Gramps

What is Gramps?

Gramps is a desktop genealogy application for creating and managing detailed family trees on macOS. It is designed for family historians, hobbyists, and researchers who want to record people, relationships, events, places, sources, and media in one structured workspace. Users can document lineage, attach notes and citations, organize research evidence, and generate charts, reports, and other outputs for sharing or printing. Gramps also supports importing and exporting genealogy data, which helps when moving information between family history tools or collaborating with others. The macOS version is distributed for Apple computers, and the project is published by the Gramps community, with the Mac package maintained by John D Ralls.

Key features

• Build and manage detailed family trees with people, families, and relationships.
• Record life events, places, notes, citations, and source information for research.
• Attach photos and other media to people, events, and records.
• Generate reports, charts, and printable family history outputs.
• Import and export genealogy data for sharing or moving between tools.
• Organize research with linked records that keep evidence and context together.

Safety overview

Status: Safe

Gramps is a legitimate genealogy program. It may store family history records, notes, images, and other research materials, so the main privacy consideration is the sensitivity of the information you enter and export. Access to files you choose to open or save is normal for this kind of app. If you keep detailed family records, use regular backups and be thoughtful about sharing exported reports or websites that may include living people.

Recommendation: Keep Gramps if you use it for family history research or maintain genealogy records on your Mac. Remove it only if you no longer need the app, and make sure any family tree databases, media, and exported reports you want to keep are backed up first.

Common paths

• /Applications/Gramps.app

Cache paths

• ~/Library/Caches/org.gramps-project.gramps

Support paths

• ~/Library/Application Support/gramps

Preference paths

• ~/Library/Preferences/org.gramps-project.gramps.plist

Related can I delete pages

• ~/Library/Caches/org.gramps-project.gramps
• ~/Library/Application Support/gramps
• ~/Library/Preferences/org.gramps-project.gramps.plist

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