Lunch Walk vs Heirloom Tree
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lunch Walk
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Lunch Walk is a walking photo diary. Step outside at lunch, take one photo of today's outside with the rear camera, and you're done. When you open the app, one question is waiting, like "What does the street smell like today?" Take a photo on your walk, tap one of the sense words drifting over it, and today's entry is complete. A one-line note is there only if you want it. No selfies There is no front camera and no photo library upload. Only one photo, taken right where you stand. This app is about turning your eyes outward. No pressure No calendar, no stats, no streaks. A day without a walk is not an empty box, it simply isn't there. Over time your photos line up into a timeline where the seasons quietly stack. Around noon, a memory returns If you like, a lunchtime notification brings back one photo from a past walk. Notifications stay on your device. Everything stays on this device No servers, no accounts. One permission only: the camera. We never ask for your photo library or your location, hidden metadata like GPS (EXIF) is removed when saving, and there are no analytics or ads inside. Free Everything is free to use. If you enjoy the app, you can send a handful of sunshine from Settings. How about a little walk today?
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Heirloom Tree at none against Lunch Walk's 2. Heirloom Tree also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). Lunch Walk's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Lunch Walk sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Heirloom Tree asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lunch Walk ships an update every 2 months, Heirloom Tree every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lunch Walk | Heirloom Tree |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | newmean.ai | PEICHEN LIN |
In-app purchases
Lunch Walk
- A handful of sunshine$1.99
- An armful of sunshine$5.99
Heirloom Tree
No in-app purchases









