Sinatabu
Discover unique African finds
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad
Sinatabu is the easiest way to discover unique products, creative sellers, and hard-to-find items from across Africa.
Whether you are shopping from Nairobi, Lagos, Accra, Johannesburg, London, New York, Toronto, Dubai, or anywhere in the world, Sinatabu helps you find pieces with story, style, and soul.
Instead of scrolling endlessly across Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp groups, and random pages, Sinatabu brings discovery into one simple app.
Find fashion, accessories, home decor, gifts, art, beauty, lifestyle products, handmade pieces, and uncommon items from African businesses and creatives.
Why shoppers use Sinatabu:
• Discover unique African products
• Find creative sellers in one place
• Post what you are looking for
• Get matched to relevant businesses
• Save favourite finds and shopping lists
• Explore products beyond ordinary retail
• Connect with sellers directly
• Shop African creativity from anywhere
Sinatabu is built for people who love things that feel different.
For African shoppers, it is a better way to discover local businesses and products without jumping between multiple platforms.
For diaspora and global shoppers, it is a window into Africa’s creativity: fashion, craft, design, culture, gifting, and everyday beauty from the continent.
For sellers, Sinatabu creates a place to be discovered by customers who are already looking for something special.
Sinatabu means “no worries.”
Our mission is to make African commerce easier, more trusted, and more discoverable, starting with the people creating the most interesting things.
Download Sinatabu and discover Africa’s uncommon finds.
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more Your dashboard now works for you. Shops and personal shoppers get a new "Working for you" section showing what your shopping agent and find alerts are doing, plus a card for drafts your agent has prepared for your approval.
1.2.2 Oct 12
Faster, smoother app under the hood with a major platform upgrade
1.2.0 Oct 5
Performance improvements and bug fixes
1.1.29 Sep 29
A new way to set up your shop or personal shopper profile. A step-by-step guide walks you through name, category, photos, location and links, with a live preview of how shoppers will see you.
1.1.27 Sep 28
- Connected shelf — a new tab in your find stream that gathers every find you've already connected to, newest first.
- Now in Arabic, French, Portuguese and Kiswahili — the whole app follows your language setting.
- Better on iPad, tablets and foldables — the app rotates on bigger screens, and sheets stay open when you fold, unfold or resize.
1.1.25 Sep 24
Your find stream is now an inbox. For shops and personal shoppers, the New tab shows only finds you haven't seen yet, alongside All, Most relevant and Saved. Swipe right to save a find, swipe left if it's not for you, and undo if you change your mind.
1.1.21 Sep 22
New: accessibility controls of our own. Three text sizes that apply on top of your phone's own settings, a Reduce motion switch, and an Increase contrast option
Profile tab reorganised. Shopping now leads, rows are grouped under headings, and there's a new About row.
My Shops — the "recover shops registered to my phone" link is now a proper card instead of small print at the bottom.
1.1.13 Aug 25
Shopping agents
Hand off the legwork. Describe what you're after — "six matching mesh
office chairs, delivered to Westlands by month end, about 20,000
shillings" — and your agent posts the find, weighs the shops that
respond, and negotiates inside the limits you set. For a shop or
personal shopper profile it works the other way round: it watches the
find stream and replies to buyers while you sleep.
You decide how much rope it gets. Watch sends and spends nothing, and
just shows you what it would have done. Ask me drafts every message,
connect and deal for you to approve with a tap. Auto acts on its own
within your price ceiling, daily Connect limit and chosen countries,
and asks only when something falls outside them. Payment and final
agreement always stay with you.
Agents run on AI credit — every wallet gets a free trial, Pro profiles
get a monthly allowance, and you can top up any time.
Get a shop back
If a shop is registered to your phone number but sits on another
account, you can now claim it from My Shops — verify the number, then
either move the shop across or ask for editor access. Shops you help
run but don't own now show up in the app too.
A phone number that actually works
The phone prompt takes you all the way through verification instead of
stopping at "saved". An unverified number can't receive any of the SMS
alerts you're opted into.
Notifications stop when you sign out
Signing out now unsubscribes this device, so the previous account's
deal-room previews and booking details no longer reach your lock screen.
Home Screen widgets
Widget taps land on the right screen even from a cold start or while
signed out, back always has somewhere to go, and widgets no longer
clear your new-interactions badge just by refreshing.
Fewer dead ends
Support can now update a profile for you when you can't reach it
yourself. A hidden find says so on My Finds and explains why on the
find. Posting something you've already posted offers to take you to it.
Also
Reviews for shops and personal shoppers have their own screen, finds
show the country they came from, redeem tickets have their perforation
back, and a crash is fixed where Android rebuilding the screen in the
background could end your session.
1.1.12 Aug 24
• Shops and personal shoppers can now post finds of their own to source what they need.
• Comments have been rebuilt — reply in threads, edit or delete your own, and manage who can reach you.
• The find composer now suggests how to finish your sentence as you type.
• Location search is faster and more accurate.
• The promo code screen has a new look, and Referrals now shows how many people you've referred are on Pro.
1.1.9 Aug 14
Promo codes. Got a code from a Sinatabu campaign? Redeem it under Settings — or just tap the link and it opens straight to the claim screen.
Cleaner referral sharing. Sharing your referral link no longer repeats the link twice in WhatsApp, Mail and Messages.
Plus the redeem screen now speaks Arabic, French, Portuguese and Swahili.
1.1.8 Aug 12
We now ask about notifications when you first open the app, so you don't miss a bid, message or booking — and if you've turned them off, Settings → Notifications will take you straight to the right place. Security alerts always come through.
1.1.7 Aug 5
- Consumer Insights — Pro shops and personal shoppers can now see what buyers in their categories are actually asking for, and where demand is going unmet.
- Fixed a crash when searching for a location.
- Fixed layout and wording issues on the find upgrade card.
1.1.6 Aug 3
Deal Rooms
A broad reliability pass on conversations. Photos and files land in the media gallery correctly, voice notes, prices and orders behave, pinned messages and message actions are fixed, and edited or deleted messages now update properly for both sides. Messages sent in the same moment no longer go missing.
Deal Rooms are now fully translated in Arabic, French, Portuguese and Swahili.
Appointments
The Upcoming tab now shows only upcoming bookings — cancelled and completed ones stay out of it. You can give a reason when declining, marking a booking complete asks you to confirm first since it can't be undone, and no-show bookings display correctly.
For teams
Shop bookings now show which teammate handled them — "Confirmed by Jane" — so a shop with several people can see who did what. Customers never see this.
1.1.5 Jul 29
• Clearer messaging when a feature needs Pro or more Connects — no more silent taps or dead-end buttons
• More reliable Connect and purchase flows, with better handling of slow networks
• Manage the vibes you can supply directly from your shop or personal shopper dashboard
• Team page now shows inactive seats
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
1.1.4 Jul 26
• Smoother pickers for category, country, currency and age
• Location search with suggestions as you type
• New: tell buyers you can supply a vibe
• Fixed a crash when closing comments with the keyboard open
• Stability and translation improvements
1.1.3 Jul 26
• Save vibes to boards with a redesigned board picker, and turn any vibe photo straight into a new find
• Similar finds are now grouped — see everyone looking for the same thing and connect with all of them at once
• Browse boards with a new three-column wall and refreshed headers
• Fixed the keyboard closing while naming a new collection
1.1.2 Jul 25
Introducing Vibes — a new inspiration feed of shoppable looks and ideas. Browse image and video tiles, open any vibe to see the shops and personal shoppers that can make it happen, and save the ones you love.
• Vibes now present in a refreshed tab bar
• Shops and personal shoppers can opt out of Vibes matching from their edit screen
• Sponsored placements are now clearly labelled
• Full Arabic, French, Portuguese and Swahili translations
• Stability fixes and polish throughout
1.1.1 Jul 22
Fixed a bug where a new shop or personal shopper profile wouldn't save your photo during setup
Clearer, more specific error messages when something in a form needs fixing
A refreshed Support experience — smoother loading, easier-to-read conversations, and full dark mode support
Pull-to-refresh now works on empty screens
Small layout and polish improvements throughout
1.0.3 Jul 18
• A fresh look for the verified badge — the classic red seal, now everywhere
• View documents attached to corporate finds right from the find page
• Richer profile pages for Pro shops and personal shoppers
• Fixed duplicate "new sign-in" alerts when signing in again from the same phone
• Clearer notice when your team reaches its seat limit
• Translation updates and bug fixes
1.0.2 Jul 17
• See full details for any payment in Billing & Payments
• Track your Connects and Boosts activity
• Save finds to revisit later
• Layout polish and bug fixes
1.0.1 Jul 16
Your dashboard now works for you. Shops and personal shoppers get a new "Working for you" section showing what your shopping agent and find alerts are doing, plus a card for drafts your agent has prepared for your approval.
more Version 1.2.2 Oct 12
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