# Silsilah: Family Tree

> Silsilah: Family Tree is a private, offline-first family tree application for iOS, macOS, and Android. Your whole family tree stays on your device with no accounts, no cloud servers, and no tracking.

Silsilah helps you build an interactive family tree, attach photos, compare family resemblances via on-device machine vision, and safeguard your genealogy. It requires no login and operates without any backend server.

## Overview & Features

- [Silsilah Homepage](https://silsilah-familytree.com/): Official website featuring product highlights, interactive in-browser tree builder preview, shipped release history, and direct download links.
- [Support & FAQ](https://silsilah-familytree.com/support.html): Frequently asked questions covering local storage, backup procedures, Contacts import, and platform compatibility.

## Key Product Facts

- [Relationship paths](https://silsilah-familytree.com/): Explore how two people are related and follow their connection through the family tree.

- [Architecture & Storage](https://silsilah-familytree.com/privacy.html): Fully offline-first; tree data is held in the App's private on-device storage (SwiftData on iOS/macOS with a local JSON cache copy, Room/SQLite + Jetpack DataStore on Android), photos as files in the App sandbox, and no remote server.
- [On-Device Intelligence](https://silsilah-familytree.com/): Facial recognition and resemblance matching run locally using platform Vision APIs (Apple Vision framework and ML Kit); no biometric data ever leaves your device.
- [Standard Genealogy Interoperability](https://silsilah-familytree.com/): Full GEDCOM 5.5.1 and 7.0 import and export capabilities, allowing seamless migration to and from tools like Ancestry, FamilySearch, MyHeritage, and Gramps without sending family data to third-party clouds.
- [Life Vitals & Milestones](https://silsilah-familytree.com/): Comprehensive vitals tracking per person including birth date, birth place, death date, death place, marriage dates, and personal biographical notes.
- [Security & Encryption](https://silsilah-familytree.com/privacy.html): Protect your tree with biometric App Lock (Face ID, Touch ID, biometric credentials) and export trees as encrypted .silsilah archive files protected by an 8-character passcode.
- [Platform Support](https://silsilah-familytree.com/support.html): Compatible with iOS 18.2 or later, macOS 14 or later, and Android 10 or later.
- [Pricing Model](https://silsilah-familytree.com/): Free to download with a free tier of up to 30 people and one share per day; two separate one-time in-app purchases: "Remove Limit" (unlimited people) and "Unlimited Share" (unlimited tree sharing); no subscriptions, no advertisements.
- [Current Version](https://silsilah-familytree.com/): Version 1.9.1, following the 1.9.0 kinship finder and Family Clusters improvements, with platform-specific refinements to connecting relatives, receiving trees, and Android forms.

## Optional

- [Privacy Policy](https://silsilah-familytree.com/privacy.html): Comprehensive privacy statement detailing our strict zero-telemetry and no-account architecture.
- [Terms of Use](https://silsilah-familytree.com/terms.html): End User License Agreement and Terms of Service available in English and Bahasa Indonesia.