Blood test and lab result trackers for Windows: what runs on a PC
Almost every blood test tracker is a phone app. What runs on a Windows PC instead: desktop apps, web apps, and spreadsheets for your lab results.
| HealthViewer | Guava Health | Mere Medical | Blood Health Tracker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Status | Active | Active | Maintained by one developer | Active |
| Runs on | Mac and Windows | Web, iPhone, Android | Web browser, installable as an app; self-host with Docker | Mac; Windows on a waitlist |
| Price | $24.99 once, after a 7-day free trial | Free; Premium $8/month or $78/year | Free, open source (MIT) | $12 once |
| Lab PDF import | Yes, plus CSV, FHIR JSON, and MyChart (C-CDA) files | Upload free; automatic result import on Premium | No | Yes, with your own Google Gemini API key; or type results in |
| Patient portal connections | Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), athenahealth, eClinicalWorks (US) | Epic, Cerner, MEDITECH, athenahealth, and others, plus Quest and Labcorp, on the free plan | Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), athenahealth, eClinicalWorks (Healow), NextGen, Veradigm, and others | No |
| Where your data lives | Encrypted file on your computer | Guava's cloud (Amazon Web Services), encrypted at rest | Your browser; encryption optional | On your computer |
| Account | None | Required | None | None |
Most blood test and lab result trackers are iPhone apps, and the rest are Android apps or websites. On a Mac, many iPhone apps at least run on Apple Silicon. On Windows, none of them do, and Apple Health has no Windows version at all. So a Windows user has three real choices: a desktop app, a web app in the browser, or a spreadsheet. This page covers each. We make HealthViewer, one of the options, so weigh our view of it accordingly.
Desktop apps for Windows
HealthViewer is a desktop app for Windows (x64) and Mac. It reads lab PDFs from Quest, Labcorp, Mayo, MyChart, and others on your computer, imports CSV and FHIR files, connects to Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), athenahealth, and eClinicalWorks patient portals, and keeps everything in one encrypted file with no account. It is $24.99 once, after a 7-day free trial. It has no phone app. The Windows installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen shows a warning the first time you install it; the FAQ explains why and what to check.
My LabTests is a free app in the Microsoft Store. You set up the fields for each kind of test and type results in, and it keeps them on your PC, with an optional backup to your own Dropbox. Its store listing does not mention charts, PDF import, or portal connections, and it has no ratings yet.
Blood Health Tracker, a $12 Mac app, has Windows on a waitlist. Microsoft HealthVault, the closest thing Windows users once had, shut down in 2019; see HealthVault alternatives.
Web apps that work in any browser
These run in Edge or Chrome on a PC, so they work on Windows without installing anything.
- Guava Health is free and connects to patient portals on the free plan, including Epic, Cerner, and athenahealth, plus Quest and Labcorp. Your data lives in Guava’s cloud and needs an account. Automatic reading of uploaded lab PDFs is a Premium feature at $78 a year. See HealthViewer vs Guava Health.
- Mere Medical is free and open source. It runs in the browser, keeps your records in the browser’s own storage, and connects to many portals. It does not import lab PDFs, and one developer maintains it. See HealthViewer vs Mere Medical.
- LabTracker is a free web tracker with no account. It keeps results in your browser and can read lab PDFs on your device. It has no portal connections, and clearing the browser’s data deletes your history.
- MyBloodTest has a web version alongside its phone apps. It reads lab PDFs with AI and needs an account on the web, where data is stored in its cloud. Premium is $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year.
Lab-testing memberships such as Function Health and Superpower also have web dashboards, but only for members. If you are leaving one, see keeping your results after Function or Superpower.
A spreadsheet
Excel or Google Sheets works on any PC and costs nothing. You type each result in, or use our free lab PDF to spreadsheet tool to pull them out of a PDF. Charting one test over time takes some setup; this template does it for you. A spreadsheet is a good start for a handful of tests a year and gets harder to keep up as the reports pile up.
Which one fits
- You want your results on your PC, not in someone’s cloud, with PDF import and portal connections: HealthViewer.
- You want it free and are comfortable with a cloud account: Guava Health on the web.
- You want it free and local, and your results come through Epic or another portal rather than as PDFs: Mere Medical.
- You want a free Windows app and do not mind typing results in: My LabTests.
- You have a few results a year and like spreadsheets: Excel with the template.
- You also use a Mac: see lab result trackers for Mac.
Download HealthViewer’s free trial, or read how to track lab results over time.