What is a family vaccine tracker app?
A family vaccine tracker app holds one record of every shot each member of a household has had, checked against an official immunization schedule so you can see who is behind. Vaxnext is a family vaccine tracker app for iPhone and Android that keeps that record on the phone: one profile per person, no account, nothing uploaded.
A dose is four things: the vaccine, the date, its number in the series, and an optional note. Vaxnext compares them against the child and adolescent immunization schedule published by the CDC and its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), then marks each vaccine Up to date, Due soon, Overdue or Not yet due. Too thin a record shows an em dash, never a guess.
What Vaxnext does
- One profile per family member, no limit.
- 12 vaccines and 33 doses from the CDC and ACIP child and adolescent schedule, plus yearly flu shots.
- Travel vaccines for 204 destinations, from CDC Travelers’ Health.
- Vaccines you add by name, and reminders that fire offline.
- A JSON export through the phone's share sheet.
What Vaxnext does not do
- No adult immunization schedule: the chart stops at adolescence.
- No lot numbers, clinic names, photos or attachments.
- No PDF export and no printable card.
- No reminder lead time to set: the window is fixed at 60 days.
- No subscription, no in-app purchase, no web version.
Vaxnext is not for an adult who wants a schedule of their own, and it is not a medical device. It shows general information from published schedules and does not replace a healthcare professional: ask a doctor or a pharmacist before any decision about a vaccine.
Which vaccine schedule does Vaxnext follow?
Vaxnext follows the Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule for the United States, published by the CDC with its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The copy inside the app covers 12 vaccines and 33 scheduled doses and was retrieved from the CDC on July 21, 2026, a date the app prints on its Data sources screen.
Seasonal flu is the one entry that expires: Vaxnext counts a flu dose as covering 12 months, so a family member vaccinated last season returns to Due soon. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) publishes its own child schedule; a U.S. pediatrician follows one of the two.
The CDC and ACIP schedule as shipped in Vaxnext| Vaccine | Doses in the Vaxnext schedule |
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| Hepatitis B | 3 |
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| Rotavirus | 2 |
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| Diphtheria–Tetanus–Pertussis | 5 |
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| Haemophilus influenzae b | 4 |
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| Pneumococcus | 4 |
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| Polio | 4 |
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| Measles–Mumps–Rubella | 2 |
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| Chickenpox | 2 |
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| Hepatitis A | 2 |
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| Seasonal flu | 1, renewed every 12 months |
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| Meningococcus ACWY | 2 |
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| HPV | 2 |
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How does Vaxnext handle travel vaccines?
Pick a destination and the family member who is traveling, and Vaxnext lists the vaccines the CDC associates with that country, sorted into three levels. The travel data covers 204 destinations and 11 vaccines and was drawn from CDC Travelers' Health on July 28, 2026.
The three levels, and how many entries each holds across the 204 destinations| Level | What it means | Entries |
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| Required | Proof can be demanded at the border. | 1 |
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| Recommended | The CDC recommends it for most travelers to that destination. | 243 |
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| To consider | Worth raising with a clinician, depending on the trip. | 797 |
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A vaccine already on that person's profile shows as Covered; a missing one joins the profile in a tap. These sets are generated from CDC risk groupings by script rather than reviewed destination by destination by a clinician. The app's Data sources screen names CDC Travelers' Health as their source and tells you to confirm with a physician or a travel clinic before you leave.
