Heads Up Health alternatives for individuals

Heads Up Health now sells to clinics rather than to individuals. Options for tracking your own labs, records, and wearable data without a practitioner.

Heads Up Health was a favorite of people who wanted their lab results, wearables, and medical records on one dashboard. It has since changed who it is for. This page covers what changed and the options if you want to track your own data without going through a clinic. We make HealthViewer, one of the options below.

What changed

Heads Up Health’s site now speaks to practices: concierge, longevity, integrative, and functional medicine clinics, whose clients use the app. Its pricing page offers custom packages for organizations, with no individual plan. The current app on the App Store is described for practitioners and the clients they support, and several reviewers say they could not use it without an invitation.

The original app is still listed as “Heads Up Health 1.0 (Legacy)” with monthly and yearly subscriptions, but its listing says pricing is for practitioners and organizations. If you still have a working account, export what you can while it lasts.

If your doctor or coach already uses Heads Up, staying with it through them is a reasonable choice. The rest of this page is for people who used it on their own.

The options

Guava Health is the closest replacement for the Heads Up dashboard. It connects to patient portals and to wearables and devices, including Oura, Dexcom, FreeStyle Libre, Garmin, WHOOP, Withings, and Apple Health, and runs on the web, iPhone, and Android. The free plan includes portal sync. Reading results out of uploaded lab PDFs is on its $78-a-year Premium plan. Your data lives in Guava’s cloud. See HealthViewer vs Guava Health for more.

HealthViewer is a desktop app for Mac and Windows that keeps everything in one encrypted file on your computer, with no account. It is strongest on lab results: it reads lab PDFs from Quest, Labcorp, Mayo, and others, connects to Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), athenahealth, and eClinicalWorks portals, and charts any test with its reference range next to medication changes and your own notes. It also imports heart rate, sleep, steps, weight, blood pressure, and glucose from Apple Health, Dexcom Clarity, and Withings exports, so wearable data can sit on the same chart as your labs. Those are file imports rather than live sync, and there is no phone app. It is $24.99 once, after a 7-day free trial.

Apple Health on iPhone is free, collects data from most wearables, and connects to many US providers. It cannot read lab PDFs yet, and it has no Mac or Windows app.

Lab-testing memberships such as Function Health and Superpower chart past results you upload, alongside their own blood tests, for around $350 a year. They make sense if you want the testing. As a place to keep results from your regular doctor, they are expensive.

Which one fits

• You want a live dashboard of wearables and records on your phone: Guava.
• Your focus is lab results over time, from several labs and portals, kept on your own computer: HealthViewer.
• You want regular testing and a clinician’s interpretation: a lab-testing membership, or a practice that uses Heads Up.

Download HealthViewer’s free trial, or see how tracking lab results over time works.

Sources

• Heads Up Health home page
• Heads Up Health professional pricing
• Heads Up Health on the App Store
• Heads Up Health 1.0 (Legacy) on the App Store
• Guava Health home page
• Guava Health plans
• Guava Health privacy policy