Health Keeper is a privacy-first health records app that keeps everything on your phone — you type in visits, scan paper documents, log vitals, and your data never touches an outside server. It's built for people who want total control and zero cloud dependency. Family Stork starts from a different premise: every person gets a private email address, and any clinic, lab, or hospital that already sends emails can send records directly to it. The record builds itself. Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use.
Health Keeper's privacy model is clear and honest: every record lives on your device. Medical visits, medications, allergies, vaccine dates, lab results, radiology reports — you enter them, or scan them using the app's ML-powered OCR. An optional encrypted backup goes to your own Google Drive folder; Health Keeper's servers never store your records. That's a real feature for people who've decided they don't trust cloud services with their family's health history.
The trade-off is that you are the filing system. Every time a pediatrician sends a visit summary, every time a lab emails results, every time a hospital prints discharge papers — someone has to open the app, create the entry, and tap through the fields or snap a scan. Health Keeper handles the storage and display beautifully. The acquisition of records is still your job.
Family Stork changes that step. The private address shown on each person's record — generated automatically when you start their timeline — is a real email address that ends @families.familystork.com. Give it to your child's pediatrician, your parent's cardiologist, your own primary care doctor. When they email records to that address, they file into a searchable health story automatically. No portal login. No manual entry. The clinic already knows how to send email.
Tired of managing health records for yourself and everyone you love? Family Stork organizes them for you automatically.
| Feature | Health Keeper | Family Stork |
|---|---|---|
| How records get in | You enter manually or scan with OCR | Clinics email to the private address on each person's record |
| Data storage | Offline-first — your device only; optional Google Drive backup | Secure cloud — your private health timeline, accessible anywhere |
| Clinic integration | None — you bring the records in | Yes — any clinic that sends email can send records directly |
| Family members | Multi-profile — each person tracked in the same app | Separate record and private address per person — kids, adults, aging parents |
| Vitals tracking | Yes — blood pressure, glucose, heart rate, weight, O₂, temperature | Health timeline — checkups, growth, vaccines, allergies, milestones |
| AI / ask-the-record | Analytics and chart visualization of vitals | Ask anything — when was the last vaccine? what does the school need? — the record answers |
| Paper record scanning | Yes — ML-powered OCR reads scanned documents | Yes — snap paper records; AI does the data entry |
| MyChart / portal connect | No portal connection | Yes — connect supported portals; many hospitals, one record |
| Caregiver / helper access | Not specifically designed for shared access | Family invites helpers — nanny, sitter, grandparent, camp nurse — sees only what family chooses |
| Pricing | Available on App Store | Free to organize · $99/year for Family Stork to do the work (about $10/month) |
Health Keeper is well-suited to people who have a strong preference for keeping health data off any cloud server — and who are willing to do the data-entry work themselves in exchange for that certainty. If you log vitals daily (blood pressure, glucose, oxygen) and want a clean chart of trends over time, Health Keeper's visualization tools are genuinely good. If you have a chronic condition and want a detailed, locally controlled record of every measurement, it's worth a look. The offline-first model also works well without a reliable internet connection.
The limitation shows most clearly when you have multiple family members with multiple clinics. Each new record — a pediatrician's visit summary, a lab result, a specialist's discharge note — requires someone to open the app and enter or scan it. For a family keeping records for young children and aging parents simultaneously, that accumulates quickly.
Family Stork is built for families who want the records to arrive and organize themselves — without manual entry and without requiring clinics to adopt new software. The private address shown on each person's record works like any email address your clinic already uses for correspondence. Give it to your pediatrician the same way you'd give them your phone number. When they email visit summaries to that address, Family Stork files them automatically into a timeline that grows with the child from birth onward.
Family Stork is also built for the full family — children from birth, adults keeping their own records, and adult children helping an aging parent bring scattered records together from every doctor they've ever had. Each person gets their own private address and their own health story. The family sees what they need; helpers see only what the family chooses to share.
When an adult child takes on responsibility for an aging parent's health, the record problem is usually this: records are scattered across every doctor the parent has ever seen, in separate portals no single person controls, with discharge papers in a drawer and a medication list that hasn't been updated since last year. Health Keeper gives you a single app to consolidate what you can gather — you enter the doctors, the medications, the conditions, and build a local record from scratch.
Family Stork approaches the same problem from the supply side. Start a record for your parent, get the private address shown on their record, and give it to each of their doctors. When the cardiologist sends a visit summary or the hospital emails discharge papers, they file automatically. The record grows as care happens, not as you remember to enter it. If you share access with siblings, each sibling sees the same record without coordinating a group text. The parent's emergency card is always current.
For more on organizing records for an aging parent, see: How to gather medical records from every doctor they ever had and Siblings, one parent, five doctors: sharing a parent's health record.
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 stores your health timeline securely in the cloud — accessible from any device, shareable with helpers and family members, and searchable by the AI. Health Keeper's local-only model is a deliberate privacy trade-off: maximum privacy, but records only exist on the device you use. If device privacy is your primary concern, Health Keeper's model is worth understanding. If you want records accessible across devices and shareable with a spouse, sibling, or caregiver, Family Stork is designed for that.
Many clinics already send visit summaries and lab results by email. Give your provider the private address shown on the person's record — the same way you'd give them a fax number or phone number. For clinics that prefer portals, you can download documents and snap them into Family Stork. Ask your doctor's office which method they prefer for sending records to patients.
Based on publicly available information as of October 2026, Health Keeper does not connect to patient portals — records arrive through manual entry and scanning. Family Stork connects to supported portals so you can pull existing records alongside receiving new ones by email. Check healthkeeper.app for the latest on their integrations.
Family Stork's focus is on the full health story — checkups, vaccines, allergies, growth, milestones, clinic records — organized from birth and searchable by AI. Health Keeper specializes in vitals monitoring with detailed charts for blood pressure, glucose, heart rate, weight, and oxygen over time. If daily vitals charting is your main need, Health Keeper's tools are specifically designed for that.
It depends on how records arrive. If you're willing to gather and enter every record yourself, Health Keeper can hold them locally. If you want each of your parent's doctors to email records directly to a dedicated address — and have them file automatically without your involvement — that's the Family Stork model. Both are organizational tools; neither provides medical advice. Ask your parent's doctors which records they can send by email.