Kunbaa is for people who searched "family" and meant theirs — the parents, the cousins, the grandmother whose stories nobody has written down — and want one private place where the family builds its own tree, shares the real photos and never misses a birthday, free for everyone who joins.
Family Life! is a life-simulation game: you build a fictional family tree and play out careers, weddings, homes and children, offline, with ads and in-app purchases, rated 13+. Kunbaa is a private, invite-only app for your real family: a tree every relative builds together for free, a wall where photos keep who, where and when in the caption, birthdays that become reminders, and chat and calls in the app. If you wanted the game, play the game; if you wanted your family, start with Kunbaa.
At a glance, as of September 2026. Kunbaa facts describe the current release; Family Life! facts are quoted from its own site.
| Compared | Kunbaa | Family Life! |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A private space for your real family, built on a tree of the people you know | A simulation game about a virtual family's life events |
| Whose family | Yours. Both sides, all the branches, each relative adding what only they know | A character's, created and played by you |
| Weddings, homes and babies | The real ones: an event with a to-do list, the photos afterwards, and the new baby on the tree the day she arrives | Choices in the game: plan a wedding, build a home, raise children |
| Photos and stories | A wall for photos, videos, stories and voice notes, captioned with who, where and roughly when, with an audience per post; Memory Lane runs it as a timeline | Not the point; the game generates its own scenes |
| Everyday family life | Events with birthday reminders and to-dos on the web today; chat, calls and opt-in Family Safety in the Kunbaa app, coming soon | None between real people; it is a single-player game, playable offline |
| Ads | None. Invite-only, no ads, nobody's data sold | Ad-supported; a "No Ads" purchase is listed at A$49.99 on the Australian App Store, September 2026 |
| Age | Every account is held by an adult (18+); children are on the tree and in the photos, added by adults | Rated 13+ on the App Store |
| Price | Free to start, with no cap on the tree. Kunbaa Plus is $15.99/mo or $159.99/yr for the whole family (yearly is about $13 a month for the whole family); everyone else joins free | Free to play with ads; passes, packs and video coupons sold in-app, September 2026 |
Building a family from scratch is fun in a game. Building your own is better, and the pieces already exist: add the people you know on Kunbaa, invite the relatives who know the rest, and the tree fills in from every branch with a real photo and a real birthday on each card. Free, and nothing to grind for.
Your real family is in three countries and two languages, and the chat groups have never held all of it. On Kunbaa each branch joins free, the birthdays come off the tree so nobody is forgotten, and the wall is there when each of you wakes up.
The game lets you raise a child in an afternoon. Yours is taking longer, and the grandparents want every photo. Kunbaa puts the baby on the tree beside them, sends each photo to the relatives you choose, and keeps the names and dates in the caption for the day she asks.
Family Life! is good at its job. This is the plain list of what changes if your family moves this part of its life to Kunbaa.
Everyone you invite gets their own place on the tree, their photo and their birthday, and adds the relatives only they know. Both sides, all the branches, no cap on the free tree. Relatives who have passed stay where they belong; children are added by adults without an account.
The Kunbaa family tree →
Every birthday on the tree becomes a reminder for the family. Plan the wedding or the reunion as an event with a to-do list, keep it to the relatives it concerns, and attach the photos afterwards so the day is kept as a day.
Events and reminders →
Each photo, video, story and voice note on the wall carries who, where and roughly when in the caption, beside the person on the tree. You choose who sees each post: everyone in the family, the extended family, or just your household. Memory Lane runs the archive as a timeline.
The wall and Memory Lane →
Group and one-to-one chat, and calls that 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). Only relatives in your family space can ring you. Chat and calls arrive with the Kunbaa app, coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.
Chat and calls in Kunbaa →A Kunbaa family space cannot be searched and carries no ads. Every account is held by an adult, an admin sets per-member permissions, and you decide who sees each post. Kunbaa is private by invitation, not by encryption; the help page says exactly what that means.
How private is Kunbaa? →No. Kunbaa is a private app for your real family: a tree the relatives you invite build together, a wall for the photos and stories with the names written down, birthdays and events, and chat and calls in the app. Family Life! is a simulation game about a virtual family. They share a word and nothing else.
If you wanted somewhere for your own relatives — to see how everyone fits, share the real photos privately and never miss a birthday — you want Kunbaa. Start with the people you know, invite the rest, and the tree fills in. It is free to start, with no cap on the tree.
No. A Kunbaa family space is invite-only and cannot be searched, there are no ads, and nobody's data is sold. Family Life! is ad-supported, with an in-app purchase to remove them.
Kunbaa is a shared space, so it needs a connection to show what the family has added; the app keeps what you have already seen. Family Life! is a single-player game and plays offline, which Kunbaa does not try to match.
Everyone in the family joins Kunbaa free, and the tree has no cap. Kunbaa Plus is $15.99 a month or $159.99 a year, paid by one person, and keeps the family's archive: longer videos, room for the whole family's photos, and chat photos kept while the family is on Plus. There are no passes, packs or coupons.
Yes. Children are added to the tree by an adult and appear in the photos; they do not hold an account, because every Kunbaa account is for adults aged 18 and over. Adults keep it; kids are in it.
More questions? Read the full FAQ or what private means in Kunbaa.
Put the people you know on a private tree, invite the relatives who remember the rest, and let the real photos and stories gather beside the people they belong to.
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.