Comparison

Flinker vs Family Tree

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, track birthdays, and discover family insights. This app offers a private, interactive space to connect with your family history.

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

Features
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Every family is a graph. Draw yours. Family Tree lets you build your family the way you would sketch it on the back of an envelope: a card for each person, a line for each relationship. Generations line up by birth year, so grandparents sit at the top and grandchildren at the bottom, and you never wonder who came first. • Four kinds of family - blood, marriage, godparents and the neighbour everyone calls uncle each get their own line. A marriage is the heaviest stroke on the page, "lives with" the faintest. • How are we related? - search a name at a wedding or a funeral and see the path between you and them, like "your mother's cousin". • Upcoming dates - birthdays and remembrance days in one list, with an optional reminder the day before. Round birthdays are called out ("Grandma turns 90"). • Add them on the spot - take a photo, type a name and birth date, link them to someone already in the tree. • Filters - hide a relationship type, narrow to an age range, show only one side of the family. • Calendar export - turn the visible part of your tree into an .ics file for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. • Private by default - no public trees, no search across families, no ads. Invite relatives by email to view a tree; they can look but not change anything, and you can revoke access at any time. • Works with the web - the same trees at family-tree.cyber-man.pl, in English and Polish, in light and dark mode. Delete your account and all your trees at any time in Settings.

Screenshots

Flinker4 screens
Family Tree4 screens

Verdict

The call

Flinker and Family Tree 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
Flinker versus Family Tree: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlinkerFamily Tree
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB48 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMOHAMED MAHFOUDTomasz Dbrowski

In-app purchases

None

Flinker

No in-app purchases

None

Family Tree

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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