Comparison

Family Stork vs Tinybeans:
capturing moments vs. keeping records.

Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use. Tinybeans captures the beautiful moments — first steps, first words, the smile that lit up the room. Family Stork keeps the health record behind every one of those moments: the checkup that cleared her, the vaccine she got that day, the allergy her pediatrician noted. Both matter. Here's what each one actually does.

The Core Difference

A private photo album vs. a lifelong health timeline

Tinybeans is a family memory app. Parents post photos and videos of baby's firsts — rolling over, first steps, the first haircut — and share them privately with grandparents, aunts, uncles, and close friends who can comment and react. It's a living journal of the moments you want to remember, not lose in a camera roll.

Family Stork is a lifelong health timeline. It holds the medical record behind those moments — every checkup, every vaccine, every growth measurement, every allergy, every lab result — from every provider, in one place, from birth until your child is grown. It builds itself when clinics email your child's private @familystork address. Nothing to upload. No portal logins. The record arrives on its own.

In short: Tinybeans keeps the story of who your child is becoming. Family Stork keeps the clinical record of how their body has grown. The first steps photo belongs in Tinybeans. The growth chart from that same week belongs in Family Stork.
Side by Side

What each one is built for

TINYBEANS

Family memory sharing

Photo and video journal. Post moments privately to a family feed — walking, talking, growing — with timestamped entries.

Milestone tracking. Log developmental firsts (first word, first step, first tooth) as memorable journal entries.

Family sharing. Invite grandparents, aunts, and close friends to follow along. They get email updates; you control who sees what.

Photo books. Print physical keepsakes from your child's journal automatically.

Reaction and comments. Loved ones can react and comment on posts — great for grandparents who can't be there in person.

Free app with premium photo book printing. iOS and Android.

FAMILY STORK

Lifelong health timeline

One child, one record. Every checkup, vaccine, allergy, growth measurement, and lab result on one chronological timeline — from birth forward.

One email address, all providers. Give any clinic your child's private @familystork address — they email records and the timeline files them. No portals, no uploads, nothing for the clinic to learn.

Paper + digital. Snap paper records; the AI reads and files them automatically.

Ask questions. "When was her last flu shot?" "What allergies does she have?" Grounded answers from your child's actual clinical data.

Emergency card. Shareable, printable, revocable — medications and allergies for any care team.

Ownership at 18. The record transfers to your child at adulthood. Eighteen years of health history, in their hands, for life.

$99/year — or about $10 a month.

Two Different Needs

What Tinybeans doesn't store — and why it matters

Tinybeans doesn't store vaccine records. It doesn't receive clinic visit summaries. It can't answer "when did she get her MMR?" or hand the school nurse a complete immunization history. It's not designed to — and that's fine. It's a memory journal, not a medical record.

But when the school asks for immunization records, or the new pediatrician needs to know what the old one found, or your child goes to urgent care and the nurse asks about allergies — you need the health record. The photo journal and the medical record aren't competing for the same job. They're covering different parts of the same child's life.

When You'd Use Each

Scenarios that make the difference clear

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"She took her first steps today. Grandma lives across the country."

Tinybeans. Post the video to your family feed. Grandma gets a notification, watches it, leaves a comment. She's there for the moment even when she's not there.

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"School needs immunization records by Friday."

Family Stork. Open the timeline, find every vaccine date and provider, share or print the record. No calling three clinics. No digging through old paperwork.

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"We want a photo book of his first year."

Tinybeans. The app creates a photobook from your journal automatically. A physical keepsake of the moments you captured together.

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"We're moving and need a new pediatrician. She has records at three different clinics."

Family Stork. The timeline already has everything from all three. Share it with the new pediatrician — no faxes, no gaps, no starting from scratch.

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"His cousin in another city just said her first word too. We want to share that moment."

Tinybeans. Share privately with the family circle. Comments, reactions, the connection that doesn't require a group text chain.

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"He's going to an overnight camp and they need a health form with allergies and medications."

Family Stork. The emergency card holds current medications and allergies, shareable and revocable. Hand camp a complete picture without sorting through years of paperwork.

The Email Mechanic

How Family Stork's record builds itself

Tired of managing health records for yourself and everyone you love? Family Stork organizes them for you automatically.

Every child gets one private @familystork email address. You give it to any clinic, lab, or hospital — once. From then on, when they send a visit summary, lab result, or vaccine update, it arrives at that address and the health timeline files it automatically. No portal logins. No PDF uploads. Nothing for the clinic to change about how they work.

Clinics already know how to email records. Family Stork just gives them an address that goes to the right place.

Common Questions

Frequently asked questions

Can Tinybeans store my child's vaccination records?

No. Tinybeans is a photo journal and milestone sharing app — it records memories and shares them with family, but it doesn't store clinical health records, vaccine history, lab results, or visit summaries. For vaccination records, Family Stork receives them automatically when your clinic emails your child's private @familystork address.

Does Family Stork replace Tinybeans?

No — they serve different needs. Tinybeans keeps the memorable moments: first steps, first words, photos for grandparents. Family Stork keeps the medical record: checkups, vaccines, growth charts, allergies, lab results. Most families who care about both will find they use both for completely different reasons.

Is Tinybeans free?

Tinybeans has a free tier with photo sharing and milestone tracking. Premium tiers unlock additional photo book printing options. Family Stork is $99 per year — or about $10 a month — for a lifelong health timeline that receives clinical records from any provider automatically.

What happens to Family Stork records when my child grows up?

Ownership transfers to your child at age 18. They receive the complete health record — every checkup, vaccine, growth measurement, and lab result from their childhood — in their own account. A lifelong health story, passed to the person it belongs to.

The bottom line

Tinybeans and Family Stork aren't rivals. One captures the moments you want to treasure. The other captures the health data you'll need at the next appointment, the next school enrollment, the next specialist visit, and the next eighteen years after that. A photo of her first birthday belongs in Tinybeans. The allergist's report from that same month belongs in Family Stork.

The question isn't which one to use. It's whether you have the health record side covered — because the moments, at least, are already being photographed.

One health story. One email address every clinic already knows how to use.

Every person gets one private Family Stork email address. Give it to any clinic. They send records; the timeline builds itself. No portal logins, no uploads, nothing for the clinic to learn.

Start your child's record — free

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Family Stork is a TruePrimAI, Inc. company