Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use. FamilyChart takes a different approach — it's a medication and health tracking app where you enter and manage data yourself. Here's what that difference looks like in practice, and which one fits what you're actually trying to do.
FamilyChart is a progressive web app for tracking medications and health data across family members — you enter the information, it keeps it organized. It also has a self-hosted option for families that want to run their own instance.
Family Stork builds a lifelong health timeline that starts filling itself the moment you give a clinic the private email address — visit summaries, lab results, discharge papers file automatically. No uploads, no portal logins, nothing for the clinic to learn.
The key difference: FamilyChart tracks what you put in. Family Stork gets records from clinics automatically.
FamilyChart is a progressive web app — it installs on any device (iPhone, Android, desktop) without an app store, and there's even a Docker-based self-hosted version on GitHub. Its focus is medication tracking and health data management: you log medications, track health information, and keep that picture updated across family members. If you want control over your own data infrastructure and are comfortable entering information manually, FamilyChart is a thoughtfully built tool for that job.
Family Stork's answer to the same fragmentation problem starts with a different question: what if clinical records could arrive without anyone collecting them? Every person on Family Stork gets a private address at families.familystork.com. Give it to any clinic, lab, or hospital — they email visit summaries there and the health story builds itself. No portal logins, no uploads, no new workflow for the clinic. The vaccine card no longer lives in a kitchen drawer. The specialist note from six months ago is searchable. You didn't have to do anything after the appointment. $99/year, or about $10 a month.
| Feature | FamilyChart | Family Stork |
|---|---|---|
| How health data gets in | You enter it manually | Clinic emails the private address; records file themselves |
| Primary focus | Medication tracking + health charts | Lifelong health timeline: checkups, growth, vaccines, labs, notes |
| Timeline from birth | You track chronologically | ✅ Built automatically from first clinic email |
| AI to answer record questions | Not a stated feature | ✅ Ask anything; answers drawn from your family's actual records |
| Clinic compatibility | Works with any data you enter from any source | Any clinic with email (every clinic) |
| Self-hosted option | ✅ Docker/GitHub (WheelieLabs/familychart) | Cloud-hosted; privacy governed by familystork.com privacy policy |
| App type | PWA (no app store needed) + Google Play | Web app + mobile app |
| Family member coverage | Multiple members tracked | Each person gets their own timeline + private email address |
| Paper record scanning | Manual entry from paper | ✅ Snap paper records; AI does the data entry |
| Helper access (nanny, grandparent) | Not a stated feature | ✅ Family invites; helper sees only what family chooses |
| Pricing | See familychart.app for current pricing | $99/year — or about $10 a month |
After a pediatric checkup, the clinic generates a visit summary — vaccines given, growth plotted, notes from the pediatrician. With a medication tracker like FamilyChart, that document either sits in a portal you have to log in to, or waits for you to ask for it and type the relevant details in. That's not a criticism — FamilyChart is built for what it does. But the collection step belongs to you.
Family Stork removes the collection step entirely. The private address on your child's record is like a fax number the clinic already understands — they hit send, and the visit summary files into the timeline. The growth measurement is there. The vaccine administered is there. You didn't have to do anything after you left the office.
If you're managing a parent's care across six doctors and three specialists, that difference compounds quickly. Every discharge paper, every lab, every follow-up summary arrives in one place automatically — without you logging into six different portals or sending six requests. The timeline builds itself while you're focused on actually caring for your parent.
Family Stork's current program covers the full family picture — not just children:
FamilyChart is a medication and health tracker. If you need to manage a complex medication schedule across family members — especially with a self-hosted infrastructure — it's a serious tool. If you need clinical records to arrive and organize themselves across multiple family members and multiple life stages, that's Family Stork's purpose.
Based on what FamilyChart describes on familychart.app, it is a medication and health tracking app where you enter and manage data yourself — it does not receive records from clinics automatically. Family Stork works differently: every clinic, lab, or hospital can email visit summaries to the private address shown on a person's record, and they file into the timeline without any action from you after the appointment.
FamilyChart is available as a progressive web app and also has a self-hosted version via Docker on GitHub (WheelieLabs/familychart). Check familychart.app for current pricing on their managed hosting. Family Stork is $99 per year — or about $10 a month — and includes the private email inbox for every family member, AI to answer questions from the record, and coverage for children, aging parents, and your own record.
FamilyChart is built around medication tracking and health data you enter. Building a chronological health timeline from birth — checkups, growth, vaccines, specialist notes, lab results, all arriving automatically from clinics — is the core purpose of Family Stork. Family Stork's timeline starts filling itself when a clinic sends the first record to the private email address on a child's record.
Every person on Family Stork gets a private address at families.familystork.com — shown on that person's record. Give it to any clinic, lab, or hospital. They send visit summaries, discharge papers, and lab results there the same way they'd send any email. Family Stork files each one into the health timeline automatically. There's nothing for the clinic to learn or install — it works everywhere email works.
For medication management specifically, FamilyChart is purpose-built — it's designed around the medication tracking workflow. Family Stork's strength is in clinical records arriving automatically and building a complete health timeline; medication information arrives as part of visit summaries and discharge papers from the clinic. If your primary need is a detailed medication log, FamilyChart may be a better fit for that specific job. If you want the full picture — records from every clinic, automatically, in one searchable timeline — that's Family Stork. Ask your doctor before making any changes to medications or medication management practices.
Tired of managing health records for yourself and everyone you love? Family Stork organizes them for you automatically — starting with one email address every clinic already knows how to use.
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