Comparison

Migraine Tracker vs Alison

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

Alison

Track headaches, meals, water, and sleep with this personal journal. It offers observational insights into potential patterns without diagnosing or forecasting. Data remains on your device for privacy.

Highlights
  • Start and stop headache logging
  • Log meals with ingredients
  • Track water and sleep intake
  • Optional Apple Watch integration
  • Read-only Apple Health integration
  • Optional weather data
  • Generate clinic letters
Features
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Alison is a personal headache journal. Headache on? Tap Start. Headache over? Tap Stop. Log meals, water, and sleep as they happen. The journal is what you wrote. Nothing more. Alison is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent migraine or any condition. It does not forecast. Talk to a clinician about symptoms. No account. No ads. No tracking. Your journal stays on your device. Pairs are observational. When the same thing has shown up with three of your migraine days, Alison shows a note. That is what has shown up together. It is not a cause. It is not a forecast. It is not a trigger test. Free download. Keep is a monthly subscription through Apple: 1-month free trial for new subscribers, then $0.99/month (local price varies). For the first 24 hours after you first open Alison, nothing waits on Keep. The journal stays readable without Keep. After the first 24 hours, new Start, Food, and Health pull need Keep. When the trial or Keep ends, those services end. Restore on the Keep screen. Cancel in Apple Subscriptions. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Start and Stop a headache • Log meals with ingredients. Search, scan a barcode, or type. Open Food Facts supplies the ingredients. Not a trigger test. • Log water and sleep. Water in ml or oz: you choose under Units. • Optional Apple Watch: Start and intensity • Optional Apple Health: read-only. Alison reads food, water, sleep, menstrual flow, caffeine, and alcohol, only what you allow on Apple's sheet. Deny and the journal still works. • Optional weather: tap Resample for a pressure and humidity forecast from MET Norway (the Norwegian Meteorological Institute). It is a forecast estimate, not a measurement, and it does not diagnose anything. If the weather feed is unavailable, the journal still works. Deny location and the journal still works. Based on data from MET Norway. Values are grouped and simplified by Alison. • Clinic letter: after 5 episodes, 8 meals, and 7 days, share, copy, or save a PDF of what you logged to hand to your clinician. It restates your log. It is not a diagnosis. WHAT ALISON DOES NOT DO • Diagnose • Forecast a migraine • Give medical advice • Replace a clinician • Show ads • Upload your journal to Night Orders ON YOUR PHONE • Alison has no account and no Alison server. Your journal, food log, symptom entries and photos stay on your device, and we do not collect them. Alison does not sync through iCloud. • We do not sell your data, use it for ads, or track you across apps or sites. • Weather is optional and only runs when you tap Resample, never in the background. Your phone rounds your location to about 11 km (7 miles) and sends it directly to MET Norway in Oslo, Norway. MET Norway receives your IP address with the request, as any web server does. Night Orders Studio LLC does not receive or store your location. • Food lookups send your search text or barcode to Open Food Facts, which sees your network address when called. No journal rows are sent. Details: nightorders.app/privacy-alison.html • Deleting the app deletes the journal on the phone. Support: support@nightorders.app Site: https://nightorders.app Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://nightorders.app/privacy-alison.html

Screenshots

Migraine Tracker4 screens
Alison4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Alison at 5.0 against Migraine Tracker's 4.2. Alison also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 1). Migraine Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Alison sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Migraine Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Alison 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, Alison weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Migraine Tracker versus Alison: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMigraine TrackerAlison
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.315.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB16 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAllsidium ASPaturious Grey

Customer experience

Migraine Tracker

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

Alison

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

In-app purchases

None

Migraine Tracker

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Alison

Subscriptions1
  • Keep Monthly1 Month trial$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Migraine Tracker free?
Migraine Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Alison free?
Alison is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Migraine Tracker or Alison?
Alison is rated higher. Migraine Tracker averages 4.2 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Alison averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Migraine Tracker or Alison have ads?
Neither Migraine Tracker nor Alison shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Migraine Tracker or Alison?
Migraine Tracker ships an update every 2 months, and Alison weekly. Most recently, Migraine Tracker was updated on October 21, 2026 and Alison on October 25, 2026.

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