For living relatives
Relate is a private social network for the people you actually text — not dead ancestors. Build your family tree, discover relatives you never knew existed, and share life with the people who matter most.
What Relate does
Build and explore your family tree visually. Add parents, siblings, cousins, grandparents — every branch of your family, organized and connected.
Relate's engine scans for shared ancestors, surnames, maiden names, birthplaces, and years — surfacing relatives you never knew were in your network.
Share photos, recipes, announcements, and memories — only with your family. No ads, no algorithms, no strangers. Just the people you love.
Meet someone? See exactly how you're related — parent, second cousin, great-aunt — with a clear visual path through your tree.
Upload your existing family tree from any platform. Relate brings your data in, reconciles duplicates, and keeps living people in control.
Every living person controls their own profile. You approve connections, edit what others see, and revoke access at any time.
How it works
Start your profile, add the people you know, and grow your family tree one branch at a time. Or import an existing GEDCOM file to hit the ground running.
Relate's AI scans for matches — shared ancestors, maiden names, birthplaces — and suggests people you might be related to. Confirm or dismiss each match.
Once connected, your family has a private space to share photos, memories, recipes, and life updates. The feed is yours — no advertisers, no algorithm.
Why Relate is different
Ancestry and MyHeritage are built for researching dead people. Facebook is built for advertisers. Relate is built for the living people you actually care about — and nobody else.
Nobody appears in your tree without their permission. Every living person controls what they share, who sees it, and when it's removed.
We use only what you submit, GEDCOM files you upload, and connections you confirm. We don't crawl Ancestry, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
Export your entire tree at any time. Delete your account and all data is removed. No hostage-taking, no re-import fees.
The feed is chronological. The tree is yours. Nobody is optimizing for your engagement except your family.
Your second cousin in another city. Your grandmother's sister who moved away. The relatives you've heard stories about but never met. Relate finds them and connects you — with privacy and consent at the center of everything.