Comparison

Family Stork vs MedKeep:
who fills the record — you, or the clinic?

MedKeep is an offline-first, AES-256 encrypted health records app for every family member — medications, vitals, doctor visits, and documents organized in a private vault on your device. Family Stork flips the model: one private email address per person, and any clinic can send records directly. The timeline fills itself.

The Core Difference

A private vault vs. an inbox-fed timeline

MedKeep is a device-first records vault. Your family's health data — prescriptions, lab PDFs, visit notes, vaccine cards, 7 vital types — is stored AES-256 encrypted on your device, never accessible by MedKeep. You can export any record as a PDF with one tap. Offline-first means it works without internet. The approach is total: unlimited family members, color-coded profiles for each, everything accessible from one dashboard.

Family Stork is a self-building health timeline. The approach is different from the ground up: every family member gets a dedicated @families.familystork.com email address. Any clinic, lab, or hospital sends records to that address — the same way they already email patients — and the timeline builds itself automatically. Visit summaries, vaccine records, and lab results arrive and file themselves. You can also snap paper records and let AI extract the data.

The bottom line: MedKeep puts you in control of a beautifully organized vault. Family Stork makes it so the vault fills itself — because the clinic does the work, not you.
Side by Side

Where each one fits

MEDKEEP

What it does well

Device-encrypted vault. AES-256 encrypted on your device. MedKeep cannot access your data — you own it fully.

Offline-first. Works without internet. Records accessible anywhere, any signal level.

7 vital types tracked. Blood pressure, heart rate, glucose, weight, temperature, oxygen saturation, and more — with history charts.

Unlimited family members. Color-coded profiles for kids, parents, partners — one dashboard.

One-tap PDF export. Any record exported cleanly for sharing with providers or specialists.

Privacy first. "We can't read it." Data stays yours; never sold.

FAMILY STORK

What it does well

Automatic record intake. Clinics send records to your @families.familystork.com address — they file themselves. No uploads needed from you.

Lifelong timeline from birth. Every record from the first heartbeat — checkups, growth, vaccines, milestones, specialist visits — one continuous story.

AI data entry. Snap paper records — the app extracts dates, measurements, and details automatically.

Ask questions. "When was his last Tdap?" "What did the ENT say last year?" The AI answers from the actual record.

Emergency card. One tap — shareable, printable, includes allergies and medications for urgent care or the school nurse.

Transfers at 18. The health story becomes theirs when they're ready.

The Work Question

Every visit, you decide: upload now, or let it slip

The challenge with any manual records app — and MedKeep is honest about this being a manual app — is that the record is only as complete as your last upload. A busy Tuesday after a pediatrician visit becomes Wednesday, then the prescription slip moves around the counter, then it's gone. The lab PDF goes undownloaded. The vaccine card sits in a stack of papers.

MedKeep is excellent for the parent who builds the habit. If you're organized, consistent, and want a private vault that nobody can access except you — it delivers on that promise beautifully.

Family Stork is built for the parent who can't always be that parent — because two kids and a full-time job make consistent manual data entry unrealistic. The email address does the work. The clinic sends the record the same day as the visit. The timeline stays current.

Back-to-School Season

When schools ask for records

Back-to-school enrollment is when most families discover the gaps in their records. The school nurse needs the immunization form. The sports physical needs the allergy list. The daycare needs the emergency contacts and medication protocol.

With MedKeep, you export a PDF of what you've manually stored. With Family Stork, the school nurse question triggers a search across every record automatically filed from every provider since birth — and the answer is there because the clinic already sent it.

Family Stork

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.

Give any clinic your child's private @families.familystork.com address. Every visit summary, vaccine record, and lab result they send files itself on the timeline — no portal logins, no uploads, nothing for the clinic to learn. From your first heartbeat and beyond.

$99/year, or about $10/month. Start your child's record free →

One health story. One email address every clinic already knows how to use.

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