Memorial App for Android: 10 Options in 2026 (Honest Comparison)
Search the Play Store for "memorial app" and you get grave-finding tools, grief journals, funeral-home apps, and a lot of things that are not memorials at all. It is a confusing category, partly because the biggest names in online memorials never built an Android app — they are websites, and on Android you reach them through Chrome.
That is not necessarily a problem. But you should know which is which before you spend an evening uploading three hundred photos.
How this list is ordered. Anything that builds a shareable memorial page comes first; the adjacent tools — grave finders, grief support, photo albums — come after. Within each group, apps you can install from Google Play come before browser-only services. Every entry says which it is, so you can check the order against the labels rather than take our word for it.
Part One: Apps and Services That Build a Memorial Page
1. FamilySearch Memories — Best Free Native Android App
Price: Free Google Play: Yes, native Android app Best for: Preserving photos, written stories and voice recordings for a whole family line
FamilySearch Memories is a free app from a genealogy organisation, and it is the strongest genuinely-native Android option for keeping someone's memories. You add photos, typed stories and audio recordings, tag the relatives who appear in them, and everything syncs to the free FamilySearch Tree app and website.
The audio recording feature deserves particular attention. Recording an older relative telling a story, in their own voice, is the single most valuable thing most families never get around to doing.
The trade-off: it is a genealogy tool, not a memorial tool. There is no memorial page you can hand to a hundred people, no guest book, no service details. It is a private archive that happens to hold memories beautifully.
2. Memor: Gravefinder & Memorial — Native App With a Memorial Profile
Price: Free tier Google Play: Yes, native Android app Best for: Pairing a memorial with an actual gravesite
Memor sits between the two halves of this list: it locates a gravesite by GPS and lets you build a memorial profile with photos, a short biography, military history and important dates. It also supports adding a song that plays when someone opens the page, which some families love and others find a lot.
It is a small app relative to the names below it, and the memorial pages are simpler. But if the grave and the memorial are the same thing in your mind — a place to visit and a place to read — it is the only Android app on this list that does both natively.
3. GetMemorial — Editor's Pick ⭐
Price: Free tier; paid plans from $4.99/month, $39.99/year, or $89.99 lifetime Google Play: No — browser-based on Android. Native app on iPhone and iPad; an Android app is in development. Best for: A beautiful, permanent memorial page that family can add to from any device
We build this one, so treat the placement accordingly — it sits third because the two above it are installable and this is not, and we would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise.
On an Android phone you open getmemorial.com in Chrome and use it there. Creating a memorial takes a few minutes: a name, dates, a cover photo, a life story. You then send one link to the family, and anyone who opens it can add photos and write a tribute without creating an account first — which matters enormously when the people you most want to hear from are in their seventies.
What it does not do: it does not search newspaper obituary archives, it does not run fundraising, it does not locate graves, and it does not send you a reminder on the anniversary. If you want a reminder, put it in your own calendar.
If you are on an iPhone rather than Android, the native app is covered in our iPhone memorial app comparison.
4. Ever Loved — Best Free Option With Fundraising
Price: Free memorial pages; fundraising takes a cut Google Play: No — browser-based Best for: Families raising money for funeral costs alongside the memorial
Ever Loved's free tier is genuinely generous, and its real strength is that the memorial page and the fundraiser are the same page. When a family is trying to cover an $8,000 funeral bill, not asking people to visit two links is worth a great deal.
The design is functional rather than beautiful, and the pages carry more platform branding than some families want. We wrote a fuller breakdown in Ever Loved alternatives, including where it is the right answer.
5. Forever Missed — Largest Library, Oldest Design
Price: Free tier with ads; paid tiers remove them Google Play: No — browser-based Best for: Reaching an audience already on the platform
Forever Missed has been running for well over a decade and hosts an enormous number of memorial pages. That longevity is a real argument: it has outlasted platforms that promised permanence and closed anyway.
The interface shows its age, and the free tier carries advertising on a page about someone who died, which many families find hard. Details in Forever Missed alternatives.
6. Kudoboard — Best for a Group Tribute Card
Price: Free for a small board; paid for larger ones Google Play: No — browser-based, no mobile app Best for: Collecting many short messages quickly, especially from colleagues
Kudoboard is a digital group card. Everyone posts a note, a photo or a GIF to a shared wall. It was built for workplace celebrations and gets used for memorials because it is the fastest way to collect fifty short messages from people who will not sign up for anything.
It is not a memorial. There is no life story, no permanence guarantee, no structure. Use it as a first gathering step, then move the messages somewhere lasting.
Part Two: Adjacent Tools Worth Knowing
7. Find a Grave — Free, and the Biggest Database
Price: Free Google Play: Yes, native Android app
Owned by Ancestry, Find a Grave gives you access to a very large collection of burial records — hundreds of millions of graves across half a million cemeteries. You can find a cemetery near you, locate a specific grave, add headstone photos and GPS coordinates, and create a basic memorial record with a bio and photos.
Treat the memorial records as a listing rather than a tribute page. They are indexed, searchable and useful for relatives researching the family in twenty years. They are not where you tell the story.
8. BillionGraves — Free, GPS-Tagged Headstone Photos
Price: Free Google Play: Yes, native Android app
BillionGraves works the other direction: you photograph headstones during your own cemetery visits and the app uploads them with GPS data to a shared database. For families with graves scattered across several states, it turns "somewhere in that cemetery" into a pin on a map.
9. Empathy — Loss Companion — For the Admin and the Grief
Price: Often free through an employer or insurer; otherwise paid Google Play: Yes, native Android app
Empathy is not a memorial app at all. It is a companion for everything that follows a death: a personalised care plan with actual steps, on-demand support from care managers, journaling, guided meditations, and shared access so up to five family members can split the tasks.
Many people get it free through a life insurer or employer benefit, so check before paying. If you are drowning in the logistics rather than the words, this is the app on this list that helps most. Our own checklist for the first weeks covers similar ground for free.
10. Google Photos Shared Album — The One Already Installed
Price: Free (within your storage quota) Google Play: Yes, pre-installed on most Android phones
Create a shared album, name it after the person, and invite the family. Everyone contributes from their own camera roll in about thirty seconds, with no sign-up and no learning curve. For pure photo-gathering it beats every paid option here.
What it lacks: a life story, any structure, a link you can put in an obituary, and searchability. It is not permanent in the way a memorial site is — it lives inside one Google account, and accounts lapse.
The pattern that works well: gather in a shared album first, because it is frictionless, then build the actual memorial from what arrives.
Quick Comparison
| App | On Google Play | Free tier | Builds a memorial page |
|---|---|---|---|
| FamilySearch Memories | Yes | Yes, fully | Private archive only |
| Memor | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GetMemorial | No (browser) | Yes | Yes |
| Ever Loved | No (browser) | Yes | Yes |
| Forever Missed | No (browser) | Yes, with ads | Yes |
| Kudoboard | No (browser) | Small boards | Message wall only |
| Find a Grave | Yes | Yes | Listing only |
| BillionGraves | Yes | Yes | No |
| Empathy | Yes | Via employer | No |
| Google Photos | Pre-installed | Yes | No |
How to Choose
Answer one question first: do you need a link, or do you need a place?
If you need a link — something to put in the obituary, text to two hundred people, and have relatives open on whatever device they own — you need a memorial page, and on Android that means a browser-based service. Anything in Part One from position three down.
If you need a place — somewhere private to keep photos, voices and stories that only the family sees — an installable app is better, and FamilySearch Memories is free and excellent at exactly this.
Two other things worth deciding early, because they are painful to change later:
Who owns it. If the page lives in one person's account and that person stops paying or stops answering email, the page goes. Prefer platforms where a memorial can have more than one administrator.
How people contribute. The single biggest predictor of whether a memorial fills up is whether an eighty-year-old can add a photo without creating an account. Test that before you commit, not after.
If you would rather compare the browser-based services properly rather than app by app, our roundup of online memorial websites goes deeper on pricing and permanence, and how to create a free online memorial walks through the free routes end to end.
FAQ
Is there a free memorial app for Android? Several. FamilySearch Memories, Find a Grave, BillionGraves and Google Photos are all free with no paid tier required. Among browser-based services, Ever Loved and GetMemorial both have free tiers you can use without paying.
Why do so few memorial services have an Android app? Most were built as websites, and a memorial page is fundamentally a link you share — something a browser handles well. Building and maintaining two native apps is expensive for a small company, and iOS usually comes first because it is one platform rather than many. It is a resourcing decision, not a technical limit.
Can I use a browser-based memorial site properly on an Android phone? Yes. Uploading photos from your camera roll, writing a life story and reading tributes all work in Chrome. What you give up is a home-screen icon and the last few percent of upload speed. You can add most memorial sites to your home screen from Chrome's menu, which recovers the icon.
Which is best for collecting messages from a lot of people quickly? Kudoboard, by a wide margin, because it asks nothing of contributors. Move the messages onto a permanent memorial afterwards.
Will an Android memorial app remind me on the anniversary? Do not rely on it. Very few of these apps send anniversary reminders, and the ones that do change their notification behaviour over time. Put the date in your phone's calendar with a week's notice — our anniversary guide covers what to do when it arrives.
GetMemorial helps families build beautiful, lasting online memorials in minutes — a permanent home for tributes, photos, and stories. Build yours at GetMemorial.com.
