Comparison

Migraine Insight vs Migraine Hack

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Migraine Insight

This app helps you identify headache and migraine triggers by tracking symptoms, medications, and lifestyle factors. It integrates with other health apps to provide powerful analysis, aiding in better care team collaboration and progress.

Highlights
  • Symptom and trigger tracking
  • Medication logging
  • Automated data integration (weather, workouts, sleep)
  • Customizable tracking options
  • Pattern finder for triggers
  • HealthKit integration
Features
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"The absolute best migraine app!" – Dr. Pulde, Harvard Medical School Proven techniques from advanced headache clinics help you easily track the right information, and finally find your real triggers. Find your real triggers in weeks instead of years and make real progress reducing episodes. Finding triggers with this app has helped tens of thousands of users reduce or eliminate migraines. This full-featured headache journal: Helps you track quickly and see a clear log of your data. No endless tracking of questions that aren't relevant to you. Finds your strongest trigger patterns based on the time between your trigger exposures and the start of your symptoms. Helps you have better appointments with the #1 clinical report, according to the 2025 Survey of Clinical Neurologists. Logging is easy and includes quickly tracking time of suspected triggers. Our patent-pending analysis uses your own unique dataset to pinpoint patterns based on the timing of events. Designed by doctors, this app has helped tens of thousands of people identify triggers and finally solve the puzzle of what’s making them sick. Odds are, your doctor told you to find triggers. We built an app that helps you do it. Health, location and barometric pressure auto-logging makes building your log easy. Some triggers take days to appear. Some only show up in combination. Our pattern finder sorts it all out and surfaces patterns that matter most to you. Doctors love our migraine diary reports. You’ll love finally knowing your real triggers. Get started for free today. --- FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS All these great features to help you work better with your care team and make real progress. Full-Featured Journal: ** Easiest. Tracking. Ever. (Get it just for this!) ** Both doctors and patients love our journal. Track anything you want. Record migraines in seconds. Come back later to fill in the details. Automated tracking: Weather and Barometer Workouts Steps Sleep Location (Do certain locations cause you to have more migraines? Our users LOVE this feature.) Fully custom tracking: We don't force you to track things you don't want to track. Pattern Finder: Finally know your real migraine triggers. Your records are there when you need them: Clear records for your care team or at the ER. Make better medication decisions with a clear log of past trials. Integrates with iPhone Health App so you can pull in data you tracked with Fitbit, Oura, Apple Watch and more. If your iPhone tracks it into health, you can bring it into your log in Migraine Insight. CHRONIC MIGRAINE 'PAIN LEVEL TRACKING' MODE The app works great for all headache types. And, for people living with chronic migraine, there's a pain level mode to record pain levels instead of episodes. This is a headache diary with real insights to help you get better faster. Download and start tracking today for free. Terms and Conditions - https://www.migraineinsight.com/tos/ Privacy Policy - https://www.migraineinsight.com/privacy-statement/

About

Migraine Hack

This app provides daily AI-powered forecasts of weather-related migraine triggers, offering insights and effective hacks to help prevent and manage pain. It allows for fast and easy tracking of migraine details without requiring personal data, helping users identify patterns and report to their doctors.

Highlights
  • AI-powered weather trigger forecasts
  • Customizable trigger thresholds
  • Migraine tracking diary
  • Actionable prevention hacks
  • Report generation for doctors
  • Symptom and medication logging
Features
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Daily AI-powered 7-day forecast of weather (storm, temperature, humidity and barometric pressure) related migraine triggers for free, instead of the $69.99 annual fee charged by others. The triggers can also be customized to reflect your specific thresholds. You are always in control of headaches! Many free effective hacks and insights, designed by the best specialists, are included to help prevent and reduce migraine pain. Tracking migraine is fast and easy with simple touches, no personal data needed. It is the best to find patterns faster than ever. Diary highlights: – Record the date and time – Pain duration – Pain types – Intensity – Pain area – Weather – Symptoms – Triggers – Aura – Medications – Relief – Relief score – The worst symptoms. – Place – Affected activities. – Last menstrual – Sleep – Doctor Report to doctor: the most important information for your migraine and headache frequency reduction with your neurologist and headache specialists. Actions & Insights: many free and effective hacks to understand and manage migraines are included for you to enjoy. A value premium package with advanced features such as actionable methods for fast and long last relief, designed by the best specialists, are provided to take the effectiveness of your migraine fight to the next level.

Screenshots

Migraine Insight4 screens
Migraine Hack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Migraine Insight at 4.5 against Migraine Hack's 2.3. Migraine Insight also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (460 vs 3). Migraine Hack's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 25). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Migraine Insight sells 18 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Migraine Hack asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Migraine Insight holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Migraine Insight has 460 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Migraine Insight's written reviews are positive against 50% of Migraine Hack's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Migraine Insight ships an update monthly, Migraine Hack every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Migraine Insight versus Migraine Hack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMigraine InsightMigraine Hack
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (460 ratings) — better2.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews69.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings460 — better3
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 17 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShiny New AppUMEHEAL Ltd

Customer experience

Migraine Insight

All ratings460 ratings
Positive86.3%
Neutral5.0%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews100 reviews
Positive69.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative27.0%

Migraine Hack

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Migraine Insight

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Inability to log past headaches
  • Incorrect time/date recording
  • Scrolling issues
  • Inconsistent data syncing
  • Crashing on newer updates
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  • Incompatibility with third-party apps

Requested features

7 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Ability to log short-duration headaches
  • Easier way to log past headaches/symptoms
  • Symptom and trigger logging
  • Weather and meal time logging
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  • Ability to express headache progression
  • Customizable pain map for generic symptoms

Migraine Hack

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

18 purchases

Migraine Insight

Subscriptions18
  • Premium Access$4.991 Month
  • Premium Access$6.991 Month
  • Premium Access$7.991 Month
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  • Premium Access14 Days trial3 variants$9.991 Month
  • Premium Access3 variants$9.991 Month
  • Premium Access14 Days trial$13.991 Month
  • Premium Access$19.991 Month
  • Premium Access14 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Premium Access14 Days trial$44.993 Months
  • Premium Access$47.991 Year
  • Premium Access14 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Premium Access$59.991 Year
  • Premium Access$71.991 Year
  • Premium Access$83.991 Year
  • Premium Access14 Days trial2 variants$95.991 Year
  • Premium Access2 variants$95.991 Year
  • Premium Access14 Days trial2 variants$119.991 Year
  • Premium Access$119.991 Year
None

Migraine Hack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Migraine Insight free?
Migraine Insight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Migraine Hack free?
Migraine Hack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Migraine Insight or Migraine Hack?
Migraine Insight is rated higher. Migraine Insight averages 4.5 out of 5 from 460 ratings, while Migraine Hack averages 2.3 from 3 ratings.
Do Migraine Insight or Migraine Hack have ads?
Neither Migraine Insight nor Migraine Hack shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Migraine Insight or Migraine Hack?
Migraine Insight ships an update monthly, and Migraine Hack every 17 months. Most recently, Migraine Insight was updated on October 17, 2026 and Migraine Hack on October 16, 2026.

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