Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use. Health Timeline is a free personal health record you build yourself. Family Stork is a health timeline that builds itself — clinics email records to your child's private address, and they file automatically. Here's what that difference means for a busy family.
Health Timeline believes every patient should own their health record — that doctors' records are error-prone and you need your own source of truth. The premise is right. Their tool gives you a place to record health problems, medicines, and allergies, and scan in test results and hospital summaries. You put in what you track; the record is yours.
Family Stork starts from the same belief — your child's health record belongs to your family, not scattered across a dozen clinic portals. But it takes a different approach to how the record gets built. Every clinic, lab, and hospital already knows how to send email. Give any of them your child's private @familystork address, and they email visit summaries the same way they email any other attachment. The record files itself. You don't enter anything; the timeline builds from real clinical documents.
Health Timeline: you build the record. Family Stork: the record arrives from the source.
Patient-owned record. You categorize health problems, medicines, and allergies in a timeline you control.
Document scanning. Scan test results, medical expenses, hospital summaries, X-rays, and labs to store alongside your entries.
Followers. Invite others to help update your timeline, with a paid tier for collaborative health messaging.
Free to start. Basic record-keeping is free; the follower tier is $1/month.
Free tier. Web-based. Manual entry and scanning required.
One child, one record. Every checkup, vaccine, allergy, growth measurement, and lab result on one chronological timeline — from birth.
One email address, all providers. Give any clinic your child's private @familystork address — they email records and the timeline files them automatically. No portals, no uploads.
Paper + digital. Snap paper records; the AI reads and files them. For the records that don't arrive by email.
Ask questions. "When was her last flu shot?" Grounded answers from your child's actual records.
Emergency card. Current medications and allergies — shareable, printable, revocable.
Ownership at 18. The record transfers to your child at adulthood.
$99/year — or about $10 a month.
The honest reality of every manual-entry health record: it reflects whoever had the time and discipline to keep updating it. After the first few months, busy parents fall behind. A new pediatrician, a specialist visit, an ER trip — each one is a record that should get entered but doesn't. The timeline becomes incomplete without anyone meaning for it to.
Health Timeline acknowledges this. Their founders note that doctors' records are filled with mistakes and patients need their own source of truth. That premise is real. The gap is that manual entry doesn't solve the problem of records that never get entered at all.
Family Stork sidesteps the manual entry problem at the source. When the pediatrician sends the visit summary to your child's @familystork address, the record is captured at the moment it's created — not a week later when you get around to entering it, and not never, when life gets in the way.
The vaccine card in the kitchen drawer is accurate. It's also incomplete. Family Stork closes the gap between "we mean to keep records" and "the records are actually there."
Health Timeline has a free tier. Start entering what you know and scanning documents you already have.
Family Stork. Give clinics the @familystork email address. Records arrive automatically. The timeline grows whether or not you have time to enter anything.
Health Timeline supports document scanning and categorization. Upload what you have and start from there.
Family Stork. Give each provider your child's @familystork address. Records from all four arrive in one timeline. No portal logins needed.
Health Timeline's follower feature ($1/month) lets you invite others to contribute to and update the record collaboratively.
Family Stork. If the pediatrician has been emailing to your child's @familystork address, every vaccine record is already in the timeline. Share it directly — no calling, no searching, no waiting.
Health Timeline and Family Stork share the same philosophy: your health record belongs to you, not your clinic. Where they differ is in how the record gets built. Health Timeline is a free tool that gives you a place to enter, organize, and store what you already have. It's the right fit if you want to start organizing historical records yourself and want a free starting point.
Family Stork is built for the forward-looking record — the visits happening now and in the years ahead. The email mechanic means you don't need to remember to enter anything after each visit. You give the clinic the email address once; the record builds from there. For families starting from a child's birth, or making a fresh start with a child still growing, Family Stork captures the records that manual entry often misses.
Ask your pediatrician which approach makes more sense for your family's situation.
Yes. You might use Health Timeline to organize historical documents you already have scanned, while using Family Stork to automatically capture going-forward records from clinics. They're not mutually exclusive.
Health Timeline has a free tier for basic record-keeping. The follower tier (collaborative updates) is $1 per month. Family Stork is $99 per year — or about $10 a month — for a lifelong health timeline that receives clinical records automatically.
Most clinics already send discharge summaries, after-visit notes, and test results by email — it's a standard part of how healthcare communication works. For the records that don't arrive by email (older paper records, hand-written vaccine cards), Family Stork's camera-snap feature reads and files them using AI-assisted data entry.
Health Timeline is a patient-entry and document-scanning tool. Records are added by you or designated followers. It does not receive records directly from clinics by email. Family Stork's email mechanic is built specifically for that flow.
Every person gets one private @familystork email address. Give it to any clinic, lab, or hospital. They email records to it — visit summaries, test results, vaccine updates — and the timeline files them automatically. No portal logins. No uploads. Nothing for the clinic to learn.
Give any clinic your child's private @familystork address. They send records; the timeline builds itself. No portal logins, no uploads, nothing for the clinic to learn.
Start your child's record — free