AI Genogram Maker
Searching for an “AI genogram maker” usually means one thing: you want a genogram finished fast, without fighting twenty-year-old desktop software. Describe your family in plain words below and the tool drafts the genogram for you — in the standard notation — then you refine every detail on the canvas. Your first AI draft is free to try; unlimited AI drafting comes with Pro, while building by hand stays free — with nothing to download.
Describe your family
Write it in plain words — who is related to whom, who the client is, and any close, distant, conflicted, or cut-off relationships. The tool drafts the genogram below; you refine every detail on the canvas.
What the AI does — and what stays with you
A genogram is not really a drawing problem; it is an accuracy problem. The AI is good at the drawing part: tell it who is related to whom and it lays out the squares, circles, couple lines, and emotional relationships in the standard notation in seconds. What still takes your judgment is the accuracy of the facts — who the index person is, which grandparent died and in what year, whether a mother and daughter are close or fused, which sibling stopped speaking to the family and when. The AI works from your words, so if a detail is ambiguous it can guess wrong, and a confidently misleading diagram is the worst kind to put in a case file.
That is why the draft is a starting point, not the finished product. Everything it produces is editable on the canvas, so the workflow is: describe the family, let the tool do the layout, then read the draft against what you actually know and correct it. The build is instant; the clinical reading stays with the person who knows the family.
Prefer to build it by hand? That works too
- Skip the prompt and click to add the index person, then build outward with Add parents, partner, and child — three generations in a few clicks.
- The full standardized symbol set is built in: squares and circles, the index-person frame, deceased markers, twins, pregnancies and losses.
- Emotional-relationship lines — close, distant, conflict, cut-off, and fused — drop on with a tap, the layer that makes it a genogram and not a family tree.
- Whether you start from an AI draft or a blank canvas, you edit the same way and export a clean PNG or PDF when it is done.
New to the notation? The genogram symbols guide decodes every mark, and how to make a genogram walks the build step by step.
A chatbot for the words, the maker for the diagram
The AI here drafts the diagram, but a general chatbot is still useful for the words around a genogram: drafting the interview questions that surface a family pattern, explaining what fusion or triangulation means for a write-up, or summarizing what three generations of a symptom suggest. Do that thinking in a chat, then draft and refine the actual diagram here. It is a free, no-download genogram maker that runs on a Mac, a Chromebook, or a phone.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this genogram maker use AI?
- Yes — describe your family in plain words and the tool drafts the genogram for you to refine. It uses Claude to translate your description into the standard McGoldrick notation: squares and circles, the index person, deceased markers, and the close, distant, conflict, and cut-off lines. It does not replace your clinical judgment — the draft is a starting point, and you edit everything on the canvas before it goes anywhere near a case file or an assignment.
- Can AI build a genogram from a paragraph of text?
- Here, yes — paste a paragraph like "my mother has two sisters and my parents divorced in 2010" and the tool drafts the matching diagram on the canvas. Treat it as a first pass, not a final answer: AI can still misread birth order, who the index person is, or a deceased marker, so check every detail against what you actually know about the family. Because the whole genogram stays editable, fixing a draft is quick — and for a graded assignment or a client record, that review step is yours to keep.
- What is the fastest way to make a genogram, then?
- Open the maker, add the index person, and use the Add parents, partner, and child shortcuts to build three generations in a few clicks. The squares, circles, deceased markers, and the close, distant, conflict, and cut-off lines are already built in, so you are choosing relationships, not drawing shapes. Most three-generation genograms take ten to fifteen minutes.
- Can I use a chatbot alongside the maker?
- Yes, and it is a sensible division of labor. A chatbot is genuinely useful for the words around a genogram — drafting interview questions, explaining what fusion or triangulation means, or summarizing a pattern once you can see it. Use it for that, then build the actual diagram here so the notation and the family facts are correct.