Kunbaa is for families who want the daycare photos to end up where the family lives — beside the grandparents, on a tree that shows how everyone fits, in a private space the whole family joins free — rather than in a feed that belongs to the centre and ends when the enrolment does.
Storypark for Families is the app a childcare centre gives parents: educators post learning stories and updates about your child, you add your own photos, notify family members and follow progress over time, free for families. Kunbaa is the family's own private, invite-only space: every relative joins free, the child sits on a real tree beside the grandparents, each photo keeps who, where and when in its caption, birthdays become reminders, and chat and calls live in the app. Storypark has educators; Kunbaa has the whole family, for life.
At a glance, as of September 2026. Kunbaa facts describe the current release; Storypark facts are quoted from its own site.
| Compared | Kunbaa | Storypark |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | The whole family, around a real tree, for as long as there is a family | Parents of a child at an early-learning centre that uses Storypark |
| Who posts | Any relative you invite, to the audience they choose | Educators post learning stories and updates; parents add their own photos and updates |
| Family tree | The centre of the product. Everyone on it, both sides, with a photo and a birthday on each card | No family tree; the app is organised around the enrolled child |
| Learning and development | None. Kunbaa has no educator accounts, learning stories or progress tracking | The point of the product: learning stories, progress over time, learning-activity videos |
| 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 | Interactive albums and updates about the child, with family members notified |
| 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; the app follows the child's time at the centre |
| Children | On the tree and in the photos, added by adults; every account is held by an adult (18+) | The subject of the stories; accounts are held by parents and educators |
| 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 for families; the centre subscribes. Optional artwork packs are the only in-app purchases listed, September 2026 |
The centre posts a lovely photo of your daughter with the paint. Her grandparents in Perth never see it, because Storypark is for the enrolled family and the feed ends when she starts school. On Kunbaa the photo goes on the family wall, to the relatives you choose, with her name and the date in the caption — and it is still there beside her at eighteen.
The grandparents are two flights away and the childcare app was never built for them. Kunbaa is: each of them joins free, gets their own place on the tree, sees what you share when they wake up, and can ring you from your page on the tree without a phone number changing hands.
You are looking after a toddler and a parent at once. One private space holds both: the daycare photos you save to the wall, Mum's own place on the tree with her birthday on it, and her stories recorded in her voice while she is telling them.
Storypark 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. A child is added by a parent and sits on the tree with the great-grandparents above them, so the family can see how everyone fits — both sides, all the branches, no cap on the free tree.
The Kunbaa family tree →
Save the photo from the centre and post it to the family wall with who, where and roughly when in the caption, beside the child on the tree. Choose who sees it: everyone in the family, the extended family, or just your household. Memory Lane runs the archive as a timeline the grandparents can scroll.
The wall and Memory Lane →
Every birthday on the tree becomes a reminder for the family. Plan the party 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 →
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? →Not to the centre's side of it. Storypark is how educators share learning stories with parents, and Kunbaa has no educator accounts. Kunbaa is the family's own space: where those photos, and everything else the family shares, are kept beside the people they are about, on a private tree the whole family joins free — long after the enrolment ends.
Storypark's listing says parents can notify family members about updates; how much a relative sees depends on the family's and the centre's settings. On Kunbaa every relative you invite holds their own free account, has their own place on the tree, and sees what you choose to share with them.
That is a question for Storypark and your centre. On Kunbaa the family's archive belongs to the family and is never deleted while the family keeps it; the photos you post stay beside the child on the tree, with the names and dates in the caption, for as long as the family space exists. Getting your data out.
No. Kunbaa keeps the family — the tree, the photos and stories, birthdays and events, chat and calls — and leaves learning stories to the educators. The two sit comfortably side by side.
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. Storypark for Families is free for families; the centre pays for the service.
No. Children are added to the tree by an adult and appear in the photos; every Kunbaa account is held by an adult aged 18 or over. Adults keep it; kids are in it.
More questions? Read the full FAQ or what private means in Kunbaa.
Start a private tree with the people you know, invite the grandparents, and let the photos from the centre land beside the child 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.