MassageLab is a local-first toolkit for massage therapists, massage students, educators, and small practices.
The project starts with practical tools that can help in a treatment room or classroom today, then grows toward paid memberships that fund more ambitious infrastructure: compliant storage, practice operations, education, and research workflows.
MassageLab exists to make useful clinical and educational tools accessible without pushing therapists into unsafe data practices. The alpha keeps health-sensitive documentation under the user's control while the project proves its workflows, funding model, and compliance path.
The guiding line is simple: make your skills work for you.
- Chimer: treatment-room interval timer and standalone clock mode.
- Local-first notes: SOAP notes, intake forms, journals, and ROM sessions saved in the browser unless the user exports them.
- Calendar foundation: small-practice scheduling with therapist availability, booking requests, and conflict prevention.
- Anatomime: classroom anatomy game backed by reusable anatomy content.
- Accounts: optional preference sync, role verification, templates, profile defaults, and security settings.
Clinical notes, intake forms, journals, movement data, and other PHI-bearing workflows are not hosted in this alpha.
Free access is the default. Student access is handled inside MassageLab and is not a Stripe subscription.
Paid memberships are being added to fund continued development. The first paid feature gate is Chimer custom colors. Basic Chimer remains free.
Donations and future memberships help fund:
- HIPAA-capable infrastructure and vendor BAAs
- audit logging, access controls, encryption, and backups
- legal, security, and compliance review
- education and practice-management features
- sustainable operating costs
MassageLab is in private alpha. The current priority is release readiness: verify the existing surfaces, keep local-first boundaries intact, resolve dependency alerts, and make the public documentation clearer.
The active planning and progress tracker is docs/project-log.md. The roadmap remains available in docs/roadmap.md, and the preserved working task list is in TODO.md.
Project documentation lives in docs/wiki:
- Project log
- Local development
- Privacy and PHI posture
- Billing and memberships
- Deployment and environment
- Release checklist
- Dependency security notes
See docs/wiki/local-development.md for setup and verification commands.
MassageLab is under active private-alpha development. License and contribution terms should be finalized before wider public contribution.