Silsilah: Family Tree
A private family tree

Your whole family,
kept close.

Build your family tree one relative at a time - with no account, no servers, and nothing that leaves your phone unless you send it. Scroll to see how it grows.

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Loved by families who keep their memories offline

Silsilah onboarding screen on iPhone
01 How Silsilah grows
Begin

It starts with you.

Create your profile - the single seed at the centre of everything that grows from here. No sign-up, no email, no password to forget.

Nickname Bio & work Hobbies
Gather

Add the people who made you.

Parents, children, a spouse, siblings and the relatives further out - a few taps each, and they are rooted beside you with the relationship spelled out.

Spouse Parents Children Siblings
Connect

Friends, colleagues & neighbours.

Not everyone who matters is a blood relative. Add the people around your family as their own kind of link, without tangling the bloodline.

Friends Colleagues Neighbours Acquaintances
Behold

The tree finds its shape.

Generations arrange themselves into a clean, balanced diagram. Gold rings mark marriages, soft lines trace descent - including separated parents.

Tidy layout Marriage rings Pinch to zoom
Clusters

Constellations of keluarga besar.

Switch to Family Clusters to see whole branches gathered around their founding ancestors, colour-coded by generation and named the way your family names them.

Generation colours Branch names Zoomable map
Share

Sent sealed, opened by code.

Export the tree as an encrypted .silsilah file locked with an 8-character code. Choose exactly who travels with it - family only, or every social tie too.

Encrypted file 8-character code Pick who is included
Keep

It never leaves your hands.

Everything lives on the device, encrypted, with no account and nothing to sync. Locked behind Face ID, a fingerprint or your passcode.

100% offline On-device encryption Biometric lock
Creating your own profile on iPhone Spouse, children and parents listed on an iPhone profile Choosing a relationship: relative, friend, colleague, neighbour or acquaintance The family tree diagram with marriage rings on iPhone Family clusters view grouped around founding ancestors Encrypted share sheet with an 8-character code and category filters Securing the family data behind Face ID

Same tree, same file - iPhone, iPad, Android and Mac.

Try it here

See the tree before you install.

The same white cards, gold marriage rings and gentle connectors you'll get in the app - right in your browser. This preview holds up to 10 people.

Press Tab to move between people, Enter or Space to open the add menu for the focused person.

4 / 10

You've reached 10 people - the preview limit. Download Silsilah: Family Tree to grow your whole family, add photos, and keep it private on your device.

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Build your own in the app Built right in your browser - nothing leaves this device.
Private by design

The safest place for your family is your own pocket.

No accounts to hack, no servers to breach, no data to sell. Silsilah works entirely offline.

Stored on device

No server of ours ever holds a copy of your family tree - names, relationships and photos all stay local.

Locked to you

Protected by Face ID, Touch ID, your fingerprint or your passcode - the app opens only for you.

No tracking ever

No analytics SDKs, no ad profiles, no account. What you build is for your eyes only.

Release history

What's already here.

Work that has already shipped - on your device, with no account. What we're building next lives just below.

How are we related? Choose two people to see a relationship explanation and the path through your family tree. When a connection is inferred, the app can explain its assumptions.

1.9.131 Oct 2026

Connect an imported relative to another person in your family tree.

Import connections

On iPhone & iPad

  • Connect an imported relative to any other person in the tree using a searchable picker.
1.9.028 Oct 2026

Discover how two people are related and follow their connection through the tree.

KinshipHighlighted pathFamily Clusters
  • Choose two people to explore their relationship and see the path between them.
  • Family Clusters improvements make branches easier to explore.

On iPhone & iPad

  • Use the kinship relation flow to explore how relatives are connected.
1.8.0 22 Oct 2026

Never miss a family birthday or anniversary with Milestone Reminders - on-device local notifications, upcoming milestone candidate picker, calendar sync, and unified settings management.

Milestone Reminders Candidate picker Local notifications Calendar sync
  • Milestone Reminders: turn any life milestone - birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and memorial dates - into recurring reminders directly from a relative's profile.
  • Candidate milestone picker: quickly browse and schedule upcoming family birthdays and anniversaries from a unified picker sheet.
  • Perspective-aware marriage titles: anniversary reminders put the profile owner first for intuitive, context-aware milestone alerts.
  • Flexible lead times: schedule alerts on the exact day (D-Day) or with advance lead times (such as D-1, D-3, or custom days ahead).
  • Dedicated Milestone Reminders management in Settings: view all active reminders in one place with relative timing tags (D-Day/D-N), quick toggles, and swipe-to-delete.
  • Calendar sync: add milestones to your device calendar.
  • Automatic reboot and timezone reconciliation: scheduled notifications survive device restarts and adjust when changing timezones so milestones never drift.
  • 100% offline and private: reminders are stored in local JSON on your device with zero cloud tracking, zero accounts, and no network requests.

On iPhone & iPad

  • Local notifications scheduled via UserNotifications framework with interactive actions.
  • Candidate milestone picker sheet to select birthdays and anniversaries across the family tree with one tap.
  • Perspective-aware couple titles in reminder alerts and notification previews.
  • Write-only EventKit calendar access creates a dedicated "Silsilah Milestones" calendar without requesting full read permission.
  • Background reconciliation keeps scheduled notification triggers aligned across system timezone changes.
1.7.0 26 Sep 2026

Share one relative's profile as a Contact Card (.vcf) or a Life Journey card (.png) - both free and unlimited.

Profile share Contact Card Life Journey card
  • Profile Share Chooser on each relative's profile: Contact Card (.vcf), Life Journey Card (.png), and Family Tree.
  • Contact Card export as a standard vCard, with an interactive field picker and an optional profile photo optimized for messaging apps.
  • Life Journey Card export - a high-resolution visual card summarizing selected milestones and timeline events.
  • Contact Card and Life Journey shares are completely free and bypass the daily share quota; only whole Family Tree exports remain gated.

On iPhone & iPad

  • Native share bottom sheet from the profile header.
  • Contact field picker and life-journey milestone picker before sharing.
  • Profile photo embedded in the shared vCard so it survives messaging apps.
1.6.0 8 Sep 2026

A Life Journey timeline on every profile, with milestones filled in from what you already know, your own custom events, marriages that appear on both spouses' timelines, and a Deceased badge.

Life Journey Personal timeline Custom events Deceased badge
  • Life Journey timeline in the About section of each profile, laid out in order with year and age markers and category and place chips.
  • Milestones filled in from the profile: birth, graduations, career milestones, marriages, child births, and death.
  • Custom life events across 14 categories (achievement, award, graduation, career, retirement, marriage, relationship, residence, travel, military, religious, anniversary, milestone, other) with flexible date precisions.
  • Save or edit a marriage and it appears on the spouse's timeline too.
  • Life events carry over intact in encrypted .silsilah shares, JSON backups, and GEDCOM 5.5.1 / 7.0.
  • GEDCOM export now counts toward the free daily share, the same as sharing a tree; Unlimited Share removes the limit.

On iPhone & iPad

  • Native timeline view with swipe-to-delete custom events.
  • Type @ in an event title to mention a relative.
  • Deceased badge on the profile header - tap it to see the date of death.
  • Deceased toggle on person editor.
1.5.0 2 Sep 2026

GEDCOM import and export on the device, death dates, directory tag filters, and a device-unlock check before export.

GEDCOM Death date Directory tags
  • Import and export GEDCOM 5.5.1 and 7.0 entirely on the device.
  • Record a death date on a person.
  • Tap occupation, workplace, or education to filter the directory by tag - school or major.
  • Face ID, Touch ID, or device unlock is required before a GEDCOM export, even if App Lock is off.

On iPhone & iPad

  • Encoding sniffing for UTF-8, UTF-16, ANSEL, Windows-1252, and ISO-8859-1.
  • Interactive import preview with duplicate resolution.
  • Free-tier import stops at 30 people, so a larger file cannot partially corrupt the tree.
  • File-size and line guards on import.
  • Import and export from Settings.
1.4.0 23 Aug 2026

Encrypted .silsilah archives, nearby device-to-device transfer, and Unlimited Share.

Encrypted archive Nearby share Unlimited Share
  • Encrypted .silsilah archives (AES-GCM) locked with an 8-character share code.
  • Custom selection across five categories - family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, acquaintances - or the full tree.
  • Import consent and preview with a union merge.
  • Connect unlinked people, and plan how an imported branch joins the tree.
  • Nearby device-to-device transfer.
  • Unlimited Share in-app purchase.

On iPhone & iPad

  • Nearby discovery over Bonjour and Bluetooth.
1.3.0 31 Jul 2026

Multiple spouses, social connections, Family Clusters, and a free tier of 30 people.

Multiple spouses Social Clusters Free tier 30
  • Multiple spouses, with marriage status (married, separated, divorced, widowed) and a layout for separated parents.
  • Social connections: friend, colleague, neighbour, acquaintance.
  • Family Clusters view.
  • Nickname, occupation, workplace, hobbies, and education, shown as tag pills.
  • Free tier is 30 people.

On iPhone & iPad

  • Social contacts as satellites on the tree.
  • Avatar-stack row on person detail.
  • Animated morph between the tidy tree and clusters.
1.2.0 19 Jul 2026

Multiple phone numbers and email addresses, education and social profiles, tap-to-copy with a toast banner, and contact action sheets.

Multiple contacts Education Action sheets
  • Multiple phone numbers, email addresses, education entries, and social profiles per person.
  • Tap-to-copy phone numbers and emails with an in-app toast banner.
  • Contact action sheets for quick calls, messaging, and copying.
  • Family info display polish and layout refinements.
1.1.0 5 Jul 2026

Photo crop, similar-photo face matching, 10-person preview limit with Remove Limit purchase, and initials fallback avatar.

Photo crop Similar photos In-app purchase
  • Interactive square photo crop with drag, zoom, and preset repositioning.
  • Similar photos detection with Vision framework face matching to suggest photos for relatives.
  • 10-person preview tier with one-time Remove Limit in-app purchase to unlock unlimited family members.
  • Initials placeholder avatar with camera badge button for fast photo assignment.
  • Native custom alert sheets for destructive actions and limit warnings.
  • Initial universal build target supporting macOS via Mac Catalyst.
On the workbench

What we're building next.

Silsilah grows the way a family does - a little at a time. Here is what the current sprint holds and what follows it. Every one of these keeps the same promise: it happens on your device, with no account and no upload. Shipped releases live above.

  1. Next up

    Local AI on the device

    Help that stays in your pocket - Apple Intelligence on iPhone and Mac, Gemini Nano on Android. Suggest how two people connect, fill a missing date, or draft a milestone. The tree never leaves the phone to talk to a model in the cloud.

    Apple Intelligence Gemini Nano On-device only
  2. In design

    Watch a face grow up

    A photo strip on each profile with a slot for every stage of a life, waiting to be filled - the baby picture, the school years, the wedding, last Eid. Empty placeholders show you the gaps worth asking the family for.

    Growth strip Photo placeholders On-device only

No dates promised - we ship a thing when it is genuinely good. Something missing from this list? Tell us what your family needs.

Start your family tree today.

Free to download. Everything stays on your phone, right where it belongs.

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