Comparison

Migraine Insight vs Migraine Help

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 Help

This app predicts migraine attacks up to five days in advance by analyzing factors like barometric pressure, sleep, and cycle phase. It automatically identifies potential triggers and generates doctor-ready reports to help you manage and understand your migraines better.

Highlights
  • 5-day migraine forecast
  • Barometric pressure tracking
  • Automatic trigger identification
  • Doctor-ready reports
  • Quick mid-attack logging
  • Adaptable to cycle changes
Features
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Find what's actually driving your attacks — and get the data to prove it. Attacks blur together. There's no clean baseline to compare against, no obvious culprit, and no way to tell whether the wine, the weather, or the bad night of sleep was the one that did it. Most migraine apps are glorified diaries — you log the attack and the data goes nowhere. Migraine Help is a trigger-finding app first. TRIGGERS DON'T HIT ALONE — THEY STACK Rarely is it one thing. It's a pressure drop on top of short sleep on top of a cycle day. Migraine Help tracks how those loads pile up over time and shows which combinations precede your attacks — with honest confidence levels, so you know what's real and what's still a maybe. THE LIST GETS SHORTER, NOT LONGER Every attack is compared against your own non-attack days. That means suspects get cleared, not just added. Test one variable at a time and let the data confirm or rule it out, instead of cutting things out forever on a hunch. BAROMETRIC PRESSURE THAT ACTUALLY HELPS Pressure is the biggest driver for a lot of people. Migraine Help tracks it hour by hour and flags incoming shifts days ahead — proof your body isn't reacting for no reason. DOCTOR-READY REPORTS IN ONE TAP Headache days, identified triggers with confidence levels, hormonal patterns, medication effectiveness — a clean PDF your neurologist can read in 30 seconds. Useful for appointments, and for the documentation preventive treatments require. BUILT FOR THE MIDDLE OF A MIGRAINE One tap from the lock screen opens straight to a pain slider. Log a checkpoint, mark whether meds helped, done. WORKS WITHOUT A CYCLE Menopause, hysterectomy, pregnancy, postpartum, birth control — when cycle data isn't there, the engine leans harder on sleep, heart rate, and pressure. WHAT MIGRAINE HELP TRACKS Trigger correlation with honest confidence levels Trigger stacking and daily load Barometric pressure forecasts — incoming shifts, not just current readings Cycle phase and hormonal patterns Sleep, heart rate, HRV, and wrist temperature via Apple Health Medication effectiveness over time Payment charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in App Store account settings. IMPORTANT Migraine Help is for informational use only and is not a medical device. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your doctor for migraine management. Privacy Policy: https://jacksmengel.github.io/migrainehelp-legal/privacy-policy.html Terms of Service: https://jacksmengel.github.io/migrainehelp-legal/terms-of-service.html

Screenshots

Migraine Insight4 screens
Migraine Help4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Migraine Insight at none against Migraine Help's shown. Migraine Insight also leads on ratings volume (460 vs 81) and device support (4 vs 1). Migraine Help's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Migraine Insight sells 18 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Migraine Help sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Migraine Insight against 4.4 for Migraine Help. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Migraine Insight has 460 ratings behind it against 81, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Migraine Insight's written reviews are positive against 63% of Migraine Help's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Migraine Insight ships an update monthly, Migraine Help every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Migraine Insight versus Migraine Help: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMigraine InsightMigraine Help
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (460 ratings) — better4.4 (81 ratings)
Positive reviews69.0% of reviews — better62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings460 — better81
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB24 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperShiny New AppJack Mengel

Customer experience

Migraine Insight

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

Migraine Help

All ratings81 ratings
Positive84.0%
Neutral7.4%
Negative8.6%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative37.5%

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 Help

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
7 purchases

Migraine Help

Subscriptions6
  • Weekly Discount Price 2$3.997 Days
  • Weekly Discount Price$4.997 Days
  • Weekly$9.997 Days
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  • Monthly3 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Yearly$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Membership$149.99

Questions

Is Migraine Insight free?
Migraine Insight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Migraine Help free?
Migraine Help is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Migraine Insight or Migraine Help?
Migraine Insight is rated higher. Migraine Insight averages 4.5 out of 5 from 460 ratings, while Migraine Help averages 4.4 from 81 ratings.
Do Migraine Insight or Migraine Help have ads?
Migraine Help shows ads; Migraine Insight does not.
Which is updated more often, Migraine Insight or Migraine Help?
Migraine Insight ships an update monthly, and Migraine Help every 4 days. Most recently, Migraine Insight was updated on October 17, 2026 and Migraine Help on October 18, 2026.

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