Best apps for organising your health records in the UK (2026)

If you have tried to gather your own medical history in the UK, you know where it goes wrong. Your GP record is in one app, but only the recent part of it. The hospital that treated you has its own portal, or none. The private physio, the dentist and the clinic you saw abroad each kept their own notes. And the discharge letter from five years ago is a photo on an old phone. There is no single place that holds all of it.

Several apps try to help, and they work in genuinely different ways. This article compares the options someone in the UK 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 almost everyone in England. Everything here was checked on 4 November 2026 against the UK App Store, Google Play or the publisher’s own site. If something has changed since, tell me and I will correct it.

The short answer

Seven 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 the NHS App (or your nation’s equivalent), and use exora if the problem you actually have is that nothing holds all of it.

1. The NHS App, and the other UK nations

Made by: NHS England. Cost: free. Platforms: iOS, Android, and the NHS website on a computer.

The NHS App is for people aged 13 or over who are registered with a GP surgery in England or the Isle of Man. You can request repeat prescriptions, view your health information including test results, get messages from your GP surgery and other NHS services, and, if your surgery allows it, book appointments. You can also switch to the profile of a child or family member, where your surgery has given you access and you share the same surgery. The NHS’s own help pages cover test results, vaccinations, conditions and allergies, and documents such as GP surgery letters, which you can open and download.

One thing that surprises people: what you see is mostly the recent part of your GP record. Since 2023, GP practices in England have been required to give patients online access to new entries as they are added, including letters from hospital clinics and discharge summaries sent to the practice. The requirement does not cover older entries, which may not appear unless you ask your surgery for them, and a practice can hide an entry where seeing it could cause serious harm (NHS England). Our UK records guide explains how to ask for the rest.

The other nations have their own services, and they show less:

• Wales: the NHS Wales App covers prescriptions, appointments, waiting list referrals, messages from your GP practice and hospital, and a health profile.
• Scotland: MyCare.scot, for people aged 18 and over, shows your CHI number, some personal details, your medication and allergy information, and your COVID and flu vaccinations since 2021.
• Northern Ireland: the My Care patient portal shows hospital appointments, some test results and letters about your care, but, in its own words, it “does not include GP records or results of tests requested by your GP” (Northern Health and Social Care Trust).

What it is genuinely good at: it is free, official, connected to your GP practice, and where new GP results usually appear. Nothing else on this list is the NHS’s own.

Where it stops: it shows NHS care, mostly from your GP, and mostly recent. It does not hold your private care, your records from abroad, or the letters in your drawer, and it is not designed for you to add them.

2. Patient Access, Airmid and myGP

Made by: companies that supply GP practices and NHS services. Cost: free to download. Platforms: iOS and Android.

These are other front doors to the same GP services as the NHS App, each from a different company, and each with its own extras. Which ones work for you depends on your GP practice.

• Patient Access, published by Egton Medical Information Systems, lets you view your medical record, including test results, immunisations and allergies, where your practice makes it available, and share it securely with healthcare professionals you choose. You must be registered at a participating practice for the GP features.
• Airmid UK, from TPP, shows your medical records “at the organisations that care for you”, including medication, referrals and test results, and lets you add your own readings, symptoms, documents and notes.
• myGP, from iPlato, lets you view your records and export sections as PDFs to share. It also has a healthcare marketplace offering other services.

What they are genuinely good at: if you prefer one of their designs, or need one of their extras, such as myGP’s PDF export or Airmid’s own-data features, they give you the same GP access the NHS App does.

Where they stop: like the NHS App, they show what your GP practice and the NHS services connected to them choose to share.

3. Evergreen Life

Made by: Evergreen Health Solutions Ltd (UK). Cost: free. Platforms: iOS and Android.

Evergreen Life is a UK personal health record whose App Store listing describes “NHS-assured GP online services”, available at GP practices in England. Once linked to your practice, it gives you access to your GP record, including test results, immunisations, allergies and medications, and you can book appointments and order repeat prescriptions. Its features page describes storing your own documents and letters alongside that record, medicine reminders, body measurements and a vaccination history, plus a “Wellness Score” based on questionnaires. The UK App Store listing shows it as free, with no price list for extra features.

What it is genuinely good at: it is the closest thing in the UK to the GP record and your own documents in one place, it is free, and it has been around for years, with tens of thousands of App Store ratings.

Where it stops: the GP connection is for England. Its features page describes storing documents; it does not describe reading them and turning their contents into your record.

4. 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.

Unlike in Australia, its Health Records feature, which connects to a healthcare organisation and downloads your clinical records into the Health app, is available in the UK. Apple’s own feature-availability page lists “Health: Download Health Records to iPhone” for Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. In practice it works only where your provider supports it. Apple launched it in the UK in October 2020 with Oxford University Hospitals and Milton Keynes University Hospital (Apple Newsroom), and I could not find a current public list of UK providers that support it. Open the Health app and search for your hospital to see.

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

Where it stops: as a medical records app in the UK, it depends on whether your hospital or practice connects to it, and most of your history is unlikely to arrive that way.

5. KeepTrackMed

Made by: Keep Track Solutions Ltd. Cost: subscription, from £9.99 a year. Platforms: iOS, Android and web.

KeepTrackMed is a structured manual logbook. You can track allergies, appointments, blood pressure, conditions, family history, operations, medications, symptoms, test results and vaccinations, with reminders, for several family members and pets. On the UK App Store, LITE is £9.99 a year; PRO is £3.99 a month or £39.99 a year. According to the publisher’s pricing page, PRO is the tier that adds file and photo attachments, along with tracking for appointments, medications, symptoms and tests.

What it is genuinely good at: disciplined, structured tracking across a whole family, with a properly designed set of categories.

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

6. Tidy Health PHR

Made by: HealthBook LLC (United States). Cost: free with in-app purchases. Platforms: iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Tidy Health is a free personal health record covering conditions, medications, visits, tests, documents, journals and your care team, with an AI feature 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. On the UK App Store, its premium membership is £1.99 a month or £14.99 a year.

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 the NHS.

7. 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 vaccination records, as PDFs or photos, from any provider in any country. exora reads them and pulls out the conditions, medications, results, procedures, allergies and vaccinations, 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 NHS connection. It does not connect to the NHS App, NHS login or your GP’s system. You download or request your records, then upload them.
• 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, and it was built in Australia first. The apps above have years of UK use behind them.
• 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, NHS and private, UK and abroad, into a record you can read, search, check and share.

Hospital patient portals: a different thing entirely

There is a category I have kept out of the list, because you cannot choose it: the hospital patient portal.

Many NHS hospitals offer patients a portal. One of the most widely used is Patients Know Best, which NHS organisations pay for so that it is free to patients. It says it has been used by the NHS since 2008 and has over 9 million registered patients, and it is available on the web, on mobile and in the NHS App. Patients see information their care teams share, such as test results, care plans, messages and appointments, and can add their own. Northern Ireland’s My Care, above, is another, and some hospital trusts run their own.

If your hospital offers one, use it. It is the most accurate view of your care there. But it is bounded by the organisations that use it. Over a lifetime you will be treated by a GP practice, several hospitals, private specialists, a dentist, and perhaps somewhere abroad. Each portal shows its own part. None was designed to be your complete personal archive.

That gap is why exora exists. It does not replace a portal and cannot log into one. It holds what you take out of them, alongside everything else, in one place that belongs to you.

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 the NHS App in England, or the NHS Wales App, MyCare.scot or My Care elsewhere. It is free, official, and where new GP results usually appear.

If a hospital treating you offers a portal, use it. Just do not mistake it for your whole record.

If you want your GP record and your own documents side by side in a UK app, Evergreen Life does that, free, in England.

If your data is mostly fitness and vitals, Apple Health already does the job on an iPhone.

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 consultant’s report, the scans from a holiday that went wrong, the records from before you moved to the UK - 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 UK App Store, Google Play or the publisher’s own website, and every factual claim links to its source. Prices are as listed on that date and change without notice.

I have left out apps I could not verify as real, currently available products in the UK. If an app is named in a list like this, you should be able to open its store listing and see it.

I have also avoided saying that any app lacks a feature unless the publisher says so, or it is plainly absent. Where I describe what a publisher’s page does not mention, I have said that that is what I am doing.

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.