Turn your family tree into something you can actually print

Already have a tree in Ancestry, MyHeritage, or another genealogy app? Import the GEDCOM and turn it into a clear, customizable tree you can export as a print-ready PDF or wall chart. Or start a new tree here.

Import my family tree
Start a new treeNo account needed for up to 50 people.

The Hale family, three generations, in the default look.

  • Start without an account
  • Your family data can leave with you
  • Private until you choose to share
  • No ads or data sales
Print a keepsake

Made to be framed.

Export a print-ready PDF of the tree exactly as you styled it, sized for a wall. Print it at home or hand the file to a print shop, as often as you like.

$24.99 once per tree; building is free.

Looks

Start with a style, then change any of it.

Each one is a starting point. The colors, the typeface, the background, the card shape, the spacing, which way the tree runs (or whether it opens as a fan of ancestors), and which details each card shows are all yours to set, free, before you make an account.

Start from a style

Rounded cards, a serif face, and a soft dotted canvas. The look every tree starts on.

Default, and six of the settings behind it

Adjust any of them and the tree redraws. There are a good many more: line thickness and corner radius, how a marriage is drawn against a partnership, the mark where a family branches, a name pinned to every line, the color of every line and label, card spacing, photo shape, generation bands, and which dates each card shows.

Chart
Typeface
Background
Cards
Where a couple joins
Card color

Land on something you like and save it as your own style, to reuse on this tree or any other. Whatever you choose travels with the tree into every share link, print, and export.

Default
How it works

You never place a single box.

You say who is related to whom. Draw My Tree works out where everyone goes, and works it out again the moment you add someone. There is nothing to drag, align, or tidy up afterwards.

Pick someone

Now press the + on Sofia’s card, the way you would in the app.

3 people so far. Add another and watch the rest move.

Stories and sources

Each person holds the story behind the line.

Each person on the tree has room for a biography in your own words, the dates and places of their life, the photographs and certificates you have scanned, and citations that tie a claim in the story to the record it came from.

Albums and documents need the Family Plan

Ingrid Halvorsen

Ran the village post office through two decades of change, taking the counter the year the new sorting room opened and keeping it until she retired.

She knew most of the parish by the letters they waited for. When she retired in 1968 she took the old brass letter scale home, and it sat on her kitchen windowsill for the rest of her life; the photograph of her at the counter was taken in her last week there.

As it grows

Keep a growing family tree understandable.

A big tree stops fitting on one screen. These controls show the part you want to read.

Filter
Focus on a person

Pick a person to focus their line or the people near them. Everyone else drops away, and the tree re-lays itself around whoever is left.Click anyone on the canvas, or choose them above. Gordon Ashby sits in the middle of this family, if you want somewhere to start.

No focus. All 19 people are on the canvas.

Focus on one person

Show only their ancestors, only their descendants, or everyone within a few relationship steps of them.

Follow one line

Pick two people and the tree keeps only the line that connects them, so you can see how they are related.

Search, and fold away the rest

Find anyone by name, and let distant branches collapse on their own so what is left on screen stays readable.

Sharing & privacy

Share your tree. Choose what others see.

Your tree is private until you share it. Invite relatives to view or help edit, or publish a read-only link anyone can open. On that link, living relatives are hidden by default, and you can turn the link off at any time.

Share “The Rivera Family”

Invite people by email or publish a read-only link.

People with access

No one else has access yet.

Editors can publish

Editors can turn public links on and off, change their settings, and choose who each link shows.

Public link

Anyone with the link can view this tree, read-only. Turning it off pauses the link; turning it on again brings the same link back.

See the tree as someone with the link sees it.

Hide living people (shows them as “Private” with no details)

Show the tree’s name in link previews

Off: where the link is pasted into a message or post, the preview reads only “A shared family tree”. Turn on to show this tree’s name and how many people and generations it has, never a person’s name.

What a visitor sees. Living relatives keep their place and lose their details.

Invite 3 relatives to view it free. Inviting the whole family, and to edit, needs the Family Plan
Pricing

Free to build. Pay only for what happens next.

Drawing your tree costs nothing, and always will. One tree can be unlocked for print with a single purchase. The Family Plan is for the rest: the photographs safe off your own hard drive, the family invited in, and every tree ready for paper.

Start in your browser, free. No account needed: up to 50 people, saved in this browser.

  1. Free, saved to your account

    Create a free account

    Build and keep one tree, with a portrait for everyone.

    Free
    • One family tree, backed up to your account, up to 500 people
    • A portrait for every person on the tree
    • Invite 3 people to view your tree
    • A watermarked PNG at screen size, and your whole tree as a JSON file
  2. For one tree, once

    Keepsake

    One tree, print-ready and without a watermark, for as long as it exists. Paid once.

    $24.99once
    • Paid once for the tree you choose. No subscription.
    • Print at any paper or poster size, and print family reports, from one tree
    • PDF, SVG, PNG and JPEG at full resolution, GEDCOM and CSV, of one tree
    • No watermark, for as long as that tree exists
    • A read-only link to show the family
    • Invite 10 people to view the tree
    • This tree doesn’t use up your one free tree
    • Albums, documents, inviting family to edit, and more trees come with the Family Plan.
  3. Your trees, for everyone you invite

    Family Plan

    Every tree, with photos and documents, family who can edit, and a dated edition each year.

    Billing cadence
    $99/year

    $8.25/mo billed annually · save $45 a year

    Everything free, plus
    • Photos, documents and records, stored with your trees
    • Invite up to 250 people to view or edit your trees, with no plan of their own
    • Connect an AI assistant to read and help build your tree
    • Print at any paper or poster size, and print family reports, from every tree
    • PDF, SVG, PNG and JPEG at full resolution, GEDCOM and CSV, on every tree, without a watermark
    • Unlimited family trees
    • A read-only link to show the family, on every tree
    • A dated edition of every tree each year, and versions, each with its own link
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is this a research site like Ancestry or MyHeritage?
No. Draw My Tree does not search records for you. It is for drawing what you know into a tree that looks good, shares safely, and prints well. If you already have a tree elsewhere, export it as a GEDCOM file and import it here.
Is my family’s information private?
Yes. A tree is private until you share it. A public link hides living relatives by default, and you can turn a link off or replace it at any time. There are no ads and we never sell data; the privacy policy says so in writing.
Where is my tree saved?
As a guest, in this browser on this device, for up to 50 people. A free account backs one tree up, up to 500 people with a portrait for each, so you can open it on any device. The Family Plan adds photo albums and documents, sharing with the whole family, and as many trees as you like.
Can I take my tree with me?
Yes. Every tree downloads in full as JSON, free, always. GEDCOM for other genealogy apps comes with a Keepsake (for that tree, for good) or while you’re on the Family Plan. Nothing is locked in. The Family Plan, or a one-time Keepsake ($24.99) for a single tree, adds PDF, SVG, PNG and JPEG at full resolution, GEDCOM and CSV.
Do relatives need an account to see it?
No. Anyone with your public link can open the tree in a browser; a public link comes with the Family Plan or a Keepsake. Relatives you invite to help edit sign in, so the tree knows whose changes are whose.
Can I use it with an AI assistant?
Yes, on the Family Plan. If you use Claude, ChatGPT, or another assistant that accepts custom connectors, connect it to your tree and it can read the tree, find the relatives with the least recorded about them, and record what you find with the source attached. There is no chat built into Draw My Tree; the docs have a setup guide.
What happens when my tree gets big?
It stays readable. Focus on one person’s ancestors or descendants, pick two people to see only the line between them, and save those views to come back to. Distant branches fold away on their own, search finds anyone by name, and the tree flags problems it spots, like a missing name or a date it cannot read.

Every family tree starts with one name.

Begin with the people you know best: a grandparent, a cousin, a date you are sure of. Add the rest as you find it. If your tree is already in another app, import its GEDCOM file.

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