Testimonials

iFamily for Leopard is a graphics-oriented program, unlike the data-entry mode of operation of many other programs.

Designed to focus more on individuals than family groups, this software makes it easy to graph relationships of people with more than two parents or more than one spouse. Parent/child relationships may also be shown as natural, step, adopted or foster, which often has been awkward with other software programs.

As you would expect of a Mac program, image handling is superb with nearly 50 formats and its own photo cropping/editing function. Navigation within iFamily for Tiger is simple and fast and the powerful search field searches by name, ID, title, birth place or date, cause of death, notes, comments or more. Reviews of its Gedcom import and export features have been glowing.

I dove in without reading any documentation. Users learn much by this method. Right from the start, I liked the feel of iFamily for Tiger. Its focus on each individual person, rather than on a family unit, is what makes this software simple to use, intuitive, yet powerful.

I like that I can see several generations on my screen at once, and to move to a new person, I just need to double click on their name. You'll notice if you enlarge the image above that at the top of the screen in the right is a switch for 'Levels' set to 3. That's the number of ancestor generations. It can be increased, but on my screen it gets rather tiny with anything higher than the default '3'. (So, yeah, a 17 inch screen might be nice. But 3 generations is great.)

You may also notice the colors and fonts for the interface are easily adjustable from the default view. If you click on the tabs you see at the bottom of the screen, you get different information in the bottom half of the screen.

It is extremely intuitive and easy to navigate.

It is simply superb and I purchased it a couple of hours after testing it on my computer.

My purpose in writing is actually to record my sincere appreciation for such a wonderful program and also for making it available at a most reasonable price. While the documentation is a little light - amplification is hardly necessary as iFamily is so intuitive. You have done an extremely great job and I am enjoying it very much. It is so colourful and attractive and it is now the program of choice for my family tree.

Your program has renewed my interest in our family history and provides me with so many different functions that allow me to add information I hadn't even thought about before. I know there are more expensive programs available, both for MACs and PCs, but I can't imagine how they could be better. One of the great features is that it works so seamlessly in the MAC environment and integrates so well with other MAC programs.

iFamily is an exception value at a very modest price. I am so glad that I found. Thank you for your fine work.

Then I found your product quite by accident. I had become very cynical about genealogy applications for the Mac until I downloaded and tested your iFamily for Tiger program yesterday. I have to say... I'm seriously blown away.

My gedcom database has over 30,000 names with many hundreds of images, census records, sources, notes, etc. Your program has so far handled them without incident, importing the whole database in under 15 minutes, and keeping all notes intact. I have had to reimport the images, but the drag and drop functionality has made all the difference. No other genealogy app has allowed me to manage images with such ease. iFamily is fast, clean, intuitive, and really nice to look at too.

I just wanted to drop a line and say thanks. I purchased the product after working with it for an hour. I wish you luck in your continued efforts to develop the program for Leopard. I'm already anxiously wondering what spiffy new features there might be to play with. BUT... it's about ease of use rather than fancy bells and whistles... and on that... you guys win the prize!

Thanks for making this program. What finally sold me on your product was when I pored through the forum entries on your web site. You respond to customer's questions, problems, and observations quite quickly, and with detailed, honest answers (and not some glib, standard "we are working on it" replies). This is a good thing because it tells me that you care about your product a great deal. It also says you're a person who wants to be helpful--another very good thing.

and 20 minutes later

You may certainly quote me on your testimonial page. As to needing assistance with importing an existing GEDCOM file, thanks, but mine is relatively small (111 individuals) with lots of crib notes and little organization. This is why your program really gets me enthused--it's letting me easily associate scanned documents, photos, etc with the right person and the right event. Heh...listen to me, I'm writing another testimonial. :-)

Your programme is so logical and intuitive and so quick to enter. And as for importing, I have successfully brought across 4 separate (and large) files from my PC and to have achieved that without error is no mean feat when I compare to past GEDCOM experiences whilst within the Windows environment.

...something good has come out of Oz... ;-)

A very impressive program.