Kunbaa is for families who want the reunion photos, the birthdays and the news about Grandad to reach the relatives — and only the relatives — in a private space with no ads, no ranked feed and a real family tree underneath.
Facebook connects you with everyone — friends, colleagues, school groups, Pages — and its reach is its strength. Kunbaa is a private, invite-only space for one family: no public profiles, no ads, no algorithm, a family tree with everyone's birthday on it, and a wall where each post reaches the audience you choose. Keep Facebook for the wide circle; use Kunbaa for the close one.
At a glance, as of September 2026. Kunbaa facts describe the current release; Facebook facts are quoted from its own site.
| Compared | Kunbaa | |
|---|---|---|
| Who is in it | One family: the relatives you invite, each an adult with their own account, and nobody else | Everyone: friends, colleagues, school groups, Pages and the wider public, with family somewhere in the mix |
| Profiles | No public profiles. A family space cannot be searched, and nobody outside it sees a thing | Every profile has a public name and picture, even when the rest is locked down |
| Who sees a post | The audience you pick each time: everyone in the family, the extended family, or just your household | Friends, friends of friends or the public per post; a private group shows posts to members only |
| What you see first | The family wall in the order things were shared; nothing ranked, nothing from outside | A ranked feed mixing friends, groups, Pages, suggested posts and ads |
| Ads and data | No ads on any plan; nobody's data sold | Free because it is ad-supported; ads are chosen from your activity |
| Family tree | The centre of the product: who everyone is, how they connect, and their birthdays | A profile's About page can list family members; there is no family tree |
| Photos | Kept in the family's archive with the names, the place and roughly when in the caption, beside the person on the tree; Memory Lane runs it as a timeline | Posted to a profile or a group, then carried along by the feed |
| Events | Birthdays from the tree, events with reminders and to-dos, and the photos attach to the event afterwards | Facebook Events, open to whoever is invited or to the public |
| Messages and calls | Coming soonGroup and one-to-one chat, one-to-one voice and video calls, and group calls of up to 4 people including you free (up to 6 on Kunbaa Plus), only between relatives — in the Kunbaa app, coming soon | Messenger: personal chats and calls are end-to-end encrypted by default; anyone can send a message request |
| Children | Every account is held by an adult (18+); children are on the tree and in the photos, added by their parents | Accounts from 13 |
| Price | Free to start — the tree, the wall, chat, calls and events. Kunbaa Plus is $15.99/mo or $159.99/yr for the whole family's archive; one person pays | Free, with ads |
Your mother is on Facebook because the church group is there, and she sees your post between an ad and a stranger's Reel. On Kunbaa she opens one quiet wall with only the family on it, the grandchildren's birthdays on the tree, and a call from your page that only a relative can start.
Your children's photos should reach the family, and stop there. Kunbaa is invite-only, carries no ads and sells nobody's data; you choose who each post reaches, and every account is held by an adult.
The cousins in Manchester, the uncle in Dubai, you in Brisbane. A Facebook group works until the feed decides which posts each of you sees. The Kunbaa wall shows the family only the family, in order, with the birthdays coming from the tree so nobody is forgotten.
Facebook is good at its job. This is the plain list of what changes if your family moves this part of its life to Kunbaa.
Facebook lets you list a relative on your About page. Kunbaa puts every relative on a tree, with their photo, their birthday and how they connect to you. Everyone you invite adds their own side, and a child added by an adult is on the tree without holding an account.
The Kunbaa family tree →
Photos, videos, stories and voice notes go on the wall in the order they were shared, captioned with who, where and roughly when. Each post reaches the audience you choose — everyone in the family, the extended family, or just your household — and Memory Lane runs the archive as a timeline the family can scroll back through.
The wall and Memory Lane →
Birthdays come from the tree, so the reminder arrives whether or not anyone posted. Plan the reunion as an event with a to-do list and reminders, keep it to the relatives it concerns, and attach the photos afterwards so the day is kept as a day.
Events and reminders →
Only the people in your family space can message or ring you, so there are no message requests from strangers. Calls start from a relative's page on the tree: voice and video one-to-one, and group calls of up to 4 people including you free (up to 6 on Kunbaa Plus). Chat and calls arrive with the Kunbaa app, coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.
Chat and calls in Kunbaa →
A private Facebook group has admins; so does a Kunbaa family, with finer controls. An admin decides for each member whether they can post to the wall, add people to the tree, or message members, and a relative can request more access from inside the app. Every account is held by an adult.
How private is Kunbaa? →A space built for one family instead of everyone. Kunbaa is invite-only, has no public profiles, no ads and no ranked feed, and shows your family's wall in the order things were shared. At its centre is a real family tree, and each post reaches the audience you choose inside the family.
You do not have to. Facebook's reach is real — the second cousins and the school friends are all there, and it is free. Most families keep Facebook for the wide circle and use Kunbaa for the close one: the tree, the photos worth keeping, the birthdays and the plans.
For some families it is. In a private group only members see the posts. But it still lives inside Facebook: every member's name and profile picture are public, the group sits inside an ad-funded feed that decides what each member sees, and there is no family tree. Kunbaa is private from the ground up and built around the tree.
No. There are no ads on any plan, nobody's data is sold, and the wall shows what your relatives shared in the order they shared it. Nothing is ranked to keep you scrolling.
Yes. Each post goes to everyone in the family, the extended family, or just your household — your parents, partner and children. The default is everyone; you can change it post by post, and the server enforces it.
Not in the encryption sense. Personal Messenger chats and calls are end-to-end encrypted by default, and Kunbaa is not end-to-end encrypted. Private in Kunbaa means invite-only, no ads, nobody's data sold, and nobody outside your family space able to see anything.
Chat and calls arrive with the Kunbaa mobile app, which is coming soon to the App Store and Google Play; join the waitlist below and we will email you when it is out. The family tree, the wall and events already work on kunbaa.com, free.
Facebook is free with ads. Everyone in your family joins Kunbaa free, with no ads — the tree, the wall, chat, calls, events and Family Safety cost nothing. One person pays for Kunbaa Plus at $15.99/mo or $159.99/yr (17% less, about $13 a month for the whole family yearly), on kunbaa.com, which keeps longer videos, room for the whole family's archive and chat photos while the family is on Plus. Accounts are for adults, 18 and up.
More questions? Read the full FAQ or what private means in Kunbaa.
Start the family tree, invite the relatives, and put the reunion photos on the wall for the people who were there. Chat and calls join it in the Kunbaa app.
Everyone in the family joins free. When you want room for the whole archive, one person takes Kunbaa Plus at $15.99 a month or $159.99 a year — about $13 a month for the whole family.
Coming soonChat and calls arrive with the Kunbaa app, coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.