Comparison

Treelume vs Kinlily

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

Head to head
About

Treelume

Features
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Treelume is a family tree that's a joy to build and easy to explore. Grow your family tree: add relatives with names, dates and photos, and mark marriages and parent–child links. The tree lays itself out neatly. • Cards with photos, names and life years • Tidy automatic layout in one tap • Invite relatives and build the tree together • Sign in with Apple, Google and more, with two-factor security and device passkeys • Web and iOS — your data stays in sync Start with yourself and, step by step, gather your whole family's story.

About

Kinlily

Preserve your family's legacy by recording stories, voices, and recipes. Build a family tree, create personal timelines, and use AI to answer questions about your ancestry. Share memories across generations in multiple languages.

Highlights
  • Record memories by speaking or typing
  • Build and expand family trees
  • Create personal life timelines
  • AI-powered family history questions
  • Digital voice creation for narration
  • Save and share family recipes
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Kinlily is where your family's voice is kept. Speak a memory and it is saved. Add the people it belongs to, and a family tree grows around your stories — with the recipes, the places and the voices that made you. RECORD YOUR LIFE, OUT LOUD Journal by voice or by typing. Talk for a minute on the way home and it is transcribed, dated and kept. BUILD YOUR FAMILY TREE Add parents, grandparents, children and cousins, with photos, dates and life stories. Invite relatives to join, and the tree grows from every side of the family at once. LIFE NOTES Give each person a dated timeline: the year they moved, the house they grew up in, the story only they can tell. Keep a note private, share it with one person, or open it to the whole family. ASK LILY Ask about your family in plain words — "how is Anita related to me?", "where did my grandparents live?" — and get answers drawn only from your own tree, with a small tree drawn right into the answer. HEAR IT IN THEIR VOICE With clear consent, create a voice from a short recording — your own, or a relative's who agrees. Then hear a story read aloud in the voices of the people in it, like a family radio play, with a soft music bed underneath. STORIES FROM YOUR MEMORIES Turn recent journal entries into a warm short story about your family, and listen to it narrated. FAMILY RECIPES Type a recipe, speak it, or photograph a handwritten card and let Kinlily read it. Credit the person who first made it and add it to your family's archive. YOUR VOICE THROUGH THE YEARS Record how you sound at every age, and play your life back as one continuous montage. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your journals, notes and recordings are encrypted and yours. Voice creation always sits behind an explicit consent step, and you decide, person by person, who may hear or use your voice. Kinlily speaks English, Spanish, German, Chinese, Hindi, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Korean and Japanese — so a grandparent can answer in their own language. Kinlily Premium unlocks unlimited stories, multi-voice narration and the full family archive.

Screenshots

Treelume3 screens
Kinlily4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Treelume at none against Kinlily's 2. Kinlily's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (18.2 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Kinlily sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Treelume asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Treelume ships an update every 2 weeks, Kinlily every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Treelume versus Kinlily: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTreelumeKinlily
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDmitry GolubnichiyNodeDa LLC

In-app purchases

None

Treelume

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Kinlily

Subscriptions2
  • Kinlily Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Kinlily Premium14 Days trial$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Treelume free?
Treelume is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kinlily free?
Kinlily is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Treelume or Kinlily have ads?
Neither Treelume nor Kinlily shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Treelume or Kinlily?
Treelume ships an update every 2 weeks, and Kinlily every 2 days. Most recently, Treelume was updated on October 25, 2026 and Kinlily on October 24, 2026.

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