Track dialysis sessions, log daily vitals, manage medications, and stay informed about kidney health — built by someone living with PKD and on PD dialysis.
Built around the real daily experience of dialysis — not a generic health tracker.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quick access to NKF, AAKP, UNOS, and other kidney foundations. Includes a plain-language guide to the kidney transplant evaluation and waitlist process.
Coming SoonLog 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.