Find a Grave vs Wayback Machine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Find a Grave
Access the world's largest free online collection of burial information. Search millions of graves, add new memorials with photos and GPS, and find loved ones' resting places. Honor ancestors by creating memorials and sharing discoveries.
- Search 250+ million graves
- Add memorials and photos
- Record GPS locations
- Create ancestor memorials
- Share discoveries
- Manage user profiles
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The Find a Grave app is a great way to use and add to the world’s largest free online collection of burial information. Quickly search more than 265 million graves in half a million cemeteries around the world. Add a new memorial or a photo and GPS location to an existing memorial. Easily add information for multiple graves by photographing and then uploading them for future transcription. Find and visit a loved one’s final resting place anywhere, anytime. Request a headstone photo or snap one yourself and share it instantly. Honor your ancestors by creating memorials. All this and more with just a few taps. Features: + Access the largest online collection of burial info for free + Find cemeteries near you and locate grave sites of your loved ones through a simple search + Add headstones photo and GPS coordinates + Create memorials with bios and photos + Share discoveries through Facebook, emails, text messages + Manage your profile and see the profiles of others + Track your own memorials, photos, and virtual cemeteries
Wayback Machine
Preserve web pages and tweets for the future. Share content directly to the app to archive it, ensuring links remain accessible for decades. Easily share archived URLs across various platforms.
- Archive web pages
- Archive tweets
- Share content to archive
- Generate shareable URLs
- Long-term preservation
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Archive Web pages and Tweets to the Wayback Machine! To archive Web pages or Tweets simply "Share" them to this app. From Safari - select the "Share" icon at the bottom of the screen then select this "Wayback Machine" app. From the Twitter app - select the "v" icon at top-right of Tweets, select "Share Tweets via..." then select this "Wayback Machine" app. But first you must add this app to your iOS device's "Share" feature by selecting the Share icon (the up-pointing arrow at the bottom of Safari) then selecting the "..." (More) button and finally adding this app. After you have archived your web pages or Tweets you can confidently share their Wayback Machine URLs via Twitter, Facebook, Email, etc. knowing they will be there for decades to come. Please send bug reports, questions and suggestions to info@archive.org
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Find a Grave at 60% against Wayback Machine's 16%. Find a Grave also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.2) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Wayback Machine's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Find a Grave holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Find a Grave has 3.4K ratings behind it against 279, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Find a Grave's written reviews are positive against 16% of Wayback Machine's.
Find a Grave ships an update weekly, Wayback Machine every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Find a Grave | Wayback Machine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.4K ratings) — better | 2.2 (279 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.1% of reviews — better | 15.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.4K — better | 279 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ancestry.com | Internet Archive |
Customer experience
Find a Grave
Wayback Machine
User reviews
Find a Grave
From 3.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent app for family history research
- 🚀 Easy to use and navigate
- 🚀 Helpful for finding and visiting graves
- 🚀 Valuable resource for genealogy
- 🚀 Great for volunteering and contributing
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently
- 🐛 Inaccurate or incomplete information
- 🔒 Privacy concerns with strangers creating memorials
- 🔒 Difficult to manage memorials and correct errors
- 💡 Limited functionality compared to website
Wayback Machine
From 279 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and reliable archiving
- 📚 Vast collection of archived content
- 🔒 Secure and trustworthy platform
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🔍 Unintuitive and difficult to navigate
- 🔑 Login and account issues
- 💻 Poor mobile optimization
Bugs and requests
Find a Grave
Reported bugs
4 issues- Server errors and inability to load memorials
- Issues with uploading and editing photos
- Problems with signing in and accessing account features
- Inconsistent behavior across iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to message other users within the app
- Improve search functionality and allow for more flexible searches
- Integrate with Ancestry.com for seamless family tree integration
- Add option to set default location/cemetery preferences
- Improve GPS and mapping features to better locate graves
Wayback Machine
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login and account creation problems
- Archiving failures and errors
- Crashes and freezes when loading content
- Unresponsive UI elements
Requested features
4 requests- Add search functionality
- Improve back/close navigation
- Implement offline content access
- Integrate with other apps and browsers
In-app purchases
Find a Grave
No in-app purchases
Wayback Machine
No in-app purchases
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