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.

★★★★★ 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.

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 with Face ID

Protected by Face ID, Touch ID, 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.

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.

  1. In this sprint

    GEDCOM import & export

    Bring in a tree you already built somewhere else as a .ged file, and take yours out the same way. Parsed and written on the device - the file never passes through a server to be converted.

    GEDCOM 5.5.1 Import Export
  2. Next up

    Personal milestones

    A life story on every profile, not just a name and a date. Births, weddings, graduations, a first job, the move to another city, the year someone left for hajj - laid out as a timeline you write yourself.

    Per-person timeline Custom events Notes & dates
  3. Next up

    Reminders for the dates that matter

    Turn any milestone into a reminder - birthdays, wedding anniversaries, the anniversary of someone you miss. Scheduled locally on your phone or added to your own calendar; nothing is synced anywhere to make it work.

    Birthdays Anniversaries Local notifications
  4. 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.

iOS 18.2+ or Android 10+ · Free to download

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