Genealogy vs webtrees

Both are self-hosted genealogy projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Genealogy scores 52 against webtrees's 47, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of more recent releases. That measures project health, not feature fit — webtrees may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Genealogy	webtrees
Health score	52/100	47/100
Commits (11 mo)	243	489
Commits (last 3 mo)	24	278
Stars	361	824
Latest release	14 Sept 2026	5 Dec 2016
Licence	MIT	GPL-3.0
Built with	PHP	PHP
Typical RAM	1 GB	1 GB

Genealogy

Record family members and their relationships and build a family tree.

52/100

Steady

Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.

Maintenance 19/40

Releases 25/25

Community 4/20

Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 48% of tracked projects; popularity more than 18%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

webtrees

Webtrees is the web's leading online collaborative genealogy application.

47/100

Slowing

Activity has dropped noticeably. Check the repository before committing to it.

Maintenance 25/40

Releases 1/25

Community 6/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 63% of tracked projects; popularity more than 31%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted genealogy.