5 Open-Source Health Projects to Try for Free —and Support via Kivach

Healthcare isn’t always free, or even accessible in all regions. It happens the same with numerous related apps: they’re available for everyone to download and use, but they’re not free. Luckily, the open-source world also offers solutions in this field, from personal wellness to patient record management —all of them for free. Now, many of these projects depend on donations, sponsorships, or community support to keep moving forward. That is where Kivach comes in. This is an Obyte-based platform to donate cryptocurrency to any GitHub repository, without needing previous registration. Anyone can use it to send and receive crypto donations, and that includes the healthcare projects we’re about to explore. If you find them useful, consider supporting them! Ambys This one could be especially useful for someone with chronic symptoms… and it was created by someone with a chronic disease, indeed. Released in 2025 by ‘StegoBrg’, this self-hosted web app allows its users to track their own health and symptoms over time, including dates, details, and reports. This way, people can organize personal medical information in a private environment. Ambys includes a diary with customized attributes, a medication plan to create a whole history, health reports based on your inputs, private and public notebooks for symptom monitoring, and accounts for multiple users. An Application Programming Interface (API) is also available to integrate with external services. For now, the project is in beta and accepts any kind of contribution via GitHub, from bug reporting to new suggestions. The funding rests entirely with its author and the community, so if you wish to send a tip, you can visit this repo on Kivach. Fasten Health How many hospitals and doctors have you visited? How many medications, tests, and treatments have you passed through? Do you have a registry of all of it, maybe a confusing bunch of papers, or would you just have to rely on your own memory to list this? Well, Fasten Health can help you in this case. Created by Jason Kalatunga and Alex Szilagyi in 2022, this software helps users collect and organize their medical data from different healthcare providers. Designed to integrate with the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) protocol, Fasten can work in at least 52 countries worldwide, including the US, the UK, Germany, Australia, India, Colombia, and more. So, instead of hunting through patient portals one by one, users can import information and view it all in a single dashboard. The platform is self-hosted and designed for personal use and families, privately from their own servers and devices. Authors are planning to add multi-user support, vaccination registries, an AI interface to research your own medical history, and integration with wearables like smartwatches or glucose monitors. The project has a paid version, FastenConnect, available for institutions. However, this personal version is free and only maintained by its developers and community. For monetary contributions, you can donate crypto via Kivach. OpenEMR Released in 2002 by Synitech, OpenEMR is used by professionals and clinics to create electronic health records and offer a medical practice management solution. Likely one of the most popular open-source projects for healthcare, it’s estimated that this software has been installed in more than 15,000 facilities, serving around 90 million patients worldwide. By using OpenEMR, health centers can access features like scheduling, electronic prescribing, medical billing, lab orders, clinical decision rules, patient demographics, patient portals, and reports. All of this is available with HIPAA-friendly access control through secure passwords, in over 30 languages. Anyone can download it and install it on Windows, macOS, or Linux, for free. The project is maintained by its community, and they’re asking for donations to add new features like advanced billing, FHIR integration, cloud offering, and medical devices connectivity. Whether you decide to use this software or simply support the millions of people who rely on it, you can always send a crypto donation via Kivach. Ciyex EHR Similar to OpenEMR, Ciyex was released in 2026 by its own non-profit with a clear mission: “to remove technology barriers for immigrant, uninsured, and underserved communities.” This Electronic Health Records (EHR) platform is especially aimed at community health centers, free clinics, rural providers, and anyone who may need advanced healthcare features at no cost. The software is FHIR native, and it offers clinical documentation, patient management, facility management, scheduling, billing, lab orders and results, patient portals, telehealth, configurable workflows, and AI assistance. Patients own their own data, and the system is HIPAA-compliant and encrypted. Since the project is free to use and run by a foundation, it relies entirely on its community. Donations are welcome and tax-deductible. Every penny is used to improve this tool and create more software for clinics that can’t afford it. If you wish to send them some love in the form of cryptocurrency, use Kivach. Workout Cool Of course, we needed to include a fitness app in this healthy list. Built as a revival of the deceased Workout.lol, Workout Cool was released in 2025 by Mat B. (Snouzy) as a comprehensive fitness coaching platform. It can create personalized workout plans, track your progress, and access a vast exercise database for you to pick according to your preferences. The app can be self-hosted, but it’s also available as a user-friendly website. Anyone can register with a name, email, and password. After this step, you can personalize your exercises by choosing equipment and muscles to work. A list of the most convenient exercises for your goals will appear, including instructions and videos. Users can also check workout programs, personal stats, a leaderboard, and fitness tools like calorie calculator and heart rate zones. Workout Cool is free, but it also offers a premium version with some extra features. That’s a way to support the project for everyone else, if you wish to contribute. The author accepts donations as well, especially to maintain servers and infrastructure. So, you can send him some crypto via Kivach. Send and Receive Crypto on Kivach Supporting an open-source project via Kivach is simple. All it takes is the name of a GitHub repository and a crypto wallet with some funds, such as an Obyte wallet. Paste the repository name into the platform, choose the network, token, and donation amount, then hit "Donate." The process only has one small extra step: the developers need to know the donation is waiting for them. After all, money is hard to collect if nobody knows it has arrived. On the receiving side, things stay easy. The repository owner only needs to complete a free GitHub attestation through a chatbot in the Obyte wallet. It usually takes a few minutes and helps confirm that the right person is claiming the funds. Once verified, the donation becomes available. From there, maintainers can keep the entire amount or pass along a portion to other repositories they appreciate. It’s a nice touch that encourages open-source projects to support one another and helps donations travel further across the community. 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