Voocie Team · September 24, 2026
- Your pet's health records belong to your pet's family — not to the app storing them. You should be able to export everything, anytime, in a format other apps can read.
- Voocie publishes voocie-record-v1, an open pet health record format. One JSON file holds the pet's entire health story — visits, vaccines, labs, medications, documents, family tree, and more.
- Any app can import it, export to it, or build on it — no license, no permission, no fee. Competing apps are welcome to use it.
Why does data portability matter for pet health records?
Imagine this: you've spent two years building your dog's health record in an app. Every vaccine date, every lab result, every vet visit note — filed and organized. Then the app shuts down. Or raises its price. Or you find something better.
What happens to those records?
With most pet health apps, the answer is: you start over. Your records live inside that app's database in a proprietary format. You might be able to screenshot individual pages or export a basic PDF, but you can't move the structured data — the vaccine schedules, the medication history, the lab values — to another service. The app holds your data hostage, even if it doesn't mean to.
This is the same problem human health records faced for decades before standards like HL7 and FHIR made portability possible. Pet health records deserve the same treatment.
What is voocie-record-v1?
It's an open, documented format for a complete pet health record. One JSON file contains everything:
- Pet identity: species, breed, sex, date of birth, weight, microchip number, insurance details, DNA test IDs
- Timeline events: every visit, lab result, diagnosis, medication, vaccine, allergy, weight check, and note — each with a date and typed payload
- Original documents: the actual PDFs and images your vet sent, with extracted data linked back to the timeline
- Providers: every vet, clinic, and specialist who contributed to the record
- Family tree: relatives, litter history, and hereditary health lines — each citing the animal it refers to
- Foods, memories, and care notes: the daily-life details that matter when a sitter, boarder, or emergency vet needs the full picture
The JSON Schema is published at a stable URL. Any developer can validate a record against it.
How does export work in Voocie?
From any Voocie account, go to the Files tab. You have two options:
- Record only (.json): a single voocie-record-v1 file with all structured data. This is the machine-readable export — the one another app would import.
- Download everything: a full archive containing the JSON record, an offline HTML viewer, and every original document your vets sent. Open the viewer in any browser, no internet required.
There are no export limits. No "premium export" tier. No waiting period. The record is yours; taking it with you is a right, not a feature you pay for.
What makes this different from a PDF export?
A PDF is a picture of your data. A structured JSON export is the data itself.
When you export a PDF, a receiving app would have to read the text off the page, figure out what's a date and what's a medication name, and try to reconstruct the record. It's the digital equivalent of handing someone a photocopy and asking them to re-type it.
A voocie-record-v1 file says: here is the pet's name, here are the vaccines with their exact dates, here is the medication with dose and frequency, here is the lab result with values. A receiving app can import it directly because the structure is already there.
Can other apps actually use this format?
Yes — and they're encouraged to. From the format specification:
"If you build a competing product that imports this format, you have made pet records more portable, and that is the point."
No license required. No permission needed. No fee. Extensions are welcome — new fields use an x_yourapp_* namespace so they don't conflict with the core format.
This is intentional. If every pet health app adopted the same export format, switching apps would be as simple as exporting from one and importing to another. The app that earns your trust keeps you; the data never holds you back.
Why would Voocie make it easy to leave?
Because the alternative is building a cage. And caged data is the reason pet health records are such a mess in the first place — scattered across clinic portals, siloed in apps that don't talk to each other, locked behind accounts you forgot you created.
Voocie's value isn't in trapping your data. It's in the email mechanic — the private @pets.voocie.com address that lets any vet send records directly into your pet's timeline without a portal, without an account, without changing their workflow. That's the hard problem. Keeping a JSON file hostage isn't.
If another app solves the vet-email problem better than Voocie does, you should be able to take your records and go. We'd rather compete on the product than on the lock-in.
What about privacy and security?
The exported file contains everything in your pet's record, including documents with clinic names and dates. Treat it the way you'd treat any health record — don't post it publicly, share it only with people you trust (your vet, an emergency clinic, a new app you're trying).
Voocie's export is always initiated by the account owner. No third party can export your pet's record without your action. The file is generated on demand and delivered to your device — it isn't stored on a public URL.
What this means if you're choosing a pet health app
Before you commit months or years of records to any app, ask one question: Can I get my data out?
Not "can I view it in the app." Not "can I screenshot it." Can you export the actual structured data — vaccines, labs, medications, documents — in a format that another app could read?
If the answer is no, your records are a guest in someone else's house. One pricing change, one shutdown, one terms-of-service update, and you're starting over.
If the answer is yes — and the format is open and documented — your records are truly yours. That's the standard every pet health app should meet. It's the standard Voocie is built on.
FAQ
Is voocie-record-v1 a standard like HL7 or FHIR?
Not yet — it's a single-company open format, not a standards-body specification. But it's published, documented, and free to use. If the veterinary industry adopts a formal interoperability standard in the future, Voocie will support it. Until then, an open format that exists today is better than a perfect standard that doesn't.
What if I want to move to Voocie from another app?
If your current app lets you export records as PDFs, you can upload them to Voocie and the AI will parse them into your timeline. If your current app exports in voocie-record-v1 (or any structured format), the import would be even more seamless. And going forward, every record your vet CCs to your pet's Voocie address arrives automatically — no uploading needed.
Does the export include my original vet documents?
Yes. The "Download everything" option includes every original file (PDFs, images) alongside the structured JSON. The "Record only" export is just the structured data. Both are available anytime from the Files tab.
Is there a cost to export?
No. Export is free, unlimited, and available on every plan — including during the 60-day free trial. Data portability is a right, not an upsell.
Can my vet read a voocie-record-v1 file?
The full archive includes an offline HTML viewer that any vet can open in a browser — no technical knowledge needed. The raw JSON file is designed for app-to-app transfer, but the human-readable viewer makes it accessible to anyone.