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Introducing PhysioApp: Building an Open Source Physiotherapy Management App with Kotlin Multiplatform

Manuel AF — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:22:20 +0000

An open-source project exploring privacy-conscious patient management, clinical documentation, and cross-platform development.

Hi DEV Community! 👋

After introducing ConnectApp, our independent open-source initiative, it's time to share one of the projects we're developing: PhysioApp.

PhysioApp is an open-source application designed to explore how physiotherapy professionals and clinics can manage their daily activities through a simple, organized, and privacy-conscious digital experience.

The project is being developed using Kotlin Multiplatform, with a focus on tablet devices, local data management, and reusable software architecture.

Let's take a closer look!

🩺 What is PhysioApp?

Physiotherapy professionals manage more than appointments and treatments.

Their daily work can involve registering patients, organizing professional information, preparing reports, managing administrative records, and protecting sensitive information.

PhysioApp aims to bring several of these activities together in a single application.

Our main goals are:

Make everyday administrative tasks easier to manage.
Provide a clear, tablet-friendly interface.
Reduce unnecessary dependence on external services.
Explore privacy-conscious approaches to storing information.
Share reusable code with the open-source community.

PhysioApp is currently a pre-alpha project, so it is not intended for production use or the processing of real clinical patient data.

💻 What can PhysioApp do?

The current development includes interfaces and workflows for several key activities.

1. Patient management

PhysioApp provides screens for registering and searching patient records.

The registration interface includes identification and contact information, optional notes, and a section intended for data-processing information and consent.

Patient records can be searched using different criteria, including identification documents, names, and email addresses.

2. Professional management

The application also includes professional registration and search capabilities.

These screens are designed to organize information such as professional identification, registration details, and contact information.

3. Clinical reports

PhysioApp provides a workflow for creating reports associated with patients and professionals.

The interface includes fields for report details and the patient's condition, helping organize relevant documentation.

Clinical report workflows and their suitability for real healthcare environments still require further validation.

4. Internal payment records

Administrative work is another part of running a physiotherapy practice.

PhysioApp includes a screen for preparing internal payment receipts, with fields for:

Patient identification.
Service description.
Amount.
Payment status.
PDF export.

These internal receipts are not substitutes for legally required invoices.

5. Security and backups

The settings section includes options for changing passwords, regenerating recovery codes, and creating or restoring backups.

These features reflect our intention to give users greater control over their information.

However, their security and reliability must be verified before any real-world clinical deployment.

🔐 Why privacy matters

Healthcare-related applications handle particularly sensitive information.

At ConnectApp, we believe privacy should be considered during software design, rather than added as an afterthought.

PhysioApp explores a local-first approach, aiming to reduce unnecessary data transmission and external infrastructure dependencies.

But local storage alone does not guarantee security or regulatory compliance.

Before PhysioApp can be considered suitable for professional clinical use, its security mechanisms, data-protection documentation, consent processes, and functionality must undergo appropriate review and testing.

🧩 Why Kotlin Multiplatform?

One of the technical goals of PhysioApp is to explore how Kotlin Multiplatform can support reusable application logic across platforms.

This approach offers interesting opportunities for developers:

Sharing appropriate parts of the application logic.
Organizing code into maintainable components.
Reducing duplication between supported platforms.
Building a foundation that can evolve as requirements change.

PhysioApp is part of our broader goal at ConnectApp: developing applications that are useful in their own right while also providing learning opportunities and reusable code for developers.

🌍 An Open Source initiative

PhysioApp belongs to ConnectApp, an independent initiative created and led by Manuel María Alconchel Fernández.

ConnectApp focuses on building and sharing applications that promote:

🔓 Open-source development.

🔐 Privacy-conscious design.

💻 Reusable and maintainable code.

🤝 Collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Our projects are intended to be distributed under the Apache License 2.0, allowing developers to study, modify, and reuse the code in accordance with the license terms.

🚧 What's next for PhysioApp?

The next steps include further testing, improving workflows, reviewing security-related functionality, and gathering feedback from potential users and developers.

Our goal is to keep improving the project without compromising transparency about its current limitations.

💬 We'd love your feedback!

If you're interested in Kotlin Multiplatform, healthcare-related software design, local-first applications, or open-source architecture, we'd love to hear from you.

What do you think is the biggest challenge when building privacy-conscious applications for healthcare professionals?

Share your thoughts in the comments!

🔗 Explore ConnectApp

🌐 Website: https://www.connectapp.es

💻 GitHub: https://github.com/ManuelAf-ConnectApp

ConnectApp — Open Source Software. Privacy First. Freedom to Build.

PhysioApp is under active development. It has not been validated for clinical production use.

Introducing ConnectApp: Open Source Software, Privacy First, and Freedom to Build

Manuel AF — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:33:02 +0000

Building useful software, sharing the source code, and giving developers the freedom to create.

Hi DEV Community! 👋

Today, I'd like to introduce ConnectApp, an independent open-source initiative focused on building applications that prioritize privacy, transparency, and code reusability.

The idea behind ConnectApp is simple:

What if more applications were designed not only to be used, but also to be understood, modified, and improved by other developers?

That's the philosophy we're building around.

🚀 What is ConnectApp?

ConnectApp is a growing collection of open-source applications released under the Apache License 2.0.

Our goal is to create practical applications that developers can:

Explore to understand how they work.
Use as starting points for their own projects.
Modify and extend to meet different requirements.
Contribute to through GitHub.
Reuse in personal or commercial projects, following the license terms.

We want our repositories to be more than downloadable source code. They should become useful learning resources and foundations for new software.

🔐 Privacy should be part of the architecture

Many modern applications depend heavily on cloud infrastructure and external services, even when those dependencies aren't essential.

At ConnectApp, we believe another approach deserves more attention: local-first software.

Whenever practical, we aim to design applications that store and process information directly on the user's device.

This approach can provide several advantages:

Greater user control over personal information.
Reduced reliance on external infrastructure.
Fewer unnecessary data transfers.
Applications that can offer useful functionality without continuous internet connectivity.

Of course, local storage doesn't automatically guarantee privacy or security. Data protection also depends on implementation details, encryption, access controls, dependencies, and responsible development practices.

Our goal is to make those decisions transparent.

💻 What are we building?

ConnectApp currently focuses on projects such as:

💰 BudgetApp

A budget management application built with Python and PySide6, supporting local SQLite storage and optional remote MySQL connectivity.

It's an example of how desktop application architecture and data management can be explored through reusable source code.

🩺 PhysioApp

A Kotlin Multiplatform project focused on physiotherapy management.

It's an evolving project that explores cross-platform application development and local data management.

💊 MiBotiquinApp

A mobile application concept for managing medication reminders and stock, with a focus on local information management and useful medication-related workflows.

Each project has its own development status, documentation, and technical requirements. They should be evaluated individually rather than assumed to be production-ready.

🧩 More than a collection of repositories

We're also building ConnectApp.es, a bilingual website where developers can discover applications, understand their architecture, read technical articles, and navigate to the relevant GitHub repositories.

The website itself follows a lightweight approach using Astro and statically generated pages.

Our content will cover subjects such as:

Open-source software development.
Local-first architecture and data storage.
Kotlin Multiplatform and Python development.
Application design and maintainability.
Privacy-conscious engineering.
Lessons learned while building real projects.

🤝 Open source should remain accessible

ConnectApp's projects are intended to remain free to access, study, and reuse under their respective licenses.

We believe open-source sustainability should be based on transparent, voluntary support rather than intrusive advertising or unnecessary restrictions.

We also welcome constructive feedback, issue reports, documentation improvements, and code contributions.

🌍 Let's build and learn together

ConnectApp is still growing, and there's plenty to improve, explore, and share.

If you're interested in open-source development, privacy-first applications, software architecture, or learning through real projects, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

What do you value most in an open-source application that you want to use as a foundation for your own project?

Feel free to share your perspective in the comments.

Thanks for reading, and welcome to ConnectApp! 🚀

Explore ConnectApp:

🌐 Website: https://www.connectapp.es

💻 GitHub: https://github.com/ManuelAf-ConnectApp

Open Source Software. Privacy First. Freedom to Build.