Comparison

Migraine Tracker vs Postdrome

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Migraine Tracker

Easily log and analyze headache and migraine patterns. Use Live Activities, Siri, and Shortcuts for hands-free tracking. Sync data securely with Apple Health to identify triggers and share insights with your doctor.

Highlights
  • Live Activities tracking
  • Hands-free Siri logging
  • Shortcuts automation
  • Symptom and trigger logging
  • Apple Health integration
  • Pattern identification
Features
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Effortless Headache & Migraine Tracking Take control of your headache patterns with ease. Headaches simplifies tracking by using Live Activities on iPhone and Apple Watch, so you never forget to end tracking after an attack subsides. Record headaches hands-free with Siri—no need to navigate your phone during a migraine. With support for Shortcuts, you can create personal shortcuts and automations, making headache and migraine tracking as painless as possible. You can even start or end tracking straight from Control Center. Track every clue and keep it all in one place. Log symptoms and triggers—neck pain, nausea, vertigo, fatigue, even bad-weather days—right alongside each attack, then tap Connect to Apple Health to sync your entries securely to the Health app's Headache category only. From there, you'll see headaches next to sleep, exercise and medications, so spotting patterns (and sharing them with your doctor) is easier than ever. Your history stays with you, too. Attacks, symptoms and notes sync across your devices over iCloud, so nothing is lost when you switch to a new iPhone—and there's nothing to set up.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Migraine Tracker4 screens
Postdrome4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Postdrome at 5.0 against Migraine Tracker's 4.2. Postdrome also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Migraine Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Postdrome sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Migraine Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Postdrome holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Migraine Tracker has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Migraine Tracker ships an update every 2 months, Postdrome every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Migraine Tracker versus Postdrome: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMigraine TrackerPostdrome
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.317.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAllsidium ASSailQuery LLC

Customer experience

Migraine Tracker

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Postdrome

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Migraine Tracker

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Postdrome

One-time1
  • postdrome Pro (lifetime)$14.99

Questions

Is Migraine Tracker free?
Migraine Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Postdrome free?
Postdrome is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Migraine Tracker or Postdrome?
Postdrome is rated higher. Migraine Tracker averages 4.2 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Postdrome averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Migraine Tracker or Postdrome have ads?
Neither Migraine Tracker nor Postdrome shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Migraine Tracker or Postdrome?
Migraine Tracker ships an update every 2 months, and Postdrome every 8 days. Most recently, Migraine Tracker was updated on October 21, 2026 and Postdrome on October 14, 2026.

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