Gramps is a Free Software Project for Genealogy, offering a professional cross-platform genealogy program, and a wiki open to all.




Comments about Gramps as an Alternative to Brother's Keeper


- Gramps is Free and Open Source
Brother's Keeper is described as 'Windows genealogy program that will help you input and organize your family history information and let you print a large variety of charts and reports' and is a Genealogy tool in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Brother's Keeper for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and Android apps. The best Brother's Keeper alternative is Gramps, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Brother's Keeper are FamilySearch.org, WikiTree, MyHeritage and Ancestry.
Gramps is a Free Software Project for Genealogy, offering a professional cross-platform genealogy program, and a wiki open to all.






FamilySearch is a genealogy organization operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FamilySearch maintains a collection of records, resources, and services designed to help people learn more about their family history.




The WikiTree community is growing a free worldwide family tree. The site is 100% free. There are no premium memberships. All content is contributed by the users and you can keep copyrights. You can also keep modern profiles private or even hidden altogether.



Genealogy service supporting family tree creation online or offline, advanced ancestor search in 5.2 billion records, Smart Matching, face detection in photos, interactive charts, family website hosting, event planning, Google Maps integration, and collaborative editing.




It is an ok alternative, but expensive with large number of people in the database


Access over 7 billion historical documents and DNA analysis tools to research, build, and collaborate on detailed family trees. Search census, SSDI, military and other records, connect with relatives, and use digitized photos, newspapers and maps for genealogy.




Explore your personal family history and discover your origins, your ancestors and how your family has evolved over the course of time. MacFamilyTree offers numerous options for you to capture and visualize your family history.




Webtrees is a free, open source, website based, collaborative genealogy application. It works with standard GEDCOM files and is installed on a web server using PHP and MySQL (or Postgres, SQL Server, or SQLite).




My Family Tree is a genealogy application for Windows. It has been carefully designed to help you quickly create your family tree using a simple and intuitive interface. For those just starting out investigating their family history, it provides an easy way to visualise and...








HuMo-genealogy is a free, open-source and multilingual server-side program that makes it very easy to publish your genealogical data on the internet as a dynamic and searchable family tree website.


Reunion is a genealogy software program for the Macintosh
Reunion allows you to document, store, and display information about your family — your ancestors, descendants, cousins, etc. It records names, dates, places, facts, plenty of notes, sources of information, pictures, sou.


Geni.com is a genealogy-related social networking website. Create your family tree and invite relatives to share. Search 70 million profiles. Discover your ancestors. Share photos, videos and more at Geni.com.

If the database is relatively small, it is a very good alternative.


It is free, and once installed, it actually works better with large DB's than BK.