Headache Calendar vs Cranium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Headache Calendar
Track your headache and migraine episodes to understand their development over time. Gain insights into trends, treatments, and lifestyle changes that may reduce headache frequency and severity. Securely share your data with your clinician for better management.
- Headache and migraine tracking
- Episode development overview
- Trend analysis charts
- Treatment and lifestyle impact exploration
- Secure clinician sharing
- Insight into episode patterns
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The Headache Calendar gives you an overview of your headache and migraine and how it develops over time. Gain full insight into your episodes and share securely with your clinician. The headache charts shows trends for your headaches. Explore how different treatments and lifestyle changes can lead to fewer and milder headaches. The Headache Calendar has been developed by KBB Medic AS, in collaboration with neurologist Andrej Netland Khanevski (Ph.D.) and Vojtech Novotny (Ph.D.) at the Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway and headache specialist Tine Poole (MD) and neurologist Aud Nome Dueland (Ph.D.)
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 in-app purchases: Cranium at none against Headache Calendar's 1. Cranium also leads on ratings volume (166 vs 35). Headache Calendar's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Headache Calendar sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. Cranium asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Headache Calendar against 4.6 for Cranium. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 35 and 166 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of Headache Calendar's written reviews are positive against 73% of Cranium's.
Headache Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, Cranium every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Headache Calendar | Cranium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (35 ratings) — better | 4.6 (166 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | 73.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 35 | 166 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KBB Medic AS | Elena Zhalina |
Customer experience
Headache Calendar
Cranium
In-app purchases
Headache Calendar
- 12 Months7 Days trial$14.991 Year
Cranium
No in-app purchases
