Living Canvas
Experience smooth movements and smart connections as your tree naturally adapts when you move nodes around.
Every connection,
finally visible
Map your family, your stories, or an entire fictional world — and watch every relationship fall into place on a living canvas.
Our Mission
We want to provide a living, modern tool that lets you map out your family or story exactly the way you think about it. We believe exploring relationships should feel alive, accessible, and never be restricted by rigid subscription models or outdated interfaces.
What you can do with Ancesvia
Five core features, built for real families and fictional worlds alike.
Focus & Fold Away
Hide entire nodes and branches to concentrate on a specific part of your tree, keeping your workspace organized.
Custom Links
Visualise different relationships like divorces, adoptions, friendships or rivalries with custom lines.
Make It Yours
Choose from six themes and fully customize your patterns, colors and fonts, so your family tree looks exactly the way you want.
Sub-Trees (Multilayer)
Create separate sub-trees for each node, so you can focus on one branch without distraction.
Our differences
Unlike traditional genealogy tools that demand strict, verified bloodlines, Ancesvia gives you complete freedom to map any kind of relationship. We embrace messy family dynamics, chosen families, and even fictional casts, putting a flexible, free-to-use canvas at the center of the experience.
Free while in demo
The full Ancesvia, free.
0 €
While Ancesvia is in its demo phase, every account gets the full feature set at no cost. No credit card, no trial timer.
- Unlimited family trees
- Unlimited sub-trees, any depth
- Unlimited people per tree
- All relationship types, custom labels
- All 6 themes, full styling
- Export: PNG, PDF, SVG
- Cloud sync, local backup & restore
What our users say
Eleanor Fisch
Family historian
I've tried every family tree app out there. Ancesvia is the first one that didn't fight me when I added a second marriage and a set of step-siblings. The tree just reorganised itself — it finally looks the way my family actually is.
Marcus Doyle
Novelist
I'm writing a trilogy with about sixty characters across three houses. Mapping their alliances and betrayals used to live in a messy spreadsheet. Now I can see the whole web at a glance and catch plot holes before my editor does.
Priya Raman
Tabletop game master
My players love that I can pull up the faction map mid-session and show them exactly how the noble families connect. The custom relationship labels — rivals, patrons, secret lovers — are perfect for a campaign.
Jonas Keller
Worldbuilder
The sub-tree feature is what sold me. Each kingdom gets its own layer, all linked back to the main map. I can dive into one dynasty without losing sight of how it fits the wider world.
Sofia Alvarez
History teacher
I use Ancesvia to build the royal family trees for my history lessons. Students grasp the succession disputes so much faster when they can see the connections instead of reading a wall of names. And it's free for my whole class.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know before you start your first tree.
Yes — signing up is free and takes a moment, and it means your trees are yours on any device instead of tied to one browser. There's no trial timer and no card required.