Scribe AI Now Available on the MyHeritage Mobile App
We’re excited to share that Scribe AI is now available on the MyHeritage mobile app, enabling you to uncover insights from your family’s documents and photos — anytime, anywhere. Now you can scan a document, photo, gravestone, or other genealogical artifact directly from your mobile device and analyze it conveniently on the spot.
Scribe AI, which we recently introduced at RootsTech, is a powerful feature that transcribes, translates, and interprets historical documents and images. Originally born from a MyHeritage hackathon project, it quickly became a big hit in the genealogy world and has received enthusiastic feedback.
If you don’t have the MyHeritage mobile app yet, you can install it now for free. If you already have the app, make sure you update it to the latest version.
What Scribe AI can do
Scribe AI helps you make sense of historical documents and photos that might otherwise be difficult to read or interpret. It can transcribe handwritten and printed text, translate records written in other languages, and analyze visual details to provide historical context and meaningful insights.
For documents, Scribe AI extracts key genealogical details such as names, dates, and places, and can even analyze multi-page records as a single contextual unit. For photos, it estimates when and where they were taken based on visual clues. It can also interpret symbols on gravestones and explain the design and meaning of coats of arms.
By turning hard-to-read or unfamiliar materials into clear, structured information, Scribe AI helps you uncover new details and better understand your family’s history.
Accessing Scribe AI on the Mobile App
There are two ways to access Scribe AI on the mobile app:
From the app menu
On the home screen, shown below on the left, open the app menu by tapping the grid icon (highlighted in green). Tap “Photos” in the app menu shown on the right, and then “Scribe AI” (highlighted in red):
Accessing Scribe AI from the MyHeritage mobile app menu (click to zoom)
On the next screen, tap “Choose image”:
Scribe AI on the MyHeritage mobile app (click to zoom)
Then select the image you’d like to analyze from among your photos on MyHeritage or the gallery on your device.
From your MyHeritage photo gallery
To use Scribe AI on a photo or document you’ve already uploaded to MyHeritage, open the photo on the MyHeritage mobile app, tap the 3 dots on the upper right corner of the screen (highlighted below in green), and then “Get Scribe AI insights” (highlighted below in red):
Accessing Scribe AI from a photo on MyHeritage (click to zoom)
Once you run Scribe AI, the results appear in clearly organized sections, just like on the website version. The first section will be open by default. Scroll down to view the rest of your results.
Scribe AI on the MyHeritage mobile app: Historical context
Tapping on the title of each section expands and collapses it for easier navigation.
Scribe AI results: All sections collapsed (click to zoom)
Once generated, your Scribe AI results will be saved and you can access them at any time. If Scribe AI has analyzed a photo, a “Scribe AI: View insights” button will appear on the lower left corner of the photo viewing screen. Tap it to access the results.
Accessing Scribe AI results for a photo (click to zoom)
Soon, you’ll be able to use Scribe Scribe AI directly on historical records in the app. This functionality is currently available on the MyHeritage website.
Cost
Anyone can use Scribe AI for free on a limited number of images. Further use requires a Complete or Omni subscription. Existing Complete and Omni subscribers of MyHeritage are in luck, as they can use this feature without limits and at no extra cost.
Try Scribe AI on the MyHeritage mobile app
With Scribe AI now available on the MyHeritage mobile app, discovering your family’s stories just got more convenient. Whether you’re flipping through old albums at a relative’s home, encountering a fascinating headstone at a cemetery, or studying a document in an archive, you can now capture it and understand it instantly — right from your phone.
Update your MyHeritage app and start exploring with Scribe AI today.
