Can I scan lab results with Sayved?
You can, and it works differently from a typical scanner app. Sayved is a life log, so a document is not filed in a separate vault. It becomes an entry in the same history as your meals, doses and symptoms, dated, searchable and available to everything else in the app. That is the point of using a scan lab results app inside a health log: the blood test from March sits on the same timeline as the symptoms you logged that month.
To scan, tap the capture button and choose Scan a document. The screen describes it as test results, prescriptions, labels, where you pick every page at once and the pages stay one record with readable text.
How does multi-page scanning work?
Most medical paper is more than one page: a three-page lab panel, a two-sided prescription, a referral letter with an attached results sheet. A tool that makes one entry per page turns your history into confetti, so Sayved does the opposite. You select every page in a single pick, and they are saved as one entry.
Two practical consequences follow. A six-page document costs one capture, not six, against your daily fair-use allowance. And when you open the entry later, all the pages are there together, not scattered across the day.
You can photograph the pages with the camera or choose photos you took earlier from your gallery, which is handy when a relative sends pictures of a letter by message.
What does Sayved actually read from the pages?
After you pick the pages, an AI model reads them and writes a short summary and picks a category such as health or medication. You see the result before it is saved, and every derived value stays editable, with your correction stored separately from what the model wrote, so nothing is lost either way.
Be realistic about reading photographs. Printed text on a flat, well-lit page usually reads well. Handwriting, glare, a shadow across a column of figures or a page photographed at an angle read less well. For this reason Sayved marks a confidence on the entry, and the right habit for any number that matters is to check it against the paper. The app does not tell you whether a result is normal, high or low, and it will not add an opinion. It keeps the record.
Can I store prescriptions on my phone?
Yes, and it is one of the better uses. A photographed prescription becomes a medication entry you can find by asking “what dose did the doctor put me on in spring?” You can also turn a regular prescription into a one-tap routine afterwards, which is covered in one-tap routines.
A word on originals: the photographs stay on your phone, so the entry is a convenient index to pages you can open again. The copy sent for reading is downscaled, with the long edge kept at up to 1,536 pixels for documents against about 640 for food photos. That figure is the reading service’s own ceiling for how much detail it uses, so sending more would not help.
What happens to privacy when I scan a document?
Medical paper is among the most personal things you will put in any app, so the flow is worth stating precisely. Your log lives on your phone. To read a page, a downscaled copy of the image is sent to an AI model, with no name, email or account attached, and nothing is kept on Sayved’s servers. There is no Sayved account to link it to.
Inside the app, entries in the health and medication categories are treated as sensitive. They stay off the home-screen widget and lock-screen notifications. When you export your log, you are asked every time whether to include them, and the safe option leaves them out. See export your health data for the details.
What should I photograph, and how?
A few habits make the pages read better, and none of them need special equipment. Lay the page flat on a plain surface in daylight, not under a lamp that throws glare across the paper. Hold the phone parallel to the page so the lines stay straight, and fill the frame without cutting off the edges. If a page is folded, press it flat with your hand and keep your fingers out of the text. For a double-sided sheet, photograph both sides and include them in the same pick, so they stay together.
Documents that work well include a lab report, a prescription slip, an appointment letter, a vaccination card, a discharge summary and the leaflet from a medicine box. If you need the document to count as an official copy, keep the paper.
You can add your own words to the record afterwards by editing the entry, for example noting which condition it relates to or what the doctor said, so the page and your own context sit in one place.
How do I use scanned documents at an appointment?
Three ways, none of which require you to dig through a camera roll:
- Ask. “When was my last cholesterol test?” is answered from your own entries, and only the rows needed are sent.
- Tag. Attach a scan to a condition, such as a thyroid letter to the condition you named, and it appears whenever you pull that condition out. See the condition tracker.
- Report. Include the document’s entry in a dated report for your doctor. The doctor visit report lists everything in your chosen range, day by day, and a scanned document is one of those entries.
If the trial has ended, saved documents remain readable, searchable and exportable at no cost. Only reading new pages needs Pro, at $2.99 a month after 14 days free.