Start a Free Family Tree Online
The tree is genuinely free — every branch, every generation, no cap — and everyone in the family joins without a card, builds the branches together, and writes the names and dates down beside the photos. The one paid plan is what keeps what the family shares: longer videos, room for the whole archive, and the photos and videos from the family chat.
- The full tree is free — not a locked preview, not a trial.
- Everyone in the family joins free, and nobody else ever needs a card.
- Invite-only and ad-free on every plan, including the free one.
Build both sides and all the branches, and invite the family in — with shared space to start adding photos and stories.
Birthdays, anniversaries, and reunions with reminders, plus a shared family to-do list.
Family chat and voice and video calls — one-to-one, or a group of up to 4 free and up to 6 on Kunbaa Plus — in the Kunbaa mobile app, coming soon.
How to start a free family tree online
Sign up free and build your first branch right away — no card, no trial clock.
Create the core structure with parents, grandparents, siblings, partner, and children first.
Even one or two photos per relative makes the tree worth opening — kept, with the names in the caption and the date it was shared.
Relatives join free and help with missing names, dates, and stories, so the tree becomes a shared record.
What honest free looks like
A free family tree should not be a locked preview. In Kunbaa the tree, invites, events, and starter storage are all genuinely free.
Free does not mean public, and it does not mean ads. Every plan is invite-only, ad-free, and your family's data is never sold.
One paid plan, Kunbaa Plus, buys the room for the whole family's archive. One person pays; everyone else stays free.
If the archive outgrows the free space, you upgrade the space — you never redo the tree or move the family somewhere else.
- Can you actually build the tree without hitting a paywall?
- Can the whole family contribute free, or is free a single seat?
- Can you record who is in a photo, where and roughly when — and does that note stay with it?
- Is the privacy model clear and invite-based?
- Is it honest about what the paid plan adds — and what it does not?
In Kunbaa, free is the product, not the teaser: the tree, invites, events, and a shared starter allowance of storage cost nothing, for everyone in the family. That is honestly enough to build the whole tree and add the first few hundred photos.
The one paid plan — Kunbaa Plus, $15.99 a month or $159.99 a year (17% less, about $13 a month for the whole family) — is what keeps it: longer videos in the family archive where free keeps to short clips, room for the scanned albums and wedding videos, and the photos and videos from the family chat kept while the family is on Plus. One person pays, on kunbaa.com; everyone else in the family is covered by that one subscription.
For comparison: genealogy research sites price per researcher — as of mid-2026, Ancestry's US Discovery plan is $229 a year for one seat. Different job, different model. Kunbaa's model is one keeper paying for the space that holds the family archive, with the family itself always free.
Frequently asked questions
Clear answers for families who want to start a private family tree with less friction.
Start a Free Family Tree Online guide
A free family tree online — with the honest version of "free"
Most "free family tree" searches end at a locked preview: build three generations, then pay to see your own family. Kunbaa's free plan is the actual product. The tree — every branch, both sides, the cousins abroad — is free for the whole family, and every photo or story you add is kept with the names, the place and roughly when written in the caption, not dropped in a folder nobody will open again.
The only thing the free plan limits is space: a shared starter allowance, enough to build the tree and attach the first photos, honestly not enough for a family's whole archive. When you are ready for the scanned albums and the wedding videos, one paid plan buys the room for all of it — one person pays, everyone else stays free. The details are in the plans and storage guide.
Free to begin, built to be kept
The point of starting free is starting now, while the people who remember the old photos can still tell you who is in them. Begin with the relatives you know, invite one person from each branch, and let the tree grow from there — the step-by-step guide shows the order that works. Nothing you build on the free plan is throwaway: the same tree simply gets more room when the family needs it.
Start free, invite relatives, and keep your family history in one calm private space.