Both apps keep your family's health records in one place. My Medical is a structured on-device database you control — you type, it stores. Family Stork is a lifelong timeline that builds itself: give any clinic your private email address, and their visit summaries file automatically. Here's how they differ.
My Medical has been around for years as a personal health database. You enter the data — medications, diagnoses, test results, vaccination history — and it stores it neatly, locally on your device. Autocompletion speeds the typing. Charts visualize trends. Files attach to entries. It works entirely on your terms, offline, with no cloud server holding your family's information.
Family Stork starts with the same goal — every record in one place — and solves the input problem differently. 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 builds itself. Snap paper records with your phone and AI does the data entry. Then ask the record questions: "When is his next booster due?" "What did the allergist recommend?" The answer comes from your child's actual history.
Full device control. Structured database lives on your device. No cloud server to worry about.
Whole family in one purchase. One purchase covers records for your spouse, children, aging parents — as many family members as you need.
Rich medical templates. Pre-built templates for blood pressure, cholesterol, metabolic panels, blood sugar, height/weight, and more. Build custom templates if needed.
Test result charting. Visualize trends over time, multiple graphs simultaneously, moving averages for long-term changes.
Medical terminology autocompletion. Drug names, vaccine names, diagnoses — autosuggested as you type.
Emergency access. Key information stays accessible to first responders even when the app is password-locked.
Calendar sync. Appointments and upcoming lab tests push automatically to your device calendar.
Records-inbox email. One private address. Give it to any clinic. Visit summaries arrive and file themselves on the timeline — no portal logins, no uploads, nothing for the clinic to learn.
AI data entry. Snap paper records — the vaccine card in the kitchen drawer, the allergy action plan from the school nurse — and AI reads the dates, values, and details. You don't type anything.
Ask the record questions. "What was his last hemoglobin?" "What did the cardiologist say in January?" The AI answers from your child's actual history, not generic information.
One timeline from birth. Checkups, growth, vaccines, allergies, milestones — chronological, every provider, every year, from the first heartbeat.
Shareable health summary. One tap produces a printable, shareable emergency card — revocable anytime.
Ownership transfers at 18. The record moves to your child when they're ready. Their whole history, in their hands.
$99/year (or about $10/month). Subscription includes the full email inbox mechanic and AI questions.
A child's first year alone generates a stack of paperwork: well-baby visits at 2, 4, 6, 9, and 12 months. A vaccine record that grows with each appointment. A pediatrician who changes, maybe twice. Growth measurements, a rash photo in the camera roll, the specialist referral note buried in email.
My Medical's answer is a well-designed data entry experience. Autocompletion helps. Templates structure the information. You build the record over time, and it stays exactly where you put it — on your device, nothing leaving your hands.
Family Stork's answer is to remove most of that entry step for ongoing care. The clinic emails the visit summary. The AI extracts the meaningful data from paper when you snap a photo. Over a decade of well-child care, that's a lot of typing that never happens. The tradeoff: you're trusting a cloud service with the data. Family Stork says it won't sell it or share it; you have to decide if that promise is one you're comfortable with.
If offline-first and cloud-free is a hard requirement — if you want the record to exist only on your device, without any server dependency — My Medical is designed for that. One purchase, whole family, data stays on your hardware. For people who are comfortable being their own archivist, it's a structured, capable tool.
If the goal is a timeline that builds itself with minimal ongoing effort — especially through the years of frequent well-child visits, specialist referrals, and school forms — Family Stork's email mechanic does that work. You give the address to the clinic once. Records come in. You can ask questions. At $99/year, it's a subscription, not a one-time purchase.
My Medical's model is: you organize, it stores. Family Stork's model is: the clinic sends, the AI organizes, you review. Both solve the "records are scattered" problem. Which solution fits depends on how much active management you want to do — and how much you trust the service holding the data.
My Medical is a private, on-device health database with a track record and a one-time price. You do the data entry; it organizes the output. For families who want complete local control — no subscriptions, no cloud servers — it's a well-built choice.
Family Stork bets that most families don't want to be their own medical archivists. The records-inbox email means the clinic does the filing. Snapping paper records is faster than transcribing them. And when you need to find something — an allergy note, a vaccine date, a specialist recommendation — you ask a question instead of scrolling through files. At $99/year, it costs more over time than a one-time purchase app. The value proposition is the time and effort you don't spend on manual entry.
For more on what to look for in a family health record app, see our guide to what makes a good medical history app for families.
Every person gets one private @familystork email address every clinic already knows how to use. Give it to any clinic, lab, or hospital. They email records to it — visit summaries, test results, vaccine updates — and the timeline builds itself automatically. No portal logins. No uploads. Nothing for the clinic to learn.
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 @familystork address. They send records; the timeline builds itself. $99/year, or about $10/month.
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