WhatsApp is where your family talks. Kunbaa is where your family is kept.
A real family tree with everyone's birthday on it, and one private place for the photos and stories that scroll out of the group chat.
Invite-only · No ads in the app · Everyone in the family joins free
Three steps, one family
Step 1: Start with three people
You, a parent, a grandparent. Every relative is added from someone's card, so both sides and every branch fit.
Step 2: Invite the family
One link. Each relative claims their own spot and joins free — no card, no seats.
Step 3: Keep what matters
Photos, stories, voice notes and birthdays, kept beside the people they belong to instead of in a scrolling thread.
Tap Dadi. See her place in the family.
Photo apps sort by date and chat apps sort by thread. Kunbaa starts with the person.
What she has sharedComing soon
Her photos and stories stay on her profile, not scattered across chats and camera rolls. Coming soon in the Kunbaa app.
Her stories, written down
How she came to the city. The recipe only she gets right. Type it or record a voice note, and it stops living in one memory.
How everyone is related
Your side, your partner's side, the cousins abroad — anyone can see exactly how they connect to her.
Her birthday, every year
Birthdays and anniversaries live on people, so the family is reminded without anyone keeping a list.
See the family tree and the family archive.
What every family member gets, free
Nobody needs a card to join, and nothing sent in chat is ever blocked by a full archive.
The family tree
Every branch, both sides, no limit. Relatives claim their own spot.
Photos, stories and voice notes
Posted to the family wall with the names and the place in the caption.
Chat and callsComing soon
Group chat, and voice and video calls — one-to-one, or a group of up to 4 free. Coming soon in the Kunbaa app.
Events and birthdays
Reminders for the dates that matter, with the photos attached afterwards.
Optional location safetyComing soon
Share where you are with the relatives you choose, for a set time — strictly opt-in. Coming soon in the app.
Who sees what
Everyone, extended family or just your household — you choose for each post.
Chat, calls and location safety live in the mobile app, coming soon to the App Store and Google Play. Explore all the features.
Bring the WhatsApp group with you
Export the group chat, say who each person is to you, and they are on the tree. The export is read in your browser and never uploaded — not one message is kept.
The chatter can stay in the group. Kunbaa keeps what the group loses: WhatsApp compresses photos and holds media only for a limited time, so the wedding video from three years ago can fail to re-download.
One person keeps it. Everyone joins free.
Everyone in the family talks, calls, shares and is seen for free. Kunbaa Plus is what one person pays so that what the family shares is kept.
Kunbaa Plus is $15.99 a month, or $159.99 a year and save 17% — about $13 a month for the whole family. One person pays, on kunbaa.com; everyone else in the family is covered. On the free plan, photos and videos sent in chat are kept for a year.
Private, and plain about what that means
Invite-only.
Your family's space can only be joined by invitation. No public profiles, no discovery.
No ads in the app.
Nothing in Kunbaa is sponsored, promoted or fighting for your attention.
No data sold.
Your family's photos and stories are not a product. Revenue comes from the one plan.
Family-only visibility.
Nobody outside your family can see anything you keep here.
Read exactly what it does and does not mean in How private is Kunbaa?
Join early and pay $79 for your first year
Families who join while Kunbaa is new get their first year of Kunbaa Plus for $79 on kunbaa.com, renewing at the normal $159.99 a year.
Frequently asked questions
Is Kunbaa free?
For everyone joining a family, yes: the family tree, the wall and events, plus chat, calls and Family Safety in the mobile app (coming soon). There is one paid plan, Kunbaa Plus at $15.99 a month or $159.99 a year, and what it buys is keeping: longer videos in the archive, room for the whole family's archive, and the photos and videos from chat kept while you are on Plus. One person pays, on kunbaa.com; everyone else in the family is covered.
Can my kids have their own accounts?
Kunbaa accounts are 18+ on purpose. Kids belong in Kunbaa — in the tree and all over the photos — added by the adults. Adults keep it, kids are in it.
How private is Kunbaa?
Your family's space is invite-only, there are no ads, nobody's data is sold, and nobody outside the family can see anything. No public profiles, no discovery, no strangers.
Do we have to stop using WhatsApp?
No. The group is where the family's daily chatter lives. Kunbaa keeps what the group loses — WhatsApp compresses photos and holds media only for a limited time — and it takes the calls once the app is out: a call can only come from a relative in your family space, so nobody hands out a phone number.
How is Kunbaa different from Ancestry or MyHeritage?
Different job. Ancestry and MyHeritage research ancestors — records, DNA, documents — and Kunbaa has none of that. Kunbaa is for the family that is alive right now. Many families use both.
More in the Help Center, the full FAQ and the comparisons.
Start with three people and one photo
You, a parent, a grandparent. One photo, with everyone's names written down. It grows from there.