Genogram Software for Mac
Loaded below: a fictional four-generation family, the case a desktop package is usually bought for. Drag anyone, edit their details, then export.
Drag people to arrange. Click a person to edit their details.
Editable preview — your changes aren't saved here.
- Add people with the ▢ ◯ ◇ buttons, then click the canvas.
- Use Connect… for marriages, children, and emotional lines.
- Click a person to edit name, years, deceased, notes.
- Drag to arrange, or hit Auto-arrange.
- Export as PNG or PDF — the legend builds itself.
Includes a title block and an auto-generated legend of the symbols you used.
Your genogram autosaves in your browser. Get our symbol cheat sheet + templates by email so you can pick it up anywhere:
Why there is no Mac version to download
Because there is nothing to compile. The drawing engine behind the editor above is 809 lines of JavaScript across three files — a data model, an SVG renderer and an exporter — and its only dependency outside React and Next.js is jsPDF, which is also JavaScript. There is no native binary anywhere in the stack, so there is no Apple Silicon build, no Intel build, no notarisation, and no version of this that runs on your colleague's machine but not yours.
That is the whole answer to the query, and it is worth stating plainly because the search usually starts from a bad experience: a genogram file format that would not open, or a desktop package whose install target was the other operating system. A browser-based editor has neither failure mode. It also has a real cost, which is that there is no document on your disk until you export one.
What it can actually draw
Enough for clinical and academic use, not a general diagramming suite. The notation set covers three person symbols plus deceased and index-person marks, four union types (marriage, divorce, separation, cohabitation), three child-link types (biological, adopted, foster) with twin joins and single-parent drops, and six emotional-process line styles. In total the exporter can auto-label 19 distinct marks in a legend, and it lists only the ones your diagram uses. Eleven prefilled templates ship with it, from a starter skeleton to the four-generation example above.
Generations, zoom, and the size problem
Four generations is where hand-drawing and generic shape tools break down: the canvas gets wider than the screen and every symbol has to move together. The editor pans and zooms, has an auto-arrange that re-lays generations into rows, and a fit-to-content button that frames whatever you have. Export geometry is computed from the content bounding box rather than the window, so a wide four-generation diagram exports whole instead of cropped to what happened to be visible.
Templates instead of template files
The reason "genogram template for Mac" is a search at all is file formats: a template is only useful if something on your machine can open it, and diagram templates tend to arrive in a proprietary format from a desktop package. Here the templates are states the editor loads, not documents you download, so the format problem does not arise. Browse them on the genogram template page, or see finished ones on genogram examples.
Getting it into Pages, Keynote or Word
Export PNG and paste. The PNG is a raster of the same SVG the screen shows, sized from the content rather than the viewport, so it drops into a document at a sensible size. If the destination is specifically Microsoft Word, there is a longer walkthrough on how to make a genogram in Word, including why drawing it there by hand is the slow path.
Related pages
The full editor lives on the genogram maker home page, and the free genogram maker page sets out exactly what is free. For notation while you draw, keep the genogram key or the fuller genogram symbols reference open. New to genograms entirely? Start at what is a genogram. Working in a clinical setting? See therapy, nursing and social work.
Mac genogram software FAQ
›Is there genogram software for Mac?
Yes, and you do not need a native app for it. A genogram is a vector diagram, and a browser draws vector diagrams natively, so a genogram editor that runs as a web page runs on macOS with nothing to install and no architecture to match. The builder on this page is one — open it, draw, export a PNG or PDF.
›Does it work on Apple Silicon Macs?
There is no architecture-specific code to break. The whole editor is JavaScript executed by your browser, so an M-series Mac and an Intel Mac run byte-identical code. The same is true of Windows, Linux, ChromeOS and an iPad.
›Where are my genograms stored?
In your own browser's local storage on the Mac you drew them on. Nothing is uploaded to a server, which also means clearing site data or switching to another machine loses the diagram — export a PDF or PNG when you finish, or email yourself a copy of the template pack so you can pick it up elsewhere.
›Can I get a genogram template that opens on a Mac?
The templates here are loaded inside the editor rather than downloaded as files, so there is no proprietary document to open in the first place — pick a template, edit it, export. That sidesteps the format problem entirely, which is usually the real reason this gets searched: a template saved by desktop diagramming software often has no macOS reader.
›How do I print or hand in a genogram from a Mac?
Export to PDF and print or upload that. The PDF export carries a title block and a legend built from the notation your diagram actually uses, so a reader does not need the key page open beside it. PNG export is the one to use if you are pasting into Pages, Keynote, Word or a slide deck.