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Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps.
Gramps is a free software project and community. We strive to produce a genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists.
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Gramps Current version: 6.0.8 Released: 2026-04-09 For a list of updates see: What's new? |
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Before upgrading your distribution Use your earlier version of Gramps to backup your Family Trees to the hardy and portable XML format. |
Linux
For Linux, we recommend installing and upgrading Gramps using either FlatPak or Snap:
- A Flatpak is available from Flathub.
- A Snap is available from the Snap Store.
Gramps may also be available in the package manager provided by your distribution. However, this is likely to be out-of-date in some popular distributions.
For advanced users, a source package is available:
Instructions for how to build from source are available in our wiki.
Microsoft Windows
This executable installer supports Microsoft Windows in versions 8, 10, 11 (64-bit Only) and later.
After download: double-click to install Gramps.
Alternatives to the All-In-One installer include the PortableApps.com and Chocolatey NuGet Package. Advanced users can install Gramps from source using the MSYS2 build environment.
Final Gramps versions for legacy Windows systems (PortableApps format): Windows 7 64-bit: 5.1.6, Windows 7/8/10 32-bit: 5.1.5, Windows XP/Vista: 3.4.9
Apple macOS
Before downloading read the before installation instructions.
After download: Double-click the .dmg file to mount the disk (note: your browser may do this for you automatically). Next, drag the Gramps application to your application folder and double-click to launch it.
Alternatives to the application package include the MacPorts and Homebrew package managers.
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The Gramps app on Apple’s App Store is in no way affiliated with the Gramps project. See: |
BSD platforms
For BSD, we recommend installing and upgrading Gramps using the package manager provided by your distribution.
Advanced users can build from source using the link in the Linux section.
Further information can be found on the BSD platforms page in the wiki.
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Normally, when you try to load your old Family Tree you can allow it to be upgraded if necessary, and it will be opened. Should this fail for any reason, Create a new Family Tree and Import the backup into this new Family Tree. |
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Notes
Backup to Gramps XML format when updating. Although Gramps reads and writes GEDCOM 5.5.1 format fluently (because it is the de facto format for genealogical data interchange), never depend on such a rudimentary format for archiving your research. GEDCOM cannot store all the intricacies found in Gramps data. Always backup with the more robust Gramps XML format.
You will find a Make Backup... option in the Family Trees menu of recent Gramps versions. Alternately, use Export... in the same menu but deselect the privacy and filtering options in the Exporter Assistant to avoid omission of any data.
See: How to make a backup
See also
- Installer package maintainers
Installing Gramps for Desktops
Installation instructions specific to the different OSes are on the 
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GitHub Gramps for Desktops Releases
Wiki pages
Installing Gramps Web for online collaboration
Gramps Web is a frontend and a hosted instance of Gramps Web API
- Gramps Web frontend - release history on GitHub - (Calendar Versioning: Year.Month.Micro)
- Gramps Web backend api - release history on GitHub - (Semantic Versioning: Major.Minor.patch)
Deployments: