Advoca makes you the expert on your own care
Your personal health companion, built by doctors
Advoca is a health companion app built by NHS doctors. Understand your appointments, track symptoms day to day, receive trusted answers to any health question and contribute to medical research.
“A person's own account of their symptoms leads doctors to the right diagnosis around 80% of the time — more than any scan or test.”
“People given an app to help manage their condition were linked to around a quarter fewer hospital admissions.”
However your care looks, Advoca captures, explains and organises it — all in one place.
- 1Ask anythingChat about a symptom, medication or confusing letter and get clear answers from trusted medical sources.
- 2Track your healthLog symptoms, medications, mood or energy by typing or chatting, and see how you're doing over time.
- 3Plan and record appointmentsPrep your questions beforehand, record the visit, then get a clear summary with the jargon explained.
- 4Join our research communityJoin and use Advoca for free. Help advance medical research and get paid for it — anonymised, and always your choice.
Ask anything about your health — and trust the answer
One chat connects to everything in your account, so you can ask anything — from "what did my doctor mean?" to "is this symptom worth worrying about?" Answers come from trusted, verified sources, and every one shows its citations.
- Trusted information from charities and patient sites — no more second-guessing Dr Google
- Knows your whole record — and shows which sources it drew on for each answer
See how you're really doing, between appointments
Log symptoms, medications, mood or results just by typing or chatting. Advoca keeps it in one simple journal, shows how things change over time, and turns it into a clear report for your doctor.
- Track symptoms and results by chatting — Advoca surfaces the trends
- Turn weeks of entries into a clear summary for your care team
Walk in prepared, walk out with a clear record
Plan your notes beforehand, record the conversation on the day, and get a clear, sectioned summary afterwards — key points, next steps and any jargon explained. Share with loved ones and carers to keep them up to date.
- Records reliably, even offline — with the full recording and transcript saved for you to check
- Easily share summaries with loved one and carers to keep them informed
Help advance research into conditions like yours — and get rewarded for it
Join our research community and use Advoca for free. Share your data — fully anonymised — to help advance research into conditions like yours. Use the app as normal, and when you're matched to a study, you share in the reward.
- Fully anonymised — your identity can never be traced, and you can opt out any time
- Earn rewards when your anonymised data supports research — double rewards for premium members
Whatever you're facing, Advoca is built for it.
From a new diagnosis to a long-term condition you've managed for years, Advoca meets you where you are. Find the page built for your situation.
Your health data is sensitive. We treat it that way.
Advoca is built by doctors to protect both your privacy and your safety — fully GDPR compliant for every user, wherever you are.
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Fully GDPR compliantUK & EUEncrypted end to end
Encrypted in transit and stored on encrypted servers in the UK and EU.
Audio isn't kept
Recordings stay on your own device — audio is never uploaded to our servers.
No personal details needed
No name or identifying details needed to use Advoca.
You own your data
Export or delete it anytime — and we never sell it to advertisers.
Clinically validated
Tested on 1,000+ appointment transcripts and reviewed by NHS doctors.
Built for the US & UK
Fully GDPR compliant, HIPAA Aligned and compliant with state data protection laws.
Advoca helps you record, understand and organise your care. It isnot a substitute for professional medical advice, and it does not diagnose conditions or make treatment decisions — always speak to a qualified healthcare professional.
Advoca's assistant transcribes, summarises and explains your health information, grounded in trusted medical sources and overseen by our clinical team. It does not diagnose or replace your doctor — and, like any AI, it can occasionally get things wrong, so we always show you the sources and full transcript behind its answers.
Built by two doctors who saw the problem from both sides.
Dr Shyam Dhokia and Dr Michael Trueman met as doctors on the wards in Newcastle, UK. They saw how much patients wanted to understand and take charge of their own care — and how little the system gave them to do it: information delivered fast, in jargon, in a stressful few minutes, with no easy way to take any of it home. They watched their own families run into the same wall.
The problem was never the patient — it was that no one ever handed you the tools to stay on top of your own health. After moving from the wards into healthtech — Shyam building medical AI, Michael building AI scribes for doctors — they built Advoca to change that: a doctor-built companion that captures, explains and organises your care, so you can be the expert.
“This app has been acting almost like a virtual counsellor as it's piecing together my medical journey and explaining it in a way that no other doctor has… Knowing this is helping me to process and understand the trauma I have felt from not understanding or knowing truly what had happened.”
Your questions, answered
Is Advoca free?
Yes — everything you need to record, understand and manage your care is free when you join our research community. Joining means letting us share your fully anonymised data to help advance research into conditions like yours; you use the app exactly as normal, and when your data is matched to a study, you share in the reward. You can opt out at any time. If you'd rather not take part, our optional premium tier gives you full access without joining, and also unlocks extra features like research-paper search.
How does the research community work?
You use Advoca exactly as normal, and your data — always fully anonymised, so your identity can never be traced — helps advance medical research into conditions like yours. When your anonymised data is matched to a study, you share in the reward, paid out as vouchers or money. Free members join the research community as part of using Advoca for free; premium members can choose whether to opt in, and earn double rewards if they do. Either way, you can opt out at any time.
Is my data safe? Does Advoca store my recordings?
Yes. Your data is encrypted and stored on servers in the UK and EU, and you don't need to share any identifying details to use Advoca. Appointment recordings stay on your own device — the audio is never uploaded to our servers.
Will my doctor mind if I record our appointment?
In the UK and EU, medical bodies and GPDR support patients' rights to record their own appointments for personal use — you should still ask and let everyone know. In some US states everyone present needs to consent to a recording, so it's good practice to ask first: “Do you mind if I record this so I remember it?” is all it takes.
Does Advoca replace my doctor?
No. Advoca supports your care — it never replaces it. It helps you remember, understand and organise what your healthcare team tells you, but it does not diagnose or make treatment decisions. Always follow the advice of a qualified professional.
How does the AI work, and how accurate is it?
Advoca's assistant transcribes your appointments, summarises them and answers questions using trusted medical sources rather than the open internet. It's built and overseen by doctors and has been tested on 1,000+ appointment transcripts. Like any AI it isn't perfect, so we show you the sources and full transcript behind every answer, and always recommend checking important details with your clinician.
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