Comparison

Simple Family Tree vs PivotDial

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

Head to head
About

Simple Family Tree

Organize your family history by creating and referencing detailed family trees. Easily add individuals, define their relationships, and view your lineage in both list and tree formats. Quickly search for any family member to understand their connections.

Highlights
  • Build family trees
  • Add people and relationships
  • View as list or tree
  • Search family members
  • Reference family history
Features
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Simple Family Tree allows you to build your family tree and reference it later. - Add people and assign relationships between them - See the family as a List or as a Tree - Easily search people to look up their relationships

About

PivotDial

Features
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PivotDial shows you the rotation angle of a centre irrigation pivot on satellite imagery, so you can set end gun, wiper and stop angles by the number instead of by eye. A pivot circle has no marks on it. When you need the end gun to come on at a certain spot, or the wiper to shut off before a yard, you are left pacing it off, guessing from a fence line, or running the machine around and watching the panel tick over. Even machines with GPS and an app of their own tell you where the pivot is right now, not the degree of the bin yard corner, the approach, or the tree row you want to skip. PivotDial gives you the degree of any point in the circle before you touch the panel. SET UP IN TWO STEPS - Drop a pin on the pivot center on the satellite map - Enter the pivot length from the center to the last tower The app draws the pivot circle with degree markings. That is the whole setup. No walking, no calibration, nothing to install on the machine. READ THE ANGLE TWO WAYS - Where you stand, using your phone's GPS - Anywhere on the map, by dragging a pin, without leaving the truck SAVE THE ANGLES YOU KEEP COMING BACK TO - End gun on and off angles - Wiper forward and reverse stop angles - Obstacles: rock piles, sloughs, approaches, tree rows - Stop-in-slot parking positions Bookmarks are unlimited and named, and show on the circle as numbered pins that match the list, so you can read a degree off the list while standing at the panel. ABOUT SIGNAL The angle math runs on your phone. Once a pivot is set up, your reading keeps working with no signal, because it uses your device's GPS locally. Satellite imagery needs a data connection to load. Without one you still get the angle, just not the picture underneath it. CHECK IT AGAINST YOUR PANEL Pivot panels are normally referenced to north. Compare one reading against your panel the first time you use the app. If they differ by a consistent amount, enter that number as a manual offset in advanced settings and the readings line up. WORKS WITH ANY BRAND Nothing to connect and nothing to install on the machine. No subscription, no account, no sign-up. Your pivot profiles and bookmarks stay on your phone. Questions or problems: support@pivotdial.com

Screenshots

Simple Family Tree4 screens
PivotDial4 screens

Verdict

The call

Simple Family Tree and PivotDial are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Simple Family Tree versus PivotDial: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Family TreePivotDial
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.1 (33 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews11.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings33 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.216.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTushar ChhabraNathan Rhodes

In-app purchases

None

Simple Family Tree

No in-app purchases

None

PivotDial

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Family Tree free?
Simple Family Tree is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PivotDial free?
PivotDial is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple Family Tree or PivotDial have ads?
Neither Simple Family Tree nor PivotDial shows ads.

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