Migraine Insight vs MigraineCast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Symptom and trigger tracking
- Medication logging
- Automated data integration (weather, workouts, sleep)
- Customizable tracking options
- Pattern finder for triggers
- HealthKit integration
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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/
MigraineCast
This app forecasts migraine risk based on local weather conditions like barometric pressure, temperature, and humidity. It allows users to log symptoms and triggers, identify patterns, and receive personalized suggestions to prepare for potential migraine attacks.
- Migraine risk forecast
- Barometric pressure tracking
- Symptom and trigger logging
- Pattern identification
- Home screen widget
- Trigger Guide library
- Weather Lab historical data
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Understand your migraines. Anticipate higher-risk periods. Feel more prepared. MigraineCast combines weather forecasts, migraine tracking, optional Apple Health signals, and personal insights. Log symptoms, triggers, medications, severity, notes, stress, hydration, outcomes, migraine-free days, and local weather context; log hands-free with Siri. UNDERSTAND YOUR MIGRAINES Find recurring patterns and explore whether pressure, sleep, humidity, cycle context, stress, or other signals appear around migraine days. Compare suspected causes with your history. YOUR RISK, WITH MORE CONTEXT See pressure, temperature, humidity, and wind changes; optional Apple Health sleep, heart-rate variability (HRV), resting heart rate, and menstrual-flow context; plus your logged stress, hydration, and cycle context. Personal associations become clearer as you log migraine and migraine-free days. With enough Apple Health data, Body Strain compares recent sleep, HRV, and resting heart rate with your recent baseline to inform current risk context and selected near-term forecasts. Risk estimates help you notice patterns and prepare; they cannot predict a migraine. PLAN YOUR DAY WITH CONFIDENCE Migraine Safe Day Planner identifies lower-risk times for important activities, with low-, moderate-, and high-risk blocks, support for meetings, travel, workouts, and daily commitments, and recommendations based on your risk context and history. PREVENTION ALERTS Enable notifications for elevated-risk periods, personalized risk context, weather monitoring, early warnings, suggested protective actions, and alerts from available weather, health, and personal-history signals. TRACK WHAT SEEMS TO HELP Review medications that appear most helpful, recorded changes in duration and severity, timing patterns, and confidence that grows as you log outcomes. GET SUPPORT DURING AN ATTACK Emergency Mode provides context-based relief suggestions, medication and hydration reminders, previously successful actions, an active-migraine timer, and a history-based duration estimate when enough attacks are complete. YOUR RISK AT A GLANCE Current risk context, weather forecasts, Home Screen widgets, Apple Watch companion app, trigger and risk monitoring, and insights that develop over time. PREMIUM FEATURES Personal trigger analysis; Migraine Safe Day Planner; prevention alerts; medication-effectiveness insights; duration estimates; monthly PDF reports; Weather Lab; Trigger Radar; 24-hour and 7-day forecasts; menstrual-cycle tracking; protective recommendations; Trigger Library; Siri forecasting and migraine logging. BUILT WITH PRIVACY IN MIND No email sign-up is required. You control optional Location and Apple Health permissions, and health information is never sold or used for advertising. Records stay on your device and may be backed up to Firebase under an anonymous app identifier for restoration. MigraineCast does not upload your complete Apple Health record. MigraineCast is a wellness tool, not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Consult a qualified healthcare professional about medical concerns or treatment decisions. Terms of Use (EULA): [https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/](https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)
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Verdict
Migraine Insight and MigraineCast both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of MigraineCast's written reviews are positive against 69% of Migraine Insight's. MigraineCast also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Migraine Insight's advantage is ratings volume (462 vs 16) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Migraine Insight sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and MigraineCast sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MigraineCast holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Migraine Insight has 462 ratings behind it against 16, 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 100% of MigraineCast's.
Migraine Insight ships an update monthly, MigraineCast weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Migraine Insight | MigraineCast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (462 ratings) | 4.7 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 462 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shiny New App | THIERRY VICTOR E DE BELDER |
Customer experience
Migraine Insight
MigraineCast
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
MigraineCast
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Migraine Insight
- Premium Access$7.991 Month
- Premium Access14 Days trial2 variants$9.991 Month
- Premium Access2 variants$9.991 Month
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- Premium Access14 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Premium Access14 Days trial2 variants$95.991 Year
- Premium Access$95.991 Year
- Premium Access14 Days trial$119.991 Year
MigraineCast
- Weekly Premium3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Monthly Premium$9.991 Month
- Monthly Premium$12.991 Month
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- Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
- Yearly Mid$49.991 Year
- Yearly Mid 7-Day Trial7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Yearly Mid 3-Day Trial3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Yearly Premium3 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Yearly Premium7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Yearly No Trial$59.991 Year
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