Both apps organize health records for families. KeepMD connects to 40,000+ providers via FHIR and stores records on your device. Family Stork builds a lifelong timeline from your child's first heartbeat — records flowing in through one email address every clinic already knows how to use. Here's how they compare in 2026.
KeepMD is a private health records organizer with FHIR provider sync. It connects to 40,000+ providers (Epic, Cerner, and major health systems) to auto-import labs, visit notes, and prescriptions. It also offers OCR scanning for paper records, KeepMD Intelligence™ AI to ask questions about your history, and visit transcription to capture what the doctor said. Records stay on your device by default — no KeepMD cloud database.
Family Stork is a lifelong family health timeline built around one email address. Every person gets a private @familystork email. Give it to any clinic, lab, or hospital — they email records and the timeline files them automatically. Snap paper records and AI does the data entry. Ask the record questions: "When was her last flu shot?" "What did the allergist say in March?" The timeline answers. $99/year or about $10/month.
FHIR provider sync. Connect Epic, Cerner, and 40,000+ providers. Labs, visit notes, and prescriptions auto-import. Availability varies by provider, region, and platform.
KeepMD Intelligence™ AI. Ask your health history questions in plain English, privately, on your device.
Visit transcription. Record your appointment; KeepMD turns it into a searchable transcript. No more half-remembered instructions.
On-device storage. Records stay on your phone. No KeepMD cloud to breach.
OCR scanning. Photograph paper records; text gets extracted and searchable.
Lab trend charts. Track values over time and flag out-of-range results.
Family profiles. Separate profiles for kids, parents, and aging relatives (Plus plan).
Free starter tier. Core features for one person at no cost.
Records-inbox email. Give the address to any clinic. Visit summaries arrive and file themselves on the timeline.
AI data entry. Snap paper records — the AI reads dates, values, and details so you don't type anything.
Ask the record questions. "What vaccine is due next?" "What did the dermatologist say?" Answers grounded in your child's actual records.
One timeline from birth. Checkups, growth, vaccines, allergies, milestones — chronological, every provider, every year.
Emergency card. One tap — shareable, printable, revocable.
Ownership at 18. The record transfers to your child when they're ready. Their history, their hands.
The first year of a child's life produces a remarkable stack of records — well-baby visits every few months, vaccines, growth measurements, maybe a specialist referral or two. By school age, add allergy tests, sports physicals, immunization forms, dental records.
KeepMD now auto-imports from 40,000+ providers through FHIR. If your hospitals and clinics are in that network, records flow in without scanning. For everything else, OCR handles paper. KeepMD Intelligence™ lets you ask questions across the whole history, and visit transcription captures what the doctor said in real time.
Family Stork's approach is different: one email address, and every clinic can use it — no FHIR enrollment, no checking whether your provider is in the network. The small pediatric practice, the urgent care visit on vacation, the specialist your insurance sent you to once — they all just email. And then you can ask the timeline anything, just like KeepMD.
The practical question: are all your family's providers FHIR-connected? If yes, KeepMD's auto-sync is seamless. If you see a mix of providers, including smaller practices that haven't adopted FHIR yet, the email mechanic catches everything. For a deeper dive, read KeepMD vs Family Stork: FHIR sync or email mechanic?
Updated September 2026 to reflect KeepMD's FHIR provider sync, Intelligence™ AI, and visit transcription features.
KeepMD's core promise is local-only storage. There's no cloud database of your medical files. If you want your records to exist nowhere but your device, this model delivers that.
Family Stork holds your family's data so it can work across devices, answer questions, and receive records from clinics. That data isn't sold, isn't shared with advertisers, and isn't used to train AI models. Your child's health story is yours.
Local-only means no syncing across devices, no automatic record intake, and no AI-powered questions. Cloud-based means trusting your provider with the data. Both are valid choices — it depends on what matters more to your family.
KeepMD and Family Stork have converged on a similar vision — both auto-import records and both let you ask questions with AI. The difference is the import path. KeepMD syncs from 40,000+ FHIR-connected providers; availability varies by provider, region, and platform. Family Stork uses one email address that works with every clinic that has email.
If your providers are all in major health systems with FHIR support and you want everything on-device, KeepMD is a strong fit. If your family sees a mix of providers — including smaller practices, urgent care, and specialists — and you want records to arrive without checking a provider directory, Family Stork's email mechanic catches everything. For more on why one timeline matters, see what to look for in a family health record app, or read the detailed KeepMD vs Family Stork comparison.
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.
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