Family Memory Vault
Tunnda brings together your stories, your photos, the voices of your elders and your kinship ties in a private family vault. The app works without a network, your data is never merged with that of other families, and nothing is sold or profiled.
The mobile app is in preparation. The Google Play release is imminent.
Family Memory VaultWhere we stand
The large genealogy platforms live on pooling. The more information you hand over, the richer their database becomes. Tunnda starts from the opposite assumption: a family's history belongs to that family, and there is no reason to cross-reference it with anyone else's.
Your tree is never matched against a stranger's, never suggested to a third party, never aggregated into a collective database. There is no public directory in Tunnda.
No ad network, no data broker, no profiling. The app ships with no behavioural analytics SDK: no Firebase Analytics, no Sentry, no Mixpanel, no equivalent.
Export to GEDCOM 5.5.5, the genealogy standard, is built in. Your data can be re-imported elsewhere the day you decide. Leaving has to stay possible.
What the app does
People and their ties, voices and stories, family governance, and the freedom to leave with your data.
One profile per family member, living or gone, with far more than dates.
A written name fades. A voice does not. Tunnda records speech before it disappears.
A family is more than a tree. A family tells itself.
Tunnda mirrors real family authority rather than a corporate hierarchy: an Elder is the one who says what stands as authoritative in the shared memory.
In the village, on a trip, at grandparents who have no wifi. The place where memory is collected is rarely the place where the mobile signal reaches.
The vault locks, and it opens whenever you want to take your data out.
Governance
This is Tunnda's structural difference. Elsewhere, you manage "editors" and "readers". Here, we recognise that someone in the family is the legitimate keeper of the memory, and that the call is theirs to make.
| Role | Approve | Add people | Edit everything |
|---|---|---|---|
Elder The keeper of the memory. Approves contributions and manages members. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Co-admin Supports the Elder, with the same approval powers. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Contributor Adds people and stories, and submits their changes for approval. | No | Yes | No |
Viewer Reads the family memory without changing it. | No | No | No |
Youth Read-only access, designed for the youngest members of the family. | No | No | No |
Whatever their role, everyone can always edit their own profile. A Contributor can only edit what they created themselves.
Inside the app
Warm ivory rather than clinical white, forest green as an anchor, gold in small touches. The app is designed to be opened for years, not to hold your attention.
Person
Aminata Koné
1931 to 2019 · Bobo-Dioulasso
Relations
Identity, dates, places, kinship ties, related stories and audio recordings.
Timeline
1931
Birth of Aminata Koné
1954
Marriage in Bobo-Dioulasso
1958
Story: the year of the rains
1962
Birth of Ibrahim Koné
2019
Death of Aminata Koné
The whole history of the family, year by year, births and stories together.
Pending changes
Ibrahim
PendingAdded a birth date for Fatou Koné
Salif
PendingUploaded 3 photos to a story
Changed a place of burial
Rejected“Grandmother is buried in the village, not in the city.”
What the family proposes, and what the Elder approves or sends back with an explanation.
Privacy
Two lists, so that everything is said plainly.
Roadmap
Tunnda is a young platform, built with the families who use it. Here is what is coming next.
The family vault shared continuously across the phones of a single family, without ever leaving that circle.
Bring a cousin into the vault in two steps, with the role that belongs to them.
Find a sentence inside an hour-long recording, and make voices searchable.
Birthdays, commemorations and the dates that matter, gathered in one place.
Type up comfortably, from a computer, what was collected out in the field.
The app speaks English today. French, and then other languages, are on the way.
Family Memory Vault
Open the app, sit down next to your elder, and press record. The rest, the dates, the ties, the photos, will follow.
