Heritage Compass —On iOS and in beta on Android.
Your family tree. In the landscape it came from.
Heritage Compass is a location-aware ancestral discovery app for iOS and Android. Import a GEDCOM file, and the app alerts you — through your iPhone, Apple Watch, or CarPlay — whenever you’re near a place your ancestors lived, worked, or were buried.
CORE CAPABILITIES
Everything your GEDCOM contains — surfaced in the physical world
Dynamic location monitoring
Monitors the 20 ancestral locations closest to your current position. Updates automatically as you move — always watching the places most relevant to where you are right now.
Universal GEDCOM support
Import from Ancestry, FamilySearch, MyHeritage, Findmypast, Webtrees, TNG, Gramps, MacFamilyTree, Family Tree Maker, and any application that exports a standard GEDCOM file.
iPhone · Apple Watch · CarPlay
Heritage alerts delivered where you need them. A spoken narrative through CarPlay as you drive through ancestral country. A gentle tap on the wrist from Apple Watch. A notification on iPhone.
Deep place data
Every location in your GEDCOM is geocoded and indexed. Tap any place to see every recorded event there — births, marriages, burials, any life event — and every person connected to it.
Privacy by design
Your location data never leaves your device. Your family tree is stored locally. Heritage Compass operates entirely on-device — no data is uploaded, shared, or analysed externally.
Bríogh memorial sync
Bríogh memorials automatically generate a GEDCOM that Heritage Compass can import directly. Create a memorial on Bríogh and the ancestral location layer is ready immediately.
THE APP IN ACTION
Real data. Real places. Real family connections.
Home — Heritage Watch Active
Data — Places & events
Place Details — 384 events
Families — grouped by surname
HERITAGE WATCH — HOW IT WORKS
Dynamic geofencing. Always relevant.
iOS limits background geofencing to 20 simultaneous regions. Heritage Watch uses this limit intelligently — rather than monitoring a fixed set of 20 locations, it continuously recalculates which 20 ancestral locations are closest to your current position and monitors those.
As you move, the monitored set updates automatically. New locations enter the watch radius. Distant ones fall away. The result is a system that is always watching the places most likely to be relevant to where you actually are — not where you were when you last opened the app.
- 20 simultaneous geofence regions — iOS system maximum
- Dynamic region recalculation as user location changes
- Background operation — no need to open the app
- Configurable notification radius per location
- Offline capable — all data stored on-device
- CarPlay and Apple Watch delivery supported
GEDCOM COMPATIBILITY
If it exports GEDCOM, it works with Heritage Compass
Heritage Compass is built on the GEDCOM standard — the universal format for genealogical data. Any platform that exports GEDCOM is compatible.
PRICING
Simple transparent pricing
Monthly
£1.99
Full access · cancel anytime
- All features included
- Unlimited GEDCOM import
Annual
£9.99
Full access · Save 58%
- All features
- Unlimited GEDCOM import
- Apple Watch · CarPlay included
- Free updates
LIFETIME · LAUNCH ONLY
£34.99
one-time payment · never pay again
- All features · forever
- All future updates included
- Family sharing included
- Available at launch only
Prices in GBP — converted at checkout for other currencies.
FOR ORGANISATIONS
Heritage tourism. Genealogy societies. Cultural institutions.
Heritage Compass has natural applications for organisations working in heritage tourism, genealogy, and cultural education. A visitor to a battlefield can import a GEDCOM and discover their ancestor’s regiment was stationed there. A heritage society can direct members to download the app before a guided walk.
If you represent an organisation interested in partnership — heritage tourism boards, regimental museums, genealogy societies, or cultural institutions — we’d welcome a conversation.
Walk in their footsteps.
Download for IOS on the App Store.
Android beta APK available now — no Google Play account required. No payment required during beta.