Nobody in the system is keeping track. You have to own it.

How this started

I'm a nurse. I read charts for a living. And I was still a little embarrassed when my doctor asked when my last ultrasound was. I forgot. My doctor and my surgeon don't talk to each other, so apparently the person keeping track of my health is… me.

Then it cost me actual money. I paid for a mammogram out of pocket this year, because insurance covers one a year and my doctor didn't track it, just ordered another. Two doctors, two systems, and the only person who could have caught it was the one sitting on the exam table.

That's the moment OwnVital comes from. Not a business plan. A waiting room, and the realization that if the system loses track even for someone who works inside it, the rest of us need better tools. So I'm building the one I wanted on that exam table.

What we believe

Your records belong to you. Not to a hospital system, not to a portal vendor, and not to us. OwnVital keeps your documents on your phone (encrypted, behind your Face ID, no account required) because the best way to protect your health data is to never take it from you in the first place.

Useful beats comprehensive. OwnVital does three things: scan any medical paper into an organized timeline, answer questions from your records with the source document attached, and fill intake forms so you stop re-typing your history. We cut everything that didn't serve those three.

You're the customer, not the product. No ads, no selling data. The app is free to try; a paid plan covers heavier use, like managing records for the whole family. That's the entire business model, and we like that it only works if the app is worth paying for.

Everything we keep about you: the complete list

Most privacy pages are long because companies collect a lot. Ours is short because we don't. Here is the entire inventory of what OwnVital-the-company has:

• If you join the waitlist: your email address and the date you signed up. It's stored on its own, connected to nothing else. There's nothing health-related for it to connect to.
• If you subscribe: an anonymous receipt confirming the purchase. Payments run through the App Store, so your name, email, and card details stay with Apple. We never see them.
• Your medical records: No copy, no server backup, no "encrypted cloud vault" on our side. Your documents live on your phone, and only there. When a feature needs the network, like AI reading a messy fax, we engineer it so your vault never syncs anywhere: no cloud copy of your records, no account linking them to you.

That last one has a consequence we'd rather you hear from us than discover later: if you lose your phone without exporting a backup, we can't recover your records. Nobody can, because nobody else has them. That's not a limitation we're working around. It's the design. A company can't leak, sell, or hand over data it never had.

Where we are

OwnVital launches on iPhone August 1, 2026, and we're building it in public along the way: progress, real numbers, and the occasional hard lesson, over on the blog. Android is on the roadmap.

Questions, ideas, or a records horror story of your own? Email hello@ownvital.com. A person reads it.

— Mary, nurse and founder of OwnVital