Comparison

MedTime vs Heirloom Tree

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

Head to head
About

MedTime

Features
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Track and manage your medication schedules with ease. MedTime helps you stay on top of every dose with color-coded status indicators and timely reminders. Features: - Add medications with custom dosing schedules - One-tap dose logging with "Give Now" button - Log past doses you may have forgotten to record - Color-coded status: see at a glance what's overdue, due soon, or on schedule - Local notification reminders when medications are due - Add notes for dosage amounts or special instructions - All data stored locally on your device for complete privacy

About

Heirloom Tree

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Dedicated to the Lin family, and to every family — with wishes of health and peace. Heirloom Tree is a completely free family record app. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No ads. No accounts. Your family's story, written down well enough to pass on. Every family has a root system. This app is for the families who want to keep theirs. ■Why we built this The oldest storytellers in every family don't live forever. The names, the villages, the photos, the small details — if no one writes them down, they're gone. We made Heirloom Tree so every child can carry their family tree in their pocket: ancestors, origins, the generation poem, the faces of grandparents, where the family came from. This is our gift to the Lin family, and to every family. ■What it does ◆ Print your family tree as a PDF (lead feature) • One tap turns your whole tree into a print-ready PDF: genogram + generational register. • A4, A3, portrait or landscape. Pages split automatically — no one gets sliced in half. • Print it for Lunar New Year, bind it for the family altar, mail it to relatives overseas. A real family book, starting from you. ◆ Family tree (genogram) • Standard notation: square □ for male, circle ○ for female. Generations stack clearly, birth order left to right. • Parents, spouses, children — every relationship visible. The deceased belong on the tree too. • A double frame marks "me." From your own perspective, a concentric view shows how everyone relates to you. • Children who died young, pregnancies that didn't carry, relatives lost to time — they all keep a small place on the tree. Every life belongs to the family. ◆ Kinship calculator (Chinese-style cousin terms, plus English) • Type a path — "my dad's cousin's daughter" — and get the answer: second cousin. (The English cousin system is included; the full Chinese 親屬稱謂 grid is a Chinese heritage feature.) • Useful for figuring out what to call relatives at weddings, funerals, and family gatherings. ◆ Generation Poem (昭穆, Chinese heritage feature) • Enter your family's generational poem. The app tags each member with their generation and their generational character. • See a cousin's name and immediately know which generation they're from. • Overseas Chinese families who use the English interface still need this — it stays front and centre. ◆ Surname origins (first release: Lin 林) • Built-in reading content: the origin of 林 as a surname, the Xi He 西河 hall, Lin families in Fujian, Mazu (Lin Mo-niang) 媽祖, and migration from China to Taiwan. • More surnames (Chen, Huang, Zhang, Wang…) will be added in a future version. • For other locales, a short "What is a surname origin?" explainer is included alongside the Lin content. ◆ Remembrance dates (anniversaries of passing) • Local notifications for anniversaries of passing, Memorial Day-style commemorations. • Lunar calendar support for Chinese-heritage families — grandparents' dates will not be missed. ◆ Your data, fully yours • JSON backup and GEDCOM export — standard formats that work with other genealogy software. • No cloud lock-in. No account. No phone tether. ■Where it's going The current version is a quiet, complete, single-device family tree tool. A future version will add cloud sync and shared family editing. After that, relative matching to help you find long-lost branches of your family. But no matter which version ships next, free, no ads, your data is yours — these three things will never change. Dedicated to the Lin family, and to every family — with wishes of health and peace. Write down your roots. Pass the story on.

Screenshots

MedTime3 screens
Heirloom Tree4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: MedTime at daily against Heirloom Tree's every 3 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MedTime ships an update daily, Heirloom Tree every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
MedTime versus Heirloom Tree: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMedTimeHeirloom Tree
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDamian RickardPEICHEN LIN

In-app purchases

None

MedTime

No in-app purchases

None

Heirloom Tree

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MedTime free?
MedTime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Heirloom Tree free?
Heirloom Tree is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MedTime or Heirloom Tree have ads?
Neither MedTime nor Heirloom Tree shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MedTime or Heirloom Tree?
MedTime ships an update daily, and Heirloom Tree every 3 days. Most recently, MedTime was updated on October 31, 2026 and Heirloom Tree on October 31, 2026.

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