Health3 alternatives without a weekly subscription
Health3 scans lab reports into a cloud account for up to $99.99 a year. Alternatives that keep results on your own device, and how HealthViewer compares.
| HealthViewer | Health3 | Carrot Care | KeepMD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs on | Mac and Windows | iPhone, Android; Mac only as the iPhone app on Apple Silicon | iPhone only | iPhone, iPad, Android; Mac only as the iPad app on Apple Silicon |
| Price | $24.99 once, after a 7-day free trial | Free to view; Full Access $9.99/week, $14.99/month, or $99.99/year | Free with limits; Premium from $6.99/month, $39.99/quarter, or $59.99 to $79.99/year | Free with 15 scanned pages a month; Plus $6.99/month, $59.99/year, or $149 lifetime |
| Lab PDF import | Yes, plus CSV, FHIR JSON, and MyChart (C-CDA) files | Yes, PDFs and photos, read by an AI service; ongoing scanning needs a subscription | Yes, PDFs and photos | Yes, by scanning, with unlimited pages on Plus |
| Patient portal connections | Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), athenahealth, eClinicalWorks (US) | No; imports Apple Health clinical records on iPhone | No | Epic and Cerner, on Plus, where supported |
| Where your data lives | Encrypted file on your computer | Health3's cloud (Supabase, in the EU or Switzerland) | On your iPhone, optional iCloud backup | Encrypted on your device; encrypted cloud backup on Plus |
| Account | None | Yes | None | Set up in the app; KeepMD says there is no cloud database |
Health3 is a phone app that reads lab report PDFs and photos and tracks more than 300 biomarkers over time. It is polished and easy to start with. The usual reasons people look elsewhere are the price, which is billed weekly, monthly, or yearly, and the fact that your results live in Health3’s cloud. This page covers both. We make HealthViewer, one of the options, so weigh our view of it accordingly.
What Health3 does well
- Scanning is quick. Upload a PDF or a photo of a report, check the values, units, and date it found, and save. You can also enter supported biomarkers by hand.
- It can pull in Apple Health records. On iPhone, Health3 imports the clinical records Apple Health has downloaded from your providers.
- Its exports are useful. You can export one test, one topic, selected biomarkers, or your whole history as a PDF.
- It runs on iPhone and Android, and on Apple Silicon Macs as the iPhone app.
What to know before you commit
- The price adds up. Full Access on the App Store is $9.99 a week, $14.99 a month, or $99.99 a year. Without it you can view your history, but ongoing scanning needs a subscription. Health3 has offered a $149 lifetime license in the past; it is not listed on the App Store today.
- Your results are stored with Health3. Its privacy policy says account data, biomarkers, and lab values are stored with Supabase in a data center in the EU or Switzerland, and that uploaded lab files are parsed by an AI pipeline on Amazon Web Services. It also says your data is never sold. If you would rather no company hold your lab history, that is the main difference from the options below.
Alternatives that keep results on your device
HealthViewer is a desktop app for Mac and Windows that keeps your lab history in one encrypted file on your computer, with no account. It is $24.99 once, after a 7-day trial. Compared with Health3:
- Lab PDFs are read on your computer. HealthViewer has readers for Quest, Labcorp, Mayo, MyChart, and other reports, and nothing is uploaded to read them. Scanned PDFs need an AI provider you set up yourself.
- It connects to patient portals directly. Results come from Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), athenahealth, and eClinicalWorks portals, on Mac or Windows, without an iPhone in between.
- Medications sit on the charts. Start and change markers on each test’s chart, a journal, and a printable Appointment Prep report.
- Every profile is included. One license covers a profile for each family member on your computer.
What you give up: HealthViewer is not a phone app. Its free phone app, on Android now with iPhone to follow, shows your results but does not add them, and HealthViewer does not read photos of paper reports.
If you want to stay on your phone:
- Carrot Care (iPhone) reads PDFs and photos and keeps data on the phone, with optional iCloud backup. It is also a subscription, from $6.99 a month. See Carrot Care alternatives.
- KeepMD (iPhone and Android) keeps records encrypted on the phone and covers more than labs. Plus is $59.99 a year or $149 for a lifetime license. See KeepMD alternatives.
- BloodTrends (iPhone and iPad) reads PDFs, keeps data on the device, and its Pro tier is $4.99 a year. See HealthViewer vs BloodTrends.
Moving your history out
Before you cancel, export your full history as a PDF from Health3. HealthViewer can read many lab PDFs, but an app’s own summary report is not a lab report, so it may not import cleanly. The more reliable route is to import the original reports again, from your patient portals or from Quest and Labcorp. Our download guides cover each portal.
Download HealthViewer’s free trial, or read Getting Started.