RootsMagic
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | Free | RootsMagic, Inc. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
This viewer is designed as a companion product to RootsMagic, the award-winning desktop genealogy software which makes researching, organizing, and sharing your family history easy. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced professional, RootsMagic is the perfect tool for you!
Features include:
Files:
* Uses your actual RootsMagic files- no conversion needed
* Easily put your family history files on your device through iTunes or DropBox
* Keep as many files as you want right on your device
* Use the free desktop software to convert other genealogy files including PAF, Family Tree Maker, Legacy Family Tree, and GEDCOM into viewable RootsMagic files.
Views:
* Pedigree, Family, Descendant, and Individual Views to quickly explore your family tree
* Browse people by surname and given names
* Search ancestors by name or record number
* View media, notes, and sources for people, families, events, and facts
Lists:
* Source list
* To-do lists
* Research Logs
* Media Lists
* Address Book
* Repository List
* Correspondence List
* Place List
Tools:
* Perpetual calendar
* Date calculator
* Relationship calculator
* Soundex calculator
Note: Requires RootsMagic desktop family tree software or the free RootsMagic Essentials software to create, edit, or add to your genealogy files.
Reviews
Syncing problems
xplorer3
I spent hours trying to get this app on my iPhone to sync with the app on my iMac, including three contacts with the support people. First I tried syncing using iTunes, only to find that the RootsMagic instructions are out of date and it CAN’T be synced this way. Then I tried using Dropbox, following RootsMagic instructions. Here I ran into problems....it just wouldn’t work. The basic problem was that the instructions did not tell me where to find the data file, and I was mistakenly loading the entire app onto Dropbox. Finally I discovered that I had to go into Finder to locate the data file, and then load that file into Dropbox. This worked. If only the instructions had told me that, it would have saved me hours of frustration.
Useless
H1012D
I downloaded this in hopes of using it to connect my ancestry tree and my familysearch tree, based on instructions on a YouTube video. Apparently you need a PC in order to use this app at all, which is just ridiculously outdated in today’s tech world.
Not what I expected.
Snickshift
No instructions. No help file. Completely unresponsive. I just says “Choose a Database”, followed by “No Database on file”. How does one load a database before one has created it? I got the app in order to start building one. Like buying a a refrigerator that cannot be opened until it is full of food!
Difficult to use
VKarlosB
Non-intuitive. Most of the “tools” don’t work. There is no obvious way to make search work. The relationship calculator is inscrutable. This app falls far short of the desktop version. Very disappointing.
Just fine
Pip Longstocking
While the computer software, Roots Magic, is outstanding, this app is merely serviceable. It's faults have persisted since I began using the app years ago and have never been corrected, which I find odd. The app's structure is not intuitive. Some windows have no back button, so navigation quickly becomes cumbersome. And perhaps most confusing, shared facts are listed not chronologically but at the end of the individual view, yet their dates are deferred to in the summary views. Difficult to explain in this review, because it is so illogical, but it means that one must truly open each individual view and search it even for births, marriage and death dates, instead of trusting the more accessible summary views. Why even have dates in the summaries if they are not correct? It would be nice to have a "favorites" tab, so we wouldn't have to search the entire database by surname, then again by first name, for ancestors we refer to often.
Great software, reader app
Michelle8888888
For anyone who wants to dabble in their family history or gets very serious about genealogy research, RootsMagic software is great. I particularly recommend it for anyone who cares about keeping their information on living individuals private, but still wants to collect that data while they can interview them personally. This app is really only for reading your data, making a portable so we can travel with you. You really need to be on your laptop, or at least a web browser, to enter your data.
Update!
Littlelandes42
This app needs a major update. Its a very nice app to use but on my phone it quits and then i have to start over on what i was doing. It also doesn’t have a back button. It hardly works for an iPhone but it will work for android.
No update for 2 years?
mcochegrus
No updates in 2 years??? RootsMagic needs an urgent makeover to work with current technologies in iOS!
Desperately Update
Bran321
This app needs a facelift and the archaic dropbox sync and file sharing methods have got to to. I really hope RM 8 comes with an app revamp! 5 star functionality to the desktop program.
