About GenogramTool

The genogram has been a clinical staple since Murray Bowen — the map a therapist draws to see how anxiety, distance, and old patterns travel down a family. The tools for making one never caught up. The standard-bearer, GenoPro, is Windows-only desktop software that has looked the same since the mid-2000s. The alternative is a generic diagram app that has no idea what a cut-off line or an index person is, so you end up faking the notation by hand.

That gap is why we built GenogramTool. A counseling or social-work student should be able to open a browser, lay out three generations with the real McGoldrick symbol set, mark the emotional relationships, and export something clean enough to hand in — without a Windows license, a download, or an hour wrestling a flowchart tool. A practitioner should be able to sketch a client's family in session on whatever device is in front of them.

So three things stay non-negotiable. The notation is correct — the standardized set taught in CSWE, CACREP, and nursing programs, not an approximation. The core tool is free, because no one should pay to draw a family map. And it runs anywhere — Mac, PC, Chromebook, tablet — because the work doesn't only happen on a Windows machine.

We're a small independent team that cares about getting the clinical detail right. We never sell or share what you build, and a genogram you make while signed out never leaves your browser. If a symbol is missing or a line is drawn wrong, tell us — that part we take personally.