Best apps for organising your health records in Ireland (2026)

If you have tried to gather your own medical history in Ireland, you know the problem. Your GP has years of notes you have never seen. The hospital has its own chart. The scan was done privately, the consultant wrote to your GP rather than to you, and the discharge letter from a few years ago is a photo on an old phone. Ireland does not yet have a national record you can open on your phone, and no one’s job is to put it together for you.

A few apps help with parts of this, and they work in genuinely different ways. This article compares the options someone in Ireland 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. Everything here was checked on 4 November 2026 against the Irish 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

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

The one-line version: get the HSE Health App for what the HSE already shows you, ask for your records using the rights in our Ireland records guide, and use exora if the problem you actually have is that nothing holds all of it.

1. The HSE Health App

Made by: the Health Service Executive. Cost: free. Platforms: iOS and Android.

The HSE Health App launched in February 2025. Once you log in with a verified MyGovID, its App Store listing says you can see hospital appointments if you are a maternity patient, keep a list of your medicines, see digital versions of health cards such as the medical card, and see your COVID-19 and flu vaccine records. The HSE’s own page also lists BreastCheck appointments, referrals and waiting times, medicines refunded under the medical card or Drugs Payment Scheme, self-declared allergies and access to chronic disease health data, and names more as in progress, such as information about your conditions and procedures.

What it is genuinely good at: it is free, official, and the HSE is adding to it regularly. For vaccinations and health cards it is already the easiest place to look.

Where it stops: it is not a copy of your medical record. It does not show your GP notes or hospital letters, and it does not cover private care.

2. Pippo

Made by: Lanas Health Limited, developed by Clanwilliam Health. Cost: free. Platforms: iOS and Android.

Pippo is a patient portal for Irish GP practices that use Clanwilliam Health’s systems, Socrates and Helix Practice Manager. Its listing describes booking GP appointments online, adding your children, and, where a practice enables it, paying for appointments in the app. You must be a registered patient of a practice that uses Pippo.

I have included it because it is the kind of GP app many people in Ireland will meet, and to be clear about what it is. Its listing describes booking and payments, and says more features are coming. It does not describe letting you see your GP record.

What it is genuinely good at: booking a GP appointment without ringing the surgery.

Where it stops: it works only at participating practices, and it is not a records app.

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 Ireland. 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 Ireland, it is not a medical records app.

4. 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 Irish App Store, LITE is €9.99 a year; PRO is €3.99 a month or €44.99 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.

5. 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 Irish App Store, its premium membership is €1.99 a month or €17.99 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 Irish health services.

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, consultants’ 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 HSE connection. It does not connect to the HSE Health App, MyGovID or your GP’s system. You 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, and it was built in Australia first.
• 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, Irish and from abroad, into a record you can read, search, check and share.

Portals and insurer apps: different things

There are two kinds of app I have kept out of the list.

Provider portals. Some services give patients their own portal. Affidea’s Connect Patient, for example, gives you online access to imaging done at Affidea. If a service you use offers one, use it: it is the most accurate view of your care there. But each portal shows only its own part, and none was designed to be your complete personal archive.

Health insurer apps. Apps from insurers such as Vhi are for your policy, claims and services like online doctor appointments. 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?

Get the HSE Health App. It is free and official, and it will keep growing.

Ask for your records. In Ireland, the most complete copy of your history comes from asking your GP and hospitals directly. It is usually free, and our Ireland records guide explains how.

If your practice uses Pippo, it makes booking easier.

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 GP records you asked for, a private consultant’s report, the scan results, the letters from a hospital you were in years ago, the records from before you moved to Ireland - 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 Irish 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 Ireland, and I have 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, 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.