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Rodovid — Help & FAQ

Rodovid builds your family tree right on your phone — no account, no servers. Below is how the app works, section by section — the same guide you'll find in the app under the Help button and in More → Help.

How Rodovid works

🌳Tree & canvas

The Tree tab shows your whole family. Drag to pan, pinch to zoom, or use the [+] [−] [Center] buttons. Tap a person to open a panel: view, add a relative, show ancestors or descendants, or collapse a branch.

➕Quick-add relatives

From a node or a person's card, tap Mother, Father, Son, Daughter, and so on. A name and an approximate year is enough to start — you can fill in the rest later.

👥People & search

The People tab lists everyone. Search ignores case and accents. A "gaps" counter shows where information is missing (for example, "12 people have no birth date").

📅Dates

Dates can be exact, approximate ("about 1920"), a range ("between 1910 and 1915"), or year-only — useful when records are incomplete.

📨The Family Relay

"Share with a relative" exports one .rodovid file (with or without photos). When a relative sends a file back, a merge wizard shows a plain summary ("Olia added 12 people and changed 5"), asks about any conflicts one at a time, and lets you undo. Re-importing the same file changes nothing.

🖨️Print & PDF

Print a one-page poster (A3 up to A0), a set of A4 sheets with join marks and an assembly map to glue together, family group sheets, or a Family Book with a page per person. There's a "Large font" option for easier reading. Free prints carry a clearly visible Rodovid watermark; Rodovid PRO removes it right from the print preview.

🔁GEDCOM import & export

Import a .ged file from FamilySearch, MyHeritage and others — you get a preview ("found 132 people, 41 families") before importing. Export standard GEDCOM 5.5.1 to move your data anywhere. Living people are masked on export by default. Import needs Rodovid PRO; export is always free.

🛡️Living people

In exports and shared files, details of living relatives are hidden by default. Only the Family Relay can include them — and only if you turn that on, after a clear warning.

📷Photos

Add a photo from camera or gallery on a person's edit screen. Photos stay on the device and travel only inside files you deliberately share.

🕸️Relationships

Rodovid can name the relationship between any two people ("second cousin, once removed") and gently flags things that look off — a birth after a parent's death, an implausible age — as hints for you to check.

⚙️Settings & backup

Choose your language (English, Ukrainian, German, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, Polish, Dutch) and text size, manage privacy of living people, turn analytics and crash reports off, and create or restore a .rodovid backup.

FAQ

Where is my data?

On your device, in a local database. Nothing is stored on our servers — there are none.

How do I move to a new phone?

Create a .rodovid backup, send it to yourself (file, cloud drive, messenger), and restore it on the new device.

What is a .rodovid file?

One file that holds your whole tree. It's used both as a backup and for the Family Relay — sharing and growing the tree with relatives.

A relative added people — how do I combine them?

Open the .rodovid file they send back. If it's the same tree, the merge wizard shows a plain summary and asks about any conflicts one at a time. Importing the same file twice changes nothing.

Will living relatives' details be shared?

Not by default. Exports and shared files hide living people. The Family Relay includes them only if you turn that option on, after a warning.

Can I import from MyHeritage or FamilySearch?

Yes — export a GEDCOM there and import the .ged file in Rodovid. You can also export your Rodovid tree back to GEDCOM anytime.

What size can I print?

One-page posters from A3 up to A0, or tiled A4 sheets you glue together, plus per-family group sheets. Turn on "Large font" for easier reading.

Is it free?

Yes to start: one tree with up to 10 people added by hand (imported people don't count), and prints carry a clearly visible watermark. Sending and opening relay files, GEDCOM export and backups are always free, and so is your first merge. Rodovid PRO — monthly, yearly, or a one-time purchase you keep for good — removes the limits and the watermark.

The text is too small

Go to Settings → Text size (Normal / Large / Very large). Rodovid also follows your system text size, up to 2×.