Comparison

MigraInsight vs Alison

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

Head to head
About

MigraInsight

Features
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Track migraines and headache episodes easily, spot patterns faster, and keep your history organized with MigraInsight. Whether you are managing occasional headaches or chronic migraines, MigraInsight helps you log episodes quickly and understand how things are changing over time. With MigraInsight, you can: • Log current or past migraine episodes in seconds • Track frequency, duration, intensity, pain location, triggers, notes, and medication • Follow ongoing episodes with Live Activities support • Review your history in a clean journal and calendar view • Explore insights across daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly trends • Export and import your data with CSV support • Keep your data private, with local storage and optional iCloud sync across your Apple devices • Use Apple Health integration for an even more connected tracking experience MigraInsight Pro includes: • Premium themes • Weather snapshots for eligible new entries, including pressure and weather context • Weather-based insights • Doctor Report PDF export for clinician-friendly summaries Weather snapshots are captured only for eligible new entries when location access is available. Older logs and manually added past episodes do not include historical weather data. Built with SwiftUI, MigraInsight is lightweight, intuitive, and designed to feel calm, private, and easy to use. There are no ads, no required accounts, and no unnecessary clutter, just a focused migraine journal that helps you stay consistent. MigraInsight is free to use, with MigraInsight Pro available as a one-time upgrade.

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

MigraInsight4 screens
Alison4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Alison at 4 against MigraInsight's 2. Alison also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MigraInsight sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Alison sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MigraInsight ships an update every 10 days, Alison weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
MigraInsight versus Alison: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMigraInsightAlison
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB16 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperBogdan CateriniucPaturious Grey

In-app purchases

5 purchases

MigraInsight

One-time5
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Unlock Premium Themes$1.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
Show 2 more
  • MigraInsight Pro$4.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
1 purchases

Alison

Subscriptions1
  • Keep Monthly1 Month trial$0.991 Month

Questions

Is MigraInsight free?
MigraInsight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Alison free?
Alison is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MigraInsight or Alison have ads?
Neither MigraInsight nor Alison shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MigraInsight or Alison?
MigraInsight ships an update every 10 days, and Alison weekly. Most recently, MigraInsight was updated on October 25, 2026 and Alison on October 25, 2026.

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