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Healthcare iOS apps, built on SwiftUI — and already live on the App Store.

We design and ship native iOS applications for healthcare brands, behavioral-health clinicians, and evidence-based wellness programs. Every app is built in SwiftUI, tuned for on-device privacy, shaped by peer-reviewed research, and submitted end-to-end by our team through Apple App Review. The ACE Score Test app — live today on the Apple App Store — is the proof.

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Our philosophy

A healthcare app is not a brochure with buttons. It is a clinical-grade surface in a patient’s pocket.

Patients open a healthcare app when they are scared, curious, or trying to make sense of a history they never chose. The app’s job is to lower the temperature, give them something true to hold, and never — under any circumstance — mishandle what they trust us with.

That is why every iOS app we build defaults to on-device storage, ships without analytics trackers, is audited against Apple’s App Review Guidelines for health and medical content, and is written in SwiftUI so that accessibility — VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduced Motion — is a starting point, not a retrofit.

Case study · Live on the App Store

ACE Score Test — a trauma-informed iOS app grounded in CDC, Kaiser Permanente, and JAMA Pediatrics research.

The ACE Score Test app turns decades of Adverse Childhood Experiences research into a private, on-device reflection tool. Users walk through the 10-question CDC/Kaiser ACE questionnaire at their own pace, complete the 7-item Positive Childhood Experiences (PCE) Resilience Assessment from Bethell et al.’s 2019 JAMA Pediatrics study, and view a combined ACE + PCE profile alongside WHO-backed health context. It is privacy-first, advertising-free, and designed to sit next to therapy — not replace it.

What’s inside the app

Research-grade assessments, privately.

  • ACE Questionnaire — the 10-item CDC/Kaiser Adverse Childhood Experiences survey, with skip, review, and revisit controls.
  • PCE Resilience Assessment — the 7-item Positive Childhood Experiences survey from Bethell et al. (2019), measuring protective factors that buffer adversity.
  • Combined ACE + PCE profile — side-by-side visualization so users see risk and resilience together, not in isolation.
  • Score history with trend charts — retake over time, see movement, tap any past score to review question-by-question answers.
  • Journal with mood tagging — five guided moods (Calm, Reflective, Hopeful, Heavy, Mixed) and filterable entries.

Care-aware design

Support resources that are actually one tap away.

  • 15 vetted support organizations — including the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, SAMHSA, NAMI, and RAINN — with one-tap call, text, and web access.
  • Prominent crisis banner visible from every screen so help is never more than a tap away.
  • 10 evidence-based articles across Science, Resilience, Healing, Relationships, and Body & Mind — each estimated by read time.
  • Accessibility by default — full VoiceOver support, reduced-animation mode, haptic feedback, and iPhone + iPad compatibility.
  • No sign-in, no analytics, no ads — every entry, score, and reflection stays on-device. The user shares only if and when they choose to.

Released April 2026. Built in SwiftUI for iOS 26 and later. Free on the App Store.

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What we build for healthcare on iOS

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Screening & assessment tools

Validated instruments — ACE, PCE, PHQ-9, GAD-7, AUDIT-C, ASQ, SBQ-R — turned into paced, accessibility-first iOS experiences with scoring, history, and structured export for the clinician the patient chooses to share with.

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Patient-facing companion apps

Between-visit companions for clinics, recovery programs, rehab networks, and outpatient practices — mood logs, symptom trackers, step-down plans, education libraries, and re-engagement nudges that respect what the clinician already prescribed.

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HealthKit & Apple Health integrations

Apps that read from or write to HealthKit — sleep, heart rate, activity, menstrual cycle, mental-state logs — with explicit, granular permissions and zero off-device mirroring unless the user approves it.

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Clinician-side iPad workflows

Chairside intake, consent capture, outcome tracking, and handoff tools built for iPad-first clinics — assessment rescoring, PDF output, structured-data export, and offline-first operation for visits that start before connectivity does.

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Evidence-based learning modules

In-app courseware and micro-article libraries — trauma, neurobiology, post-traumatic growth, peer support, caregiver literacy — with citations, read-time estimates, and category filtering, shipped alongside the clinical content users actually came for.

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Crisis & resource directories

Vetted support directories — 988, SAMHSA, NAMI, RAINN, state crisis lines, and local care partners — surfaced from a persistent banner, one tap to call, text, or open, with the list versioned and updatable without shipping a new build.

Research & sources

The research standard we code against.

A healthcare app is only as good as the literature it is accountable to. Every assessment we ship is matched to a primary source, and that source is named inside the app — not buried in a credits screen.

Tech stack

Native SwiftUI from the first commit.

We write every iOS app in SwiftUI on top of Apple’s current platform SDKs. No cross-platform wrappers that turn health data into web traffic. No third-party analytics SDKs that quietly log what a patient typed into a symptom field. A lean, auditable, Apple-native stack so App Review, HIPAA auditors, and your IT team all get the same answer when they look.

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SwiftUI + Swift 6

Declarative UI, strict concurrency, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver by default.

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SwiftData & Core Data

On-device persistence with optional iCloud sync through the user’s own Apple ID.

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HealthKit & Sensors

Granular HealthKit permissions, haptics, and motion data — opt-in at the field level.

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Zero-telemetry by default

No third-party analytics SDKs. No crash reporters that ship PHI. If it leaves the device, it is named.

HIPAA & privacy posture

On-device first. Cloud only when a BAA-covered platform is the right answer.

We design apps that do not create PHI where none is needed. When clinical context requires a backend — scheduling, clinician review, longitudinal cohort data, population-level analytics — we build on healthcare-native platforms that sign a Business Associate Agreement: Google Cloud for Healthcare, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, Salesforce Health Cloud, or comparable BAA-covered infrastructure. We do not route healthcare data through general-purpose marketing tools that refuse to sign a BAA, and we say so in writing before a project starts.

Every app we submit to the App Store passes Apple’s Section 5.1.3 (Health and Medical Apps) review. We keep an internal data-flow diagram — what is read, what is written, where it lives, how long — and hand that diagram to the client’s IT and privacy teams before launch.

How we build

A six-step process, accountable at every step.

Step 01

Discovery & research scoping

Who the patient is, what instrument or workflow we are encoding, which literature governs it, and what lives on-device versus behind a BAA.

Step 02

Clinical & privacy review

Instrument language checked against primary sources. Data-flow diagram signed off by the clinical lead and the client’s privacy officer.

Step 03

SwiftUI design system

Typography, Dynamic Type scaling, accent colors, reduced-motion variants, and VoiceOver labels — built once, reused everywhere.

Step 04

Build & iterate

Weekly TestFlight builds with a cohort of clinicians and patient advocates. Every release includes a written changelog and an accessibility audit.

Step 05

App Store submission

We write the App Privacy questionnaire, the Section 5.1.3 health-content justification, and the App Review cover note — and we ship the build under your developer account, not ours.

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Post-launch & evolution

Quarterly content refreshes, annual iOS SDK uplift, literature re-checks when cited studies are updated, and crash triage handled through Apple-native tooling — no third-party SDKs.

Questions we get

Healthcare iOS development — the answers before you ask.

Do you build HIPAA-compliant iOS apps?

We build iOS apps that are designed to avoid creating Protected Health Information where none is needed. When a clinical workflow requires PHI — scheduling, clinician review, cohort data — we build on BAA-covered platforms such as Google Cloud for Healthcare, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, or Salesforce Health Cloud. HIPAA is a legal status that applies to covered entities and business associates, not to software in the abstract; we structure the engagement and the architecture so that every party who needs a BAA has one.

Can I see an example of a healthcare iOS app you have already shipped?

Yes. The ACE Score Test app is live on the Apple App Store today. It runs the full 10-question CDC/Kaiser Adverse Childhood Experiences survey, the 7-item Positive Childhood Experiences Resilience Assessment from Bethell et al.’s 2019 JAMA Pediatrics study, a mood-tagged journal, score history with trend charts, 10 evidence-based articles, and a directory of 15 vetted crisis and support resources. Everything runs on-device — no analytics, no ads, no sign-in.

Which iOS technologies do you build on?

SwiftUI, Swift 6 with strict concurrency, SwiftData and Core Data for persistence, HealthKit for sensor and health data, and Apple’s native accessibility APIs (VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduced Motion). We avoid cross-platform wrappers like React Native or Flutter for healthcare work because they introduce abstraction layers that complicate App Review Section 5.1.3 evaluation and accessibility auditing.

Will my app ship under my developer account or yours?

Yours. Every app we build is submitted under the client’s Apple Developer Program account. That is the only defensible position for a healthcare brand — the App Store listing, the privacy questionnaire, and the long-term relationship with Apple all belong to the organization whose clinical reputation is on the line, not to the agency that wrote the code.

How long does a healthcare iOS app take to build?

A scoped screening tool like ACE Score Test takes four to eight weeks from kickoff to App Store submission, assuming the underlying instruments are already validated and the clinical review happens on our normal weekly cadence. A patient-facing companion with HealthKit integration and a BAA-covered backend typically runs twelve to twenty weeks, depending on cohort testing and how many clinical workflows the app touches.

Do you handle the Apple App Review submission?

Yes — including the App Privacy questionnaire, the Section 5.1.3 health-and-medical justification, the App Review cover note, and any follow-up correspondence with Apple. We write the submission package with the clinical lead so that the claim each screen makes is backed by a citation Apple can verify.

Can you integrate with HealthKit and Apple Health?

Yes. We request HealthKit permissions at the data-type level, explain each request in plain language, and default to opt-in rather than bundled consent. Reads and writes are scoped to the clinical workflow that needs them, and we never mirror HealthKit data off-device unless the user explicitly authorizes an export.

Who owns the source code?

You do. Every engagement ends with a source-code handoff through the client’s preferred source control (GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket), a written architecture document, the signed data-flow diagram, the App Store submission package, and enough knowledge transfer that your team — or another vendor — can pick up the next release.

Explore more

How iOS fits the broader reference architecture.

Every iOS engagement sits inside a larger discipline. If you are scoping a healthcare app, these sibling capabilities are worth reading alongside this page:

Have a healthcare app idea that needs to be trusted, not just downloaded?

We scope, build, submit, and maintain iOS apps for healthcare brands, behavioral-health clinicians, and evidence-based wellness programs. Start with a discovery call and we’ll map what belongs on-device, what belongs behind a BAA, and what the App Review narrative needs to say.

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