The wall: photos, voice notes and stories
The wall is where the family’s everyday life and its keepsakes sit side by side, shared only with the family.
Posting
Open the Wall tab and tap the round + button beside the bottom bar (New post). Write a few lines and add one or more photos or a video. On kunbaa.com you can also add an audio recording, such as a voice note made with your phone's recorder. Say what the photo is while you post it (who is in it, where, roughly when), because that note is what a grandchild will read in thirty years. Photos show as big previews the moment you pick them and upload in the background, so you can keep writing.
Who sees it
Above the text is the Share radius selector: Everyone in the family (the default), Extended family: grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, Household: your parents, partner and children only, or Only me: no one else sees the post, family admins included. You can change who sees your own post after posting, in the app and on kunbaa.com. Whichever you choose, a post is shared only with your family space. The full rule is in choosing who sees a post.
Reactions, comments and replies
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 aren’t told.
Memory drops and Moments
A post with a photo or video in it is a memory drop: Gran’s album, the reunion photo, the video of the first steps. The wall opens on Moments, which gathers every memory drop day by day, so the things worth keeping don’t scroll away under the things worth a smile. The Posts pill beside it is the full conversation: short updates, stories, announcements and comments.
The Library
The Albums pill at the top of the wall opens the family’s albums and the library of every photo, video and voice note the family has posted, month by month. It’s the same archive as the wall, without the conversation around it, and it follows the same audience rule, so a Household photo is in the Library only for the household.
Sparks
A Spark is a short video for the family: a birthday message, a first step, a kitchen disaster. Sparks are private like everything else here; there is no public feed to end up on.
Questions families ask
Who can see what I post on the wall?
By default, everyone in your family space: the people who accepted an invite from your family, and never anyone else. On Kunbaa Plus and Ultra, you can narrow a post to your Extended family (grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins), your Household (parents, partner and children) or Only me, and change who sees your own post after posting. Posts already set to Only me stay private. There is no public feed, and nobody outside your family can find anything by searching. Inside the app, the Chats tab searches the words in the messages kept on your phone.
Are photos compressed?
Lightly. The app resizes very large photos so they upload quickly on a family's ordinary connection and keeps them at a resolution that prints well. On an iPhone, videos you add to the wall are kept at up to 720p on the free plan and up to 1080p on Kunbaa Plus and Kunbaa Ultra. Thumbnails are made separately for scrolling. Chat attachments are squeezed a little more than wall posts.
Can I post a voice note?
Yes, on kunbaa.com. Record it with your phone's voice recorder, then add the recording to a post on kunbaa.com with a line about what it is, and it plays straight from the wall. The app's post box takes photos and videos, not recordings. Grandparents telling the story behind a photo is what this was built for.
What is a memory drop?
Any post with a photo or video in it. The wall labels it a memory drop, and the Moments pill gathers every memory drop day by day so the things worth keeping don't scroll away under the things worth a smile.
Can I delete something I posted?
Yes, from the post's menu. It disappears for everyone. Deleting your account removes what you posted too. See how to delete your account.
How much can we store?
Each family shares one archive, with 5 GB of room on the free plan, 100 GB on Kunbaa Plus and 500 GB on Kunbaa Ultra. The paid plans keep longer videos, and chat photos for as long as the family is on a paid plan. The usage page under Settings carries a live meter for the family's shared space.