MyDox is a secure family document manager — the place for vaccination records alongside your mortgage, your insurance policies, and your birth certificates. It's a digital filing cabinet for any document your family needs to find. Family Stork is different in kind: it's a health story, not a file folder. Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use. The clinic emails the visit summary; it files into the health timeline automatically. No upload. No sorting. No shared folder.
MyDox is a well-designed document vault. You upload your family's important files — vaccination records, insurance cards, mortgage papers, birth certificates, discharge summaries — and they're organized, searchable, and shareable. MyDox notes a partnership with Care Directives for accessing medical records, and they've built tools for sending documents to schools with a click. If your family's problem is having all documents (medical and non-medical) in a single secure place, MyDox is purpose-built for that.
What MyDox doesn't have is a clinic-email address per person. When your child's pediatrician emails a visit summary or your parent's cardiologist sends discharge instructions, there's no MyDox address to send them to. Records reach MyDox when you gather and upload them.
Family Stork inverts that. Every person on Family Stork gets a private address at @families.familystork.com, shown on their record. Give that address to the pediatrician, the specialist, the lab, the hospital. When they email records — the same way they email appointment reminders — the record files itself into a searchable health timeline. No upload. No scan. The clinic does what it already knows how to do.
Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use.
| Feature | MyDox | Family Stork |
|---|---|---|
| What it stores | Any family document — medical, legal, financial | Health records only — built specifically for health stories |
| How health records arrive | You upload documents; no clinic email address | Clinics email records directly to each person's private address — they file automatically |
| Private clinic email address per person | No | Yes — every person gets a unique @families.familystork.com address |
| Health timeline (chronological) | Folder-based document storage, not a health timeline | Full chronological health story — checkups, labs, vaccines, milestones, medications |
| Covers non-medical documents | Yes — mortgage, insurance, birth certificates, etc. | No — health focused only |
| AI question-and-answer on the record | Not listed as a feature | Yes — ask the record anything: last vaccines, allergy list, what the discharge said |
| Multiple family members | Family document sharing built in | One record per person; invite family and helpers with permission controls |
| Pricing | 30-day free trial; subscription after (see mydox.io for current pricing) | Free to organize; $99/year for Family Stork to do the work (about $10/month) |
The choice comes down to scope. MyDox is a family document vault — broad and practical. Family Stork is a family health record — narrow and deep, built specifically for the clinic-to-family information flow that has historically been broken.
The hardest part of keeping family health records isn't storage — it's gathering. Every appointment produces a visit summary. Every lab run produces a result. Every discharge produces a packet. Most of that paperwork never makes it to a single organized place because it requires someone to download it from a portal, scan it, or photograph it and then file it somewhere.
Family Stork changes the first step. Give the clinic the private address shown on your child's or parent's record. When the pediatrician's office emails the visit summary — the same email they already send for appointment reminders — it files directly into the health timeline. You don't touch it. It's there.
Clinics already send email. Family Stork gives them an address per person. That's the whole mechanism. No new workflow for the clinic. No upload for the family. The record builds itself.
Yes, MyDox lets you organize documents in folders and supports medical records as one category. The difference is that Family Stork is built specifically for health — the AI reads the record, the timeline is structured around health events, and the email address is designed to receive records from clinics rather than having you upload them.
Yes. Family Stork is for any person — a child from birth, an aging parent whose records are scattered across every doctor they've ever had, or yourself. Each person gets their own record, their own private address, and their own health timeline.
It's a unique email address generated for each person's record, formatted as a private address at @families.familystork.com. Give it to any clinic — the address is shown on the person's Family Stork record. Any email a clinic sends to that address files into the health timeline automatically.
Yes. For paper documents — the vaccine card in the kitchen drawer, the rash photo — you can photograph them and Family Stork's AI does the data entry. The email address handles clinic-to-record filing automatically; photos handle everything else.
Organizing is free. $99 per year — or about $10 per month — for Family Stork to receive records from clinics, build the health timeline automatically, and answer your questions about the record.