Goduka is an online family archive for families who want to keep their history together. Everyone in the family adds what they know: names, dates, clan, photos and stories. Together you build one family tree that every generation can see, on any phone.
Every relative can add parents, children and partners, so the tree grows from what the whole family knows.
Memories, sayings, clan praises and voice notes from the elders, written down and kept for the generations still to come.
Type any two names and Goduka explains exactly how they are related, and through whom.
Each family’s archive is behind its own passcode. Photos, stories and phone numbers stay with your family.
Names, dates, clan, home village, praise names and portrait, with parents, partners, siblings and children one tap away.
Your whole tree on one big map, generation by generation. Drag, zoom, find anyone, and print it as a poster.
Type any two names and Goduka traces the line between them: cousin, great-aunt, second cousin once removed.
Write memories, or let the elders tell them out loud. Voice notes of up to ten minutes keep their words in their own voice.
Upload old and new photos, add a caption and a date, and tag everyone in them. Any photo can become a portrait.
Births, weddings, graduations, moves, funerals and traditional ceremonies on each person’s timeline.
Birthdays, remembrance days and old photos from today’s date, with an optional reminder when you open the archive.
Keeps a copy on each phone. Add stories with no signal; they are shared with the family when you are back online.
Real screens from a family archive on Goduka. It works on any phone, tablet or computer.
Search anyone, see birthdays coming up, the latest stories and those you remember.
Every face in the family, from the elders down to the youngest, grouped by generation.
Parents, partners, full and half siblings, children, photos, stories and milestones in one place.
The whole tree on one map. Drag, zoom and print it across A4 sheets as a poster.
Type two names and see the relationship and the line of people that connects them.
Each household and the children it raised, eldest generation first.
Alongside names and dates, Goduka records the customs that mark a life in Southern African families, as well as every other milestone.
See all featuresEvery plan includes all features. Choose by the size of your family tree.
Goduka began as one family’s archive. Today it holds their whole family tree, and it is ready for yours.
Only people you give your family’s passcode to. Each family has its own private archive: other families, and the public, cannot see your names, photos, stories or contact details. Inside the archive, each person can also limit their contact details to close family.
Register your family using the form below. We set up your private archive and send you its link and passcode. Then share them with your family and start adding people, photos and stories together.
Anyone in your family with the passcode. Open a person’s page and tap “＋ Add relative” to add a child, partner, parent or brother or sister. Mistakes are easy to fix with “Edit details”.
Yes. Open the elder’s page, tap “Write a story” and choose “Record a voice note”. They can talk for up to ten minutes while a grandchild holds the phone.
Yes. Once the archive has been opened on a phone, the family can keep reading and adding while offline. Changes are sent to everyone automatically when the phone is back online.
No. Goduka works in the web browser on any phone, tablet or computer. You can add it to your phone’s home screen so it opens like an app.
Your family does. You can download a full backup of your archive at any time from Settings.
