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This page list Third-party Addons written by users and developers to work only with Gramps version 5.1.

Please use carefully on data that is backed up.
Help make these Third-party Addons better by reporting any comments or problems to the author, or issues and Feature requests to the bug tracker
Unless otherwise stated on this page, you can download these plugin by following these instructions
Please note that some Addons have prerequisites that need to be installed before they can be used.
These Third-party Addons unless stated are not officially part of Gramps.
This Addon/Plugin system is controlled by the Plugin Manager.

Gramps comes with a core set of plugins which provide all of the critical features.

However, you can extend this functionality with additional Third-party Addons. These addons provide reports, listings, views, gramplets, and more.

From Gramps Preferences, you can check for available extra (or updated) addons and select which to download. Then, they will be retrieved from the internet from the Gramps-Project file server and installed locally on your computer.

Once installed, an addon is found in the same place as a built-in feature of the same Type. That is, Tool add-ons become new menu items on the Tools menu... while add-on Gramplets become new choices in the appropriate Category View sidebar, bottombar or Dashboard options.

Installed add-ons can be enabled or disabled via the Plugin Manager.

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Can't find it?

The Plug-in Manager and Preferences are good places to search when a feature is being elusive.

Add-ons aren't typically cross-referenced in the wiki and might not be where you'd expect in the interface.

What you recalled as a Report might actually be a Quick View... and those are found in entirely different menus. Or you might've installed an Addon for a different machine or in another version of Gramps.

So looking through the add-ons available for download and among those installed can help you rediscover the feature.


Contents

Installing Addons in Gramps

 
Highlighted section showing recommended settings for Addons to be managed Automatically

You can have Gramps manage the process of checking and downloading Addon updates by changing your settings to match the highlighted section in the screenshot to the right or read the following.

To configure Gramps for Addons:

  1. Start Gramps
  2. Select Menu Edit -> Preferences...
  3. Go to the General tab
  4. In the Third party addons management section:
  5. Change Check for addon updates: so when you start Gramps, it checks for updated Addons:
    1. Never - never checks for updates when you start Gramps (This is the default setting)
    2. Once a month - checks for updates when you start Gramps once a month
    3. Once a week - checks for updates when you start Gramps once a week (This is the recommended setting)
    4. Once a day - checks for updates when you start Gramps once a day
    5. Always - checks for updates whenever you start Gramps
  6. Change What to check so when you check for updates, it checks for:
    1. Updated addons only - does not check for new addons
    2. New addons only - does not check for updated addons (This is the default setting)
    3. New and updated addons - checks for all new and updated addons (This is the recommended setting)
  7. Change the Do not ask about previously notified addons check box:
    1. Checked: Means that new/updated addons are only asked about once; afterwards it doesn't show them to you (This is the default setting)
    2. Unchecked: Means that new/updated addons are always shown to you (This is the recommended setting)
  8. Assuming you have an Internet connection. You can now optionally select the Check for updated addons now button to force a check for Addons using the updated settings.
  9. From the Available Gramps Updates for Addons window you will be shown a list broken down by Type that you can view by selecting the "Select" column expand out each "Type".
  10. You can then select the check box of those Addons you want to install.
  11. Then select the Install Selected Addons button to download those Addons from the Internet.
  12. Once downloaded from the Done downloading and installing addons dialog select the Close button
  13. From the Preferences dialog select Close button.
  14. To use the Addons you need to Family Trees>Quit and restart Gramps.
 
"Available Gramps Updates for Addons" window showing example listing output for Gramps 5.1


Addon List

Addons are listed inside of Gramps through the interface described above.

 

for details of on each columns.

Plugin / Documentation Type Image Description Use Rating (out of 4) Contact Download
All Names of All People - Quickview Quickview Shows all names for all people All 4 Doug Blank AllNamesQuickview.addon.tgz
Ancestors Map View View A view mode for the Geography category which maps Event Places related to the Ancestors of the Home Person. All 1 Gramps Bugtracker
Serge Noiraud
GeoAncestor.addon.tgz
Attach Source Tool Tool A tool to attach a source to a group of people. All 1 Doug Blank AttachSourceTool.addon.tgz
Avatar Generator Tool A tool that allows you to add and remove one or several images for a selected set of filtered people. All 4 Matthias Kemmer AvatarGenerator.addon.tgz
Event Description Editor Tool A tool that allows you to find and replace a text string in the event description of multiple events. All 4 Matthias Kemmer EventDescriptionEditor.addon.tgz
Number of Ancestors Quickview A quickview similar to the number of ancestors text report. All 4 Matthias Kemmer NumberOfAncestorsQuickview.addon.tgz
Family Relationship Tool N/A A tool that allows editing family relationships of multiple families. All 4 Matthias Kemmer FamilyRelationshipTool.addon.tgz
Media Report Report A text report for images, which allows custom headings and custom notes as well as image data like notes, citations, tags, attributes and people references. All 4 Matthias Kemmer MediaReport.addon.tgz
Set Privacy Tool Tool The Set Privacy Tool allows you to manage privacy status of people, events and media All 4 Matthias Kemmer SetPrivacyTool.addon.tgz
Birthdays Gramplet Gramplet   Display the upcoming birthdays All 1 Peter Potrowl BirthdaysGramplet.addon.tgz
Birth Order Tool Tool   Sort children in families in their birth order All 3 Paul Culley BirthOrder.addon.tgz
Browser Gramplet Gramplet   Display shows details of a person linked media objects. All 4 Gramps Bugtracker MediaBrowser.addon.tgz
Cairo Clock Gramplet Gramplet A sample Cairo clock gramplet. Developer 1 Doug Blank ClockGramplet.addon.tgz
Calculate Estimated Dates Tool A tool to set estimated birth and death dates. All 2 Doug Blank CalculateEstimatedDates.addon.tgz
Combined View View A view showing relationships and events for a person. Like the built-in Relationships View but on steroids. All 1 Gramps Bugtracker
Nick Hall
CombinedView.addon.tgz
Collections Clipboard Gramplet Gramplet Allows one to group items together for quick access. All 2 Doug Blank ClipboardGramplet.addon.tgz
Command Line Merge Tool N/A Merge primary object via the command line. (Note: Used by Gramps project to test its code you can see an example of how it used programmatically here) Developer 3 Gramps Bugtracker
Michiel D. Nauta
CliMerge.addon.tgz
D3 Ancestral/Descendant Charts Web Report   Create ancestral/descendant web based interactive D3 charts. All 3 Matt Keenan D3Charts.addon.tgz
Database Differences Report Report   Allows a mostly complete comparison between the current database and a Gramps XML file All 2 Gramps Bugtracker Differences.addon.tgz
Data Entry Gramplet Gramplet Quick Data Entry for People data Expert user 4 Gramps Bugtracker DataEntryGramplet.addon.tgz
Date Calculator Gramplet Gramplet Allows you to do date math. Normal user 3 Gramps Bugtracker DateCalculator.addon.tgz
Deep Connections Gramplet Gramplet Finds deep relationships between home and active people All 3 Gramps Bugtracker DeepConnectionsGramplet.addon.tgz
Denomino Viso Web report Creates interactive graphical ancestor/descendant tree on a webpage. All 3 Gramps Bugtracker
Michiel Nauta
DenominoViso.addon.tgz
Descendant and Detailed Descendant Book Reports Report   Create a book of descendant or detailed descendant reports using a filter. All 4 Matt Keenan
Giansalvo Gusinu
DescendantBooks.addon.tgz
Descendant Count Gramplet Gramplet and Quickview Gives a count of descendants for each person All 4 Doug Blank DescendantCount.addon.tgz
Descendants Lines Report   Generates a graphical descendants tree using orthogonal edges and routing ("square edges"). All 3 Gramps Bugtracker
User:Lcc
Adam Sampson
Giansalvo Gusinu
DescendantsLines.addon.tgz
Download Media Tool Download media from web pages All 1 Gramps Bugtracker DownloadMedia.addon.tgz
DynamicWeb report Report   Exports the Family Tree as Web pages that are generated dynamically by client-side Javascript (no server required). All 3 Gramps Bugtracker
Pierre Bélissent
DynamicWeb.addon.tgz
ExportRaw Exporter A Gramps exporter that will dump your BSDDB database into a flat text version (.raw) of the Python objects. Developer 4 Doug Blank ExportRaw.addon.tgz
Extract Place Data from a Place Title Tool Attempts to extract city and state/province from a place title All 3 Gramps Bugtracker ExtractCity.addon.tgz
Family Sheet Report Generates a form with all information about a person, its spouses and its children. (Requires: PIL (Python Imaging Library).) All 4 Gramps Bugtracker
Reinhard Müller
FamilySheet.addon.tgz
Family Tree Report Generates a graphical tree of a family with its ancestors and/or descendants. All 3 Gramps Bugtracker
Reinhard Müller
FamilyTree.addon.tgz
Fix Capitalization of Given Names Tool Fix Capitalization of Given Names All 2 Donald N. Allingham
Doug Blank
ChangeGivenNames.addon.tgz
Form Addons Gramplet   Forms gramplet that allows users to create and edit structured source data in a single form, such as birth, marriage and death certificates and parish register entries. All 1 Nick Hall Form.addon.tgz
GEDCOM Extensions Exporter Collection of unofficial GEDCOM extensions which extend Gramps GedcomWriter to include common non-compliant GEDCOM additions.. Expert user 2 Gramps Bugtracker
Doug Blank
GedcomExtensions.addon.tgz
GenealogyTree Report   Uses LaTeX genealogytree (the Pedigree and genealogical tree diagrams package) to create professional looking trees for the active person. Four report are available. Requires: texlive/texlive-pictures and texlive-fontsextra Developer
Expert user
Intermediate user
3 Gramps Bugtracker
Nick Hall
GenealogyTree.addon.tgz
GetGOV Gramplet Download places from the GOV genealogical gazetteer. Expert user 2 Gary Griffin GetGOV.addon.tgz
Google Earth Mapservice Show places with GoogleEarth.. All 3 Peter Landgren GoogleEarthWriteKML.addon.tgz
Gramps SQLite Export Import Exporter/Importer A Gramps exporter and importer that will export/import your Family Tree as a fully-relational SQLite database. Expert users 3 Doug Blank Sqlite.addon.tgz
Graph View View A view that can display the active persons ancestor tree and descendant tree. Requires PyGoocanvas and Goocanvas. Expert users 3 Gramps Bugtracker
Gary Burton
GraphView.addon.tgz
Handle.bash External utility A bash script which makes it possible to work with multiple databases merging select branches at will without collisions. All 3 User:Lcc (e-mail) Handle.bash.tar.gz
Headline News Gramplet Gramplet Shows Gramps breaking news, once per hour All 4 Gramps Bugtracker HeadlineNewsGramplet.addon.tgz
House Timeline Gramplet Gramplet Lists the Residents of an Address by Timeline All 4 Gramps Bugtracker HouseTimelineGramplet.addon.tgz
Htree Pedigree View View The H-tree based layout can be used to display ancestral trees. All 3 Gramps Bugtracker HtreePedigreeView.addon.tgz
Html View HtmlView A view showing html pages embedded in Gramps. Requires the gir-webkit prerequisite to work. All 3 Gramps Bugtracker HtmlView.addon.tgz
Import Text Gramplet Gramplet Interface to import text directly in the following formats: CSV (spreadsheet input), Gramps XML, VCard. Developers 2 Doug Blank ImportGramplet.addon.tgz
Import Merge Tool Tool Compares a Gramps XML database with the current one, and allows merging of the differences. All 4 Paul Culley ImportMerge.addon.tgz
Information Graph Report N/A Generate detailed GraphViz graphs by spidering over the database. All 0 Bob Ham GVInformationGraph.py
Interactive Family Tree Tool Opens an interactive tree in the browser. This tool uses the Topola Genealogy Viewer to display the family tree. All 4 GitHub issue tracker Topola.addon.tgz
Last Change Gramplet and Report A gramplet and report to display the last ten records changed in the open family tree. The gramplet only displays persons, while the report can display changed families, places, and events too. All 1 Jakim Friant LastChange.addon.tgz
Libaccess Library The Generic DB Access lib (AKA libaccess) is an experimental library that provides generic access to the database and the gen.lib interface. Developer 1 Doug Blank libaccess.addon.tgz
Life Line Chart View View A view which shows individuals as lines in an ancestor or descendant chart along a time span. All 3 Gramps Bugtracker
CWSchulze
Lines of Descendency Report Report Prints out all descendency lines from a given ancestor to a given descendant in text. All 2.5 User:Lcc (e-mail) LinesOfDescendency.addon.tgz
Merge Media Tool Searches for Media entries that point to the same media file and merges them together. All 4 Paul Culley MediaMerge.addon.tgz
Media Verify Tool Tool Verify a one-to-one relationship between media objects and files in the media directory. The main purpose of the tool is to locate files that have been moved and fix the paths. All 4 Gramps Bugtracker MediaVerify.addon.tgz
MongoDB Database N/A MongoDB database backend support. Developer 2 Gramps Bugtracker MongoDB.addon.tgz
Network Chart Website Generate a single graph showing connectivity between individuals Expert user 3 Mark B. NetworkChart.addon.tgz
Note Gramplet Gramplet A data entry gramplet for notes. All 3 Doug Blank NoteGramplet.addon.tgz
Note Cleanup Tool Tool A tool to clean up html and convert to Styled Text in notes. Also converts Web links to Styled text. All 3 Paul Culley NoteCleanup.addon.tgz
Number Of Descendants Quickview Quickview Shows the number of descendants of the current active person All 4 Gramps Bugtracker
Reinhard Müller
NumberOfDescendantsQuickview.addon.tgz
Participants Gramplet Gramplet   Display the participants in an event. All 4 Gramps Bugtracker Participants.addon.tgz
Pedigree Chart Report A version of the classic pedigree chart that is suitable for printing. (Can optionally use - numpy if installed) All 1 Jakim Friant PedigreeChart.addon.tgz
Person Everything Report Report Show absolutely everything about one person, including all events, notes, citations, sources, attributes, media and the family information about the families they are involved in. All 4 Gramps Bugtracker PersonEverything.addon.tgz
Photo Tagging Gramplet Gramplet Enables tagging people in photographs, i.e. associating regions of images with Gramps persons. (Requires: OpenCV(for automatic face detection)& Numpy ) All 4 Gramps Bugtracker PhotoTaggingGramplet.addon.tgz
Place Cleanup Gramplet Gramplet Place Cleanup Gramplet assists in merging places, as well as completing places from the GeoNames web database. All 3 Paul Culley PlaceCleanup.addon.tgz
Place completion tool Tool A tool to fill in places. All 3 Gramps Bugtracker PlaceCompletion.addon.tgz
PlaceUpdate Gramplet Gramplet Gramplet to manipulate multiple places. All 3 Kari Kujansuu
Gramps Bugtracker
PlaceUpdate.py
PostgreSQL Database N/A PostgreSQL database backend support. Expert User 2 Gramps Bugtracker PostgreSQL.addon.tgz
Prerequisites Checker Gramplet Gramplet   Diagnostic tool to help work out if users have the required prerequisites installed as well as the latest version of Gramps. Expert user 1 Gramps Bugtracker PrerequisitesCheckerGramplet.addon.tgz
Python Shell Gramplet Gramplet Interactive Python Shell Developer 4 Gramps Bugtracker PythonGramplet.addon.tgz
Plugin Manager Plugin Plugin lib and Gramplet A Plugin manager with additional capabilities All 4 Paul Culley PluginManager.addon.tgz
Sources and Citations Report Report A text report for source and citations with notes. All 4 Gramps Bugtracker SourcesCitationsReport.addon.tgz
Sync Associations Tool N/A Add reciprocal Associations if missing. All 2 Gary Griffin SyncAssociations.addon.tgz
Tiny Tafel(ListeEclair) Report Provides a compact way of describing the main surnames found in a family genealogy, which can be read by humans and matched by computers using a Tafel Matching System. All 4 Gramps Bugtracker
Eric doutreleau
ListeEclair.addon.tgz
Query Gramplet Gramplet and Report A SQL-like query system. All 1 Doug Blank Query.addon.tgz
Quilt Chart View A view that presents your family tree in the form of a grid. Expert users 3 Gramps Bugtracker
Serge Noiraud, Nick Hall
QuiltView.addon.tgz
Related Relatives Gramplet Gramplet   Display all persons in the database with a relation to a relative. All 1 Heinz Brinker RelatedRelativesGramplet.addon.tgz
Remove Tag Tool Tool The Remove Tag Tool allows you to remove one tag from a selected set of filtered objects e.g. people. All 4 Matthias Kemmer RemoveTagTool.addon.tgz
Repositories Report Report A set of Text reports to list repositories and their related sources information, useful when going to a repository (like an archive). All 3 Gramps Bugtracker
Jérôme Rapinat
RepositoriesReport.addon.tgz
Set Attribute Tool Tool A tool for setting attributes and their values on people. All 2 Doug Blank SetAttributeTool.addon.tgz
Themes Settings An addition to Preferences for simple Theme and Font adjustment. Especially useful for Windows users. All 3 Paul Culley Themes.addon.tgz
This Day In Family History Gramplet   Display the upcoming a concise report of the user defined list of events that happened on this day and month. All 1 Stephen Adams ThisDayInFamilyHistory.addon.tgz
Thumbnail Generator Tool N/A Generates thumbnails for media files. All 3 Nick Hall ThumbnailGenerator.addon.tgz
Types Cleanup Tool Tool A tool to Remove unneeded custom Types. All 4 Paul Culley TypeCleanup.addon.tgz
Timeline Quickview Quickview Shows timeline of events in immediate family members' lives All 4 Doug Blank TimelineQuickview.addon.tgz
Timeline Pedigree View View Pedigree showing timeline and relationships. All 3 Doug Blank TimelinePedigreeView.addon.tgz
ToDo Report Report Tag notes as ToDo (or anything else) and you can generate a report with the notes and the records they are attached to. Another way of maintaining a to-do list within Gramps. All 1 Jakim Friant ToDoReport.addon.tgz
Web Connect Pack Library Collection of Web sites for various countries (DE/FR/UK/US) Only install the country you need. (* Requires libwebconnect) All 4 Gramps Bugtracker libwebconnect.addon.tgz
DEWebConnectPack.addon.tgz
FRWebConnectPack.addon.tgz
UKWebConnectPack.addon.tgz
USWebConnectPack.addon.tgz

Manually installed Addons

A few addons have to be installed manually (or are scripts and need to be installed as described in the documentation).

Addons in the exploratory stages tend to be initially posted to the GitHub Gramps-Project repositories and have to be manually installed. Be certain to backup your Tree before installing anything. There is a potential for data loss with such preliminary versions.

  1. Click on a download link from the list of Addons below.
  2. Open the .ZIP or .gz file and save the contents to your Gramps User Directory, in the gramps51/plugins folder
  3. After manually installing any addons, you need to restart Gramps
 
Addon/Plugin Errors

From the Help > Plugin Manager you can see which addons/plugins failed to load by viewing the Status column, and then double clicking on such an entry shows you the error. You can email this error to the plugin contact.

Plugin / Documentation Type Image Description Use Rating (out of 4) Contact Download
InformationGraph Report N/A Generate detailed GraphViz graphs by spidering over the database. All 1 Bob Ham GVInformationGraph.py
Handle.bash External utility A bash script which makes it possible to work with multiple databases merging select branches at will without collisions. All 3 User:Lcc (e-mail) Handle.bash.tar.gz

Plugins for other versions of Gramps

Plugins for other versions of Gramps can be found on the following pages

Writing a Addon/Plugin

See also