Gramps VS RootsMagic

Gramps

Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps genealogy software.

RootsMagic

RootsMagic Family Tree Software - Smart Computing Magazine calls RootsMagic 'the best genealogy program we've seen'. Free trial version.

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2022-03-20

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2021-10-06

Gramps Genealogy Software v4.1.1 - overview

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RootsMagic Review - 5 Things I Love

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Gramps and RootsMagic)

RootsMagic

Family Tree

78 78%

Family Tree

22% 22

Family Social Media

80 80%

Family Social Media

20% 20

Family Organizer

82 82%

Family Organizer

18% 18

Online Services

47 47%

Online Services

53% 53

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Gramps should be more popular than RootsMagic. It has been mentiond 9 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Gramps mentions (9)

Ask HN: Web app for building family tree
Why does it have to be a web app? It does not meet your requirements, but when I looked into this sort of task before, the best option looked like Gramps [0], which was discussed at [1].
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  [0] https://gramps-project.org.
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- Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
The Night 17M Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke
Is there a reason to prefer Webtrees over an open source desktop app like Gramps? https://gramps-project.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
How to get started / how to use (or not) paid memberships?
My technique is to maintain my tree off line in Gramps and do online work in the always free FamilySearch. Source: about 1 year ago
New Computer for me!
Alternatively, there's Gramps (free): https://gramps-project.org/. Source: about 1 year ago
About to Start a Family Genealogy Project and want to stop myself from over-engineering a solution
I think you are looking for Gramps. Source: over 1 year ago

RootsMagic mentions (2)

Best Family Tree Program?
I'm not joking. Many ages ago when I started researching there were lots of apps and some had appalling user interfaces. I found one, Family Origins, that finally made sense. Then buyouts and regrets and recovery turned it into Roots Magic. The user interface still made sense but, recently, I've struggled with the newer updates. Source: about 1 year ago
Software Recommendations?
From all the free software, I like Legacy, then Ancestrial Quest Basic, then RootsMagic. Gramps I found okay. Source: over 2 years ago