How HealthViewer stacks up against other ways to keep your lab results. We make HealthViewer, so we check every fact below against each product's own site and say where another product is the better fit.
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| Product | Runs on | Price | Data lives | Lab PDFs | Portals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HealthViewer | Mac and Windows | $24.99 once, after a 7-day free trial | Encrypted file on your computer | Yes, plus CSV, FHIR JSON, and MyChart (C-CDA) files | Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), athenahealth, eClinicalWorks (US) |
| Apple Health | iPhone and iPad only | Free | On your iPhone, with end-to-end encrypted iCloud sync | Not yet; lab upload announced for a redesign that has not shipped | Participating US, UK, and Canadian providers |
| Blood Health Tracker | Mac; Windows on a waitlist | $12 once | On your computer | Yes, with your own Google Gemini API key; or type results in | No |
| Carrot Care | iPhone only | Free with limits; Premium from $6.99/month or $59.99/year | On your iPhone, optional iCloud backup | Yes, PDFs and photos | No |
| Fasten OnPrem Archived July 18, 2026; no longer developed | Self-hosted server (Docker); Mac App Store app | Free to self-host; Mac app $49.99 | Your own server or Mac | No; manual entry or FHIR bundle upload | Removed in February 2026 |
| Function Health | Web, iPhone, Android | $365/year, with lab tests twice a year | Function's cloud | Upload past results | No |
| Google Health | Android 14 or later, iPhone with iOS 26 or later; no desktop app | Free; Premium $9.99/month or $99/year | Google Health's servers | Upload through the AI coach, which needs Premium | US providers, by portal sign-in or CLEAR identity check |
| Guava Health | Web, iPhone, Android | Free; Premium $8/month or $78/year | Guava's cloud (Amazon Web Services), encrypted at rest | Upload free; automatic result import on Premium | Epic, Cerner, MEDITECH, athenahealth, and others, plus Quest and Labcorp, on the free plan |
| Heads Up Health Now sold to clinics and practitioners | iPhone, Android; web dashboard for practitioners | Custom pricing for practices | Heads Up's cloud | Not described on its site | EHR integrations for practices |
| Hemo Private beta | Mac (macOS 15.2 or later); no Windows | Free during beta; final price not announced | On your Mac | Yes, PDFs and photos read by an online AI service, then reviewed by you | No; imports Function, Superpower, and WHOOP exports |
| Hugo Health Hugo Connect shut down April 3, 2026 | No longer available | No longer available | Hugo's cloud | Not documented | Patient portals, the VA, pharmacies, and insurers, while it ran |
| InsideTracker | Web, iPhone, Android | From $489 in the US with a blood test; upload-only plan $149/year | InsideTracker's cloud | On the upload plan, up to 30 result sets a year, listed biomarkers only | No |
| KeepMD | iPhone, Android, web | Free with 15 scanned pages a month; Plus $6.99/month or $59.99/year | Encrypted on your device | Yes, by scanning | Epic and Cerner, on Plus |
| Mere Medical Maintained by one developer | Web browser, installable as an app; self-host with Docker | Free, open source (MIT) | Your browser; encryption optional | No | Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), athenahealth, eClinicalWorks (Healow), NextGen, Veradigm, and others |
| Microsoft HealthVault Shut down November 20, 2019 | No longer available | Was free | Microsoft's cloud; records left there were deleted at shutdown | No longer available | No longer available |
| Superpower | Web, iPhone | $199/year, with one blood test a year (may differ in New York and New Jersey) | Superpower's cloud | Upload past labs | No |
Every row was checked against the vendor's own site on or after September 28, 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm before you buy. For a broader look at portals, phone apps, lab-testing memberships, and spreadsheets, see Where should your lab results live?