Family Tree
A private family tree in one HTML file on your machine: no account, no cloud, no server to talk to.
This is not a screenshot. It's the real tool, running right here: go on, put something in it.
Forged into a knife, this tool ages with use: the blades you reach for wear soft, entries you tend keep their bloom, and the years travel with the file through every reforge.
Somebody in every family is the one who remembers — which great-aunt married which farmer, who emigrated and why. The Family Tree makes you that somebody, gently: each person gets a name, their relation to you, when they were born, and a space for the stories and notes that are the actual treasure. Names survive in records; stories only survive if someone writes them down.
What it keeps
- Nameshort text
- Relationshort text
- Borndate
- Stories & notesnotes
Standing facts
- One HTML file. Opens in any modern browser, on any operating system.
- No account. No login, no sign-up, no e-mail wall.
- No cloud. Nothing leaves your browser: no server, no telemetry, no analytics.
- Yours forever. The file keeps working whether or not Offline.Ltd does.
- Ages with use. Entries you tend keep their bloom; the years travel with the file through every reforge.
In ten years
Whatever you put in (Name, Relation, Born and Stories & notes) stays inside the file itself. There is no account to lapse, no plan to be sunset, no migration e-mail with a deadline in it. A decade of family tree entries is a decade of your own handwriting, kept in a document you can back up like any other.
If Offline.Ltd closes tomorrow, nothing on your machine notices. That isn't a marketing promise; it's simply what a file is.
Getting your data out
Export to CSV from inside the tool and open it in anything: a spreadsheet, another app, a text editor. Or keep the HTML file: it is plain, readable, and inspectable; you can open it in a text editor and see your own rows sitting there. No export queue, no "we'll e-mail you a link within 48 hours", no format that only one vendor can read.
Copy the file to a USB stick, a NAS, a folder your devices already sync. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, online or off, because a browser is the only thing it ever needed.
Questions people ask
How do I start recording my family history?
Start with the people you can ask. Add a row per relative — name, relation, birth date — and then get them talking while you fill the stories field. The dates are the skeleton; the anecdotes are the person.
Is this a full genealogy program with charts and GEDCOM files?
No, and that is rather the point. It is a plain list of people and their stories — the humble notebook stage that every grander family archive begins with.
Will my family's information end up on a genealogy website?
Not through this tool — it runs offline in your browser, with no account and nothing uploaded anywhere. The whole tree lives in one HTML file you own, and you can pass that file down like anything else in the family.
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Fits your knife at weight 1. Nothing here is final, Knife follows Life. Reforging within your tier is free, forever. Add it, drop it, reforge it later; the file stays yours either way.