Best apps for organizing your health records in Canada (2026)

If you have tried to gather your own medical history in Canada, you know where it goes wrong. Your lab results are in one portal, the hospital has another, your family doctor’s notes are in a clinic system you cannot log into, and the walk-in clinic and the physiotherapist each kept their own. Move provinces and you start again, because health care, and health records, are run province by province. Nobody’s job is to put it all together for you.

Several apps try to help, and they work in genuinely different ways. This article compares the options a Canadian 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 Canadians. Everything here was checked on November 4, 2026 against the Canadian App Store or the publisher’s own site. Prices are in Canadian dollars unless stated. 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 provincial health record, and use exora if the problem you actually have is that nothing holds all of it.

1. Your provincial health record

Made by: provincial governments and health authorities. Cost: free. Platforms: varies; most have an app, a website or both.

There is no national patient record in Canada. Each province decides what to offer, and they differ a lot:

• British Columbia: Health Gateway gives access to “blood test and other lab results, medication history, immunization records, health visits and more”.
• Alberta: MyHealth Alberta lets you “view medical records, lab results, and immunizations” and track medications and health history, with a digital Alberta health card.
• Saskatchewan: MySaskHealthRecord shows lab results, medical imaging reports, immunization and prescription history, and clinical visit history, and lets you add your own information and share it with other users.
• Quebec: Carnet santé Québec, for people aged 14 and over with a health insurance card, shows medications received from a pharmacy, test results, imaging reports and the medical services billed for you. A newer app, Mon dossier santé, adds appointments and visit summaries, but its listing describes it as a pilot in two regions: Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal and Mauricie-et-du-Centre-du-Québec.
• Newfoundland and Labrador: MyHealthNL lets you see your test results “and your doctor’s comments within days”, your active medications and your appointments.
• Nova Scotia: YourHealthNS is mainly for booking and finding care. Its health records section covers COVID-19 test results and vaccination records.

Ontario has no province-wide record. ConnectMyHealth brings together records from participating hospitals in southwestern Ontario, in a web browser, for patients of those hospitals. Elsewhere in Ontario, and in Manitoba, I could not find a patient record service; most people there see results through hospital and lab portals, covered below. I could not verify a current service in New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island. If I have missed one, tell me.

What it is genuinely good at: it is free, it is official, and where your province offers a good one, results and medications arrive without you doing anything. Nothing else on this list is your province’s own.

Where it stops: it shows what your province’s systems hold, and only for that province. Your family doctor’s own notes, private clinics, care in another province and care abroad are usually outside it. If you have moved, your history is split across two systems that do not talk to each other.

2. 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.

Its Health Records feature, which connects to a healthcare organization and downloads your clinical records into the Health app, is available in Canada. Apple’s 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 hospital or clinic supports it, and I could not find a current public list of Canadian providers that do. Open the Health app and search for yours 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 Canada, it depends on whether your provider connects to it, and most of your history is unlikely to arrive that way.

3. Guava

Made by: Guava Health, Inc. (United States). Cost: free to join, according to its website. Platforms: iOS and Android.

Guava is a symptom and medication tracker built around chronic illness. Its listing on the Canadian App Store covers symptoms, pain, mood, medication reminders and pill counts, sleep, cycle tracking and correlations between them, and names conditions like POTS, EDS, MCAS, ME/CFS and long COVID. It says you can “upload CCDA files, X-rays & MRIs (DICOM), PDFs, or images” and that it “uses AI to digitize, extract, and organize data into a searchable, easy-to-understand format”.

What it is genuinely good at: if you live with a chronic condition and want your uploaded reports and your day-to-day symptoms in one app, Guava is built for exactly that.

Where it stops: its portal connections are to “50,000+ US providers”, in its listing’s words, so in Canada you would rely on uploads. Its design centres on tracking, so if all you want is a record of what your doctors wrote, much of the app is not for you.

4. KeepTrackMed

Made by: Keep Track Solutions Ltd. Cost: subscription, from $12.99 a year. Platforms: iOS, Android and web.

KeepTrackMed is a structured manual logbook. You can track vitals, allergies, appointments, conditions, family history, hospitalizations, procedures, medications, symptoms, tests and vaccinations, with reminders, for several family members. On the Canadian App Store, LITE is $12.99 a year; PRO is $4.99 a month or $49.99 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 $2.99 a month or $19.99 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 upon your personal health record”. Its listing says “all data is saved on your own trusted devices and not stored with a third-party cloud service”.

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 Canadian provinces.

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 lab results, discharge summaries, specialist letters, imaging reports and immunization records, as PDFs or photos, from any province or country. exora reads them and pulls out the conditions, medications, results, procedures, allergies and immunizations, then organizes 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, aging 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 appointment recording, which turns a visit into a summary, your next steps and the warning signs to watch for. How exora handles your data is in our privacy policy.

Where it stops, honestly:

• No provincial connection. It does not connect to any provincial health record or to your clinic’s system. You download or request your records, then upload them. Our guide to getting your medical records in Canada explains how.
• The free tier has a page limit. Free covers 50 pages to start, then 5 a month. A large history needs 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.
• It is not medical advice. It organizes 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, across provinces and countries, into a record you can read, search, check and share.

Hospital and lab portals: a different thing entirely

There is a category I have kept out of the list, because you cannot choose it: the portal run by a hospital or lab that treats you.

Some Canadian hospitals use MyChart, made by Epic. Its listing describes reviewing “test results, medication, immunisation history, and other health information” and viewing clinical notes “your clinician has recorded and shared with you”, and is clear that what you see “depends on which features your healthcare organisation has enabled”. Labs run their own too: Dynacare Plus, for example, shows results “for tests done at any Dynacare laboratory in Ontario and Quebec”.

The same goes for the app you book a physio, chiropractor or counsellor through. Many Canadian clinics run on Jane, which describes itself as “an online platform for health and wellness practitioners that makes it simple to book, chart, schedule, bill and get paid”. It is built for running the clinic. Your notes from that clinic live in it, but it is not a health record of your own, and it does not hold your care anywhere else.

If a hospital or lab treating you offers one, use it. It is the most accurate view of your care there. But it is bounded by the organization that runs it. Over a lifetime you will be treated by a family doctor or walk-in clinic, several hospitals, a couple of labs, private specialists and therapists, a dentist, and perhaps somewhere in another province or 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 your provincial health record, if your province offers one. It is free and official.

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

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

If you live with a chronic condition and want daily symptom tracking alongside your reports, look at Guava.

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 results from the province you used to live in, the walk-in clinic’s notes, a specialist’s letter, the records from before you came to Canada - 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 November 4, 2026 against the Canadian App Store or the publisher’s own website, and every factual claim links to its source. Prices are as listed on that date, in Canadian dollars, and change without notice.

I have left out apps I could not verify as real, currently available products in Canada with clear pricing. 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.

If I have got something wrong about your app, your portal or your province’s service, 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 November 4, 2026 and are sourced inline; this page will be updated as they change.