GedView

Name: GedView
Price: 4.99 USD
Rating: 3.7 (29 reviews)
Author: David Knight

By: David Knight

Family Tree Viewer / Editor

Features & Capabilities

Family tree research is becoming an ever more popular past time. Normally all of your genealogy information is locked away on your computer at home which isn't much use when you are out and about researching local records, or visiting locations such as graveyards, ancestral homes, or family reunions.

This is where GedView comes in. Carry around your entire family tree on your iPhone, iPod, or iPad and have all the data about your ancestors and even current descendants at your fingertips.

You can quickly check up on family relationships, dates / locations of events, and record new information. Despite the name GedView is not just a viewing tool. This includes taking photos, or video anywhere and anytime you like without needing to worry about a potentially costly internet connection. If using an iPhone, or a cellular enabled iPad you can even record your current location to add to any event.

If your tree contains lots of images you can even use GedView as a slideshow, showing all the pictures related to a given event, person, source, family. You can also play back any home movies you have in your tree. Media support is not limited to photos/video. Support is also included for any other file type your iPhone, iPod, or iPad is capable of opening. This may be PDFs, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, mp3 files. If you have an app installed that supports a specific document type and have a document of that type in your tree you will be able to view it via GedView.

Do you have some separate branches in your tree that you haven't connected yet? GedView allows you to store multiple trees so you can easily switch to view distinct branches.

Unlike other apps no specific computer application is required, nor is a subscription to any website. Instead standard GEDCOM files can be imported, These can be encoded as ASCII, ANSI, ANSEL, UTF-8, or UTF-16 and can be added to GedView via WiFi, downloading from a website, via iTunes, or even opened from other apps such as Mail, Safari, Dropbox etc.

While GedView is targeted towards GEDCOM 5.5.1 it will read in any version, and will also support many custom extensions used by other genealogy applications, and because GEDCOM hasn't been added as an after thought imports are fast and efficient.

You can even export GEDCOM files for sharing with family members or other researchers, or to transfer new information to your main computer.

A sample family tree containing the British monarchy is included.

If you have any problems, or suggestions please get in touch via the support email address.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

David Knight

Rating:

3.70

(29)

Version:

4.3.10 Last updated: 2025-06-01

Version code:

875182253

Creation date:

2009-05-07

Compatible devices:

Size:

21.32MB

Price:

4.99

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-05

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Developed by:

David Knight

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gedview/id314845375

Website:

http://www.gedview.org/

User Reviews

GedView is a solid mobile GEDCOM viewer for iOS with offline access and strong import support, but it has notable navigational and editing limitations, potential data integrity concerns from its import process, no chart printing, and no automatic desktop sync.

Pros

Flexible GEDCOM import from multiple sources (e.g., Ancestral Quest, Ancestry) with easy viewing/editing on iPhone/iPad.
Works offline without requiring an internet connection or memberships, ideal for on-the-go genealogy.
Responsive developer support and regular updates.
Preserves photos, notes, and sources linked to records during import.
Efficiently handles large GEDCOM files and big data sets on mobile.

Cons

Cumbersome navigation with no back button; moving around is slow and searches must be re-run when jumping generations.
No tree view and editing is limited; pruning branches is tedious (requires deleting individuals/couples one by one).
GEDCOM-to-database conversion can drop data (e.g., middle names) and lacks logs to warn about ignored data.
No ability to print descendant or pedigree charts.
No automatic synchronization with desktop/Mac apps; manual import/export is required for sharing data.

Recent reviews

… but moving around is slow and cumbersome, and so is looking for individuals with common names. There is no going back to a previous screen - the complete search must be resubmitted if moving beyond two generations of the same family. Moving among families who used the same first names (such as my Holley who used James, John, Richard, and Sion) and seldom middle names can be a couple of screens depending on font. The good part is they are all there and the family connections were kept from the GED file, as were the sources and Notes from my Legacy file. That is a great help. For iPhones, this is a help.

by Bl*****, 2026-03-31

I have been wanting a way to view my genealogy info from my iPhone, but most apps are overkill or are for online services. GedView is exactly what I was looking for! I export GEDCom files from Ancestral Quest (with photos embedded) and open them in GedView and it works beautifully! I can also download GEDCom files from Ancestry.com and use them in GedView. Perfect for my needs!