Health Notes vs Checkup+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Health Notes
This app allows you to meticulously record and track various health metrics like blood pressure, blood sugar, and weight over time. It helps create a clear, understandable health history for personal use, family sharing, or medical consultations. Customize your tracking with flexible note structures to capture exactly what you need.
- Track blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, heart rate, temperature
- Record medication and checkup notes
- Create custom note structures
- Sync data across iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud
- Export data to CSV or Excel
- Import historical data from Apple Health
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Health Notes is a personal health archive for people who want to keep blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, heart rate, temperature, meds, and checkup notes in one place over time. It helps you turn scattered daily numbers, follow-up visits, and recovery notes into a record you can revisit later.The app grew out of the developer's own long-term health tracking needs while living with chronic illness. That perspective shaped the product around consistency, clarity, and keeping data in a form that you and your family can actually understand months later. You decide what each note should track. A blood pressure note can hold systolic, diastolic, and pulse together. A glucose note can combine fasting values, post-meal values, and meds from the same day. A symptom note can mix temperature, status options, and free text. If Apple's Health app does not already offer the exact structure you need, you can build your own. Over time, those notes become a cleaner personal history of what changed, when it changed, and how your body felt along the way. Your data stays on your devices and in iCloud, so it can sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. When needed, you can export to CSV or Excel for your own backup, family sharing, or conversations with a clinician. You can also import selected historical data from the Health app to give a note a starting point, or copy the template structure of an existing Note to create a new one for yourself or a family member. Health app import is currently available on iPhone only, works as a one-time historical import, and does not include document-style lab reports. Health Notes focuses on one job: helping you organize and keep long-term health data. It is built for personal records, family care, and day-to-day health context over time.
Checkup+
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Key Features: 1.Integrate Past Health Check Reports No more digging through paper reports. Consolidate test results from different hospitals and years into your phone for easy access and organization. 2/Automatic Determination of Abnormal Results After inputting values, the app automatically marks them as “Normal,” “High,” or “Low” based on standard ranges, so you can instantly spot health warnings. 3.Trend Analysis via Charts View trends of various health indicators through charts to understand whether your health is improving or deteriorating over time, helping you catch warning signs early. 4.Built-in Common Test Items and Recommendations Includes 23 common test items (such as uric acid, total cholesterol, ALT, eGFR) with units, normal ranges, and notes to help you understand the meaning behind the numbers and how to improve. 5.Flexible Personalized Item Expansion Besides default items, you can add and edit test items and reference values to meet different hospital and personal needs. 6.Color-coded Visual Indicators Input values are color-coded — red for abnormal, green for normal — making it clear and intuitive, avoiding duplicates or missed entries. Who is this for? 1.People who get annual health checks but forget their data. 2.Those tracking chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes, or kidney function changes. 3.People who care about their parents’ health and want to keep records for family members. 4.Anyone wanting to fully understand what their health check indicators mean. Data stored locally with privacy respected: Your data is stored only on your device and never uploaded to the cloud, ensuring your personal privacy is protected. Make your health traceable, never ignore the body’s warning signs again! Download “Health Index” now and start protecting your and your family’s health, one drop of blood at a time! *** The health data and information provided by this app are for reference only and are not intended for medical diagnosis or treatment. Do not use the app as a substitute for professional medical advice. If you have any health concerns, please consult a qualified physician or healthcare professional. ***
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Checkup+ at Free against Health Notes's $5.99. Checkup+ also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). Health Notes's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.4). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Checkup+ is free to download; Health Notes costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Health Notes ships an update every 2 months, Checkup+ every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Health Notes | Checkup+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 91.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 杨 徐 | chewang wu |
In-app purchases
Health Notes
No in-app purchases
Checkup+
No in-app purchases
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