Chiari Symptom Tracker vs Cranium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chiari Symptom Tracker
This app allows users to log symptoms related to Chiari malformations, noting their intensity. It automatically records the date and time for each entry, providing a structured way to monitor health.
- Track Chiari malformation symptoms
- Log symptom intensity
- Automatic date and time stamping
- User-friendly interface
- Medical symptom logging
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The Chiari symptom tracker helps track various symptoms for chiari malformations and their intensity. You can select the symptom & intensity with the date and time automatically added.
Cranium
Easily log headache attacks, symptoms, and medication use. Generate clear reports to identify triggers and discuss with your doctor. Integrates with Health app for menstrual cycle correlation.
- Quick attack logging
- Symptom and trigger tracking
- Medication tracking
- Doctor-shareable reports
- Menstrual cycle correlation
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Tracking attacks is quick and easy. Record ongoing attack in just 2 taps. Get clean and comprehensible reports about most frequent headache triggers and symptoms to share with your doctor. Track how much medication you take. Use data about your menstruation cycle from Health app to see how it correlates with you headache.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cranium at 73% against Chiari Symptom Tracker's 0%. Cranium also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (164 vs 6). Chiari Symptom Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cranium holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cranium has 164 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Chiari Symptom Tracker's written reviews are positive against 73% of Cranium's.
Chiari Symptom Tracker ships an update every 9 months, Cranium every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chiari Symptom Tracker | Cranium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (6 ratings) | 4.6 (164 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 73.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 164 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brian Smith | Elena Zhalina |
Customer experience
Chiari Symptom Tracker
Cranium
In-app purchases
Chiari Symptom Tracker
No in-app purchases
Cranium
No in-app purchases
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