Track dialysis sessions, log daily vitals, manage medications, and follow your transplant journey from referral to listing to beyond — built by someone living with PKD and on PD dialysis.
Nothing on the market tracks the kidney transplant journey the way patients actually live it. Generic health apps don't know what a cardiac workup, HLA typing, cPRA, or a selection committee are. Transplant center patient portals are locked to one hospital and disappear the moment you leave the building. KidneyKind's Transplant Journey tracker is the first tool designed around the full arc — from referral, through 6+ months of evaluation workup, committee review, listing, waiting, and beyond.
Seeded standard workup across 8 categories — consultations, bloodwork, imaging, cardiac, cancer screens, dental, psychosocial, financial. One-tap status cycling.
Referral, first visit, committee review, listing date, and — critically — wait-time start date (the one that actually counts for UNOS waitlist position).
Log each antibody panel result and watch the trend over time. Rising cPRA makes matching harder — this is the single most important number once you're listed.
Transplant center, coordinator name, phone, and email right on the dashboard. One-tap call and email straight from the status card.
"My transplant coordinator gave me a 3-ring binder and a list of 30 things to do. I was exhausted on dialysis and I lost track of what was done and what wasn't. This is the tool I wish had existed from day one."
Dialysis patients are often tired and low on energy. The last thing you need is to unlock your phone, find the app, and tap through three screens to see how much fluid you have left for the day. KidneyKind now ships with four Home Screen widgets so the information that matters most is always one glance away — on your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, or pinned to the Today View.
A circular gauge that shifts from teal to amber to coral as you approach your daily limit. Small and medium sizes.
Name, dose amount, time, and how many doses are still ahead of you today. "All caught up" when you've handled them all.
Title, date, time, and location — with a mini calendar card on the medium size so you never miss a nephrology visit or lab draw.
The pride-of-place large widget: fluid gauge, next dose, next appointment, and current transplant phase — all in one tile.
Live-updating. Widgets refresh automatically within seconds of logging a vital, taking a dose, or adding an appointment — not on iOS's 30-minute refresh schedule. Tap any widget to deep-link straight to the right tab in the app.
Privacy unchanged: widgets read from a small local cache shared between the app and the widget extension. No new data collected, no network access.
Built around the real daily experience of dialysis — not a generic health tracker.
Four Home Screen widgets so the information that matters is always one glance away — Fluid Intake (circular gauge that shifts color as you approach your daily limit), Next Medication (name, dose, time, and doses remaining today), Next Appointment (title, date, time, location, with a mini calendar card), and a large KidneyKind Dashboard tile combining all three plus your current transplant phase. Widgets update live within seconds of logging something in the app — no 30-minute refresh delay. Tap any widget to deep-link straight to the right tab. Small, medium, and large sizes supported.
A first-of-its-kind tracker for the kidney transplant journey — referral, evaluation workup, committee review, listing, waiting, match, and beyond. Includes a seeded 30-item evaluation checklist across 8 clinical categories (consultations, bloodwork, imaging, cardiac, cancer screens, dental, psychosocial, financial), a key-dates timeline (including the wait-time start date that actually counts for UNOS position), a PRA/cPRA trend chart, and one-tap call/email to your transplant coordinator straight from the status card. Generic health apps don't know what HLA typing or cPRA are. Transplant center portals are locked to one hospital. This is the first tool built around the full patient arc.
A single glanceable summary: last dialysis session, today's fluid intake gauge, medication progress, next appointment, treatment schedule, recipe of the day, and the latest kidney health news — all on one scrollable screen.
Log PD manual exchanges, cycler/APD sessions, home hemodialysis, and clinic visits. Track fill volumes, UF, drain appearance, blood pressure, and more per session. The PD Cycler form supports mixed bag strengths within a session (e.g. 2× green 2.5% + 1× red 4.25%), separate cycle and bag counts for patients running multiple dwells off a single 6,000 mL bag, and an optional last-fill section.
Log blood pressure, weight, fluid intake, urine output, pulse, temperature, and symptoms. Set an optional fluid limit with a visual gauge that shifts color as you approach it.
Record creatinine, BUN, eGFR, potassium, phosphorus, hemoglobin, calcium, sodium, and albumin. Out-of-range values are flagged automatically against renal-population reference ranges so you can spot changes between appointments.
Every numeric vital and lab analyte plotted as a trend chart over 30 days, 90 days, 6 months, or 1 year. Lab charts show the ideal range as a teal band and danger thresholds as dashed coral lines, so out-of-range values are visually obvious at a glance.
Opt in once and KidneyKind reads blood pressure, weight, pulse, and body temperature from Apple Health on every launch — anything your Withings scale, Omron cuff, or Apple Watch writes shows up in your daily vitals automatically with no typing. Manually-logged vitals are written back so other apps see them too. Five common dialysis symptoms (fatigue, nausea, headache, dizziness, shortness of breath) sync bidirectionally with HealthKit's symptom catalog. Granular per-data-type permission, manual entries are never overwritten, and the round-trip is deduplicated so the trend charts stay clean.
One tap generates a clean, multi-page printable PDF for your nephrology appointment — cover page with your latest values, vital trend charts, lab trend charts with reference ranges, your active medication list, recent dialysis sessions, and upcoming appointments. Email it, AirDrop it, or save it to Files in two taps. Generated entirely on your device.
Track all your kidney medications with a daily schedule, dose reminders via local notifications, take/skip/undo per dose, and optional refill reminders with supply countdown.
Add nephrologist visits, lab draws, transplant clinic, and other one-off appointments. Each one gets a configurable reminder and is mirrored into your iOS Calendar so you and your caregivers see them everywhere.
Keep your nephrologist, PD nurse, dietician, transplant coordinator, pharmacist, social worker, and family caregivers in one place. Each contact stores name, role, practice, phone, email, and a structured office location with one-tap quick actions for Call, Email, and Directions. Optionally mirror each contact to iOS Contacts so they're reachable from the system Phone, Mail, and Maps apps too — sync is per-contact, opt-in, and strictly one-way out (KidneyKind never reads from your address book).
Clinic hemodialysis patients can set their recurring weekday/time pattern (Mon/Wed/Fri at 8 AM, etc.). KidneyKind generates a repeating reminder for every treatment day and writes the recurring schedule into iOS Calendar.
Stay informed with curated kidney disease research, treatment advances, and transplant updates pulled fresh from 5 trusted medical sources (NKF, NIDDK, PKD Foundation, ScienceDaily, Renal & Urology News). Save articles for offline reading.
A daily Recipe of the Day plus 50+ rotating kidney-friendly recipes from DaVita's public library — refreshed every 24 hours and cached on device. Built around the dietary needs of dialysis patients (low potassium, phosphorus, sodium). Save favorites.
Choose System, Light, or Dark in Settings. The whole app switches instantly — no relaunch — so you can read your trends comfortably in bed or in the dialysis chair.
Your data syncs automatically across all your Apple devices through your private iCloud account. No accounts to create, no passwords to remember.
Curated quick-access cards for the National Kidney Foundation, American Kidney Fund, AAKP, PKD Foundation, UNOS, NIDDK, and other kidney organizations — plus a plain-language guide to the kidney transplant evaluation and waitlist process, written by someone going through it.
Log vitals, confirm medications, and track fluid intake right from your wrist. Complications keep your fluid gauge and next med dose always visible.
Coming SoonKidneyKind stores everything in your private iCloud account. We never see, collect, or sell your health data. Ever.
"I built KidneyKind because I needed it. Nothing I found was made for the real, daily experience of living on dialysis."
I was diagnosed with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) and have been on peritoneal dialysis (PD) while working through the process of getting listed for a kidney transplant.
During that time I searched for an app that could track my exchanges, keep my labs in one place, remind me about my many medications, and help me eat right — and nothing came close to what I actually needed.
So I built KidneyKind. It's the app I wish had existed when I started this journey, and I'm building it openly, shaped by real patients, for real patients.
Read the full story →Polycystic Kidney Disease — a genetic condition causing cysts to grow on the kidneys, gradually reducing their function over time.
Peritoneal dialysis performed at home — daily exchanges that clean the blood using the body's own peritoneum as a natural filter.
Working through the transplant evaluation process — the step-by-step medical workup required before being placed on the kidney waitlist.