Genogram Pro vs Creately
Creately is a diagramming platform whose clinical genogram product, Creately Clinical Maps, has McGoldrick and Gerson notation and AI drafting from pasted text. Genogram Pro is a genogram maker with a free editor that needs no account, and on the Professional plan you can also import and export GEDCOM and save genograms encrypted end to end in your account.
Updated October 2026Competitor details from creately.com, checked between October 22 and October 23, 2026
Which to use
Genogram Pro
Choose Genogram Pro if you want one-click auto-arrange and a free editor you can open with no account, or, on the Professional plan, GEDCOM import and export and client data encrypted end to end so that only you can read it.
Creately
Choose Creately if you already use it for other diagrams, want real-time collaboration on a shared canvas, need a Business Associate Agreement on its Enterprise plan, or want the lower price of its Pro plan.
How Creately and Genogram Pro compare
Each Creately detail has a link to the Creately page it was taken from, and "Not documented" means we found no mention of the feature on Creately's site.
| Genogram Pro | Creately | |
|---|---|---|
| Genogram symbols | McGoldrick and Gerson notation, with 25 couple line types and 4 parent-child line types | McGoldrick and Gerson notation, with more than 40 person shape variantscreately.com/clinical |
| Emotional relationship lines | 39 bond line types, such as close, fused, hostile and cutoff | Emotional relationship lines for conflict, closeness, estrangement and caregiving, and 71 relationship subtypescreately.com/clinical |
| Medical conditions | 16 built-in conditions plus your own, each with a color and an onset date | Condition tags, genetic markers, carrier status, substance use, medications and allergiescreately.com/clinical |
| Households | Households drawn around their members, with a label and color | Not documented |
| Ecomap of the same family | In the same file as the genogram on the Professional plan, or on its own in the free ecomap maker | Not documented |
| AI from a text description | On the Professional plan and its 7-day trial, you can draft or edit a genogram with the AI assistant from typed notes or a photo of a paper genogram | A genogram drafted from pasted text on every plan, within a starter allowancecreately.com/plans |
| Auto-arrange | Every generation is laid out in one click | Not documented |
| GEDCOM | Import and export on the Professional plan, with 23 fact types such as occupation, education and residence | Not documented |
| PDF and PNG export | PNG and PDF, with an optional key of the symbols used. Free editor exports have a small badge, which can be removed on the Professional plan | PDF, SVG, PNG and JPEG on the Pro plancreately.com/plans |
| Where it runs | In a web browser on Mac, Windows, Linux and Chromebook, with nothing to install | In a browser on Mac, Windows or Linux, with no downloads requiredcreately.com/alternative-to-smartdraw |
| Free option | The free genogram maker needs no account, and genograms made in it are saved in your browser | Free plan with up to 40 shapes per diagramcreately.com/plans |
| Price | $9.99 a month billed annually, or $14.99 billed monthly, after a 7-day free trial | The Pro plan is $5 per editor a month billed annually, or $8 billed monthlycreately.com/plans |
| How client data is protected | Genograms saved to an account are encrypted end to end with a master password only you know | HIPAA compliance across the platform and Business Associate Agreements on the Enterprise plan, with no end-to-end encryption documentedcreately.com/clinical |
What Creately Clinical Maps includes
Creately describes Clinical Maps as using McGoldrick and Gerson standard notation, with more than 40 person shape variants, 71 relationship subtypes, emotional relationship lines and multi-generational layouts. On every plan, its AI proposes a genogram from pasted text within a starter allowance, and its health view and hereditary-pattern detection are Advanced features on the Enterprise plan.
In both tools, genograms are drawn in standard notation, so the differences are in the free option, GEDCOM, the ecomap and how client data is protected.
Sources: Creately Clinical Maps and Creately plans
What is free in each tool and what the paid plans cost
Creately's Free plan has an infinite canvas and the Basic Clinical Maps features, with up to 40 shapes per diagram, which a large multigenerational genogram can exceed. The Pro plan is $5 per editor a month billed annually, or $8 billed monthly.
Genogram Pro's free genogram maker needs no account, and genograms made in it are saved in your browser. The Professional plan is $9.99 a month billed annually, or $14.99 billed monthly, after a 7-day free trial, and includes account storage, the AI assistant, GEDCOM and exports without a badge.
Source: Creately plans
GEDCOM, ecomaps and client data in each tool
Creately says it maintains HIPAA compliance across the platform and offers Business Associate Agreements on its Enterprise plan, and it documents no end-to-end encryption. Clinical Maps genograms can be exported as PDF, DOCX, CSV, JSON, SVG, PNG and JPEG files, and Creately documents no GEDCOM import or export.
Genograms you save to a Genogram Pro account are encrypted on your device with a master password only you know, so we cannot read the copy on our servers. On the Professional plan, you can import and export GEDCOM and keep an ecomap in the same file as the family's genogram.
Source: Creately Clinical Maps
Drawing a genogram in Genogram Pro
A couple line can be a marriage, a divorce, a cohabitation or any other of the 25 couple types, and a child line is drawn for a biological, adopted or foster child, all in McGoldrick and Gerson notation.
There are 39 bond line types for closeness, conflict, cutoff, caretaking and other patterns, and each color-coded condition is drawn as a filled section of the person's symbol.
A PNG or PDF export can include a key of only the symbols and lines on the genogram, so a reader can follow the notation without a separate legend.
Questions people ask
Can you make genograms in Creately?
Yes. In Creately Clinical Maps, genograms are drawn in McGoldrick and Gerson notation, with more than 40 person shape variants, 71 relationship subtypes and emotional relationship lines, and Creately's AI can propose a genogram from pasted text on every plan. On the Free plan, a diagram can have up to 40 shapes.
Does Creately support genogram relationship lines?
Yes. Creately lists 71 relationship subtypes and emotional relationship lines for conflict, closeness, estrangement and caregiving. Genogram Pro has 25 couple types, 39 emotional bond types and 4 parent-child types.
Is Creately HIPAA compliant?
Creately says it maintains HIPAA compliance across the platform, and Business Associate Agreements are available on the Enterprise plan. Creately documents no end-to-end encryption. Genograms saved to a Genogram Pro account are encrypted end to end, so only you can read them.
Can I export a Creately genogram to GEDCOM?
Creately documents no GEDCOM import or export. Clinical Maps genograms can be exported as PDF, DOCX, CSV, JSON, SVG, PNG and JPEG files. In Genogram Pro, GEDCOM import and export are part of the Professional plan.
Is Genogram Pro better than Creately for genograms?
Creately Clinical Maps suits a team that already works in Creately or needs a Business Associate Agreement on the Enterprise plan. Genogram Pro is the better fit if you want one-click auto-arrange and, on the Professional plan, end-to-end encrypted client data, GEDCOM import and export, and an ecomap in the same file as the genogram.
Try both on the same family
Draw the same family in the free editor and in the tool you use today, then keep using the one whose genogram is easier to read.