• Family
  • Business
  • Social
  • Conflict
  • Other

Relationship maps for people, groups, companies, and more.

Draw people and how they connect. Share it with a link.

Free · No account · Private by default

Example maps

30 maps · 642 people · 1102 relationships

Open one and press Edit a copy to make it yours.

How it works

Four steps, about five minutes

  1. 01

    Start a map

    One click. You get a private edit link. Keep it: it is the only key.

  2. 02

    Add people

    Double-click the canvas to add someone. Add a photo or dates if you like.

  3. 03

    Connect them

    Drag from one card to another. Name the tie and pick its kind.

  4. 04

    Share it

    Send the view link. Only people with the link can see it.

Guides

Reading a network, and what people map

Questions

What is a netgraf?
A netgraf is a diagram of the ties inside a group. Each person is a dot, each tie is a line, and the shape shows who is central, who is on the edge, and where the group splits. Sociologists call the classroom version a sociogram; the same picture works for families, companies and casts.
Is Netgraf a free sociogram maker?
Yes. Netgraf is free, needs no account, and draws a sociogram in the browser: add each person, connect the ones who chose or know each other, and the map shows stars, isolates and cliques. It also measures who is central, so a teacher or researcher gets the numbers along with the picture.
How do I make a relationship map?
Start a map, double-click the canvas to add a person, and drag from one person to another to connect them. Name each tie and pick its kind: family, business, social, conflict or other. You can also import a spreadsheet, have AI draft one from a description or add to one you started, or copy an example.
What can I use it for?
Anything with people and ties between them: a classroom, a team, a family, the owners behind a set of companies, a journalist's investigation, stakeholders on a project, or the cast of a show. Each map states whether it is about real, historical or fictional people, so readers know what it claims.
Is it private?
Yes. Every map is unlisted: only people you send the link to can see it, and it is kept out of search engines. The edit link is a secret key, so keep it safe. A map only appears in the public gallery if you choose to publish it there, and it still stays out of search.
Can I import a spreadsheet or export my map?
Yes. Netgraf imports CSV and TSV edge lists, pasted spreadsheets, GraphML and GEXF, and reads the file in your browser. It exports GraphML for Gephi, yEd or Cytoscape, two CSVs of people and relationships with their network measures, its own JSON, and a PNG image of the map.
Can I embed a map on my website?
Yes. Open Share on any map and copy the embed code into your page, blog or newsroom CMS. Readers can pan, zoom, play the tour and open the insights right there, and the embed stays in step with your edits. It works like a YouTube embed, with no account needed.
Can a map show time and sources?
Yes. Add dates to people and relationships and the map gets a timeline you can drag or play, so the network assembles and thins out over the years. Each relationship can carry a source link and a confidence level of confirmed, reported or rumored, drawn as the style of the line.
Can I see how two people are connected?
Yes. Open a map, click a person, and pick anyone else under Connection to. Netgraf finds the shortest chain of relationships between them, lights it up on the map, and lists each step, such as hired, then married to. If nothing joins the two, it says so.
How is Netgraf different from Kumu or Gephi?
Netgraf is for drawing and sharing a map in minutes, with no account and no public indexing of your work. Kumu is a hosted tool whose free projects are public. Gephi is free desktop software for analysing large networks. Netgraf sits between them: a quick editor with built-in centrality and community analysis.