The Red Book is a gentle place to log what happened to you, track how it feels over time, and — only if you want — check whether it's more than nothing.
Coming to the App Store — a one-time $99, or about $20/year. No ads, no subscription lock-in.
The journal is the everyday flow — log, capture, keep. Everything else waits quietly until you reach for it.
Dictate what happened, tap the kinds of injury, choose the body parts, note swelling, and set a pain level — all on one calm screen.
Set the pain at the moment, then a reminder checks back on your schedule. A timeline chart shows whether it's easing — or not.
Researched, plain-language guidance for each injury type, as a checklist. Tick what you did — it's saved with the time and folds into the doctor export.
Worried? Step through an EMT-style red-flag check. It returns a clear tier and the reasoning — with a 911 script and your Medical ID if it's an emergency.
The nearest urgent care, ERs, and hospitals sit at the top — with distance, call, and directions. Matched pharmacies build a shopping list that carries pending items to the next store.
Medications, prescriptions with barcode scan and expiration, doctors, insurance and ID cards — sealed with AES-256 and a Keychain key, kept on your device.
Turn selected entries into a PDF story with your patient details and a spoken narration — or a fading video slideshow that ends each segment with the care you applied.
Entries gather into This Week, Last Week, and each month, with running counts you can collapse. A quiet header keeps score: logged, eased, checked.
A camera that keeps shooting until you're done, front or back, plus video and library import — every photo geotagged to where it happened on a map you can nudge.
The newest wave turns The Red Book into the place your medical life lives: captured once, encrypted on your device, and ready to hand over the moment it matters.
Point the camera at a prescription label, driver's license, passport, or insurance card and it's read into structured fields — no typing. Rx labels look up the drug through NIH's RxNav and set a refill reminder; licenses and passports decode by barcode and MRZ; insurance cards capture Member ID, RxBIN/PCN, and payer.
Generate a complete medical-details PDF and a pre-filled hospital intake form — built from real health-system intake fields and ESI triage — with your ID and insurance images and the injury's context attached. Walk into any ER or new clinic with the paperwork already done.
The moment you log an injury, The Red Book quietly captures your Apple Health vitals, steps, and recent workouts at that exact time — the physiological context a clinician actually wants, and something no other app keeps.
Keep your vaccines with per-dose details, signatures, and vial photos — and print a WHO ICVP "yellow card" (bilingual EN/FR) for international travel, folded into the same encrypted hub instead of a separate app.
Fast when you're hurting; thorough when you look back.
Say what happened, mark where and how much it hurts, and drop a photo. It's saved with the time and place — no forms to fight.
If something feels off, open the optional triage check or the first-aid checklist. Do what you can; the app remembers what you did and what you skipped.
Watch the pain trend, gather supplies from a nearby store, and — when you need to show someone — export a report or hand a doctor the whole record in one tap.
Symptom checkers guess a diagnosis, trackers log chronic conditions, first-aid apps teach steps, the built-in Medical ID is a static card. The Red Book is the only one built around a single moment — and it does the whole thing on-device.
The Red Book Binary Software Solutions |
AI symptom checkers Ada · Buoy · K Health · WebMD |
Symptom / health trackers CareClinic · Bearable · Guava |
First-aid reference apps Red Cross First Aid |
iPhone Medical ID built into Apple Health |
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| Log a specific injury — photo, body map, location, pain-over-time | ● | ○ | ◐ | ○ | ○ |
| Automatic “health at the time” — HealthKit vitals at the event | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| Opt-in red-flag check → home-vs-help decision + 911 script | ● | ◐ | ○ | ◐ | ○ |
| Injury-specific first aid from cited medical sources | ● | ○ | ○ | ◐ | ○ |
| Rx-label OCR + drug lookup + refill reminders | ● | ○ | ◐ | ○ | ○ |
| Scan driver’s license / passport / insurance into the record | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| One-tap doctor/ER hand-off PDF + pre-filled intake form | ● | ○ | ◐ | ○ | ○ |
| WHO ICVP immunization “yellow card” | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| 100% on-device — no account, no ads, no cloud | ● | ○ | ○ | ◐ | ● |
| Buy once and own it — no forced subscription | ● | ◐ | ○ | ● | ● |
| Pricing | $99 once · or ~$20/yr | Free tier; telehealth ≈$49/mo | Subscription $6–$140/yr | Free | Free (built-in) |
The Red Book keeps your entries and your medical record on your iPhone — no account to make, nothing shipped to a server. When you choose to share a report or a video, you decide exactly where it goes.
The sensitive record is encrypted at rest with a key held in the device Keychain, protected while your phone is locked.
The Red Book is built by Binary Software Solutions (BSS) — the same house style and care behind our other apps.
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