Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use. Primary Record takes a different approach — it's built for manually collecting, organizing, and sharing health information with families and community care teams. Here's what that difference looks like in practice.
Primary Record is a collaborative health information organizer focused on collecting, organizing, and sharing records across families, advocates, and community care teams.
Family Stork builds a lifelong timeline that starts filling itself the moment you give a clinic the private email address — no uploads, no portal logins, nothing for the clinic to learn.
The key difference: Primary Record requires you to bring the records in. Family Stork gets them from clinics automatically.
Primary Record positions itself around a real problem: health information is fragmented across portals, paper files, and people's memories. Their answer is a shared workspace — families collect records, notes, and important details in one place, then share that picture with advocates, community organizations, and care teams. It's built as much for community paramedicine workers and life care planners as for parents at home.
Family Stork's answer to the same problem starts with a different question: what if records could arrive without anyone collecting them? Every person on Family Stork gets a private address at families.familystork.com. Give it to any clinic, lab, or hospital — they email visit summaries there and the health story builds itself. No portal logins, no uploads, no new workflow for the clinic. $99/year, or about $10 a month.
| Feature | Primary Record | Family Stork |
|---|---|---|
| How records get in | Manual collection — you bring records in | Clinic emails the private address; records file themselves |
| Timeline from birth | You organize chronologically | ✅ Built automatically from first record |
| AI to answer questions | Plain-language summaries | ✅ Ask anything; answers from your family's records |
| Clinic compatibility | Any clinic — you collect and upload | Any clinic with email (every clinic) |
| Sharing model | Community care teams, advocates, family | Family invites helpers; each sees only what you choose |
| Emergency card | Shareable health information | ✅ One-tap emergency card, printable, revocable |
| Paper record scanning | ✅ Upload documents and notes | ✅ Snap paper records; AI does the data entry |
| Record transfers at 18 | Not a stated feature | ✅ The record transfers to your child when they're ready |
| Community/care team focus | ✅ Built for advocates, paramedics, care planners | Family-first; helpers invited, not primary users |
| Pricing | See primaryrecord.com for current pricing | $99/year — or about $10 a month |
After a pediatric appointment, the clinic generates a visit summary. With most apps — including Primary Record — that document either sits in a patient portal you have to log in to, or waits for you to request and upload it. Life intervenes. Three visits go by. The stack grows.
Family Stork removes the collection step entirely. The private address on your child's record is like a fax number the clinic already understands — they hit send, and the summary files into the timeline. The rash photo isn't lost in your camera roll. The specialist note from six months ago is searchable. You didn't have to do anything after the appointment.
Primary Record is honest about its model: it's about organizing the information you bring together, and making it usable across families and community teams. That's genuinely valuable — especially when a social worker, a mobile paramedic, or an advocacy organization needs to see the picture. But the collection step is still yours.
Both apps support multiple family members. Primary Record gives each member a profile — children, aging parents, whoever you're caring for — with the ability to share different views with different care team members. It's built for complex care networks: the community health worker who checks in on a parent, the life care planner supporting a child with a chronic condition, the home health team that needs a shared picture.
Family Stork gives each person their own timeline — and their own private email address. The parent's record is separate from the child's, with its own inbox. Invite a nanny, a babysitter, or a grandparent to see one child's record without touching the others. The family invites; helpers see only what the family chooses. For doctors and clinics, the /for-doctors page explains how to reply to a record's address — and it files itself.
Based on what's described on primaryrecord.com, Primary Record is built around manual collection — you bring records in from portals, paper, and other sources. The value is in organizing and sharing that information across family members and community care teams. Family Stork's email mechanic works differently: every clinic can send records to the private address and they file automatically, with no action from you after the appointment.
Primary Record can store and organize health information over time — it's designed to make continuity possible. Family Stork's timeline is explicitly built to start at birth and carry forward for life, with records flowing in from clinics automatically at every stage. The record transfers to the child at 18, so it follows them through adulthood. Ask your doctor which approach best fits your family's situation.
Both, but the emphasis is notable. Primary Record explicitly serves healthcare advocates, MIH & community paramedicine teams, and life care planners alongside families — it's built as a shared coordination layer across organizations. Family Stork is family-first: the family owns the record, invites helpers to see only what they choose, and clinics can email records directly. Helpers never own or manage the record.
Family Stork is $99 per year — or about $10 a month if you prefer monthly billing. For Primary Record's current pricing, visit primaryrecord.com directly. Family Stork's pricing covers the full timeline: the email mechanic, AI that answers questions from your records, emergency card, multi-person support, and the helper-invitation system.
Yes. Family Stork serves everyone — parents of babies and children, adults keeping their own record, and adult children managing records for aging parents. Each person gets their own timeline and their own private address. The discharge papers, the medication list, the specialist notes from five different doctors — they all flow in through email. For more on how this works for aging parents, see the caregivers hub. Always work with your family's care team on medical decisions; Family Stork is for organizing and finding records, not for medical advice.
One private 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.
Family Stork is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Always consult your doctor or care team for medical decisions. In an emergency, call 911.