- Decades. Browse the whole photo collection by decade, from the oldest prints to last summer.
- Map. See where everyone in the family was born and where they lived.
- This month. The home page shows who was born, married or passed away this month, by day where the day is known.
- Albums. An album shelf, a photo grid and a full-screen viewer with pinch and double-tap zoom, swiping between photos, and arrow keys on a computer. Curators drag albums into the order the family sees them.
- Downloads and backups. Download any photo's original, or a whole album as a zip. Kumbaa stores a backup of every archive each Sunday, and the owner can download one whenever they like.
- Ask Kumbaa. A built-in assistant for whoever runs the archive. It knows what page you're on and can add people, edit details and file photos when you ask in plain words. It can also draft a photo's caption, year and place. From outside, you can do the same in ChatGPT or Claude.
- Recent changes. Curate opens on a short list of what members lately did to people and family links, a line each, like "Rebecca added Lily Whitfield · 2 days ago".
- Roles. One owner, any number of curators, and viewers. Curators edit the archive and invite people. Viewers look around, and a viewer who is in the tree can edit their own corner of it.
- Invitations. Invite people by email as viewers or curators, then share the family link. Only addresses on the list get in. Everyone invited joins free.
New photos wait in a New pile that only curators see, until they're shared with the family. So you can upload a box of scans, name the faces and add dates before anyone else sees them.
Want to see it first? The demo on the home page is the real app with a made-up family. Or read who Kumbaa is for, and what it costs on the pricing page.