FamilySearch.org has launched an App Gallery at familysearch.org/apps to help you find the websites and products you need to find your ancestors.
Many companies and organizations have partnered with FamilySearch over the years to create applications and services that can help in your family history efforts. Now you can find them in this App Gallery. You can filter and search to find the apps that meet your specific needs, platform, operating system, and price. For example, if you are looking for a highly-rated app that will help you analyze the data in your family tree, the app gallery lets you filter and find several relevant partner apps to choose from.
If you find an app that fits your unique needs, please consider rating it and writing a review to help others. (Ratings should become available on the site soon.)
“FamilySearch is a great resource, yet FamilySearch alone can’t do everything. That’s why we work with partners to provide complementary tools and resources, and why the FamilySearch App Gallery is so important,” said Dennis Brimhall, FamilySearch CEO. “In addition to partners that are a great resource for historical records, we’ve had partners for many years that offer a variety of different experiences such as sharing with family, and looking at data in different, insightful ways, and now we want to make it easier for our patrons to know about them and to help them find the apps they need.”
Check out the App Gallery at familysearch.org/apps.
Most of these are not smartphone or tablet apps at all, but desktop programs. Particularly true with the record managers like Ancestral Quest and RootsMagic, some are websites, some are all three to whatever extent that is possible,
True smartphone apps are included though, such as BillionGraves, Ancestry, and at least one other, not likely mentioned is MyHeritage, and I forget if I saw FindMyPast or not on it. If not, they are separate apps that at present do not work directly with FamilySearch but are very useful if you have the free account offered to LDS members.