# FamilySearch Memories

> Reference

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id885970971](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id885970971)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id885970971`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** FamilySearch International
- **Category:** Reference
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (19,257 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.4.2
- **Last updated:** 2025-07-01
- **First published:** 2014-07-15
- **Size:** 77 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/familysearch-memories/id885970971)
- **Website:** [https://familysearch.org/photos/](https://familysearch.org/photos/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://familysearch.org/privacy/](https://familysearch.org/privacy/)

## Description

FamilySearch Memories is a Chrome extension that helps you collect, preserve, and share family memories wherever you are. Snap photos of moments like recitals, graduations, reunions, and memorials, and attach them to your Family Tree along with documents, recordings, and stories.

Interview relatives to record details and memories, identify relatives in photos and recordings, and automatically attach memories to the tree. All memories are stored in the FamilySearch vaults, free forever.

## Rankings

- #11,828 — Overall
- #72 — family

## Review summary

Users praise FamilySearch Memories for ease of use, mobile capture, and strong integration with FamilySearch Tree, making it a strong tool for preserving and organizing family memories. However, recurring issues include sign-in and password reset problems, memory-to-person linking failures, sync/upload limitations between app and website, editing/viewer navigation bugs, and performance slowdowns as the library grows. Addressing login reliability, memory association, stability across platforms, and UI responsiveness would improve the experience while preserving its core strengths.

### Pros

- Easy to use and user-friendly.
- Mobile-friendly; capture photos and upload from anywhere.
- Strong integration with FamilySearch Tree.
- Great for preserving memories and organizing media.
- Flexible for creating projects or books from memories.

### Cons

- Sign-in/login issues and password reset problems.
- Memories disappearing or not linking to the correct person (identity/association issues).
- Sync issues between the app and website, plus file upload limitations.
- Editing/viewer navigation bugs; cancel/back button not functioning; cannot exit to the gallery.
- Performance slowdowns with large memory libraries and cross-user deletion constraints.

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