It's a fair question. Apple Health on iPhone and Health Connect on Android are hubs for health data - and Biomapa stores health data too. The difference isn't in what they store; it's in what they can read.
What these hubs do
Both are, first and foremost, a place where apps share data with each other, with your permission. Your watch writes steps and heart rate; your scale writes weight; your running app writes the workout. They store it well, handle permissions carefully and are the right path for sensor data.
Biomapa reads both. On iPhone, Apple Health; on Android, Health Connect. It makes no sense to ask you again for what's already there.
Where they stop
They work with structured numbers - a value, a unit, a date - sent by apps and devices. In the US, Apple Health can also receive health records, some lab results included, from participating hospitals and clinics. But what reaches you as a document stays out:
- The lab PDF with 40 biomarkers. In some cases you can store it as a document, but it's still just a file: nothing draws the curve of your ferritin from it.
- An imaging report, which is text written by a doctor.
- A prescription, with the drug name, dose and schedule.
- A body composition (bioimpedance) report, which has much more than weight - muscle mass, visceral fat, basal metabolic rate - along with a date and the device it came from.
On top of that, Apple Health only runs on Apple devices and Health Connect only on Android: if you switch from one to the other, your history doesn't come with you, and neither one has a version you can open in a web browser.
Where Biomapa comes in
It starts from the document. You send the PDF or a photo of the report and it extracts the biomarkers with their reference ranges, builds the history and puts it next to what came from your watch - which it read from your phone's health hub. The same goes for imaging reports, prescriptions and body composition reports.
In short
- Sensor data - steps, sleep, heart rate, workouts: your phone's health hub handles it, and Biomapa reads it from there.
- Document data - lab results, imaging reports, prescriptions, body composition: that's where Biomapa comes in.
Why picking just one is the common mistake
The temptation is to choose one and drop the other, and that costs you data on both sides. If you stick to the phone's hub alone, you have a timeline of steps and sleep with no lab results next to it - and the lab results are what tell you whether any of it is making a difference. If you only use a lab results app, you have the biomarkers without the context of how the months between one blood draw and the next went.
The setup that works is letting each one play its part: the watch writes to the phone's hub, the hub stores it, and the health app reads from there and brings it together with what came in as documents.
A privacy difference worth knowing
Apple Health and Health Connect are built around your phone: the data lives ON THE DEVICE (Apple Health can also keep a copy in iCloud, if you turn that on). That's great for privacy and weaker for continuity: if the phone breaks without a backup, or if you switch from iPhone to Android or back, your history doesn't come along on its own.
A service with an account stores your data on its servers, which solves continuity and creates a responsibility - so before you pick any of them, it's worth checking where the data is kept and what the privacy policy says. In Biomapa's case, the servers are in Brazil, and you can export or delete your data yourself, without having to ask anyone.
Neither one diagnoses anything, and it bears repeating: Biomapa organizes your data and shows how it changes. Interpreting results is the job of the professional who takes care of you.