![]() ![]() Media management This is traditionally a weak point in Family Tree Maker, but recent improvements have included a Photo Darkroom tool that’s designed to improve pictures that have faded with age. ![]() As a result, it’s easy to see where you are and navigate around the family history software. Each manages to lay out its key elements over just one or two tabs without overcomplicating the screen. User interface Family Tree Maker’s (FTM’s) user interface splits itself into seven clearly labelled sections, including Plan, People, Places and Publish. It doesn’t look like there’s an iOS genealogy app that is truly full-function and widely used, so I’m evaluating desktop solutions that will better handle a larger database than the design point of MobileFamilyTree.See our separate review of Family Tree Maker 2019 I’ve just acquired TNG and setup a website to load my gedcom or family to see and use just for presentation over the web. At times the tech support folks are quite responsive (just one day turnaround), but I’ve waited as much as 30 days for someone to return from vacation or travel on some issues. Built in help facility is cursory at best and not at all helpful. But there’s no manual online for MacFamilyTree, either. They refer you to the MacFamilyTree manual under the argument that the two products are functionally equivalent - they aren’t. No discussion forums for their users, and all issues reported are private between developers and the user. Support infrastructure and facilities are weak. They need to let you change all the characteristics you want changed and THEN rebuild the chart one time afterward. As in name searches, the customization options drop-down for reports attempts to refresh your report or chart in realtime for each option that you change, resulting in waits of several minutes every time you try to touch an option to change it because the software is attemting to rebuild the chart or report realtime. For example, there is no way to subset any reports or charts to people buried in a specific state, or all of he people born in a particular location. Reporting and charts look cool in the beginning, but support for filtering/customization is limited to a small subset of available fields that have been pre-selected in report settings. Worse, iTunes on a desktop computer is required to separately package up the imported photos. Instead of creating links to where your photos reside natively, the app embeds photos in a list organized by the timestamp that you imported a photo and then creates an image reference number under the covers that isn’t apparent until you export a gedcom and then read the gedcom text file to discover the image pointers have no correlation to the original photo numbers. Media integration is weak, probably limited by iOS capabilities for apps using photos. They don’t bother with a search button they’re ALWAYS searching. ![]() Synium Software needs to allow you to type a name that you want and then press a Search button. With 11,000 people in a list, for example, typing a name to callup attempts to refresh the entire list at every keystroke, requiring a wait of 5-10 seconds between keystrokes and sometimes 45 seconds or more to get enough unique characters into the input field to see your person profile finally appear in the selection list for selection. An FamilySearch has an iOS app that integrates will also trigger a crash of MobileFamilyTree.Īs for speed and responsiveness, It has slowed to a painful pace on many functions due to a design that attempts to predict what/who you’re typing on every single keystroke. Crashing is triggered by simply refreshing/surfing to ANY web page using any browser. I use it several hours per day and it crashes every few minutes. But the user interface is addictive and compelling, and I’ve lived through a long list of weaknesses for almost 2 years and now have over 11,000 people in the database. After entering several hundred records, it already began to crash more and more frequently. I got suckered into MobileFamilyTree by the cool graphics and charts and hoped that it was truly as “full-featured” as they claim.
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