A canvas like paper
Warm tones, classic serif names, connectors drawn the way you'd draw them by hand. Hundreds of relatives stay smooth — a family of 530 lays out in milliseconds.
A family tree · kept like an heirloom
Every family
is a story.
Build a living tree of the people you love — and keep it, privately, forever on your device. No cloud. No account. No subscription.
Tap two people to see how they're related.
No cloud
No account
No data collected
Free · yours forever
The register
Made for real families,
not databases.
Kinestry is a focused tool with one hero: the tree. Everything in it exists to help you record, explore and pass on your family's story.
Kinship, explained
Tap any two people and see exactly how they're connected — "your father's sister's grandson" — traced step by step through the tree.
Gentle with the past
Year-only dates are welcome; grandma's exact birthday can stay a family mystery. Photos, places and notes on every person — and their age and where they live now, read straight off the card without opening anyone.
Marriages that ended
Mark a marriage as divorced or separated, with a date if you know it. Children and every other connection stay exactly as they are — the tree records what happened, it doesn't take anyone out of it.
Put right a wrong link
Tapped the wrong name? Hold the row and the link comes apart on its own — nobody is deleted, so their dates, photo and notes survive exactly as you typed them. Removing someone who has family below them asks first and says how many people that is, and Undo brings every one of them back.
Coming up
Birthdays, anniversaries and days of remembrance, gathered in one place. Turn on a reminder and it stays on your phone — no server ever learns whose birthday it is. Add one to your calendar and the phone opens the calendar app you already use, fields filled in, with nothing sent anywhere.
More than one family
Keep several separate trees on one device and switch between them — your side, their side, a line you're still researching. Each is its own database; nothing leaks from one into another.
Names in your own script
Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Gujarati, Thai and Cyrillic names render properly on screen and in printed exports — every script carries its own typeface inside the app, so a PDF looks the way the tree does.
Share the story
Export an elegant vector PDF to print as a poster, a high-resolution image for the family group chat, or GEDCOM — the universal format, so you're never locked in. Exports keep the card style you chose, so the photo you framed is the photo that prints. A few hundred people fit on a single page; a tree wider than that prints a branch at a time, and the app says so before it tries.
Backups you own
One tap writes a complete backup — photos included — to a file on your phone. Each tree keeps its own, so "last backed up" always means the family you are looking at. Restore any time, or carry your whole tree to a new device.
Desktop Mode
Your tree, on the big screen. Still no cloud.
Open Kinestry in your laptop's browser over your home Wi-Fi. Edit with mouse and keyboard, upload photos from your computer, watch changes appear live on both screens — even with the phone locked in your pocket.
Your phone is the server. The connection never leaves your home network, and it ends the moment you say so. No other family tree app does this without a cloud.
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The promise
We couldn't read your tree
if we wanted to.
Kinestry has no servers, no accounts, no analytics and no trackers. Your family's names, dates and photos live in one place: your phone. The Play Store listing says "No data collected" because there is nothing to collect it with.
Questions
The things people
ask first.
Does anything I type leave my phone?
No. Kinestry has no servers, no accounts, no analytics and no trackers, so there is nowhere for it to go. Names, dates and photos are written to a database on your own device and stay there.
What happens if I lose my phone?
There is no cloud copy — that is the trade the app makes for privacy, and it is a real one. Kinestry writes a backup file you keep yourself, so make one and put it somewhere safe. A tree that exists only on a lost phone is gone.
I linked the wrong people. Can I undo it?
Yes, and without deleting anyone. Hold the row in someone's immediate family and Kinestry offers to disconnect that one link, telling you exactly who stops being linked to whom before it happens. The people stay, with their dates, photos and notes untouched, and an Undo button puts the link back if you change your mind.
Does it cost anything?
No. Kinestry is free. There are no purchases inside it, no subscription and no adverts. If you would like to support it anyway, there is a tip jar.
Is there an iPhone version?
Not at the moment. Kinestry is an Android app, available only on Google Play — a copy from anywhere else is not ours.
Can I work on my tree on a computer?
Yes. Desktop Mode serves your tree to a browser on the same Wi‑Fi, so you can edit on a big screen with a keyboard. The connection is between your phone and your own computer; nothing travels over the internet.
Will it handle names in my own script?
Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Gujarati, Thai and Cyrillic names render properly on screen and in printed exports. Every one of those scripts carries its own typeface inside the app, so a PDF looks the way the tree does.
Kinestry is made by one person, not a company. There are no investors to answer to and nothing to sell — which is the only reason an app like this can promise to stay free and stay off the cloud.
Developer
Buy me a coffee There is nothing to buy inside Kinestry and there never will be. If it has been useful to your family, a coffee is a kind way to say so.