Uploading lab results from your computer: what changed
Longetic now accepts lab reports and doctor visit documents uploaded from a computer. Since 12 September 2026 you can sign in at app.longetic.com in any browser, drag in as many files as you like, and Longetic works out what each one is, reads it and files it. The results are in your app a few minutes later, with no sorting and no typing.
Until 12 September there was one way in, and it went through the phone. Everything you had on a laptop had to be moved across first: AirDrop, a cloud drive, a mail to yourself, or a photo of the screen. For one report that is a small annoyance. For eight years of bloodwork sitting in a folder it is the reason the folder stays a folder. Now the folder goes straight to app.longetic.com.
Why your results are sitting on a computer and not in an app
Because that is where they arrive and where people keep them. Laboratory portals are websites, so a downloaded result lands on whatever machine you signed in on. Clinics email PDFs to an inbox. Over the years the collection spreads across a hard drive, a USB stick, a cloud folder and a downloads directory, usually sorted by hand into folders by year or by clinic.
That manual sorting is the part worth noticing. People who keep their medical records are already doing the work: naming files, making folders, keeping the scan of the visit next to the panel from the same week. What they do not have is a way to turn that filing cabinet into a health record, because the filing cabinet lives on a computer and the app lives on a phone, and moving a few hundred files between the two is genuinely painful.
So the collection stays where it is. It is complete, it is organised, and it does nothing, because nothing charts a marker across it and nothing tells you that a number moved.
What happens after you drop the files in
You do not sort anything. Longetic looks at each file, decides on its own whether it is a lab report, a doctor visit document or neither, and handles it accordingly. Lab reports are parsed for biomarker values, visit documents are read for the details of the consultation, and anything that is not a medical document is discarded. A file takes up to three minutes, usually less.
That classification step is the reason bulk upload works at all. You are not asked to tag each file, choose a type or split the folder into two piles first. You select everything you have and let the parser sort it out, which is the only version of this that is realistic when the folder has three hundred files in it.
The document list fills in as files finish, and each entry shows what it turned out to be. A lab report shows how many biomarkers were found in it, which is also the fastest way to see whether a particular laboratory's layout read cleanly. Anything you uploaded by mistake can be deleted from the same list.
Seeing the parsed data itself takes an active subscription, and it is all in the iPhone app: the charts, the trends, the timeline. The browser is the loading dock, not the warehouse.
What Longetic reads out of each document
A lab report gives up its biomarker values with their dates and the laboratory's own reference ranges. A doctor visit document gives up considerably more: the visit and its date, the doctor's name, the hospital, the diagnosis, the symptoms, the recommendations the doctor made, any further tests or procedures suggested, and the date of the next visit.
| Document type | What Longetic pulls out |
|---|---|
| Lab report | Biomarker values, dates, the laboratory's reference ranges |
| Doctor visit | Visit details and date, doctor, hospital, diagnosis, symptoms |
| Doctor visit, continued | Recommendations: further tests, procedures, lifestyle advice, next visit date |
| Anything else | Discarded, it is not a medical document |
Every file also keeps a preview, so the original stays viewable next to what was read out of it. That matters more than it sounds: a recommendation typed into a record is a line of text, and the letter it came from is evidence. Both are worth keeping, and neither is a substitute for the other.
What if the report is in another language?
Language is not a barrier for lab reports. Longetic reads a laboratory report in any language and translates the results, so a panel run in Warsaw, Kyiv or Lisbon lands in the same history as one run at home and charts on the same line. Doctor visit documents are deliberately left in their original language, because a consultation note is a clinical document and a translated one is no longer the document.
The split is intentional. A biomarker is a number with a unit and a reference range, and those travel between languages without losing anything. A doctor's note does not: wording carries meaning that a machine translation quietly rounds off, and if you ever hand that note to another clinician, what they need is the original.
This is the part that matters most if you live between two countries, get tested while travelling, or moved and left a decade of records behind in the old health system. A foreign lab report is not a dead file.
What you can upload, and the only limit
Longetic accepts PNG, PDF, JPEG, WebP, HEIC and HEIF, and the only cap is 15 MB per file. There is no page limit, so a multi page panel or a long discharge summary goes in whole, and there is no limit on how many files you send at once. HEIC and HEIF are there so an iPhone photo uploads without a conversion step, because that is what an iPhone shoots by default.
| Accepted | Limit |
|---|---|
| PDF, PNG, JPEG, WebP, HEIC, HEIF | 15 MB per file, any number of pages, any number of files |
If a scan is refused it is almost always resolution rather than length. Scanning at 200 or 300 dpi instead of the maximum, or saving as PDF rather than as an image, brings a heavy scan back under the cap without losing anything the parser needs.
How to upload lab results from your computer
Open app.longetic.com in any browser, on Windows, macOS or Linux. Sign in with your email and password or with Continue with Apple, or create an account there if you do not have one yet. Drag your files onto the upload area or click to browse, then leave it alone for a few minutes. Open the Longetic app on your iPhone to see what came out.
You can register at app.longetic.com and start uploading before you install anything, which is the sensible order if your archive is on the computer anyway. Same credentials, same account, same record on both surfaces.
A practical note for a big archive: send it in batches rather than all at once, and start with the most recent few years. Recent results are the ones that make a trend line useful immediately, and it is more satisfying to watch a chart appear than to watch a progress indicator.
