Comparison

Family Stork vs Growth:
growth charts vs. the whole health timeline.

Growth (growthchart.app) records your child's height, weight, and measurements on standard growth charts — WHO and CDC curves with percentiles, presented cleanly on iOS and Android. Family Stork includes growth tracking inside a lifelong health record that also holds vaccines, checkups, allergies, milestones, and visit summaries from clinics. One is a precise tool for tracking how your child grows. The other keeps growth as one thread in a much bigger story.

The Core Difference

Growth charts vs. the complete record

Growth (growthchart.app) is a dedicated growth tracking app. Log height, weight, and head circumference; watch percentile curves plot against WHO and CDC standards; share charts with your pediatrician at checkup time. It does one thing — growth measurement — and does it clearly.

Family Stork is a lifelong health timeline where growth is one chapter. Height and weight measurements live alongside checkups, vaccine records, allergy notes, milestone logs, and summaries from every clinic your child has ever visited. Clinics send visit notes directly to your child's private @familystork address — they file themselves. You can snap a paper growth record and let the AI enter the data. And you can ask the timeline questions and get answers from your own data.

The difference: Growth answers "is my child growing on track?" Family Stork answers that question too — and keeps every other part of the medical story in the same place.

Side by Side

How they compare

Growth (growthchart.app)

  • Height, weight, and head circumference tracking
  • WHO and CDC standard growth charts with percentiles
  • Multiple children
  • Shareable charts (pediatrician appointments)
  • iOS and Android
  • Clean, focused interface

Family Stork

  • Growth tracking inside a complete health timeline
  • Vaccines, checkups, allergies, milestones — one record
  • Private email address — clinics send records that file themselves
  • Snap paper records — AI does the data entry
  • Ask your record questions and get answers
  • Share records with new providers or schools instantly
  • Timeline grows from birth through adulthood
  • Handoff to your child when they're ready
  • $99/year or about $10/month
When Each Makes Sense

Who should use which?

Growth might be better if you…

Family Stork might be better if you…

Some families use a dedicated growth tracker like Growth for its precise charting during the early years, then move to Family Stork when the full record — visits, vaccines, allergies, school forms — becomes the thing they're managing day to day.

Key Distinctions

Three things to know

1. Growth charts vs. a full record

Growth gives you a precise tool for one specific measurement category. Family Stork gives you that same data point — height, weight, percentile curves — plus every other piece of your child's health history, organized the same way, in the same timeline.

2. Who enters the data

With Growth, you enter measurements yourself after each checkup. With Family Stork, your child's pediatrician can email the visit summary — including growth measurements — directly to your child's private @familystork address, and it files automatically. You can also snap a paper growth record and let the AI do the data entry. Less work, same data.

3. The context around the numbers

A growth percentile is most useful when you can see what else was happening at that checkup — what vaccines were given, what allergies were discussed, what the doctor noted. Family Stork keeps all of that context together, so the growth measurement isn't an isolated number but part of a visit you can look back on.

The bottom line

Growth (growthchart.app) is a clean, focused tool for parents who want precise growth charting on WHO and CDC curves. Family Stork includes that same growth tracking inside a lifelong health timeline where every other piece of your child's medical story lives too.

If you want one place that holds growth measurements alongside every checkup, vaccine, allergy, and clinic visit — one that any provider can send records to directly — Family Stork was built for that.

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