Historia Medica is a Mac-native app for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, built on a strict privacy premise: your family's medical history lives only on your computer. No account to create, no data sent to any server, no company tracking. You manage visits, medications, lab results, and vitals for everyone in your household — all stored locally on your Mac. It's currently in free public beta (version 0.9.0), available for macOS 12 Monterey or later. Family Stork approaches the same problem from the other direction: instead of building a local archive on your Mac, every person gets a private email address. Clinics send visit summaries, lab results, and records to that address, and the health timeline grows automatically — no computer required, no file management, no manual entry.
Historia Medica's promise is clarity and control: your family's medical history is private, yours, and sitting on your Mac. Start with one profile and one record. Add more as you go — visits, medication lists, lab results, vitals for each person you care for. The app organizes them. Nothing leaves your computer. For someone who wants a digital equivalent of the manila folder in the filing cabinet — but searchable, organized by person, and not stuffed in a drawer somewhere — Historia Medica has a clear use case. It requires macOS 12 (Monterey) or later and runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. As of October 2026, it's a free public beta, with a paid 1.x release planned.
The constraint is the same one every local-archive app carries: records don't arrive on their own. When your pediatrician sends a visit summary through their patient portal, you need to retrieve it and add it. When the lab runs bloodwork, you need to download the PDF from the portal and enter it into Historia Medica. When your child gets a vaccine, you need to log it. The archive is only as current as your last manual update. And the records only exist on the Mac — if you're at the pharmacy, the emergency room, or a new doctor's office with just your phone, the record isn't with you.
Family Stork solves the retrieval problem. Every person gets a private email address — the private Family Stork address shown on the person's record. Give that address to your pediatrician, your specialist, your lab. When they send the visit summary or lab result, it files into the health timeline automatically. No portal login, no download, no entry. The record is accessible from any device — phone, laptop, tablet — because it lives in the cloud. 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 | Historia Medica | Family Stork |
|---|---|---|
| How records get in | You add them manually — visits, medications, lab results, vitals | Clinics email to the private Family Stork address shown on the person's record; records file automatically |
| Storage | Local Mac only — no cloud, no servers | Secure cloud — accessible from any device |
| Platforms | Mac only (Apple Silicon or Intel, macOS 12+); no iOS, no Windows, no Android | Web-based — any browser, any device, any OS |
| Account required | No account, no sign-in | Yes — secure Family Stork account holds your family's timeline |
| Current status | Free public beta (v0.9.0, as of Oct 2026); paid 1.x planned | Live product — $99/year or about $10/month |
| Family profiles | Yes — one profile per person in your household | Yes — one private address and one timeline per person; parents, children, aging parents |
| AI on records | Not listed as a current beta feature | Yes — ask the record anything; AI does data entry from emailed records |
| Mobile access | No — Mac-only; records not accessible on phone | Yes — accessible on any device with a browser, including at the pharmacy or ER |
| Clinic integration | None — you retrieve records from portals or paper and enter them | Clinics use the private Family Stork address — no portal logins, no clinic portal setup |
| Pricing | Free beta; paid version planned (pricing not yet announced) | $99/year — or about $10/month |
A health record that only lives on your Mac is a record that isn't with you when you need it most. At the pediatrician's office, you're on your phone. At the emergency room at 11pm, you don't have your laptop. At the school nurse's office, you're answering questions about vaccine history from a waiting room chair.
Historia Medica is designed for a different moment: the quiet evening at your desk when you want to review the year's records, update the medication list, make sure everything is current. For that use case — the organized, reflective review — it's a thoughtfully built app. For the moment when you need to hand someone a vaccine record or answer "does your child have any allergies?" from a form in the clinic waiting room, the record needs to be somewhere other than your home Mac.
Family Stork is accessible from any browser. The emergency card — medications, allergies, emergency contacts — is always reachable from your phone. When the school nurse asks for the immunization record, you pull it up in the browser. When your child's new pediatrician asks for the health history at the first visit, you share it directly. The record goes where you go.
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As of October 2026, Historia Medica is a free public beta (version 0.9.0). The team offers a deal: start the beta by November 15, 2026 and get version 1.x free when it's released. Beta software can have bugs and missing features; check Historia Medica's site for the current feature set and release timeline before relying on it for your family's records.
No. Historia Medica is Mac-only — Apple Silicon or Intel Macs running macOS 12 Monterey or later. There's no iOS, iPad, Android, or web version as of October 2026. Family Stork is web-based and accessible from any browser on any device, including iPhones and Android phones.
No. Every clinic already knows how to send email. Give your clinic the private Family Stork address shown on the person's record — the same way you'd give them a phone number. When they email a visit summary or lab result to that address, it files automatically into the health timeline. Many clinics are happy to do this once you give them a specific address to use. Ask at your next visit.
Historia Medica stores records locally on your Mac. If your Mac fails, is stolen, or the drive fails without a backup, the records may be lost. Apple's Time Machine or another backup solution is essential for protecting a local-only health archive. Family Stork stores records in the cloud — they're not tied to any single device and aren't lost if your device fails.