Why Checkup works without AI

Discover Help, Privacy and About Checkup

Recommendations, reminders and records all work on your phone, with nothing sent anywhere.

Lots of new apps put an AI chatbot at the centre. Checkup doesn’t, on purpose.

The core doesn’t need it

What Checkup does every day is simple and dependable: work out what’s due from guidelines and dates, remind you on time, and keep a record of visits. That’s plain logic that runs on your phone. It works offline, it gives the same answer every time, and it never sends your records anywhere.

Health answers should be checkable

An AI model can sound sure and be wrong. Checkup’s recommendations come only from published guidelines, each with its source, so you can check every one. Anything without a guideline gets no default interval, rather than a guess.

If AI comes later

An assistant for easy questions may come later, as an extra rather than the point of the app. If it does, it will be optional, it will ask first, and it will send only the question you type, never your records. The privacy policy will say so before it ships.

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