Best apps for organising your health records in New Zealand (2026)

If you have tried to gather your own medical history in New Zealand, you know where it goes wrong. Your GP’s portal shows what your practice chooses to share. The hospital’s records are somewhere else. The private specialist, the physio, the ACC claim and the after-hours clinic each kept their own notes, and if you have changed practices, part of your history moved with you and part may not have. No one’s job is to put it all together for you.

Several apps help with parts of this, and they work in genuinely different ways. This article compares the options a New Zealander can realistically use in 2026, with prices, platforms and sources you can check yourself.

Disclosure, before anything else

I founded exora, which appears in this comparison. You should read everything below with that in mind.

Instead of pretending to be neutral, I have tried to state exactly what each app does and what it costs, link to the source for every claim, note the date I checked it, and be specific about what exora does not do. Where another app is better for a particular job, I have said so, and for the first entry below that is the honest answer for most people. Everything here was checked on 4 November 2026 against the New Zealand App Store or the publisher’s own site. Prices are in New Zealand dollars. If something has changed since, tell me and I will correct it.

The short answer

Six entries, what each is actually for, and where each one stops. Every tile links to the section that backs it.

The one-line version: start with your GP’s patient portal, and use exora if the problem you actually have is that nothing holds all of it.

1. Your GP’s patient portal

Made by: companies that supply GP practices. Cost: free to view your information; your practice may charge for some services. Platforms: iOS and Android, and usually the web.

In New Zealand, the most useful view of your health record is usually the patient portal your GP practice uses. You do not choose the app; your practice does. The main ones:

• ManageMyHealth, from Manage My Health Global Ltd, lets you view conditions, lab results, immunisation records, allergies and prescriptions, book appointments and request repeats, for yourself and your family. Its FAQ says viewing your health information is free, that your medical centre may charge for services such as a repeat prescription, and that “your GP practice decides which information to share to your portal”.
• Myindici 2.0, from Valentia Technologies, shows appointments, medications, immunisations, diagnoses and allergies.
• Well, from Webtools Health, shows a health summary including lab results, medications, conditions and immunisations, and consultation notes from previous appointments. You need an invite code from your practice.

Some GP providers have their own app. Tend, for example, lets its patients view test results and consult notes.

What it is genuinely good at: it is the closest thing to your actual GP record on your phone, and it is free to view. If your practice offers one, use it.

Where it stops: it shows what your practice shares, from your current practice. Hospital records, private specialists, care from a previous practice that did not transfer, and anything from overseas are usually outside it. If you change practices, you may change portals too.

2. My Health Record

Made by: Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora. Cost: free. Platforms: web, at my.health.nz.

New Zealand’s national My Health Record is narrower than the name suggests, and it is not the same as Australia’s service of the same name. According to Health New Zealand, it lets you view your immunisation records back to 2005, view and report COVID-19 test results, view and update some of your details on the NHI system, see your High Use Health Card and Community Services Card entitlements, and see the immunisation records of children under 12 you link to your account. You need to be 16 or over, and you sign in with a My Health Account.

What it is genuinely good at: it is free, official, and the easiest place to find a full immunisation history, which is exactly what schools, employers and travel clinics ask for.

Where it stops: it does not show your GP notes, hospital letters, medications or lab results other than COVID-19 tests.

3. Apple Health

Made by: Apple. Cost: free, built into iPhone. Platforms: iOS.

Apple Health is very good at steps, sleep, heart rate, workouts, cycle tracking, and anything an Apple Watch or a connected device sends it.

For the job this article is about, there is a limit people are often surprised by. Apple’s Health Records feature, which connects to a healthcare organisation and downloads your clinical records into the Health app, is not available in New Zealand. Apple’s feature availability page lists “Health: Download Health Records to iPhone” for Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States only, checked 4 November 2026.

What it is genuinely good at: fitness, vitals and device data. Deeply integrated, free and private.

Where it stops: in New Zealand, it is not a medical records app.

4. KeepTrackMed

Made by: Keep Track Solutions Ltd. Cost: subscription, from $19.99 a year. Platforms: iOS, Android and web.

KeepTrackMed is a structured manual logbook. You can track vitals, allergies, appointments, conditions, family history, hospitalisations, procedures, medications, symptoms, tests and vaccinations, with reminders, for several family members. On the New Zealand App Store, LITE is $19.99 a year; PRO is $6.99 a month or $69.99 a year. According to the publisher’s pricing page, PRO is the tier that adds file and photo attachments and tracking for appointments, medications, symptoms and tests. Both plans include the web version.

What it is genuinely good at: disciplined, structured tracking across a whole family, on iPhone, Android and the web.

Where it stops: the typing is yours to do, and attachments need the higher tier.

5. Tidy Health PHR

Made by: HealthBook LLC (United States). Cost: free, with Tidy+ at $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year. Platforms: iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Tidy Health is a free personal health record covering conditions, medications, visits, tests, journals, documents and your care team, with an AI that answers questions based on your own record. Its publisher says data is kept on your own devices rather than in a third-party cloud.

What it is genuinely good at: a free, private, on-device record with a broad idea of what belongs in one.

Where it stops: Apple devices only, so it is a dead end if anyone in your household uses Android. It is a US product, so nothing is tailored to New Zealand.

6. exora

Made by: Exora Health Pty Ltd (Australia). Cost: free to start. Platforms: iOS, Android and web.

This is mine, so treat the description as a claim to check rather than a verdict.

exora starts from a different assumption to everything above: that you already have the documents, or can get them, and the hard part is making sense of them. You upload medical documents, such as discharge summaries, test results, specialist letters, imaging reports and immunisation records, as PDFs or photos, from any provider in any country. exora reads them and pulls out the conditions, medications, results, procedures, allergies and immunisations, then organises them into one searchable record with a timeline.

The part I would judge it on is the receipts. Every fact in your record links back to the exact page and text it came from, and when you ask a question in the chat, the answer says where it found it. AI gets things wrong. An AI health record that cannot show its working is not one you should trust.

Other things it does: profiles for children, ageing parents or anyone you care for, under one account; sharing with a doctor or family member, with time limits, the ability to turn it off, and a list of who opened it; and exora scribe, which records a consultation, with everyone’s consent, and turns it into a transcript and a plain-language summary. How exora handles your data is in our privacy policy.

Where it stops, honestly:

• No connection to your GP’s portal or Health New Zealand. You download or request your records, then upload them.
• It cannot conjure documents you do not have. If your records are still with your GP or hospital, you have to ask for them first. You have a legal right to them, usually free: here is how.
• The free tier has a page limit. Free covers 50 pages to start, then 5 a month. A large history needs either patience or a membership, which is priced in Australian dollars. See the pricing page.
• It is Australian, and young. Open signup began in July 2026.
• It is not medical advice. It organises and presents your health information. It does not diagnose, and it does not tell you what to do.

What it is genuinely good at: turning a pile of documents from many places, public and private, here and overseas, into a record you can read, search, check and share.

Insurer apps: a different thing

Apps from health insurers, such as My Southern Cross, are for your policy, claims and prior approvals, and some add online GP consultations. They are useful if you are a member, but they are not a place to keep your medical history.

So which one should you use?

Most people should use more than one, because these tools cover different parts of the same problem.

Start with your GP’s patient portal, if your practice offers one. It is the best view of your GP record, and it is free to view.

Use My Health Record for immunisation history, for you and your young children.

Ask for the rest. Hospital records, and anything your portal does not show, come from asking the provider. It is usually free, and our New Zealand records guide explains how.

If you want a disciplined logbook you fill in yourself, KeepTrackMed and Tidy Health are both credible. Tidy Health is free and Apple-only; KeepTrackMed is paid and works across iOS, Android and web.

If your actual problem is that nothing holds all of it - the hospital letters, a private specialist’s report, the records from a practice you left, the results from before you moved to New Zealand - that is what exora is for. It reads them rather than asking you to retype them, every line stays traceable to the page it came from, and the record that results is yours. It is free to try.

How this comparison was put together

Every app here was checked on 4 November 2026 against the New Zealand App Store or the publisher’s own website, and every factual claim links to its source. Prices are as listed on that date, in New Zealand dollars, and change without notice.

I have left out apps I could not verify as real, currently available products in New Zealand, and I have avoided saying that any app lacks a feature unless the publisher says so, or it is plainly absent.

If I have got something wrong about your app or your portal, I would genuinely like to fix it - contact page.

This article is general information about software, not medical advice. Prices, availability and features were correct on 4 November 2026 and are sourced inline; this page will be updated as they change.