Kunbaa is for families who want more than a diagram: a private tree the relatives build with you, each person with their own photo and birthday on it, and the wedding photos and voice notes kept beside the people they belong to — free for everyone who joins.
Family Tree Photo is a small, quick utility: tap plus to add relatives and it draws the tree for you, including aunts, uncles, step-siblings and blended families, with a one-off premium purchase. Kunbaa is a private, invite-only family space: a tree every relative builds together for free, with a photo and a birthday on each card, a wall where photos keep their names and dates, events with birthday reminders, and chat and calls in the app. Family Tree Photo draws the tree; Kunbaa keeps the family.
At a glance, as of September 2026. Kunbaa facts describe the current release; Family Tree Photo facts are quoted from its own site.
| Compared | Kunbaa | Family Tree Photo |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | The living family, together: one private tree, the wall beside it, birthdays, events, chat | One person drawing a family tree quickly on their phone |
| Who builds the tree | Everyone you invite. Each relative adds the branch only they know, with their own photo and birthday on their card | You, by tapping plus to add each relative; the app lays out the tree |
| Step and blended families | Yes: spouses, partners, step-parents and in-laws are all relationships the tree can hold | Yes: aunts, uncles, step-siblings and complex relationships are a listed strength |
| 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 | A photo on each person's card |
| 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 | Not the focus; a tree-drawing utility rather than a family feed or calendar |
| Tree files (GEDCOM) | GEDCOM import on kunbaa.com, matched to the people already in your tree and confirmed before anything is written; GEDCOM export is not switched on yet | Not listed |
| Children | On the tree and in the photos, added by adults; every account is held by an adult (18+) | Rated 4+ on the App Store; a single-user app |
| 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 download; "Family Tree Photo Premium" listed at A$12.99 on the Australian App Store, September 2026 |
A drawing app is a fine way to sketch what you already know. Kunbaa is what you want when you reach the edge of it: invite the aunt who knows Dad's side, and she adds her branch, her photo and her birthday herself. The tree fills in from every direction, free, and it keeps growing after the sketch would have stopped.
The cousins in Vancouver have never seen how they connect to the ones in Chennai. On Kunbaa each branch joins free and adds itself, every birthday comes off the tree as a reminder, and a call from a relative's page on the tree needs no phone number handed round.
Dad can name everyone in the album and has never written one name down. Put them on the tree with him, with their photos on the cards, and record him telling the stories as voice notes — in a space only the family can enter, where the grandchildren will find it.
Family Tree Photo 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, partners and step-parents, no cap on the free tree. An invitation links each relative to the place you already made for them, so nothing is typed twice.
The Kunbaa family tree →
A card holds one photo; a life holds thousands. Kunbaa puts them on the family wall with who, where and roughly when in the caption, beside the person on the tree, and lets you choose who sees each one. Memory Lane runs the archive as a timeline.
The wall and Memory Lane →
Every birthday on the tree becomes a reminder for the family. Plan 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 →
If you have a tree elsewhere that can export a GEDCOM file, import it on kunbaa.com: Kunbaa matches it against the people already on your tree and writes nothing until you confirm. GEDCOM export and tree merging are not switched on in this release.
Import a GEDCOM file →An admin decides, per relative, whether they can add people to the tree, post to the wall, or message members, and a relative can request more access from inside the app. Every account is held by an adult, so the tree stays in the hands of the people you invited.
Member permissions →For building a family tree with your relatives and keeping the photos, stories and birthdays beside it, yes — and everyone joins free. For a quick diagram drawn alone on one phone, Family Tree Photo is smaller, faster and does exactly that.
Yes. Spouses, partners, step-parents and in-laws are all relationships the Kunbaa tree can hold, and each person keeps one place on the tree however many households they belong to.
Each relative you invite opens the invitation, creates a free account and lands on the place you already made for them on the tree. They can build the tree, share on the wall and join events on kunbaa.com in a browser, and use the Kunbaa app for chat and calls.
Not in this release. Kunbaa is a living tree on screens, built for the family to keep adding to. A GEDCOM import is available on the web; GEDCOM export and image export are not switched on yet, and the help page says so plainly. Getting your data out.
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. Family Tree Photo lists a one-off premium purchase at A$12.99 on the Australian App Store, as of September 2026.
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 your parents, your siblings and the cousins on a private tree, invite them to add their side, and let the 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.