BillionGraves

Otter Creek Holdings LLC

About this app

Employing the latest in smartphone and GPS technology, we’re scouring the earth to locate, document and honor the graves of every person who’s ever lived. With your help, this ambitious undertaking will result in the definitive, comprehensive family history database for records and images from all the world’s cemeteries. Join our quest with the BillionGraves app to shoot and share images of headstones from your own cemetery visits—anywhere and everywhere in the world. Find the headstones you’re looking for, and help us identify even more!

Using BillionGraves is SIMPLE, REWARDING, and FUN:
1. Visit a cemetery (in your hometown, on vacation, on a break from business trips)
2. Take and upload photos of all the headstones you can find
3. Tell others about your experience, and build a network of like-minded folks around the globe!

Features:
- Search the world’s largest collection of cemeteries, graves and their GPS locations for FREE
- Add a local cemetery, right where you live or wherever you visit
- Use our built-in maps to guide you to headstones anywhere in the world
- Request headstone photos anywhere in the world
- Find cemeteries near you and fulfill photo requests in seconds
- Link multiple headstone photos
- Save and share memorials with friends
- Patent-pending technology
- Many more genealogy resources available online at BillionGraves.com

Ratings and reviews

Benefits: it's free, and can be useful for genealogical research. Drawbacks: often, memorial records I know exist and just submitted photos for don't show up in search results. I'm not sure if that's just the app or the service itself. It makes it difficult to find people, or want to contribute.

Rough start but great after I understood the app. One hard thing to understand was that transcribing is separate from recording photo/gps. I was used to other apps. With this app you transcribe later at home. You can transcribe on the spot for more difficult to read ones, but don't waste time trying to transcribe them all in the moment. App could be a bit more user-friendly, but BillionGraves is such a great cemetery documenting tool. You can document cemeteries very efficiently.

Camera stopped working after 10 min on my first use... and was sooo excited to use it while I'm visiting a small town in AL. I was only about ton take 26 pictures before the camera screen turned black. I thought mashed my phone got hot. So I cooled off in the car. Still nothing. All the rest of the app worked fine. The camera had a very small corner of the screen that showed a satellite view if where you were currently at....even after I left. I've done a forced stop. No help. Any suggestions?

What's new

Fixed an issue with granting permissions to use the camera and file storage.