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Open source alternatives to Ancestry

We track 5 open-source Ancestry alternatives, of which 4 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 1 ship a Docker image. Gramps Web leads on health at 89/100 with 58 commits in the last 90 days; across all 5 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0 and 1 other licences.

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Showing 5 of 5 tools

All 5 Ancestry alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    Gramps Web

    89 GOOD

    Web app for collaborative genealogy, based on and interoperable with Gramps, the open source genealogy desktop application.

    ★ 221 · ⟳ today · v3.22.0 · AGPL-3.0

    Docker
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • webtrees

    82 GOOD

    Webtrees is the web's leading online collaborative genealogy application.

    ★ 817 · ⟳ yesterday · 2.2.6 · GPL-3.0

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • GeneWeb

    77 GOOD

    Genealogy software that can be used offline or as a Web service.

    ★ 397 · ⟳ today · v7.1.0-beta2 · GPL-2.0

    OCaml
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Genealogy

    73 GOOD

    Record family members and their relationships and build a family tree.

    ★ 359 · ⟳ today · v6.4.1 · MIT

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Genea.app

    20 STALE

    Genealogy tool designed with privacy in mind that anyone can use to author or edit their family tree. Data is stored in the GEDCOM format and all processing is done in the browser.

    ★ 277 · ⟳ 9 months ago · MIT

    Javascript
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Ancestry alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Ancestry?

Gramps Web scores highest at 89/100, with 58 commits in the last 90 days, 221 GitHub stars and its latest release (v3.22.0) published 3 days ago. webtrees has the most raw commit activity at 234 commits in 90 days.

Which Ancestry alternatives use a permissive licence?

2 of 5 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): Genealogy (MIT), Genea.app (MIT). 3 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which Ancestry alternatives run in Docker?

1 of 5 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Gramps Web. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.