Genealogy
Record family members and their relationships and build a family tree.
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Still maintained? Yes: 21 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v6.4.2 (Sep 2026).
Also an alternative to Ancestry.
At a glance
Genealogy quick facts
- Health score
- 70/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 367
- Last commit
- 20 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v6.4.2, Sep 2026
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to Genealogy
Full rankings: Ancestry alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Genealogy is a free and open-source family tree PHP application to record family members and their relationships, built with Laravel 13."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Genealogy scores 70/100, #4 of 5 in Genealogy: 21 commits in the last 90 days earn 24.5 of 35 points, the latest release (v6.4.2, 1 month ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 367 stars add 10.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 10.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 24.5 / 35
21 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v6.4.2 released 1 month ago
- Stars 10.3 / 20
367 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 21
- Last 90 days
- 246
- Last 12 months
- 20 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #4 of 5 tools in Genealogy by health , between GeneWeb (#3) and Genea.app (#5) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | v6.4.2 · 1 month ago |
| Stars | 367 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | MGeurts/genealogy ↗ |
Genealogy vs its top 4 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Genealogy (Genealogy), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gramps Web | 89 | 229 | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| webtrees | 81 | 835 | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| GeneWeb | 74 | 407 | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| Genealogy (this tool) | 70 | 367 | MIT | 20 days ago |
| Genea.app | 20 | 284 | MIT | 11 months ago |
Genealogy: common questions
What does Genealogy replace?
Repoly lists Genealogy as an open-source alternative to Ancestry. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Genealogy stands against the others.
Is Genealogy still maintained?
Genealogy had 21 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 20 days ago; the latest tagged release, v6.4.2, is from 1 month ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.