Kunbaa is for families who want the tree to be everyone's: your side, their side, each relative adding the branch only they know — with the photos, birthdays and stories kept beside the people they belong to, and nobody paying by the week to keep it.
Family Tree: Our Heritage is a tree-drawing app for one phone: you start from yourself, add ancestors, attach photos and dates, and can print a high-resolution chart, with premium sold as a weekly subscription. Kunbaa is a private, invite-only family space where every relative builds the same tree together for free, with a wall for photos and stories that keep their names, events with birthday reminders, and chat and calls in the app. Kunbaa does not print charts; Our Heritage does not let the family in.
At a glance, as of September 2026. Kunbaa facts describe the current release; Family Tree: Our Heritage facts are quoted from its own site.
| Compared | Kunbaa | Family Tree: Our Heritage |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | The living family, together: one private tree, the wall beside it, birthdays, events, chat | One person drawing and printing their family tree 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, on your device. Relatives see the tree when you show them or print it |
| 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 | Photos, stories and dates attached to the people on the tree |
| Printing and charts | None. Kunbaa is a living tree on screens, not a poster | High-resolution printing of the tree is a headline feature |
| Finding duplicates and mapping origins | No duplicate finder and no ancestry map; a GEDCOM import matches against the people already on your tree before writing anything | Duplicate detection and an ancestry map are listed features |
| 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 builder rather than a family feed or calendar |
| 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 |
| Who pays | Nobody has to. Everyone joins free; one person takes Kunbaa Plus when the family wants room for the whole archive | The person holding the app; premium is billed weekly |
| 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) | Free to download; "Weekly premium" listed at A$19.99 and A$14.99 a week on the Australian App Store, September 2026 |
You have opened a tree app, typed in your parents and grandparents, and stalled at the cousins. On Kunbaa that is the moment you invite an aunt: she adds her branch, her children add theirs, and the tree fills in from every side, each person with a photo and a birthday — free, with no drawing to do.
A printed chart is a snapshot; the family keeps changing. Kunbaa keeps the tree alive: a new baby goes on the day she arrives, a relative who passes is marked and remembered, and the scanned albums and the stories sit beside the people they are about, where the whole family can find them.
The tree is only complete when the relatives in Auckland, Leeds and Ludhiana add what they know. Each of them joins free, adds their side, and gets the birthdays off the tree — and the reunion photos land beside the people in them, whatever time zone they wake up in.
Family Tree: Our Heritage 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. An invitation links each relative to the place you already made for them, so nothing is typed twice.
The Kunbaa family tree →
A tree app attaches a photo to a card. Kunbaa puts it 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 it: everyone in the family, the extended family, or just your household. 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 already built a tree elsewhere and 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, yes: on Kunbaa everyone you invite adds their own branch, photo and birthday to one private tree, free. For drawing and printing a chart on your own phone it is not — Kunbaa does not print, and Our Heritage is built for exactly that.
Yes. That is the design. Every relative you invite joins free and adds the people only they know, and an admin sets per-member permissions for adding to the tree, posting and messaging. Only the family you invited can see or change it.
No. Everyone in the family joins Kunbaa free, and the tree has no cap. The one paid plan, Kunbaa Plus, is $15.99 a month or $159.99 a year — about $13 a month for the whole family — paid by one person and covering every relative. Our Heritage lists its premium as a weekly subscription on the App Store.
Not in this release. Kunbaa is a living tree on screens, built for the family to keep adding to. If you want a wall chart, a tree-printing app or a print shop will do that job better.
If the other app exports a GEDCOM file, yes: import it on kunbaa.com in a browser, and Kunbaa matches it against the people already on your tree and writes nothing until you confirm. Photos and stories are added on the wall afterwards. Kunbaa cannot yet write a GEDCOM back out.
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.