Migraine Insight vs Postdrome
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/
Postdrome
This app tracks complex migraine symptoms that don't fit a typical attack model. It offers continuous symptom logging, a simplified mode for severe episodes, and detailed analysis of triggers and medication effectiveness. Generate doctor's reports and sync with Apple Health.
- Continuous symptom timeline with intensity logging
- Simplified mode for severe migraine episodes
- Trigger analysis and pattern identification
- Medication effectiveness tracking
- Generate verifiable doctor's reports
- Apple Health integration (read/write)
- Import from other migraine trackers
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The migraine tracker for people whose symptoms don't fit the "one attack" model. If your migraines aren't a clean start-and-end. If you have something most days. If you're vestibular and never know if you're "having an attack." If your worst part is the postdrome days after the headache lifts. postdrome is built for you. WHAT'S DIFFERENT • Continuous-symptom timeline. Intensity 0 to 10 over rolling time. Episodic-attack overlay if you want one. Both modes coexist. • A mode for the worst moments. When the worst hits, the screen goes black, the buttons get huge, and you can talk instead of type. Brightness drops the moment you open it. Built for photophobia, nausea, and the kind of brain fog where typing is impossible. • Triggers, surfaced. Once you've logged enough, postdrome shows you the patterns: time of day, day of week, what symptoms tend to come together. Free, day one. Honest when there isn't enough data yet. • Is your medication actually working? Did your rescue kick in fast enough? Did taking it earlier help? Is your $700-a-month biologic doing anything? postdrome answers all three: by medication, by attempt, over time. Built around the modern landscape (Nurtec, Aimovig, Ajovy, Emgality, Vyepti, Qulipta, Ubrelvy). • A doctor's report you can hand over. One-page PDF, free. Every report carries a verification code anyone can confirm at postdrome.app/verify. Your doctor, insurer, or disability reviewer drops the PDF on the verify page. The site recomputes the hash and validates the cryptographic signature, all in their browser, without postdrome's servers ever seeing the document content. • Apple Health, both directions. Reads 17+ symptom types you've already logged in the Health app: Headache, Dizziness, Nausea, Fatigue, MoodChanges, MemoryLapse, MenstrualFlow, and more. Day one of using postdrome you see your existing health data already on the timeline. • Your history comes with you. Lossless import from Migraine Buddy, Bearable, and Apple Health. Years of effort on another tracker don't get stranded. • Clinical instruments. MIDAS and HIT-6 questionnaires for tracking disability over time. ICHD-3 chronic-migraine threshold check and medication-overuse-headache (MOH) flag in every doctor's report. NO SUBSCRIPTION, EVER postdrome is free for everything that answers a question, including the doctor's report PDF. There's a one-time $14.99 purchase if you want the Apple Watch app, cross-device sync (iPhone and iPad), and the formal export templates (insurance prior authorization, disability claim SSDI/FMLA). Pay once, own forever. No ads. No data sales. No hidden tier. YOUR HEALTH DATA STAYS IN YOUR ICLOUD postdrome doesn't store your health data on our servers. Your symptom logs, medications, and voice memos live on your device, and (with Pro) sync via your own iCloud, never through us. Voice memos are transcribed on-device only. Sign in with Apple is the only auth provider; hide-my-email is fully supported. The first 7 days of any install need no account at all. postdrome is a self-tracking tool, not a medical device. We are not your healthcare provider. Nothing in the app is medical advice. If you have a sudden severe headache or other neurological emergency symptoms, call your doctor or seek emergency care. Built by SailQuery LLC. Maryland, USA. Email support@sailquery.com. We read every email. Privacy policy: https://postdrome.app/legal/privacy Terms of use: https://postdrome.app/legal/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Postdrome at 5.0 against Migraine Insight's 4.5. Postdrome also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). Migraine Insight's advantage is ratings volume (460 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Postdrome sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Postdrome holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Migraine Insight has 460 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Migraine Insight ships an update monthly, Postdrome every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Migraine Insight | Postdrome |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (460 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 460 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Shiny New App | SailQuery LLC |
Customer experience
Migraine Insight
Postdrome
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
Postdrome
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
Postdrome
- postdrome Pro (lifetime)$14.99
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