Secure messaging for clinicians.
HippoText is a messaging app for medical practices. Direct messages, group threads, and practice channels, with photos, on iPhone, Android, and the web. Built for the obligations of HIPAA-covered practices by HippoText, LLC.
HippoText is in a limited pilot. New practices join by invitation.
What it does
Practice workspaces
Each practice is its own organization. Administrators invite clinicians by email address. There is no directory and no discovery, so nobody joins a practice they were not invited to.
Direct messages, groups, and channels
One-to-one messages, small team threads, and practice-wide channels, with photo attachments. Conversations are the practice's records and stay with the practice.
Face ID, then nothing to remember
Sign in with a password once. After that the app unlocks with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode, and relocks after fifteen minutes without a touch.
Notifications that say nothing
Push alerts tell you a message is waiting. They never carry the sender, the subject, or the message, so nothing clinical shows on a lock screen.
Security and compliance
HippoText is designed around the duties of a HIPAA business associate. The short version:
- All traffic is encrypted in transit with TLS. Data at rest is encrypted on Google Cloud in the United States, under a Business Associate Agreement with Google.
- Every read and write of protected information is recorded in an append-only audit log.
- Each practice's administrator signs HippoText's Business Associate Agreement before the practice can use the app.
- Photos are stripped of location and camera metadata when they are uploaded.
- No analytics SDKs, no advertising SDKs, no third-party profiling. We never sell data and never use it to train anything.
- Accounts can be deleted from inside the app. Our privacy policy explains what is removed and what stays as the practice's record.
Company
HippoText, LLC was founded in 2026 by a surgeon and a software engineer who wanted practice messaging that is as quick as a text message and as careful as a medical record. The company is based in the United States.
hippotext.dev is our only website, and the HippoText app is our only product. For partnership, pilot, or press inquiries, write to andrew@hippotext.dev.
Contact
- andrew@hippotext.dev
- Support
- hippotext.dev/support
- Privacy policy
- hippotext.dev/privacy