Share your first memory: posts, photos and who sees them

Step 1: Open the wall and start a post

1. Tap the Wall tab at the bottom of the app. The wall is where the family’s everyday life and its keepsakes sit side by side.
2. Tap the round + button beside the bottom bar (New post). The Create post screen opens.

Step 2: Add the photo and write the names

1. Tap Media and choose one or more photos, or a video, from your phone. They show as big previews straight away and upload in the background while you keep writing.
2. Write who is in the photo, where it was taken and roughly when. That note travels with the photo, so a grandchild opening it in forty years still knows.

Step 3: Choose who sees it (Kunbaa Plus and Ultra)

Above the text is Share radius, with four choices. The widest is first, and each one after it is narrower.

• Everyone: every member of your family space. This is the default.
• Extended family: also grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
• Household: parents, partner and children only.
• Only me: only you can see it. You pick it for each post; it is never your default.

Kunbaa reads those circles off the family tree, and applies your choice on its servers, everywhere the post can appear: the wall, the Library, comments, reactions, on the phone and the website alike. A relative outside the circle never receives it. Whichever you choose, a post is shared only with your family space.

Choosing who sees a post is part of Kunbaa Plus and Ultra. On the free plan a post goes to everyone in your family space, and a post you already shared keeps the audience you chose for it, though on the free plan you can no longer change it.

Step 4: Post

Tap Post. A post with a photo or video in it is badged a memory drop. The people who can see it get it on their wall; if you narrowed it, they see a small Household or Extended family badge on it.

Changing who sees it later

Only the author can change a post’s audience. On your own post, tap the audience shown on it to open Who can see this, pick another and save. If you make it narrower, people outside the new circle stop seeing it at once, though anyone who already saved or downloaded it may still have it. If you make it wider, more people can see it from then on, and nobody is notified.

Where it lives afterwards

• Moments, the first pill at the top of the wall, gathers every memory drop day by day so the things worth keeping do not scroll away under the things worth a smile. Posts beside it is the full conversation.
• Albums, the pill beside Posts, opens the family’s albums and the library of every photo and video posted, month by month. It is the same archive without the conversation around it, and it follows the same audience rule.

Reacting and commenting

Tap the thumbs-up to react, or the speech bubble to comment. Comments are where the stories come out (“that’s the house on Barrack Street”), so leave them on. A relative who is being unkind can be muted from their profile; you stop seeing their posts, and they are not told.

A tip

Start with twenty photos you actually care about; test photos make the whole thing feel pointless. Most of your family will mostly look, and that is fine. A family space needs three or four people adding things and everyone else receiving.

Questions families ask