Child Health Tracker is a manual-entry tracker — growth charts, vaccination reminders, and symptom notes you enter yourself. Family Stork is a lifelong health record that builds itself: clinics email visit summaries to your child's private address and they file automatically. The data comes from the providers, not from your memory.
Child Health Tracker is built around what you record. Log your child's height and weight, mark vaccines as received, note symptoms from a fever, write down what happened at the doctor visit. It gives you WHO-standard growth charts and automated vaccination reminders based on typical schedules. It's a well-designed parent journal for tracking a child's health day to day.
Family Stork is built around where records actually live: at the clinic. Every person on Family Stork gets one private email address shown on their record — at the @families.familystork.com domain, generated per person. Give it to your pediatrician once. When they send a visit summary, a lab result, or an immunization record to that address, it files into the health timeline automatically. No typing, no scanning, no trying to remember the lot number on last spring's MMR.
WHO-standard growth charts. Visualize height and weight trends against standardized percentile curves.
Vaccination reminder schedule. Get notifications when vaccines are due based on typical childhood schedules.
Symptom logging. Log fevers, rashes, or discomfort to bring notes to the next doctor visit.
Doctor visit notes. Write your own record of what happened at each appointment.
Single-child focus. Simple setup for tracking one child's health journey.
Records from every provider, automatically. Clinics email visit summaries to your child's private address — one address, every clinic, zero portals.
Official immunization records. The actual immunization history — not a parent-logged checklist. Dates, doses, lot numbers, administering clinic.
Paper record scanning. Snap a photo of any paper record. AI extracts the data and adds it to the timeline.
Ask the record anything. "When was his last tetanus shot?" "What did the allergist recommend in 2024?" The answer comes from the actual record.
Whole-family coverage. Children, yourself, aging parents — one account, every person's lifetime health story.
When a pediatrician asks whether your child is up to date on vaccinations, they want the record from the clinic that administered the vaccine — date, lot number, and which provider gave it. When a school asks for immunization records, they want the same thing.
Child Health Tracker's vaccination log is a checklist you maintain. It tells you and the app that you believe your child received a vaccine. It does not receive the official immunization record from the clinic that administered it.
Family Stork holds the record from the source. When your pediatrician emails the visit summary to your child's private @families.familystork.com address, the immunization history arrives with it — the actual clinical documentation, not a parent-transcribed copy.
Child Health Tracker is designed for tracking a young child's health — growth, vaccines, symptoms. As your child ages into adolescence and adulthood, the app's core focus (pediatric growth tracking) becomes less relevant. The records stay in the app, but the family's evolving health picture isn't what it's built to manage.
Family Stork's tagline is "from your first heartbeat and beyond." A child's record begins at birth — every checkup, vaccine, and specialist visit. When they're ready, the record is handed to them. They carry their whole health story into adulthood. Their new doctor on day one gets the full picture.
One Family Stork account can hold records for every child in your family, for your own health story, and for an aging parent whose records are scattered across a decade of specialists. One email address per person. One timeline per person. Every clinic, one place.
Every person gets a private address at @families.familystork.com — shown right on their record. Give it to your pediatrician's front desk. When they send a visit summary, it arrives in the health timeline automatically. No portal login. No upload. No app for the clinic to install. They send an email — it files itself.
That's the difference between a log and a record. One is what you remember. The other is what the clinic documented.
Child Health Tracker's vaccination section is a reminder and log you maintain yourself — dates and vaccines you enter manually. It is not connected to your clinic's record system and does not receive official immunization documentation from the administering provider. Family Stork's records arrive from your pediatrician's clinic directly, via your child's private @families.familystork.com address, when the clinic emails visit summaries.
Child Health Tracker is a manual-entry app — records from any source require you to enter them yourself. Family Stork uses the email mechanic: any clinic that can send an email — your pediatrician, the urgent care you visited last winter, the specialist across town — can email records to your child's private address and they file into the timeline automatically.
Family Stork is $99 per year — or about $10 a month. One account covers every person in your family: children, yourself, and aging parents. Records arrive automatically when clinics use each person's private @families.familystork.com address.
Family Stork holds growth measurements as part of the medical timeline — they arrive in the visit summary when your pediatrician sends it. You can also enter them manually. The app isn't focused on WHO-percentile chart visualizations the way Child Health Tracker is, but the measurements are captured as part of the complete health story. Ask your doctor whether the visit record includes growth data — it typically does.
Yes. One Family Stork account can hold health records for children, for yourself, and for an aging parent. Each person gets their own private address, their own timeline, and their own record. You manage access — you decide who can see what. Your sibling can be invited to see a parent's record without needing the whole family on a group text every time a discharge paper arrives.
Child Health Tracker is a parent-maintained log — you enter growth measurements, mark vaccines you believe were given, and note symptoms. It's a helpful companion for tracking a young child's day-to-day health. Family Stork holds the actual medical record: the visit summaries your pediatrician writes, the immunization history from the clinic that administered the shots, the lab results from the specialist across town — arriving automatically because any clinic can email them to your child's private address. One is a log. The other is the record.
Tired of managing health records for yourself and everyone you love? Family Stork organizes them for you automatically.
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