Somewhere in your family there are faces, names and little stories that only a few people still remember. Nijio helps you bring them together in one beautiful family tree — one you build yourself, fill with real photos, and share with the people you love. You can begin in the next few minutes, for free, right here in your browser.
Across the whole app
Start in your browser, carry on in the app. You don’t have to install anything to begin — open Nijio in a web browser and start your tree straight away. When you want it in your pocket, add the Android app. It’s the same free account on both, so you move between computer and phone whenever it suits you and always continue exactly where you left off.
The same tree on your phone, your tablet and your computer. Your family tree lives in your account, not on one single device — so it looks the same everywhere, and every change you make on one screen appears on the others. And if a phone is ever lost, broken or swapped for a new one, nothing is gone: your whole tree is waiting for you the moment you sign back in.
Your family tree, alive
Give every relative a real face. Add a photo to each person and your tree fills with familiar faces instead of empty boxes — grandparents, great-grandparents, and the children growing up today. Adding someone is as easy as typing in a name, so everyone can join in, from a curious ten-year-old to the eldest storyteller in the family.
Beautiful to explore, and truly yours. Glide across the generations by panning and zooming, tap any person to focus on their branch, and shape the look of your tree — colours, shapes and styles — until it feels like your family and no one else’s. It’s something to wander through, not a spreadsheet to fill in.
Remember whole lives, not just dates. Behind every name is a life. Nijio lets you record far more than a birth and a death — baptisms, marriages, a move to another country, a first job — so each person becomes a real story your family can pass on.
Print it for the wall, or share it in a tap. When your tree is ready to show off, turn it into a clean PDF that prints beautifully for a family gathering or a frame at home. Want to share it online instead? Save it as an image and send it straight into the family chat or onto social media.
Bring separate trees together. Families branch out, and so do their trees. Connect your tree with another — a second one of your own, or one kept by a relative — so the ancestors you share are joined into one bigger picture instead of being typed in twice. Everyone’s work adds to the same family story.
Hand a tree to the person it belongs to. Sometimes one person starts a tree, but it really belongs to someone else — it’s their branch of the family. In Nijio you can hand the whole tree over so they become its author and keep it growing, and they can share it back with you so you can still follow along. It also makes a wonderful service: someone can build a tree for a family — even as a paid gift — and then pass it on for the family to keep, print and share.
Let loved ones look, without changing a thing. Not everyone wants to edit — most relatives simply want to see the family story. Give them read-only access to your tree so they can explore every branch and enjoy the work, while you stay fully in control of what can be changed.
Already started somewhere else? Bring it with you. If you’ve built a family tree in another program, you don’t have to begin again. Nijio reads the common GEDCOM format — with a ZIP, the photos come along too — so your existing work comes straight in, and you can take it out again whenever you wish. Your data always stays yours.
And it can become a gift they’ll never forget. Picture your grandchild unlocking their phone and finding an app named after them, with their own photo as its icon — right there on the home screen. Inside, the family tree is already waiting: share it with them, and the whole family story is there from the very first tap.
From then on they can switch on the kinship view and, on every person in the tree, read exactly who that person is to them — your aunt, your cousin, your grandmother — so a page of names turns into their own living circle of family. That’s the charm of a personal app: you might name yours after the whole family, while a child would rather see their own name and face on the screen. See how it works on our Premium page.
Begin today with the people closest to you, and watch your family’s story grow into something you’ll be proud to pass on.