Clinical Photo
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A web app for clinical photos.

Capture. Compare. Put photos to work.

Patient screen on a computer: a fictional patient’s site photos over time, microscope images and an autosaving note.
Patient screen on a phone with the same fictional patient’s sites and records.

Photos and microscope images sit under the same patient.

These are actual web-app screens with fictional patients and generated images.

Organize the photos you take by patient and site, and compare the course on your phone or computer. Paste the photos you need straight into slides and documents.

Open the web appHow to start

Intended for work devices owned and managed by a healthcare institution. Obtain your institution’s approval and follow its operating policies.

  • Photos and records stay in a folder on your computer or on the device. These photos and records are not sent to the operator’s servers.
  • On a computer, press Ctrl+C over a photo and paste it into a slide or document.
  • The same app runs on your phone and computer. A number or QR code sends records directly from one device to the other.

It does not diagnose, assess or recommend treatment, and it is not a repository for official medical records.

Photos and records stay with youPhotos and records stay in your computer folder and on your phone.
No accountThere is no sign-up and no login.
FreeThere is no charge for the app.
Works offlineAfter the first online preparation, capture, viewing and comparison work without a connection.

In practice

Use it for everyday records in any specialty.

Use it to keep a photographic record of the course, or to keep test results and treatment records together. Here are three specialties as examples.

Dermatology

Compare the first visit with follow-⁠up.

Keep photos of rashes and ulcers by patient and site, then put the first or previous visit next to today’s photo.

Plastic surgery

Keep pre- and postoperative photos under one site.

Keep wound and scar photos in a folder for each site, then place before and after side by side for case review and presentations.

Infectious diseases

Keep microscope images with culture results.

Record organisms, susceptible antibiotics, the antibiotics being given and every change for blood cultures and resistant organisms, with microscope images attached.

Features

Photos and records, kept together by patient.

All screens are real, with fictional patients and generated images. Press a screen to enlarge it.

Comparison

Choose two photos and compare the course.

Pick two photos from a site and see them together: first visit and follow-up, or before and after surgery.

  • Four ways to look: side by side, slider, blink and overlay.
  • Overlay the previous photo in the camera view to match the angle.
  • Add arrows, circles and black masks before exporting.
  • Comparison changes how images are displayed. It does not quantify changes.
Side-by-side comparison of a fictional lower-leg site using generated images.

Microbiology

Follow culture results and antibiotic changes by patient.

Start the record on the day the culture is sent and add the organism and susceptibility as they come back. Every patient under follow-up sits in one list you can show at a conference as it is.

  • Per organism: result known or pending, and the antibiotics it is susceptible to.
  • Keep the antibiotics being given, their start dates and every change.
  • Attach microscope images to the record.
  • Patients whose follow-up is complete leave the list.
Microbiology tab with four fictional patients in columns showing organisms with susceptibility, notes, microscope images and antibiotics.

Transfer

Send photos and records from your phone straight to your computer.

Enter the number shown on the receiving device, or scan its QR code, to connect. The receiving device checks the count and contents before saving. Computer to phone works the same way.

  • Photos and records travel directly between the two devices and never pass through the relay.
  • Choose the patients to send, and include unsorted photos when you want.
  • There is no automatic sync. Open the app on both devices for each transfer.
  • Passphrase-protected encrypted backups can be exported as well.
Choosing the patients to send on a computer. Fictional Case A is selected, with the file count and size shown.
The phone’s transfer screen: choose Send or Receive, or connect with a QR code or a file.

Capture and organize

Shoot on the spot and sort later.

Use your device’s camera and import the photo into your chosen storage. Your device or camera app may also keep a copy in its photo library. Shoot without choosing a patient, then file the photos under a patient and site in Sort.

  • File unsorted photos under a patient and site in a few taps.
  • Search by name, identifier, diagnosis, tag or organism.
  • Arrange selected photos on A4 pages to print or save as a PDF.
  • Deleted photos go to the trash and can be restored.
Patient list on the phone with fictional patients and photo thumbnails.
Search tab on the phone showing microbiology records found by organism name.

Comparison images do not demonstrate treatment effects.

Copy and paste

Paste your photos straight into your slides.

On a computer, hover over a photo and press Ctrl+C to copy it. Open your slides or document and press Ctrl+V, and the photo is in. There is no file to export and nothing to look for.

Over the photo, press CtrlC and the app confirms that it has copied.

Actual computer screen right after Ctrl+C over a fictional patient’s photo, with the app’s copy confirmation.
This is an actual web-app screen with a fictional patient and generated images.

In your slides, press CtrlV and the photo is pasted.

Example conference slide titled “Case A: right lower leg”, with Day 0 and Day 3 photos side by side and bullet points on the course.
Conference slidesPlace the course photos side by side on a case-presentation slide.
  • Copy from any screen that shows the photo.On the patient list, in a site folder, in the comparison view or on a microscope image, press CtrlC over the photo to copy it.
  • Copy a patient’s or a site’s photos one after another.Press CtrlC over a patient card or site folder to copy the first photo. Paste it, press CtrlC again, and the next photo in capture-date order is copied.
  • Masks and marks come along.Black masks and marks added in the app appear in the pasted photo.
  • Drag when you need the original file.Drag a photo to the desktop, a folder or an email attachment area to save it as the original image file.

On a PC, press Ctrl+C (⌘C on a Mac) over the photo and paste with Ctrl+V (⌘V). On a phone, use the photo’s Copy button, then paste into messages, mail or documents. If the browser does not allow writing to the clipboard, use Export to save the file instead. The slide is an example drawn to show how a pasted photo looks, not the screen of any particular product.

Why it exists

Built from what got in the way on the wards.

Photos scatter across the camera roll, culture results slip away unless you chase them every day, and deciding where the photos should live is not simple either. This app was built from those three problems.

01

Photos scatter across the camera roll.

Wound photos from rounds scatter across the camera roll, and later nobody can tell whose photo it is or when it was taken. The more there are, the harder they are to organize.

02

Culture results have to be chased every day.

For patients with positive blood cultures or resistant organisms, there was no single list of the organism, the susceptibility, the antibiotics being given and every change, so every conference started with a search.

03

There is no good place to keep patient photos.

Photos taken with the standard camera go to the camera roll and, depending on the settings, straight into cloud sync. Most convenient organizing services expect you to hand the photos to their servers, so they need institutional approval, which is often not granted.

The answer

No server holds the records.

That decision is the foundation of the app.

  • The app runs in your browser.Photos and records are kept in a folder on your computer and on your phone, never sent to the operator’s servers.

Storage and safety

Photos and records never reach the operator’s servers.

On a computer they live in a folder you choose; on a phone, on the device itself.

Anonymize by default

Keep anything that could identify a patient out of photos and records.

Photograph only the affected area, and keep faces, wristbands, medical-record screens and anything with a name out of the frame. In the name, identifier and notes, do not enter names, medical record numbers or dates of birth; use values anonymized to the standard of a conference presentation.

Organizing, search and transfer all work without real names or IDs. The body site and side can be recorded on the body map.

Name
Case A
Identifier
2026-014
Examples of anonymized values.

Records in browser storage can be encrypted and locked.

Browser storage works on phones and computers. Turn on passphrase encryption in Settings to use manual and automatic locking. Encryption is optional and off by default.

The folder on your computer is yours to manage.

In Chrome and Edge, photos and records are saved in a folder as ordinary image and JSON files. Copying the folder makes a backup. The app does not encrypt the folder, so choose its location and protection according to institutional policies.

Records move directly between devices.

Two devices joined by a number or QR code connect directly. The signaling service handles connection authentication and encrypted connection details; photos and records never pass through it.

You can make an encrypted backup.

Export a passphrase-protected file and merge it on another device without replacing what is already there. The operator holds no recovery copy.

  • Safari may delete a site’s browser data after seven days without use. On iPhone, add the app to the Home Screen before you rely on it.
  • Before replacing a device or resetting a browser, transfer to a computer or make an encrypted backup.
  • Nothing in the app diagnoses, assesses or recommends treatment. Keep official medical records in your institution’s designated system. Storage and encryption details

Works with AI

The only thing an AI reads is the folder on your computer.

The app itself never communicates with an AI. You simply open the photos and records saved in your computer folder in an AI tool. Using AI is optional, and the decision is yours, within your institution’s rules.

The app and the AI never connect directly.

The app writes to the folder, and you open that folder in an AI tool.

How the exchange works

  1. The app writes the photos and records to the folder on your computer. Records are JSON files.
  2. You open that folder in an AI tool and ask for tidy-ups or summaries.
  3. When the AI rewrites the record files in the prescribed JSON format, the app shows the changes once the folder is reloaded. PDF and Markdown files placed in a patient’s reference folder open in the Files tab.

If you use AI, always follow these two rules.

Get your institution’s permission.

Follow your institution’s rules and obtain permission before using AI. Prefer an AI approved by your institution or a local model, with settings that keep your input out of training, and check the provider’s data handling and terms.

Never include personal information.

Never put identifying information in a folder an AI will read. Anonymize the name and identifier fields to the standard of a conference presentation, and before the AI reads anything, check the photos for visible text or faces and the notes for names.

Sending data to an external AI service is your decision and responsibility, within your institution’s rules and the service’s terms.

Things you can ask

Once an AI has the folder open, you can ask for things like these.

  • “Write short captions for these two photos for a case presentation, using their recorded dates, sites and notes.”
  • “Draft the clinical course section of a case report in 150 words, using this patient’s notes and photo records.”
  • “For the case conference, make a table of this patient’s organisms and antibiotic treatment, including drug names, start dates and end dates.”

Check the AI’s output against the original records.

Get started

Start right away, with no account.

On a computer or Android device, open it in Chrome or Edge and begin. On iPhone, open it in Safari or Chrome and add it to the Home Screen from the Share menu first.

Computer (Chrome / Edge)

  1. Open the web app in Chrome or Edge on an approved work computer.
  2. Choose “Create a storage folder on this computer”, pick a location and grant access.
  3. Review the terms, then add a patient, photos and records.

Safari and Firefox cannot pick a folder and store records inside the browser instead. Folder storage is not encrypted by the app.

iPhone (Safari / Chrome)

  1. Open the web app in Safari or Chrome.
  2. Choose Share → “Add to Home Screen” → “Add”. In Chrome, Share is on the right of the address bar.
  3. Open the Home Screen icon, choose “Start on this device” to prepare storage, then review the terms.

Adding from Chrome requires iOS 16.4 or later. If the option is missing, update iOS and Chrome, or add it from Safari. Device-storage encryption can be enabled in Settings after setup.

Android (Chrome)

  1. Open the web app in Chrome on an approved work device.
  2. Choose “Start on this device” to prepare storage, then review the terms.
  3. Add it to the Home Screen to open it from an icon next time. This step is optional.

Clearing the browser’s site data removes the records, so keep backups according to your institution’s policies.

Open the web appFree, with no account.

Before you start

Common questions

Is it free? Do I need an account?

The web app is free and requires no account. Connectivity, devices, storage equipment and any external services you choose may have their own costs.

Which devices is it intended for?

Intended for work devices owned and managed by a healthcare institution. Obtain your institution’s approval and follow its operating policies. Institutional ownership alone does not authorize use. Confirm storage, device management and backup arrangements with your institution.

Which specialties can use it?

Use it in any specialty to organize photos by patient and site, review the course and prepare presentations. Dermatology, plastic surgery and infectious diseases are examples.

Do phones and computers sync automatically?

There is no automatic sync. Connect with a number or QR code, review the count and size on the receiving device, and approve each transfer. Keep the app open and connected on both devices. If a direct connection is unavailable, use an encrypted transfer file.

Where is data saved, and how is encryption configured?

Browser storage on phones and computers uses the app’s database. Encryption is optional and off by default. When enabled, manual and automatic locking are available on computers too. Folder storage keeps originals and records in the selected folder, with supporting data in the browser. Neither the folder nor this supporting data is encrypted by the app, and folder storage has no app lock. Configure device protection and access permissions according to institutional policies. Clipboard history and sync after copying follow your OS and other software settings. Privacy Policy

How should I prepare for device failure or data deletion?

The operator holds no recovery copy. Export an encrypted backup outside the app to an institution-approved location. Verify that the saved file can be read back and keep its passphrase safe. Back up or transfer records before clearing site data or replacing a device.

Can I hide part of a photo with a black mask?

Yes. Open a photo, choose “Edit marks and masks” under the pencil icon, select “Black mask” and drag over the area to hide. Each mask is saved automatically. Masks are applied to copied images and ordinary photo exports. Device transfers and backups also include the unmasked originals. Before sharing, check that no text or faces in the photo and nothing in the notes could identify the patient.

Can I print or make a PDF?

Yes. Arrange selected photos on A4 pages, then print from the browser or save a PDF. You choose how many photos go on a page and whether the name, identifier and capture dates are printed.

Can I use it offline?

After the first online preparation is complete, capture, organization, viewing and comparison work offline. App updates and connections between devices need network access. Check the app’s preparation status before going offline.

Can I use it together with an AI?

Yes. Every feature also works without AI. If you do use one, obtain your institution’s permission and never put identifying information in a folder the AI will read. The app itself never communicates with an AI.

Can it replace an electronic health record?

It does not replace official clinical records or an electronic health record. Keep required records in your institution’s designated system. It does not diagnose, interpret images, recommend treatment or antibiotics, or quantify changes.

Organize your photos for review and presentations.

Clinical Photo·Web app

Open the web appWorks in a current browser. On iPhone, add it to the Home Screen first.

Intended for work devices owned and managed by a healthcare institution. Obtain your institution’s approval and follow its operating policies.