Comparison

Relief vs Postdrome

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

Head to head
About

Relief

This app helps you manage migraines and headaches by intelligently tracking your symptoms, identifying potential triggers, and providing personalized insights. Log your experiences easily, receive custom reminders, and visualize your migraine history with interactive reports to gain better control over your health.

Highlights
  • AI-powered trigger detection
  • Personalized migraine insights
  • Simple symptom logging
  • Customizable reminders
  • Visual reports and trends
  • Privacy-focused data storage
Features
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Smarter Tracking. Better Relief. Take control of your migraines with the power of AI. Migraine is your intelligent companion for tracking headaches, identifying triggers, and managing symptoms—all in one simple, beautifully designed app. Key Features: AI-Powered Tracking Automatically detect patterns and potential triggers based on your inputs, symptoms, and environment. Personalized Insights See what causes your migraines and when they’re most likely to occur. Our smart analytics help you make informed lifestyle changes. Simple Logging Log headache intensity, duration, symptoms, medications, weather, sleep, stress, and more with just a few taps. Custom Reminders Never forget to track your pain, take your medication, or stay hydrated with smart, customizable reminders. Visual Reports & Trends Interactive charts show your migraine history and how different factors influence your episodes over time. Privacy First Your health data stays on your device or is securely encrypted—always in your control. Whether you experience chronic migraines or occasional headaches, Migraine helps you understand your body and feel more in control every day. Privacy Policy: https://reliefmigraine.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://reliefmigraine.app/terms

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

Relief4 screens
Postdrome4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Postdrome at 5.0 against Relief's 4.6. Relief's advantage is ratings volume (265 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Relief sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Postdrome sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Postdrome holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Relief has 265 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Relief ships an update weekly, Postdrome every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Relief versus Postdrome: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReliefPostdrome
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (265 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings265 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperExhaloSailQuery LLC

Customer experience

Relief

All ratings258 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive28.8%
Neutral9.6%
Negative61.5%

Postdrome

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

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Relief

Subscriptions6
  • Migraine Premium3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Relief Free Trial3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Relief Free Trial1 Month trial$14.991 Month
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  • Migraine Premiun$29.991 Year
  • Relief Premium$39.991 Year
  • Relief Premium2 Months trial$59.991 Year
1 purchases

Postdrome

One-time1
  • postdrome Pro (lifetime)$14.99

Questions

Is Relief free?
Relief is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Postdrome free?
Postdrome is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Relief or Postdrome?
Postdrome is rated higher. Relief averages 4.6 out of 5 from 265 ratings, while Postdrome averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Relief or Postdrome have ads?
Neither Relief nor Postdrome shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Relief or Postdrome?
Relief ships an update weekly, and Postdrome every 8 days. Most recently, Relief was updated on November 5, 2026 and Postdrome on October 31, 2026.

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