions
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  • Provide a one-time purchase option

Genogram Creator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

13 purchases

Paper

Subscriptions10
  • Paper Pro$4.997 Days
  • Paper Pro7 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Paper Pro$7.996 Months
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  • Paper Pro$9.997 Days
  • Paper Pro7 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • Paper Pro$11.991 Year
  • Paper Pro$69.991 Year
  • Paper Pro7 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • Paper Pro$99.991 Year
  • Paper Pro7 Days trial$99.991 Year
One-time3
  • Paper Credit$1.99
  • Paper Credit Bundle$7.99
  • Paper Credit Bundle$12.99
2 purchases

Genogram Creator

Subscriptions2
  • Standard Annual$49.991 Year
  • Unlimited Annual$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Paper free?
Paper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Genogram Creator free?
Genogram Creator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Paper or Genogram Creator?
Paper is rated higher. Paper averages 4.6 out of 5 from 73K ratings, while Genogram Creator averages 4.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Paper or Genogram Creator have ads?
Neither Paper nor Genogram Creator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Paper or Genogram Creator?
Paper ships an update every 2 months, and Genogram Creator every 9 days. Most recently, Paper was updated on November 1, 2026 and Genogram Creator on October 28, 2026.

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