TendTo is a caregiver command center: track bills, manage medication schedules, coordinate appointments, and share documents with siblings and aides — all in one dashboard for aging parents. Family Stork is built around the health record itself. Each person in Family Stork gets a private @families.familystork.com address shown on their record. Clinics, labs, and specialists email records there — visit summaries, lab results, discharge papers — and they file automatically into a lifelong health timeline. No uploads. No portal logins. No manual entry. Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use.
TendTo was built by Mark Krieger after caring for his father. The question it answers is: how do we keep all the bills paid, all the medications refilled, all the appointments covered — and keep every sibling in the loop? It does that well. Bills get tracked with due-date alerts. Medication lists get built and shared for ER visits. Appointments get assigned so nobody drops the ball. An AI assistant named Tali fields questions about what's due and who's handling what. If the coordination chaos of caring for a parent is your problem — who's paying what, who's driving Tuesday, who knows about the refill — TendTo addresses it directly.
Family Stork asks a different question: where is the actual medical record? The visit note from the neurologist two months ago. The lab results from January. The discharge instructions from last month's hospital stay. The allergy documentation the school camp needs. Every person in Family Stork gets a private address — the address shown on their record in the app. Give that address to each clinic once. From then on, every clinic that already knows how to send an email can send records directly there, and those records file automatically into a structured health timeline: visits, vaccines, labs, allergies, milestones. No portal logins. No waiting for fax machines. Nothing for the clinic to learn.
Tired of managing health records for yourself and everyone you love? Family Stork organizes them for you automatically. The record covers everyone — a child from birth, yourself, or a parent you help care for.
| Feature | TendTo | Family Stork |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | Caregiver coordination — bills, medications, appointments, documents, family dashboard | Lifelong health record — visits, labs, vaccines, allergies, milestones — built from what clinics send |
| How records arrive | Documents are uploaded by the family; TendTo's AI can analyze and summarize what you upload | Clinics send records directly to the person's private Family Stork address — records file automatically, nothing to upload |
| Bill and expense tracking | Core feature — track every bill, due-date alerts, payment history, assign who pays what | Not the focus — Family Stork is built for health records, not bill management |
| Medication management | Detailed — scan pharmacy labels, refill reminders, FDA drug interaction warnings, medication log, printable list | Medications appear in the health timeline when the prescribing clinic sends the visit note or prescription record |
| Appointment coordination | Shared calendar, assign drivers, attach pre-visit notes, capture follow-up tasks, remind family members | Records from appointments arrive automatically — the appointment notes file themselves when the clinic sends them |
| Who it covers | Primarily aging parents and elder care; families can create care circles per person | Everyone — a child from birth, yourself, or a parent you help care for — one record per person for life |
| Family sharing | Care circles with roles — siblings, aides, caregivers can all be added with different permissions | Family shares the record; helpers (nannies, camp nurses, aides) see only what the family chooses to share |
| AI assistant | Tali — answers questions about bills, medications, appointments across the care circle | Ask the health record questions — the record answers from what clinics have actually sent |
| Pricing | Free (1 care circle, limited); Family $11.99/mo billed annually (~$144/yr); Premium $19.99/mo annually | Free to organize; $99/year (about $10/month) for Family Stork to do the work automatically |
| Emergency access | Emergency packet — printable card with meds, allergies, contacts; shareable QR code | Family Health Passport — printable health summary for travel, camp, ER visits, new doctor appointments |
This is exactly the scenario TendTo was designed for. Bills from five different providers, medications from two pharmacies, appointments that need a driver, discharge instructions in a folder nobody can find, and siblings who all have different pieces of the puzzle. TendTo's care circles and bill tracking address these logistics directly. If that coordination chaos is what's keeping you up at night, TendTo is built for it.
But there's a parallel problem: where are the actual records? The discharge summary from the hospital stay last March. The rheumatologist's consultation letter. The cardiologist's most recent note. If your parent's records are scattered across five patient portals — one per hospital system, one per specialist — Family Stork addresses that side of the challenge. Give each clinic your parent's private Family Stork address once. From then on, records from every visit file automatically into one timeline. At the next specialist appointment, you open the timeline instead of trying to remember what the last doctor said.
Some families use both: TendTo for the logistics coordination, Family Stork for the health record. They're genuinely different tools. Ask your doctor what to keep. Call 911 for emergencies — never check an app first in an urgent situation.
Every person in Family Stork gets a private address — the address shown on their record in the app. You give that address to each clinic the same way you'd give a fax number: once, at registration or check-in. From that point on, when the clinic sends visit summaries, lab results, discharge instructions, or any other record, they go directly to that address. Family Stork receives them and files them into the person's health timeline automatically.
The clinic doesn't need to install anything. They don't need to learn a new system. If they can already send a clinical summary by email — which most can — they can send to a Family Stork address. Nothing changes for them. Everything changes for the family.
TendTo uses a different approach: families upload documents themselves, and Tali (TendTo's AI assistant) can analyze what's been uploaded. That's useful for documents you already have. Family Stork handles documents you haven't received yet — and the ones you've forgotten to ask for.
Family Stork covers four distinct audiences — all under one account:
Yes — they serve genuinely different needs. TendTo handles bill tracking, medication reminders, and appointment coordination. Family Stork holds the complete health record. Some families use both: TendTo for the logistics of caregiving, Family Stork for the clinical record that grows automatically from clinic emails. They don't overlap in a confusing way.
Family Stork's focus is the health record — what clinics send, the clinical history, the visit summaries and labs. Medications appear in the record from what clinics send. If daily medication reminders, refill alerts, and pharmacist-style drug interaction checks are the primary need, TendTo's medication management module is purpose-built for that. Talk to your doctor about the right tool for your situation.
When you start a record for a parent in Family Stork, they get a private address shown on their record. You give that address to each of their clinics — the cardiologist, the rheumatologist, the primary care doctor, the hospital. Each clinic notes it in the patient's file. When they send visit summaries, discharge instructions, or lab results, they go directly to that address and file automatically into the parent's timeline. Clinics don't need to install anything new; if they can send an email, they can send to a Family Stork address.
Family Stork is free to organize, and $99/year (about $10/month) for Family Stork to do the work automatically across all records. TendTo's Family plan is $11.99/month billed annually (roughly $144/year) for up to 3 care circles. TendTo also offers a limited free plan and a Premium tier at $19.99/month annually. The right choice depends on which set of features matters more for your family's situation.
Your parent doesn't need to use the app at all. You start the record, give their private Family Stork address to each clinic at the next visit, and records start arriving automatically. The family member managing the caregiving relationship uses the app; the parent doesn't need to do anything differently. Ask your parent's doctor about how their clinic handles sending clinical summaries by email.
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.
Get started — it's freeFree to organize. $99/year for Family Stork to do the work. Ask your doctor for guidance on your specific health situation.