Kunbaa is for people who searched "family" and meant theirs (the parents, the cousins, the grandmother whose stories nobody has written down) and want one private place where the family builds its own tree, shares the real photos and never misses a birthday, free for everyone who joins.
Family Life! is a life-simulation game: you build a fictional family tree and play out careers, weddings, homes and children, offline, with ads and in-app purchases, rated 13+. Kunbaa is a private, invite-only app for your real family: a tree every relative builds together for free, a wall where photos keep who, where and when in the caption, birthdays that become reminders, and chat and calls in the app. If you wanted the game, play the game; if you wanted your family, start with Kunbaa.
At a glance, as of September 2026. Kunbaa facts describe the current release; Family Life! facts are quoted from its own site.
Yes: YesPartly: Partly, or with a conditionNo: No
| Compared | Kunbaa | Family Life! |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A private space for your real family, built on a tree of the people you know | A simulation game about a virtual family's life events |
| Whose family | Yes:Yours. Both sides, each relative adding what only they know | No:A character's, created and played by you |
| Weddings, homes and babies | The real ones: an event with a to-do list, the photos afterwards, and the new baby on the tree the day she arrives | Choices in the game: plan a wedding, build a home, raise children |
| Photos and stories | Yes:A wall for photos, videos, stories and voice notes, captioned with who, where and roughly when, with an audience per post; Moments gathers it into a timeline | No:Not the point; the game generates its own scenes |
| Everyday family life | Yes:Events with birthday reminders and to-dos on the web; chat, calls and opt-in Family Safety in the Kunbaa app | No:None between real people; it is a single-player game, playable offline |
| Play alone, offline | No:No. Kunbaa is a shared family space and needs a connection to show what relatives have added | Yes:Yes. A single-player game that plays offline |
| Ads | Yes:No ads on Plus and Ultra, and no personalised ads on Free. Invite-only, nobody's data sold | No:Ad-supported; a "No Ads" purchase is listed at A$49.99 on the Australian App Store, September 2026 |
| Age | Every account is held by an adult (18+); children are on the tree and in the photos, added by adults | Rated 13+ on the App Store |
| Price | Free to start, with no limit on people in the tree. Kunbaa Plus is $9.99/mo or $99.99/yr for the payer's household (yearly is about $8.33 a month for the payer's household); everyone else joins free | Free to play with ads; passes, packs and video coupons sold in-app, September 2026 |
Source: Family Life! features and Australian in-app prices from its App Store listing, read on 27 September 2026; prices vary by country. Kunbaa facts describe the current release. Details change; check Family Life!’s site for today’s plans and prices.
Family Life! 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 of the family, each relative adding their own. Relatives who have passed stay where they belong; children are added by adults without an account.
The Kunbaa family tree →Every birthday on the tree becomes a reminder for the family. Plan the wedding or 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 →
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. On Kunbaa Plus and Ultra you choose who sees each post: everyone in the family, the extended family, or just your household. Moments gathers the archive into a timeline.
The wall and Moments →
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 6 people including you on Kunbaa Plus and Ultra, which anyone in the family can join. Only relatives in your family space can ring you. Chat and calls are in the Kunbaa app.
Chat and calls in Kunbaa →A Kunbaa family space cannot be searched, and nobody in it is suggested to strangers. Every account is held by an adult, an admin sets per-member permissions, and on Kunbaa Plus and Ultra 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? →More questions? Read the full FAQ or what private means in Kunbaa.
No. Kunbaa is a private app for your real family: a tree the relatives you invite build together, a wall for the photos and stories with the names written down, birthdays and events, and chat and calls in the app. Family Life! is a simulation game about a virtual family. They share a word and nothing else.
If you wanted somewhere for your own relatives, to see how everyone fits, share the real photos privately and never miss a birthday, you want Kunbaa. Start with the people you know, invite the rest, and the tree fills in. Free to start, with no limit on people in the tree.
Kunbaa Plus and Ultra have no ads. The free plan has none today, and any ads on it would not be personalised. A Kunbaa family space is invite-only and cannot be searched, nobody's data is sold, and Kunbaa's revenue comes from its paid plans. Family Life! is ad-supported, with an in-app purchase to remove them.
Kunbaa is a shared space, so it needs a connection to show what the family has added; the app keeps what you have already seen. Family Life! is a single-player game and plays offline, which Kunbaa does not try to match.
Everyone in the family joins Kunbaa free, and the tree has no limit on people. Kunbaa Plus is $9.99 a month or $99.99 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. There are no passes, packs or coupons.
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.
