Comparison

Flinker vs Family Tree & DNA Heritage

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

Head to head
About

Flinker

Collaboratively build and explore your family tree with relatives. Add rich profiles, receive birthday reminders, and gain insights into your family's history and connections. Designed for ease of use and privacy.

Highlights
  • Collaborative family tree building
  • Rich relative profiles
  • Automatic birthday reminders
  • Interactive tree exploration
  • Private family spaces
  • Family insights and statistics
Features
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Flinker is the modern way to build your family tree — together. Most family history apps feel like research software. Flinker feels like a family app. Invite your relatives, build your tree as a team, and stay connected around the people who matter most. BUILD A TREE THAT'S TRULY YOURS • Add relatives with rich profiles: birthdays, photos, careers, education, languages spoken, hobbies, and the places they've lived. • Explore a beautiful, interactive tree you can pan and zoom. • Built for real families, including complex branches. INVITE YOUR WHOLE FAMILY • Share a private family space with a simple invite link. • Everyone contributes what they know, so your tree grows faster and stays accurate. • Owner, contributor, and viewer roles keep everything organized. NEVER MISS A BIRTHDAY • Automatic birthday reminders, delivered in your own time zone. • See who's celebrating next and plan ahead. DISCOVER YOUR FAMILY IN NUMBERS • Insightful statistics about your tree: members, generations, weddings, and more. • Birthday heatmaps, top locations, hobbies, and languages across your family. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your family data lives in your private family space. • You decide who to invite and what they can do. AVAILABLE IN YOUR LANGUAGE Flinker is translated into many languages and adapts to your device, including right-to-left layouts. Start your tree today and bring your whole family together in one place.

About

Family Tree & DNA Heritage

Explore your family's origins with a personalized family tree, surname meanings, and heritage selfie. Discover your DNA lineage and search historical records to uncover your roots. Share your findings and back up your tree across devices.

Highlights
  • Build and manage family trees
  • Explore surname origins and meanings
  • Heritage selfie for visual resemblance
  • Upload raw DNA files for lineage analysis
  • Search historical archives
  • Birthday reminders and first name meanings
  • Printable tree posters and GEDCOM export
Features
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Family Tree & DNA Heritage helps you find where your family comes from, from the meaning of your surnames to a family tree that keeps your story in one place. Start with a selfie or your last name, build your tree, and follow your paternal and maternal lines. YOUR SURNAME ORIGINS • Type your last name and see where it comes from and what it means, on a map • Thousands of surnames from the US and around the world • Well-known people who share your surname, with a short history from Wikipedia • How common your surname is in the US (2010 Census) HERITAGE SELFIE • A guided selfie: the oval tells you when the light and angle are right, then takes the photo • See which regions of the world your features resemble, with percentages on a map • Just for fun: this is a visual resemblance, not a DNA or ethnicity test. Your photo is analyzed on your iPhone and is never uploaded • Family selfie: up to 4 people on one shared map of origins YOUR FAMILY TREE • Add every generation, from your parents to your great-grandparents, plus in-laws and godparents • Photos, birth details and memories for each person • Add relatives straight from your contacts • Birthday reminders and the meaning of first names • Find out how any two people are related • A timeline for every person, with birth and death places on a map • Family statistics, such as your oldest known ancestor and the most common origin TODAY IN YOUR FAMILY • A Home Screen widget with upcoming birthdays and anniversaries from your tree • Every Sunday, a question about one of your elders helps you write down their memories YOUR FAMILY REGION • Where your ancestors came from, based on the birthplaces in your tree and weighted by generation • Only know the countries? Enter where your parents and grandparents were born; names are optional YOUR DNA LINEAGE • Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage or FamilyTreeDNA • Your paternal (Y) and maternal (mitochondrial) haplogroups and where each line began • An estimate of your origins by continent • Processed on your iPhone and never uploaded ARCHIVE HINTS • The app searches the US National Archives for the people in your tree and lets you know when a record might be theirs • Open it, check the details and add it to the right person with one tap • Matching happens on your iPhone; your tree is never uploaded HISTORICAL RECORDS • Search archives by last name: the United States (National Archives: immigration and military records), Europe (Europeana), the United Kingdom (The National Archives) and Australia (Trove: family notices and photos) • Save what you find to the right person in your tree SHARE, EXPORT AND BACK UP • Cards and videos of your results for Instagram stories and other apps • A printable poster of your tree (PDF or image) and GEDCOM export • Sign in with Apple to back up and sync your tree across your devices • Face ID or Touch ID lock. No ads • Works on iPhone and iPad Premium unlocks your full visual resemblance, your surname origins with exact region and history, Your Family Region, your DNA lineage, the family selfie, an unlimited tree, archive hints, cloud sync and export. Available as a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://rsndijital.com/link/arbol-familiar/privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

Flinker4 screens
Family Tree & DNA Heritage4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flinker at none against Family Tree & DNA Heritage's 3. Flinker also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Family Tree & DNA Heritage sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Flinker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Flinker against 5.0 for Family Tree & DNA Heritage. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flinker ships an update every 4 days, Family Tree & DNA Heritage every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Flinker versus Family Tree & DNA Heritage: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlinkerFamily Tree & DNA Heritage
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMOHAMED MAHFOUDAdem Uresin

Customer experience

Flinker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Family Tree & DNA Heritage

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Flinker

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Family Tree & DNA Heritage

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Premium$6.997 Days
  • Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$49.99

Questions

Is Flinker free?
Flinker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Family Tree & DNA Heritage free?
Family Tree & DNA Heritage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Flinker or Family Tree & DNA Heritage?
Flinker and Family Tree & DNA Heritage are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Flinker or Family Tree & DNA Heritage have ads?
Neither Flinker nor Family Tree & DNA Heritage shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flinker or Family Tree & DNA Heritage?
Flinker ships an update every 4 days, and Family Tree & DNA Heritage every 3 weeks. Most recently, Flinker was updated on October 30, 2026 and Family Tree & DNA Heritage on October 25, 2026.

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