FamGenix vs. Family Stork:
family health history vs.
your ongoing health record
They both have "family" and "health" in the name. They solve completely different problems. Here's the honest comparison — because knowing which one you need saves you from signing up for the wrong thing.
Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use.
- FamGenix maps who in your family had diabetes, heart disease, or cancer — a generational health history tree for understanding inherited risk.
- Family Stork keeps your current, ongoing clinical record: this year's checkups, last week's lab results, the discharge paper from Tuesday.
- They answer different questions. Many families need both.
What is FamGenix used for?
FamGenix is a family health history platform. It builds a pedigree — a structured tree of health conditions across generations. Your grandmother had breast cancer at 52. Your uncle has Type 2 diabetes. Your father has high blood pressure. FamGenix captures that pattern and helps clinicians assess hereditary risk.
FamGenix also integrates with EHR systems for clinical use — hospitals and genetic counselors use it to build standardized family health history trees as part of patient intake and risk assessment workflows.
It's excellent at what it does. What it does is map the past across your family tree.
What is Family Stork used for?
Family Stork keeps each person's ongoing clinical record — the things that are happening now and the things that happened to this person, not their relatives.
- Your child's well-child visit notes from last week
- The lab results from Monday
- The discharge summary from the hospital in February
- The medication list, current as of today
- The immunization record for school enrollment
- Your aging parent's specialist notes from three different doctors
Each person gets a private @families.familystork.com email address. Any clinic sends records to it — visit summaries, lab results, discharge papers — and the record builds itself into a timeline. No manual entry, no portal juggling, no uploading.
Which one is for right now — managing active health records?
Family Stork. If the question is "where is my child's immunization record," "what did the allergist say last month," or "can I get all of Mom's records from her six doctors into one place" — that's an ongoing clinical record problem. Family Stork is built for it.
FamGenix does not receive clinic emails. It does not organize visit summaries or lab results. It does not track medications or generate an emergency card. That's not a criticism — it's simply not what FamGenix was designed to do.
Which one is for understanding your family's inherited health history?
FamGenix. If the question is "does diabetes run in my family," "should I get screened for the same cancer my aunt had," or "what's my child's hereditary risk profile" — that's a generational health history problem. FamGenix and tools like it are built for it.
Family Stork holds each individual's clinical records, but it doesn't build a pedigree across multiple generations or assess hereditary risk patterns. That's a fundamentally different job.
Do I need both?
Many families do — and the two tools don't overlap.
- FamGenix answers: "What health patterns run in our family?"
- Family Stork answers: "What happened at the last doctor's visit, and where are all the records?"
One looks backward across generations. The other looks at right now — every checkup, every lab, every hospital visit, for every person in your family, from birth onward.
| FamGenix | Family Stork | |
|---|---|---|
| Core purpose | Hereditary health history tree | Ongoing clinical record per person |
| Scope | Multiple generations (grandparents → you → children) | Each person's lifetime record (birth onward) |
| How records arrive | Manual entry or EHR integration | Clinics email to private address — auto-filed |
| Clinical use | Genetic counseling, risk assessment | Complete history for any doctor visit |
| Emergency card | No | Yes — medications, allergies, doctors |
| Best for | "Does heart disease run in my family?" | "Where are all my child's records?" |
It's $99 a year — or about $10 a month
Family Stork is free to organize your family's records. The full service — where Family Stork does the work for you — is $99 per year, or about $10 a month if you pay monthly.
For every person in your family. One timeline from birth. One email address every clinic already knows how to use.
FAQ
Is FamGenix a medical records app?
Not in the way most people mean. FamGenix is a family health history tool — it tracks conditions across generations (grandparents, parents, siblings, children) to understand inherited risk. It does not store individual visit summaries, lab results, or medication lists from today's doctor appointments.
Can FamGenix receive emails from a clinic or hospital?
No. FamGenix collects family health history through manual entry and EHR integration for clinical workflows. It does not have a private email address where clinics can send visit records. Family Stork provides that — each person gets a @families.familystork.com address that any clinic can email to.
Which app is better for organizing a child's checkups and vaccines?
Family Stork. A child's well-child visits, immunization records, growth measurements, and specialist notes are ongoing clinical records — exactly what Family Stork is designed to organize. FamGenix would record whether the child's family has a history of a particular condition, not the details of each doctor's visit.
Which app is better for understanding hereditary conditions in my family?
FamGenix. If you want to know whether diabetes, breast cancer, or heart disease runs in your family — across grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins — FamGenix is purpose-built for that. Bring the pedigree to your doctor or genetic counselor. Always consult your doctor about interpreting hereditary risk.
Does FamGenix organize ongoing clinical records?
No. FamGenix captures family health history (what conditions relatives have had) but does not store or organize current clinical records like visit summaries, lab results, prescriptions, or discharge papers. For that, you need an ongoing health records organizer like Family Stork.