GeneWeb 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.

GeneWeb scores 55 against webtrees's 47, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and more recent releases. That measures project health, not feature fit — webtrees may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	GeneWeb	webtrees
Health score	55/100	47/100
Commits (11 mo)	1005	489
Commits (last 3 mo)	283	278
Stars	399	824
Latest release	25 Dec 2025	5 Dec 2016
Licence	GPL-2.0	GPL-3.0
Built with	OCaml	PHP
Typical RAM	1 GB	1 GB

GeneWeb

Genealogy software that can be used offline or as a Web service.

55/100

Steady

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

Maintenance 32/40

Releases 11/25

Community 4/20

Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 79% of tracked projects; popularity more than 20%. 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.