About

The Open Health Index lists free and open-source tools for people looking after their own health: tracking symptoms and flares, mood, medications and cycles, and keeping their own records. It's for patients, caregivers and anyone who wants their health data to stay theirs.

Software for clinics, hospitals and health IT is out of scope. If that's what you need, tryawesome-healthcare.

What gets listed

• The source code is public under an OSI-approved open-source license. AI skills and prompts, which are written instructions rather than code, can instead use an open content license that allows reuse and changes, such as CC BY 4.0.
• The tool is useful to an individual, not only to a clinic or developer.
• It has had a release or code change in the last 18 months, or is marked as watchlist or no longer maintained.
• The parts you need to actually use it are open. Tools that are open source in name but lock the usable product behind a proprietary license aren't listed.

What a listing means

A listing means a tool meets the criteria above. It is not a medical recommendation, and it doesn't mean the tool is safe or right for you. Some tools, especially the community-built insulin systems, can affect your treatment. Talk to your care team before changing how you manage your health.

Facts we haven't confirmed are shown as Not yet checked rather than guessed.

Disclosure

This index is run by the people behind Health-Flare, who also make health tracking apps. Our own tools are marked on their listings.

Open data

The whole index is free to reuse under CC0, no permission or credit needed. Download every listing as one file: /tools.json. Fields match the ones described in thecontributing guide.

Contribute

Every listing is a small file in theGitHub repository. You can suggest a tool or fix a listing there without writing code.