A daily companion for living with chronic kidney disease and dialysis — built by someone who does it three times a week. Track what matters, photograph what you don't understand, and keep your whole care picture in one place.
Works in any browser. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like an app.
There is no sign-up, no account, and no health database on our end. Everything you log — labs, weights, medications, journal entries — is stored in your own browser and never leaves your phone unless you choose to export or share it. That is a deliberate design decision, not a limitation: the safest place for your medical history is your own pocket. The trade-off is real and worth knowing — clear your browser data and it is gone, so use Back Up My Health Data in Settings.
Each one is a tab along the bottom of the screen.
The screen you open every morning. What needs doing, and what already got done.
Point your camera at something you don't understand and get it explained in plain language.
The long view. Numbers only mean something when you can see them move.
Kidney care involves a lot of people. This keeps them straight.
The part that answers questions at 11pm when the clinic is closed.
Your data, your rules.
Four tools, all driven by a photo. Take the picture, get an answer you can actually read.
Photograph the printout. It pulls out your values and tells you what each one means and which direction is the good direction.
Photograph the bottle or the pill. Identifies it and flags anything that matters for kidney function.
Photograph the nutrition panel. Checks the sodium, potassium and phosphorus against a renal diet.
Describe what you're feeling. Gives you guidance on whether it's a call-the-clinic or a watch-and-wait.
Scanning is free for 30 days from your first scan. After that it needs a subscription, because every scan calls a paid AI service and those calls cost real money. Everything else in the app — all the logging, trends, care team, ER card and education — stays free forever with no trial and no account.
This is a tool for understanding your own information, not a doctor. It does not diagnose, it does not prescribe, and it does not replace your nephrologist or your dialysis team. If something feels wrong, call them — that is what the ER card is for.
Where this genuinely stands today.
A website cannot read Apple Health. HealthKit is a native iOS feature and Apple deliberately gives web pages no access to it, for the same privacy reasons that make it trustworthy in the first place. Any web app claiming a live two-way Apple Health sync is not doing what it says.
There are three real routes, and they are not equal:
Option 1 is the plan. It is the only one that keeps your data on your device.
No. There is no sign-up and no password. Open it and start using it. That is also why your data lives on your device — there is no account for it to live in.
Your data is on that device, so it goes with it. This is the real cost of the privacy model, and it is why Back Up My Health Data exists in Settings. Do a backup now rather than after you need it.
Everything except the AI scanner, permanently. The scanner is free for 30 days from your first scan and then needs a subscription, because each scan costs us money to run.
Yes. It runs in any modern browser. On a phone you can add it to your home screen and it opens like a normal app.
Yes — Share with a caregiver is in the People tab. You choose what to share; nothing is shared by default.
Michael Moore, who has been on dialysis three times a week for years and got tired of tracking all of this on paper. More about that here.
This goes straight to his inbox — not a support desk, not a ticket queue. He built this app for his own dialysis life, so if something is broken or missing, he wants to know.
You do not need to set anything up. Open it, log one thing, and see if it helps.
Open the Free App →Medical disclaimer. The CKD Care Companion is an information and tracking tool. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, and nothing in it — including anything produced by the AI scanner or the Kidney Navigator — should be used in place of guidance from your nephrologist, dialysis team or pharmacist. In an emergency, call 911.