Lindencroft: Family Tree

Lindencroft is a private family tree app for the genealogy you keep on your own phone. Record the people you know, see how everyone connects in clear charts, and take a readable copy with you, without an account and without the app ever going online.

START WITH WHAT YOU KNOW
• A name is enough to begin. Dates, places and a second parent can wait, and an unknown parent stays honestly unknown.
• Add parents, partners and children in a few taps. Several marriages or partnerships, divorce, annulment, adoption, step and foster families are recorded with neutral wording, and same-sex couples are supported.
• Keep several family trees side by side and switch between them.
• Every change is saved on this device at once. A deleted person or tree can be brought back with Undo.

CHARTS YOU CAN READ
• Hourglass view: ancestors above, descendants below, partners beside the person in focus.
• Pedigree chart, descendant chart and a fan chart of up to seven generations.
• Tap anyone to bring them into focus, and add more or fewer generations.

PERSON AND FAMILY CARDS
• Each person card shows life events with dates and places as recorded, plus parents, partners, children and siblings.
• Every parent link has a type: birth, adoptive, foster, guardianship or not recorded, always shown as text; step relations are worked out from partnerships and dates.
• Dates can be exact, approximate, before, after, between, or a phrase kept as written.
• Family cards show each partnership with marriage, divorce or annulment.
• Search people by name, other names, similar spelling or sound, and by year.

HOW ARE WE RELATED?
Choose two people and Lindencroft traces the actual path between them, step by step, and names the relationship in plain words: second cousin once removed, great-aunt, half-brother, brother-in-law. Kinship terms follow the rules of each of the 16 app languages, each result explains the path it is based on, and when two people are related in more than one way, every relationship is listed.

GEDCOM IMPORT AND EXPORT
Open GEDCOM 5.5.1 and 7.0 files and GEDZIP archives exported from most genealogy programs. A summary shows what was found before anything is added, possible duplicates are listed for you to review, and the import can be undone. Export to GEDCOM 5.5.1 or 7.0 when you want to move your family history to a computer.

PRIVACY FOR LIVING RELATIVES
Before a GEDCOM file, print or image leaves the app, a privacy screen asks how living people should appear: name only (preselected), hidden as "Private", full details, or left out. Records marked private, sensitive details and full details of minors stay out unless you include them on purpose.

PRINT AND KEEP
• Family tree posters as vector PDF, on one page or at real size across several A4, Letter or A3 sheets, with larger paper up to A0.
• A family book PDF with a page for each person and an index, PNG chart images, and printing straight from the app.
• Back up everything to one file in a place you choose, and restore it later.

YOURS, ON THIS PHONE
• Lindencroft has no internet access. Your family history stays on this device unless you export it.
• No sign-up and nothing to log into.
• Dates and paper sizes follow your region, and each format can be changed separately in Settings.
• 16 languages, including right-to-left Arabic.

Lindencroft is a personal family archive: what it shows is what you record. It does not look anything up online and does not verify relationships.

Free. No ads, no tracking, no account.