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How Kumbaa compares.

Kumbaa is a private website for one family's tree, photographs and stories. Here's how it differs from the services families already use, and where they do better.

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Kumbaa vs MyHeritageKumbaa vs MyHeritage: records and DNA, or a private family site with faces named in every photo. Prices, free limits, privacy and what each does best.Kumbaa vs AncestryKumbaa vs Ancestry: records, hints and DNA, or a private site for your family's own tree and photos. Prices, privacy and who each one suits.Kumbaa vs FamilySearchKumbaa vs FamilySearch: one free, shared world tree with billions of records, or a private tree and photo archive for your own family alone. How they differ.Kumbaa vs Google Photos and WhatsAppGoogle Photos shared albums and WhatsApp family groups vs Kumbaa: where family photos end up, who can see them, and keeping everyone's faces named for good.Kumbaa vs HeritableKumbaa vs Heritable, two private family archives: 1 TB with video and GEDCOM, or a tree-first archive with faces named and family editing their own branch.Kumbaa vs Storyworth and RementoStoryworth and Remento turn a parent's answers into a printed book. Kumbaa keeps the whole family's tree, photos and stories. How they differ, and using both.

What Kumbaa is, and isn't

Kumbaa is for the family you already know. You start an archive, invite the family, and each of them fills in the branch they know best. Faces are found in every photo and named once, and "How are we related?" says any two people's relationship in words.

It isn't a records search or a DNA test, and it isn't a public tree shared with strangers. If you want to find ancestors in census returns or match DNA with distant cousins, Ancestry, MyHeritage and FamilySearch do that well. These pages say plainly where each of them is the better choice.

Competitors' facts on these pages were checked on 1 November 2026, from their own websites and help pages.

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Is Kumbaa a genealogy service?

Not in the usual sense. Kumbaa has no historical records to search and no DNA tests. It's a private archive for the family you already know: the tree, the photos and the stories.

Can I use Kumbaa alongside Ancestry or MyHeritage?

Yes. Research there, then keep the family's tree, photos and stories in Kumbaa, where only the family can see them.

Does Kumbaa import GEDCOM files?

Not yet. You can import a tree from a PDF, a document or a photo of a hand-drawn chart, and check it before anything is added.

How much does Kumbaa cost?

14 days free, then US$6.99 a month or US$69 a year for the whole family. Everyone invited joins free.

Is Kumbaa private?

Yes. Each family has its own address behind sign-in, closed to search engines and crawlers, and never used to train AI models.

Is there a Kumbaa app?

Kumbaa is a website, not an app from an app store. It works in the browser on phones, tablets and computers.

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Face recognitionName a face once and Kumbaa suggests that person in your other family photos. Faces are found in your own browser, so photos aren't sent off to be scanned.How are we related?Pick any two people in your family tree and Kumbaa says how they're related, like "second cousin once removed", and spells out the path between them.Relationship calculatorFree relationship calculator: find whether someone is your first cousin once removed, second cousin or great-aunt, with the path spelled out. No sign-up.PricingKumbaa costs US$6.99 a month or US$69 a year per family, after a 14-day free trial. Everyone you invite joins free. Unlimited people, 10 GB of photos.

Your family's tree, photos and stories, in one private place.

Start an archive, invite the family, and let each of them fill in the branch they know best.

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