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Reunion for Mac

Create a sophisticated record of your family tree.

$99.00
In English
3.6
Based on 22 user rates

Reunion overview

Reunion helps you to document, store, and display information about your family -- your ancestors, descendants, cousins, etc. It records names, dates, places, facts, plenty of notes, sources of information, pictures, sounds, and videos. It shows family relationships in an elegant, graphic form -- people and families are linked in an easy-to-understand fashion.

Reunion makes it easy to publish your family tree information -- even if you want to share it on the Web. You can automatically create common genealogy reports, charts, and forms, as well as birthday calendars, mailing lists, questionnaires, indexes, books and other lists. Reunion even calculates relationships, ages, life expectancies, and statistics. Reunion also creates large, high-resolution, graphic charts allowing complete on-screen editing of boxes, lines, fonts, and colors. Wall charts are one of its specialties.

Limitations of the demo version:

  • Only 50 people can be entered in a family file.
  • Import/Export is disabled.
  • Charts and slideshows can't be saved.
  • Printed output will be watermarked.

What’s new in version 14.0

Note: Version 14 is also a paid upgrade ($49.95) from previous versions.

  • Link media to events, facts and marriages. Media can be linked to individual event, fact and marriage fields using the new media panel that appears in the Edit Person and Edit Family window.
  • Reunion can create Custom Report Sections for books, web projects, and word processors. A custom report section (or custom section) is a compilation of information about a specific aspect of the report you’re creating. Custom sections are optional. You choose which ones to include for each report.
  • Find / Find & Replace in person & family notes, free-form text and in sources and logs.
  • Noteboard for viewing, searching, and editing a single note or a group of person and/or family notes from a separate window.
  • Customizable settings for sidebar lists. Display more lines per row and preferred pictures in sidebar lists.
  • Bookmarks Sets for maintaining different categories of bookmarks.
  • Couples Sidebar for displaying couples in the sidebar.
  • Hourglass Chart A chart showing the ancestors and the descendants of a source couple.
  • Everybody Chart The most comprehensive chart of them all.
  • Improved Chart Frames Many decorative chart border options to choose from.
  • Coordinate Grid for charts Grid coordinates can be used to locate people on large charts.
  • Character, word, and paragraph count added to person/family notes, free-form source fields and logs.
  • Free form text tools added to person/family notes, free-form source fields and logs for cleaning up free-form text fields.
  • Strikethrough attribute added to person/family notes, free-form source fields and logs.
  • Added "Today" button to person/family notes and free-form source fields for quickly adding a new line with today's date.
  • Find Relationship Options window for selecting chart box contents in the Find Relationship panel.
  • Thumbnails Window. New Picture frame options. Search box can be used when showing thumbnails for sources.
  • Menu added to the people search box at the top of the Sidebar and Lists window. Select from 3 search formats: ‘lastname, firstname’ ‘firstname, lastname’ ‘any name’. Select from the 20 most recent searches.
  • Relatives Sidebar and Relatives List settings. Added separate Ancestor and Descendant generations options. Enhanced the generational list filtering based on continuous blood lines. (For example: First cousins will be listed for Ancestor generations of 2+ and not for 1.)
  • Places Sidebar and Places List window. Additions to the place usage list. Option to show birth & death date for people. Option to show event date. Option to show person’s age at the time of an event.
  • Share/print current or all notes fields for a person or family.
  • Sources Sidebar and Sources List menu in the search box. 20 most recent searches are remembered. 3 search types have been moved from the Show menu to the Search box menu.
  • Edit Source: Share current source.
  • Edit Source:Keyboard shortcut for changing the current source number field. shift-cmd-up to go the next source. shift-cmd-down to go to the previous source. shift-cmd-home (also, shift-cmd-left) to go to the first source. shift-cmd-end (also, shift-cmd-right) to go to the last source.
  • Logs Window. Improved text finding for current log or all logs. Added find & replace for current or all logs. Added free-form text tools. Added import button. Added support for strikethrough text.
  • Charts. Chart Index For navigation by name, printing lists of people in the chart, and seeing the names of people in a branch or subchart. Chart Orientation suggestions with preview of chart sizes. Decorative frames and dividers added to charts. New shapes in charts. Images and shapes can be rotated. Images can be flipped horizontally or vertically. Improved resize handles for pictures and shapes. Improved line object in charts.. Lines can be curved. Additional line patterns. Improved line terminators. Support for shadows behind lines. New frame choices for pictures in charts. New frame choices for pictures in chart boxes. New "Entire chart" selection mode helpful when editing everybody charts.
  • Books. Person Sheets format for the Book Report Create a book report of person sheets for selected people. Quickview and family file navigation available in the Book project window. Shapes, lines, frames and dividers added to book project editor. Text and images can be rotated in books. Images can be flipped in books. More picture frame options for pictures.
  • Web Publishing. More flexible Contacts section for web projects. New Other Links section for web projects. Web Preview button in the Web Settings window. Simplified Web Settings > Reports > Files. Removed the flat option. Flat is no longer supported, it was for old web hosts that did not support folders. Removed the Case option. Only lowercase is used. This option was for older web hosts that required uppercase file names. Removed text encoding. UTF-8 will always be used. All web browsers now support UTF-8. Selectable Couple delimiter For all of Reunion's reports, books, and web pages. When listing siblings in menus, the primary spouse of each sibling is included. Added a Clear history option to the History menu. GEDCOM 7.0 & GEDZIP. Dark mode support.
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Reunion for Mac

$99.00
In English
Version 14.0
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Hydester
Hydester
Jan 24 2024
13.0
0.0
Jan 24 2024
0.0
Version: 13.0
By far the best Genealogy app for Mac. Solid and keeps up to date (Silicon-native) , with no unnecessary nonsense. Supports IOS app which auto-updates via iCloud Like all genealogy/Family Tree apps, it is overpriced and has a slightly naff/old-fashioned interface. That having been said, this is best of the bunch even on these terms: price and interface
maclindamood
maclindamood
Aug 12 2021
13.0
0.0
Aug 12 2021
0.0
Version: 13.0
I have been a loyal customer of Reunion longer than I can remember. Unfortunately, our relationship goes only one way. Reunion 13 is another paid upgrade, seriously? The "new features" listed in version 13 are all bug fixes. The software company should not charge for fixing what was wrong with the current version. Not good to do that...
AnnL7456
AnnL7456
Dec 2 2020
13.0
0.0
Dec 2 2020
0.0
Version: 13.0
I'm looking for a simple application to create genealogy tables of fictional characters from mythology and novels for a book and handouts in my literature class. Mythological characters may sometimes have more than one father and one mother. I also need the tree to show the character's function, for example 'war good', 'goddess of love', etc. and the name of their abode (if applicable.) Ideally, the app should be able to incorporate new genealogies as I move along. I'm thinking about mythology here, first and foremost. Suppose I need a handout for Antigone in my literature class. Three or four generations would suffice for the class. But then later, I might want to extend the tree to see all the ancestors of Antigone to the beginning of the world (= 9 generations.) Any suggestions?
cerulia3
cerulia3
Nov 11 2020
13.0
1.0
Nov 11 2020
1.0
Version: 13.0
Reunion worked great until that last security patch fried my entire laptop, taking not just the database and disabling the Finder, but all my 25 years worth of research documents, family photos, my late husband's music and all the other data on my Mac. I will never buy this program again, and I deeply regret the hundreds of dollars I've spent since I became a customer many years ago. My backup copy is useless. So, I get to start from scratch - on my brand new affordable Dell, with brand new software I have yet to buy. Thanks for nothing.
Sgilbert
Sgilbert
Oct 22 2020
13.0
5.0
Oct 22 2020
5.0
Version: 13.0
The quintessential genealogy app for the Mac. I've been using Reunion for ages, never considered another app.
Sgilbert
Sgilbert
Aug 30 2024
14.0
5.0
Aug 30 2024
5.0
Version: 14.0
gregraven
gregraven
Feb 19 2022
13.0
4.0
Feb 19 2022
4.0
Version: 13.0
cerulia3
cerulia3
Nov 11 2020
1.0
Nov 11 2020
1.0
Version: null
ngstfld
ngstfld
Oct 22 2019
1.0
Oct 22 2019
1.0
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Bunky
Bunky
Nov 29 2017
1.0
Nov 29 2017
1.0
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Cindyed
Cindyed
Aug 30 2016
4.5
Aug 30 2016
4.5
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TomasA
TomasA
Jun 14 2015
2.0
Jun 14 2015
2.0
Version: null
monty-3
monty-3
Apr 25 2015
2.5
Apr 25 2015
2.5
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brfer
brfer
Jul 15 2013
5.0
Jul 15 2013
5.0
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Nanajana
Nanajana
May 27 2013
4.5
May 27 2013
4.5
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Exegete77
Exegete77
Jan 30 2013
5.0
Jan 30 2013
5.0
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Pghj
Pghj
Jan 20 2013
5.0
Jan 20 2013
5.0
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Garytmg
Garytmg
Jul 4 2012
4.5
Jul 4 2012
4.5
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Blackmagic
Blackmagic
Jun 21 2012
5.0
Jun 21 2012
5.0
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AlanG100
AlanG100
May 12 2011
3.0
May 12 2011
3.0
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CookieMan
CookieMan
Feb 26 2011
3.0
Feb 26 2011
3.0
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Filmseal
Filmseal
Dec 21 2010
2.5
Dec 21 2010
2.5
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Macuser226
Macuser226
Aug 25 2010
5.0
Aug 25 2010
5.0
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leospaul
leospaul
May 23 2007
5.0
May 23 2007
5.0
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Studiodave56
Studiodave56
Mar 30 2007
1.0
Mar 30 2007
1.0
Version: null
mcrisci-1
mcrisci-1
Mar 3 2007
5.0
Mar 3 2007
5.0
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Guest
Guest
Mar 7 2005
4.8
Mar 7 2005
4.8
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