Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use. My Medical Records by Moon Apps takes a different approach: it's a digital storage app where you upload your documents yourself. Both organize health information. They work very differently.
| My Medical Records (Moon Apps) | Family Stork | |
|---|---|---|
| What it's built for | Individual digital health record storage | Family health records — one lifelong timeline per person |
| How records arrive | You upload them (download from portal, scan paper) | Clinics email the private address — records file themselves |
| Clinic integration | No direct clinic connection — you retrieve then upload | Any clinic that sends email — which is all of them |
| Private address per person | No — no per-person email address for clinics | Yes — the private Family Stork address shown on each record |
| Family records | Individual focus | Children, adults, and aging parents — all in one account |
| Record types | Prescriptions, reports, documents you upload | Visits, labs, vaccines, growth, milestones, diagnoses, allergies |
| AI features | AI summaries of uploaded documents | AI that knows your actual health history — ask anything about the record |
| School / camp forms | Retrieve stored documents manually | Pull from the health timeline — always current |
| Paper records | Scan and upload | Snap a photo — AI extracts and files the data for you |
| Cost | Freemium (paid plans for more storage) | Free to organize; $99/year for automatic filing |
My Medical Records is a digital health record storage app from Moon Apps, a small-business software company. Its core promise is that you can store and manage your medical records in one place — prescriptions, lab reports, and other health documents — and access them whenever you need them.
The app is genuinely useful for what it does. It accepts uploads, generates AI-powered summaries of what you upload, and gives you one place to look instead of hunting through email folders and portal accounts. It's built for an individual who wants to stay organized.
But the app's roundup article — "7 Best Medical Records Apps" — ranks in search results for family health records queries. That makes it worth comparing honestly: the article recommends upload-based and portal-based tools. Family Stork works differently at the foundation, and the difference matters for anyone who's tired of doing the retrieval work themselves.
Here's what organizing records the upload-based way actually looks like:
Your child sees the pediatrician. A visit summary appears in the patient portal — if the clinic uses a portal. You log in, download the PDF, give it a filename, then upload it to the storage app. One visit, one set of manual steps. Multiply that by every checkup, every specialist, every lab result, every vaccine record — for every family member.
Now do it for an aging parent seeing six specialists. Now do it for yourself across every doctor you've had. The records exist at the clinic. Getting them into a storage app is a job you're volunteering to do indefinitely.
The vaccine card in the kitchen drawer doesn't get there because someone forgot to care about it. It gets there because retrieving it required effort nobody had time for. Upload-based tools solve the storage problem without solving the retrieval problem.
Tired of managing health records for yourself and everyone you love? Family Stork organizes them for you automatically.
The design starts from a different question: instead of asking "where do you want to store your records?", Family Stork asks "how do we make records arrive without you doing anything?"
The answer is the private email address. Every person in Family Stork gets a private address — the private Family Stork address shown on their record, at the @families.familystork.com domain. You give this address to every provider: the pediatrician, the allergist, the lab, the school nurse. After each visit, the clinic emails the visit summary to that address. It files itself into the person's health timeline automatically.
Clinics already know how to send an email. They do it every day. This isn't a new workflow for them — it's their existing workflow, pointed at an address that actually keeps the record instead of an inbox nobody checks.
My Medical Records by Moon Apps makes sense if you have a small set of records you're already organized about, you prefer to manage what goes in, and you mainly need a single digital place to find documents you've already gathered. The upload model gives you full control over what's stored.
If you see a small number of providers, rarely add records, and mainly want to find documents you've already gathered — an upload-based organizer works. The friction is low when the volume is low.
Family Stork was built for the families who feel the weight of this:
Visit familystork.com/how-it-works or start a record — your first record is free.
No. My Medical Records by Moon Apps is a storage app — you upload documents yourself. There's no mechanism for a clinic to send records to it directly. You retrieve records from portals or scan paper copies, then upload them to the app. Family Stork's private email address is the mechanism that makes clinic-to-record delivery automatic.
My Medical Records by Moon Apps is focused on individual health records. Family Stork is explicitly built for families: one account holds separate health timelines for children (from birth), adults keeping their own record, and aging parents being cared for by their adult children — each with their own private address.
Every person enrolled in Family Stork gets a unique private address at the @families.familystork.com domain. It's shown on their record in the app. You give this address to every provider the same way you'd give out any contact address. When the clinic sends a message to it, Family Stork receives it, parses the health information, and files it automatically into that person's timeline. You don't see the address format in advance — it's generated per record. Never use a format like "firstname@familystork.com" — the actual address is generated and shown inside the app.
Family Stork is free to organize your records — you can start a record, add family members, and snap paper records at no cost. The $99/year plan (or about $10/month) activates the automatic filing: records that arrive at the private address are processed and filed for you. See current pricing at familystork.com/pricing.
That's exactly when the private address matters most. Clinics that don't offer patient portals almost certainly send visit summaries by email — to the patient, to other providers, or both. The private Family Stork address is just an email address. Any clinic that sends health information by email can send it to the private address. No portal, no app install, no new system for the clinic to learn.