What's the best app for an aging parent's medical records?

KeptWell is built for the whole family. You start a care circle for your parent and invite the people helping. Each person signs in with their own login, and there's no limit on how many you add. It's free, with no paid plans.

Upload what you have: PDFs from a portal, photos of paper, scans, Word files, even a recording of the appointment. KeptWell reads each document and writes a short plain-English summary of what it says and what changed. Lab results line up over time, so the sister in another state can see the latest A1C next to the last three.

If your parent's health system uses MyChart and has turned KeptWell on, connect MyChart and labs, medications, diagnoses and visits come in on their own. Your parent can also connect Apple Health from their own iPhone. Each person can ask questions in a private chat that answers from the records and links back to the document it used.

It runs on the web and in the iPhone app. You can export the whole circle as one ZIP file any time, and we don't train AI models on your records. It's for families who want everyone reading from the same page, especially when the siblings live in different cities.

MyChart is the patient portal many health systems run. Proxy access lets you see your parent's account with your own login, and you'll want it alongside whatever app holds the records.

Each organization opens proxy access separately and sets its own rules. At one Florida system, Memorial Healthcare, your parent can invite you from Menu, Sharing, Share My Record, Friends and family access, or you both sign a form with photo ID and it takes up to three business days.

The catch is the word "each". A parent who sees a cardiologist at one system and a surgeon at another needs proxy access at both, and each portal shows what that system holds. KeptWell connects to MyChart, so what comes in from each portal lands in the one place the family already reads. Our guide to sharing MyChart access with family walks through the setup.

Apple Health Records pulls records onto your parent's own iPhone. Your parent signs in with each participating organization's patient portal user name and password, and allergies, conditions, medications, labs, vaccinations and clinical vitals arrive on their own. It's available in the US, the UK and Canada.

Family members see it through Health Sharing, which works with people in your parent's contacts and needs iOS 15.6 or later on the phone doing the sharing. If sharing stops, the shared history is deleted from the other person's phone. Apple's sharing pages don't list documents or visit notes among what family can see.

Your parent can connect Apple Health to KeptWell from their own iPhone, so the records it holds join the uploads and portal records in the family's circle. How the two compare.

Neela is an AI care-coordination app for families. Its Vault holds records, test results, insurance details, medications, visit notes and care plans, and its Scribe listens during an appointment when you turn it on and summarizes the instructions and next steps. A chat answers questions from what you've stored.

There's no free plan, only a seven-day trial. Core costs $12 a month for up to four members; Extended costs $24 a month for unlimited members. After you cancel, your information stays view-only.

Neela's pages don't describe importing records from patient portals, and they don't say its AI reads the documents you upload.

KeepMD builds one timeline of labs, scans, prescriptions and visit notes, and scanned paper becomes searchable text. The free Starter plan holds one profile, scans 15 pages a month and has no hospital connections.

Plus costs $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year and adds up to four profiles, three of them managed for loved ones, unlimited scanning, and connections to providers. It runs on iPhone, iPad and Android.

Its plans describe profiles managed from one account. They don't describe siblings signing in to the same records with their own logins.

Caring Village combines a calendar, medication reminders, a wellness journal, messaging and folders for documents. It runs on the web, iPhone and Android.

The free plan allows one "village" with up to two members, so a third sibling means paying. Circle costs $14.99 a month for two villages of five members each; Village costs $24.99 a month for five villages of up to 50.

It stores documents in folders. Its pages don't say it reads them or imports records from patient portals.

These last three do jobs next to the records: dose reminders and organizing help. KeptWell doesn't send dose reminders or run a meal calendar, so a family that needs those can keep one of these alongside it.

Care Essentials is free inside the Connected Caregiver app, for iPhone and Android. It tracks appointments, medications, notes and to-dos, and keeps your parent's care circle updated.

Medication reminders and missed-dose alerts need the Prompter pillbox, sold separately. Connected Caregiver's monitoring packages start at $40 a month.

Medisafe is a medication reminder app for iPhone and Android. Premium costs $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year and adds unlimited Medfriends, the family members who follow along, and unlimited dependents. Outside the US the app became fully paid on January 1, 2026.

It's built around medications. Its pages don't describe a place for lab reports or visit summaries.

Lotsa Helping Hands is a free care calendar where friends and family sign up for meals, rides and other help, with announcements for the group. It runs on the web, iPhone and Android.

It doesn't list any medical records features. Use it for the help, and keep the records somewhere built for them.