EkAyu is a private iOS app for iPhone and iPad — no account, no cloud, no tracking. You create a profile for each person in your family and add their records yourself: lab PDFs from your inbox, prescription photos, discharge papers, scans. Everything lives locally on your device, organized by person. It's built for people who want control and privacy above everything else. Family Stork starts from a different question: what if you never had to add anything? Every person gets one private email address, and any clinic, lab, or specialist can send records directly to it. The health story builds itself. No uploading, no camera, no inbox hunting. Your clinic's job is to send the email. Your Family Stork is to hold it.
EkAyu's privacy model is clear and genuinely different: your records never leave your phone. No company servers, no analytics, no subscription, no login. You photograph your prescription bottle, download your lab PDF, snap your discharge paperwork — each goes into the right person's profile. EkAyu organizes what you bring. It requires iOS 26 or later and runs on iPhone and iPad, with an Android version the team says is coming soon.
That privacy model has a trade-off. Records don't arrive automatically. When your pediatrician sends a visit summary via their patient portal, you need to log in, download the PDF, then add it to EkAyu. When the lab emails results, you need to forward or save that PDF. When you get a paper form at the school nurse's office, you need to photograph it. EkAyu is an excellent organizer — it just needs you to do the gathering first.
Family Stork changes what gathering means. Every person in your family gets a private address — the private Family Stork address shown on the person's record. Your pediatrician, your specialist, your lab, your school nurse: give them that address once, and they send visit summaries, lab results, and forms directly to it. Records file into the health timeline automatically. No downloading, no photograph, no app-switching. Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use.
Tired of managing health records for yourself and everyone you love? Family Stork organizes them for you automatically.
| Feature | EkAyu | Family Stork |
|---|---|---|
| How records get in | You add them manually — photos, PDFs, downloads | Clinics email directly to your private Family Stork address; records file automatically |
| Storage location | On your device — no cloud, no company servers | Secure cloud — accessible from any device, any browser |
| Account required | No account, no sign-in | Yes — your family's records live in a secure Family Stork account |
| Platforms | iPhone and iPad (iOS 26+); Android listed as coming soon | Web-based — any device, any browser; no specific OS version required |
| Family profiles | Yes — one profile per person you care for | Yes — one email address and one timeline per person |
| AI on records | Not listed as a current feature | Yes — ask the record questions; AI does data entry from emailed records |
| Caregiver access | One device, one person holds all profiles | Family can share access; caregivers and helpers see only what you choose |
| Pricing | Free | $99/year — or about $10/month |
| Clinic integration | None — you retrieve records from portals and add them yourself | Clinics use the private Family Stork address shown on the person's record — nothing new for them to learn |
EkAyu's local-only model is a real privacy choice, not just a feature. Nothing leaves your phone. No breach at a company server can touch your family's records. That's a meaningful guarantee for people who feel strongly about data custody.
The trade-off is portability and automation. If your phone is lost, broken, or stolen, your records go with it (unless you've backed up your device). If you get a new iPhone and forget to restore from backup, the records don't automatically reappear. And every new record — every visit summary, every lab result, every prescription — requires you to retrieve it from wherever it lives and add it manually.
Family Stork uses a different model: the private address shown on each person's record is how the clinic reaches that person's file. Records arrive the way email always has — clinics already know how to send email. The storage is cloud-based and secured. The result is a record that grows on its own as your child has checkups, gets vaccinations, and is seen by any provider who knows the address. Ask your pediatrician about sending their next visit summary there — most are happy to email when you give them a direct address to use.
Tired of managing health records for yourself and everyone you love? Family Stork organizes them for you automatically.
Start your family's timeline →$99/year · or about $10/month · From your first heartbeat and beyond.
Family Stork is cloud-based by design — your private Family Stork address has to live somewhere so clinics can email to it. If a fully local, no-account model is a hard requirement, EkAyu is designed for exactly that. If you want records to arrive automatically, Family Stork's approach is the one that makes that possible.
Records you've organized in EkAyu stay on your device. For Family Stork, you can snap paper records and existing documents — Family Stork's AI does the data entry. The transition doesn't have to be all-or-nothing; many families start by giving their clinic the Family Stork address and letting the automatic records build up, while keeping older paper records as backups.
Yes. Every person gets their own private address and their own timeline — a child from birth, yourself, or a parent you're helping care for. The record travels with the person, not the hospital. Ask your parent's doctor to send discharge papers, medication lists, and visit summaries to the private Family Stork address shown on their record.
iOS 26 is Apple's newest operating system (2026). EkAyu's iOS 26 requirement means the app uses features only available on the very latest iPhones and iPads. If your device runs an older iOS version, EkAyu won't install. Family Stork is web-based and has no specific OS requirement — it works in any browser on any device.