Ancestry: Family History & DNA

Ancestry: Family History & DNA

Ancestry.com · 4.7 ★ · FREE

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Description

Explore who and where you personally came from through photos, stories, historical records, and so much more— even your ethnicity and family communities if you’ve taken an AncestryDNA® test. And with just one relative’s name, you can start to discover your family history anytime, anywhere with Ancestry®, the top genealogy app*.

Why you’ll love to discover your family story using the Ancestry® app:
• View your family tree, search and add new family members, upload photos, and share stories - all with just a few taps
• With a free trial or paid subscription easily access more than 30 billion records, photos, and more
• The dynamic Discover feed lets you review, dismiss, and save your discoveries and hints for later
• Activate your AncestryDNA® kit and view your ethnicity results
• See your DNA matches and compare your results with them
• Learn even more about your family story when you combine your tree with your DNA results
• Preserve your history with your own personalized family tree
• Collaborate with friends and family - it couldn’t be easier
• Our modern layout design makes it even easier for you to explore
• Discover stories, photos, and records about your ancestors with Ancestry Hints®
• Personal traits. Add Traits to your DNA results to see how your genes could influence 35+ fitness, nutrient, sensory and appearance traits.

Free Features:
• Build a family tree
• Search the census records and access more than 1.1 billion free records
• Receive hints based on your tree
• Scan or upload your own family pictures
• Receive messages from Ancestry members
• See your ancestors' life stories on a map

Available with an optional free trial or subscription:
• View more than 30 billion records.
• Use Ancestry Hints® to learn about ancestors
• Find pictures of your family
• Discover new relatives
• Unrestricted messaging

iPhone and iPad Features:
• Curious about your family tree? Simply look up a relative's name, discover their story, and then share it with your loved ones
• Review your personalized hints
• Add photos, hints, or ancestor stories and watch your personalized family tree grow
• Easily upload or scan photos and add facts or stories to your family tree
• Learn about historical events that affected your ancestors’ lives.

Apple Watch Features:
• Get on-this-day alerts for events from your family history.

Download the Ancestry Family History & DNA app to start exploring your heritage and more, today!

View our Terms and Conditions at: https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/termsandconditions
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*within free apps in the Apple App Store's Reference category

Developer

Ancestry.com

Developer ID: 349554266

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What's New

Version 18.7 · 14 Apr 2026

Bug fixes

Ratings & Reviews

App Store

4.7

60,150 ratings

N/A downloads

Google Play

4.6

178,227 ratings

10,000,000+ downloads

5★
79%
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10%
3★
6%
2★
2%
1★
4%

Recent Reviews

J Convery

Google Play

Upgrading to current version of app reduced its functionality and usefulness. When I took my Ancestry DNA test the deal was that testers would get certain free DNA match information, eg, their tree, common ancestral name, shared DNA matches. Now you need a subscription to see anything beyond the match name. Exploitative. Use Wikitree instead. It's free and accepts all major family tree DNA results.

17 Apr 2026

Robert

Google Play

wonderful app

17 Apr 2026

debra cagg

Google Play

hard to navigate the site !!!!!

17 Apr 2026

Brie Sparks

Google Play

New update and now I cannot access my tree. If that's an issue tomorrow I'm cancelling my subscription.

17 Apr 2026

Tony Johnson

Google Play

The monthly subscription is too much and they hit you up whenever you try and see info of family members. 23 and me is better!

17 Apr 2026

FP.27

App Store

Lots to pay for

Additionally you have to pay for additional access and information. Very expensive

15 Apr 2026

Alan Coles

App Store

Is this accurate

Is this accurate as a lot has changed. My wife has done a test several years ago and her updated results are completely different.

12 Apr 2026

Hel achau

App Store

Did you know?

I am totally addicted!

6 Apr 2026

MarkusCorcoran

App Store

Great service but app doesn’t work

I’ve spent endless time on the website building my family tree, the access to documents is incredible. But the mobile and iPad apps don’t show the full tree, people are missing in some cases whole branches aren’t there. Doesn’t seem to be a case of it not refreshing as some more recent people appear where others added prior do not. This means I can’t share it with others as lots of it is missing?!

5 Apr 2026

Pixelated cookie :p

App Store

Dreadful app

The website works perfectly but the app is just not built right. Editing facts are never saved, after clicking save they revert back to what was originally in the text. You simply can’t do everything you can on the website either. This all depends if it’s actually working as more often than not it says error and you can’t even access anything. Also cancelled my membership through the app and it continued to charge me and I had to do it again through the website. I recommend using the website but avoid the app! EDIT 2026: Yet another update to remove buttons that were previously one click and now are buried, the app does not load properly, it does not save and that’s just the start. Do not use ancestry unless you like to waste your time! Family echo is so much better !

2 Apr 2026

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