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Microsoft HealthVault alternatives in 2026

By Firebird Systems, the makers of HealthViewer · Last verified October 22, 2026

Microsoft HealthVault shut down in 2019. What replaced it, and how to keep a health record that will not disappear when a company changes course.

HealthViewerMicrosoft HealthVaultApple HealthGoogle Health
Status ActiveShut down November 20, 2019ActiveActive
Runs on Mac and WindowsNo longer availableiPhone and iPad onlyAndroid 14 or later, iPhone with iOS 26 or later; no desktop app
Price $24.99 once, after a 7-day free trialWas freeFreeFree; Premium $9.99/month or $99/year
Lab PDF import Yes, plus CSV, FHIR JSON, and MyChart (C-CDA) filesNo longer availableNot yet; lab upload announced for a redesign that has not shippedUpload through the AI coach, which needs Premium
Patient portal connections Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), athenahealth, eClinicalWorks (US)No longer availableParticipating US, UK, and Canadian providersUS providers, by portal sign-in or CLEAR identity check
Where your data lives Encrypted file on your computerMicrosoft's cloud; records left there were deleted at shutdownOn your iPhone, with end-to-end encrypted iCloud syncGoogle Health's servers
Account NoneMicrosoft accountApple AccountGoogle Account

Microsoft HealthVault was one of the first places you could keep your own health records online. It closed in 2019, but people still look for something to replace it, often after finding an old account email or a device that used to sync to it. This page covers what happened and what does a similar job today. We make HealthViewer, one of the options below.

What happened to HealthVault

Microsoft launched HealthVault in 2007 as a free online personal health record that other apps and devices could write to. In April 2019 it announced the shutdown, and on November 20, 2019, the service ended. Microsoft told users to export their data before then, named two third-party record services, Get Real Health and FollowMyHealth, as places to move it, and said anything left in accounts would be deleted. If you did not export in 2019, the data is gone.

HealthVault was not the first to go. Google’s original Google Health closed on January 1, 2012, with downloads available for one more year. More recently, Hugo Health shut its platform down in April 2026, and Fasten OnPrem stopped fetching records and was archived the same year.

What replaced it

There is no single successor. The idea HealthVault pioneered, one record pulled from everywhere, is now split across a few kinds of product.

Phone platforms. Apple Health on iPhone and iPad downloads records from participating US, UK, and Canadian providers, stores them on the device, and is free. The new Google Health app, which replaced the Fitbit app in 2026, syncs records from US providers to Google’s servers, also free. Both are phone-only. See HealthViewer vs Apple Health and HealthViewer vs Google Health.

Cloud record apps. Guava Health is the closest to HealthVault’s breadth: a free account that connects to patient portals, labs, and wearables, on the web and phones. See HealthViewer vs Guava Health.

Local apps. 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 connects to Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), athenahealth, and eClinicalWorks patient portals, reads lab PDFs, and imports Apple Health, Dexcom, and Withings data. It focuses on lab results and medications rather than every kind of record, and it is $24.99 once. Mere Medical is a free, open-source option that keeps portal records in your browser. See HealthViewer vs Mere Medical.

Picking one that lasts

HealthVault’s users did nothing wrong. The service simply stopped. Two things make the next shutdown less painful:

Download HealthViewer’s free trial, or read Getting Started.

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