🌍 4.5M+ foreign nationals call Germany home🏥 70% report difficulty at medical visits⏱️ 45 minutes wasted per misdirected appointment
For newcomers to Germany

Your medical history,
ready in every language.

BioTrail organizes and translates your records so doctors understand you — and you understand them — from the very first appointment.

See how it works
Free during beta GDPR-first by design Built in Frankfurt
A doctor and patient in conversation in a sunlit Frankfurt clinic
Patient · First visit
"For the first time, my doctor actually understood my history."
The problem

Healthcare shouldn't be lost in translation.

But for millions of newcomers in Germany, it is — at the exact moment they need to be understood the most.

01

Language at the worst moment

When you finally sit across from a doctor, the words you need most are the ones you don't have. Symptoms get misdescribed. Diagnoses get blurred.

02

Lost records, lost time

Your medical history lives in a clinic two countries away — in a language no one here reads. Half of every appointment gets spent on misunderstandings. You leave with a prescription you can't read.

Why BioTrail

Other tools solve fragments. We built the whole thing.

General translators don't understand medical terms. Medical translators are built for clinicians, not patients. Health record apps assume you already know how the system works. We're the first product designed for the person on the patient side of the desk.

Feature BioTrail Translators (Google, iTranslate) Medical translation (Care to Translate) Health record apps
Medical-grade translation
Personal medical wallet
German system explainer
Insurance & cost transparency
Designed for patients, not clinicians
Medical-grade translation
  • BioTrail
  • Translators (Google, iTranslate)
  • Medical translation (Care to Translate)
  • Health record apps
Personal medical wallet
  • BioTrail
  • Translators (Google, iTranslate)
  • Medical translation (Care to Translate)
  • Health record apps
German system explainer
  • BioTrail
  • Translators (Google, iTranslate)
  • Medical translation (Care to Translate)
  • Health record apps
Insurance & cost transparency
  • BioTrail
  • Translators (Google, iTranslate)
  • Medical translation (Care to Translate)
  • Health record apps
Designed for patients, not clinicians
  • BioTrail
  • Translators (Google, iTranslate)
  • Medical translation (Care to Translate)
  • Health record apps
Who BioTrail is for

Built for three kinds of people.

Healthcare in Germany is hard whether you arrived last month or have lived here for years. We built for all of you.

Newcomers

0–5 years in Germany

Immigrants, refugees, expats, international students. You carry medical history from another country, often in another language. You don't yet speak fluent German, let alone medical German. Every appointment is a translation challenge.

Long-term residents

5+ years, still navigating

Conversational German is one thing — explaining a chronic condition or understanding a Befund is another. You often avoid doctors until you have to go.

Family carers

Managing care for others

You coordinate appointments for children, elderly parents, or relatives who depend on you to translate, organise, and remember everything.

How it works

Four things BioTrail does, so you don't have to.

One wallet for your medical life. Built for the way you actually use it — in clinics, in emergencies, on your phone.

01

Translate your records, once.

Upload existing documents — prescriptions, vaccination cards, lab results, surgery notes. BioTrail organises, translates, and stores them in one wallet on your phone. Photograph any Befund and search through everything later.

02

Speak with confidence.

Real-time translation in 20+ languages — Arabic, Turkish, Ukrainian, Farsi, and more. Tap once, place your phone on the desk, both sides hear their language.

03

Understand the system.

Plain-language explainers for Hausarzt vs. Facharzt, Überweisung, AU-Bescheinigung, Notaufnahme — what each means and when you need it. Walk into every appointment knowing what's happening.

04

Know what's covered.

Connect your Krankenkasse and see, in your language, what's covered, what costs extra, and what to expect on each bill. No more bill surprises.

Always with you

Your emergency card. Offline. In every language.

Name, blood type, allergies, current medications — accessible without unlocking your phone, without internet, without an account. If something happens, paramedics see what they need to see, in German.

  • Works without signal
  • Lock-screen accessible
  • Free, for everyone, forever
Plans

Start free. Upgrade when you need more.

Start free. Pick the plan that fits your life — monthly, yearly, or family-shared.

No dark patterns. We only ask you to upgrade at moments where the value is obvious.

Free
€0 forever

Solves the emergency moment. Free, forever, no card.

  • 3 live translations per month
  • 5 medical documents (photo storage)
  • Emergency card — name, blood type, allergies, offline
  • Top 100 medical terms glossary
Most popular
Plus
€6.99 / month

For everyday users. Unlimited translation, full medical wallet.

  • Unlimited live translations in 20+ languages
  • Unlimited document storage with OCR & search
  • AI Befund explainer in your language
  • Krankenkasse integration & cost transparency
  • Appointment prep with symptom diary

Includes 30-day free trial after first 2 weeks of use.

Family
€12.99 / month

For households managing care together — up to 5 members, save ~63% vs individual.

  • Everything in Plus, for up to 5 family members
  • Shared family vault — vaccinations, allergies, prescriptions
  • Parent dashboard for children's records
  • Care coordination for elderly parents
  • Each member uses the app in their language
Pro
€14.99 / month

Maximum support for complex care needs.

  • Everything in Plus, for one person
  • Live video translation for telemedicine
  • 5 free min/month with a certified human medical interpreter
  • AI Health Twin — patterns, risk flags, reminders
  • Priority support, same-day response

Beta launches Q1 2027. Early-access members keep their Plus price for life.

Who's behind this

Five founders. One problem we won't keep ignoring.

BioTrail is built by five founders who've watched friends and family fight to be understood by doctors in a language that wasn't theirs. We've translated prescriptions at kitchen tables. We've seen diagnoses get blurred. We're building the answer that should already exist.

G
Gero Schuler
Co-founder
R
Raunak Malhotra
Co-founder
E
Emelie Möller
Co-founder
J
Julius Wieland
Co-founder
M
Marcel Wissel
Co-founder
Beta launches Q1 2027

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