FamilySearch Get Involved

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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

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Last verified 1 Aug 2026

4.5 254 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Meaningful! Needs improvement.

   Feels like I’m doing something valuable with my free time! I also love that it shows the path of your contribution, like how you help index a name and someone attached it to a person and took that name to the temple, which temple, etc. So meaningful. Improvements: I feel that each document zooms in too close to the name so you can’t even see the full name, making you pinch out to make sure you’re not missing a middle or first name when confirming. I also think there should be a way to flag that it’s an incorrect highlight and fix it, or marking that “Auckland Australia” is not a person without having it automatically skip to the next document because the rest of the document is a person, or mark that the computer skipped a first name and only highlighted the first and last name. Hope that all makes sense and can lead to app improvements.

   Hannah Aggie Nevada · 31 Jul 2026

2. 3/5Addicting, but Bad Bugs

   I love the opportunity to help review names, and the convenience of being able to use my iPhone to help family history progress! I can review names when waiting in line at the store or when I have a few minutes to spare. Easy. There are several bugs in this app; but perhaps the worst is a newer bug that name swaps. When you click, “Incorrect Highlight” or hit the “Back” button, the contents of the text box gets stuck on the last name you reported as “Incorrect Highlight”, or approved as a “Match”. This can be corrected by clicking “Unsure”, but it took some experimenting to figure out. A glitch that has been a problem for awhile is the thermometer/counter, which doesn’t work regularly once you get past about 300k names. I have been stuck at under 400K for several months, and easily done 2 million or more names. Please provide an update to this app. You’ve started such a wonderful thing. Thank you!

   TwitterBias · 31 Jul 2026

3. 4/5Replaces My Social Media Addiction, Errors

   Pros: This is a great, easy to use app! It helps me stay off YouTube/TikTok/news sites and encourages me to do something valuable in a short amount of time. I probably log about 100 names on average throughout each day, often in small small amounts. Con: The app isn’t as reliable as I’d like it to be. When I open it up and tap “Review Names”, about 2/5 times I’ll get a message saying “An error occurred. Please try again later.” I leave the filters as broad as possible to see if that helps, but it usually doesn’t. (This is for the regular search button and the 1950 census button). For a person like me that has a passion for indexing and family history, it isn’t too much of a bother, but I imagine it could turn off a lot of users if they encounter this as frequently as I do.

   west nile virus · 31 Jul 2026

4. 4/5Very good

   I think this is a great project, and I’m excited to help. I like the app because I can do a few names any time I have a few minutes waiting somewhere. I also like that I can zoom the image in very close to make out tricky names, better than on the web site. My main complaint is that the app has not yet fixed the issue of filtering by state. This was fixed on the website to pull up documents from the state in question, while the app still pulls documents from any random state as long a one person came from the filtered state. One star loss for that. Secondarily, a minor issue is that marking an entry Not a Person requires two separate tap actions, while it is a single click on the web site.

   Dave855 · 31 Jul 2026

5. 4/5Impressive tech, uncertain UI

   I was skeptical that technology could actually read 19th-century cursive, but was pleasantly surprised. I’ve run through at least 100 names so far just to get an idea of how well it worked, and so far so good. Two issues to raise, though: 1. When I edit a name, there’s no way to ensure that my edits are saved. No button, no “save” indicator of any kind. I made some significant edits, but did they take? Let your users know what’s going on, please. 2. I wish there were a way I could flag the name of the parish priest; his name shows up on every page and doesn’t need to, and that’s a lot of extra temple work. I’ll keep using this and adjust my rating accordingly.

   TryggBunion · 31 Jul 2026

4.3 1526 ratings · Google Play

1. 5/5

   This a incredible app. I've done 180k names so far and I'm still doing names. There is no bad things to this app. Wonderful app and it's amazing.

   Tyson Youngberg · 1 Aug 2026

2. 5/5

   great for research

   Etta Napier · 1 Aug 2026

3. 5/5

   incredible, amazing purpose

   Samuel Atkinson · 1 Aug 2026

4. 5/5

   I have my genealogy started and it dates back to a great grandfather. Just the other day I happened to look and it grew, now I am all the way to 1023 BC. Couldn't believe it. WOW!!!

   Martha · 1 Aug 2026

5. 5/5

   it's working now thank you

   JoAnn Kirby · 1 Aug 2026

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