Kunbaa is for families who want the new baby's photos to land beside the grandparents' stories, on a tree that shows how everyone fits — a private space the whole family joins free, rather than a journal of one child that the relatives are invited to watch.
Tinybeans is a private journal of your child: photos and videos by date, shared with invited relatives, and turned into photo books, with a paid Tinybeans Plus tier. Kunbaa is a private, invite-only space for the whole family, built on a real tree: every relative joins free, the baby goes on the tree beside the grandparents, each photo carries who, where and when in the caption, birthdays become reminders, and chat and calls live in the app. Kunbaa makes no photo books; Tinybeans has no family tree.
At a glance, as of September 2026. Kunbaa facts describe the current release; Tinybeans facts are quoted from its own site.
| Compared | Kunbaa | Tinybeans |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | The whole family around a real tree — grandparents as much as grandchildren | A child's everyday moments, journaled for the relatives who love them |
| 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 journal is organised by date around the child |
| Where the camera points | Everyone — and especially the elders, whose photos and stories nobody can retake | The youngest: milestones, firsts, day by day |
| 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 and videos by date in a private journal, with comments from invited family |
| Photo books and prints | None. Kunbaa keeps the archive on screens | Photo books from the journal are a headline feature |
| 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 | Centred on sharing the child's moments rather than whole-family coordination |
| Privacy | Invite-only, no ads, nobody's data sold; you choose who in the family sees each post | Private to invited family; the listing says content is not sold to third parties |
| Children | On the tree and in the photos, added by adults; every account is held by an adult (18+) | The subject of the journal, shared by their parents; rated 9+ |
| 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; Tinybeans Plus listed at A$7.99 a month or A$74.99 a year on the Australian App Store, September 2026 |
Four grandparents are asking for photos, and a baby journal gives them a window on one child. Kunbaa gives them a place of their own: the baby goes on the tree the day she arrives, the photo reaches the relatives you choose, and Grandad's story about the name goes on the wall beside her — so in twenty years she can find both.
You are the one everyone sends the photos to. Put Mum on the tree with her own place and birthday, record her telling the story of the wedding as a voice note, and let the grandchildren's photos land beside it — one private space the whole family can enter, instead of an album about one of them.
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.
Tinybeans 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 →
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 — the baby's first steps and Nani's wedding photo from 1974 alike. You choose who sees each post: everyone in the family, the extended family, or just your household.
Who can see a post →
Every birthday on the tree becomes a reminder for the family. Plan the naming ceremony or the first birthday 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? →It depends on the job. If what you want is a private journal of your child's first years with a photo book at the end, Tinybeans is built for exactly that. Kunbaa is the alternative when you want the whole family in one private place: a real tree with everyone's place and birthday on it, and a wall where the baby's photos and the grandparents' stories sit side by side, with the names and dates written down.
As of September 2026, no. Tinybeans is organised as a journal of a child's moments by date, which is what it is designed to be. If a family tree matters to you — knowing who everyone is, how they are related, and having everyone's birthday on it — that is the core of Kunbaa, with the family's archive kept beside it.
They are the point. Any adult in the family can hold a free account, get their own place on the tree with their birthday on it, and see what the family chooses to share with them. What a grandparent shares — a scanned photo, a story told as a voice note — is kept with the names and dates written down. Relatives who never post can simply look.
No. Kunbaa keeps the family's archive on screens, in a private space the whole family can open, and does not print. If a photo book is the job, Tinybeans does that well.
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. Tinybeans Plus is listed at A$7.99 a month or A$74.99 a year on the Australian App Store, as of September 2026.
One at a time, yes; as a bulk download, not yet. Kunbaa says so plainly on its help page rather than in small print, and the archive is never deleted while the family keeps it. Read that page before you choose. Getting your data out.
More questions? Read the full FAQ or what private means in Kunbaa.
Start a private tree with the people you know, invite the relatives who want the photos, and let the family's archive grow around everyone in it.
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.