BillionGraves vs Find a Grave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BillionGraves
Document, honor, and preserve cemetery records worldwide. Contribute to a vast family history database by photographing headstones. Discover and share memories, find graves using GPS, and connect with others dedicated to preserving ancestral legacies.
- Document and preserve graves
- Search global cemetery database
- Upload headstone photos
- Discover family history
- GPS grave locator
- Request headstone photos
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BillionGraves helps you document, honor and preserve the graves of every person and family who has ever lived. With your help we can create the most comprehensive family history database of photos and records from all the world’s cemeteries. Join our quest with the BillionGraves app to shoot and share photos of headstones from your own cemetery visits—anywhere in the world. Find the headstones you’re looking for, and help us identify even more! Using BillionGraves is SIMPLE, REWARDING, and FUN: 1. Visit a cemetery (in your hometown, on vacation, on a break from business trips) 2. Use your smartphone camera to take and upload photos of all the headstones you can find 3. Tell friends and family about your experience, and build a network of like-minded folks around the world! Features: - Search the world’s largest collection of cemeteries, graves and their GPS locations for FREE - Discover photos, memories and stories about your family. - Add a local cemetery, right where you live or wherever you visit - Use our built-in maps to guide you to family headstones at any cemetery anywhere in the world - Request headstone photos anywhere in the world - Find cemeteries near you and user your smartphone camera to fulfill photo requests in seconds - Link multiple headstone photos - Save and share memorials with friends and family - Patent-pending technology - Many more genealogy resources available online at BillionGraves.com
Find a Grave
Access the world's largest free online collection of burial information. Search millions of graves, add new memorials with photos and GPS, and find loved ones' resting places. Honor ancestors by creating memorials and sharing discoveries.
- Search 250+ million graves
- Add memorials and photos
- Record GPS locations
- Create ancestor memorials
- Share discoveries
- Manage user profiles
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The Find a Grave app is a great way to use and add to the world’s largest free online collection of burial information. Quickly search more than 265 million graves in half a million cemeteries around the world. Add a new memorial or a photo and GPS location to an existing memorial. Easily add information for multiple graves by photographing and then uploading them for future transcription. Find and visit a loved one’s final resting place anywhere, anytime. Request a headstone photo or snap one yourself and share it instantly. Honor your ancestors by creating memorials. All this and more with just a few taps. Features: + Access the largest online collection of burial info for free + Find cemeteries near you and locate grave sites of your loved ones through a simple search + Add headstones photo and GPS coordinates + Create memorials with bios and photos + Share discoveries through Facebook, emails, text messages + Manage your profile and see the profiles of others + Track your own memorials, photos, and virtual cemeteries
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Find a Grave at weekly against BillionGraves's every 2 months. Find a Grave also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 43%). BillionGraves's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for BillionGraves against 4.6 for Find a Grave. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.4K and 3.4K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 43% of BillionGraves's written reviews are positive against 60% of Find a Grave's.
BillionGraves ships an update every 2 months, Find a Grave weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BillionGraves | Find a Grave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.4K ratings) | 4.6 (3.4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 60.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K | 3.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Otter Creek Holdings, LLC | Ancestry.com |
Customer experience
BillionGraves
Find a Grave
User reviews
BillionGraves
From 1.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Helpful for finding relatives' graves
- 🚀 GPS tracking works well
- 👍 Great for service projects
- 👍 Useful for travel
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Bugs with uploading and linking photos
- 👎 Confusing UI and navigation
- 🔋 Drains battery quickly
- 👎 Not user-friendly
Find a Grave
From 3.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent app for family history research
- 🚀 Easy to use and navigate
- 🚀 Helpful for finding and visiting graves
- 🚀 Valuable resource for genealogy
- 🚀 Great for volunteering and contributing
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently
- 🐛 Inaccurate or incomplete information
- 🔒 Privacy concerns with strangers creating memorials
- 🔒 Difficult to manage memorials and correct errors
- 💡 Limited functionality compared to website
Bugs and requests
BillionGraves
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes when trying to log in
- Search function not working properly
- Issues with uploading photos
- GPS data not accurately recorded for some photos
- Compatibility problems with older devices
Requested features
6 requests- Add ability to transcribe from mobile app
- Improve search functionality
- Allow uploading photos taken outside the app
- Add option to correct cemetery names and locations
- Optimize app for iPad/tablet devices
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- Implement better photo editing tools
Find a Grave
Reported bugs
4 issues- Server errors and inability to load memorials
- Issues with uploading and editing photos
- Problems with signing in and accessing account features
- Inconsistent behavior across iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to message other users within the app
- Improve search functionality and allow for more flexible searches
- Integrate with Ancestry.com for seamless family tree integration
- Add option to set default location/cemetery preferences
- Improve GPS and mapping features to better locate graves
In-app purchases
BillionGraves
No in-app purchases
Find a Grave
No in-app purchases
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