Autonom vs Migraine Diary Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Autonom
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The autonom-e app can be configured by clinical teams as part of a clinical service, by Universities for research, or used independently through our public-facing applications. Our clinical version of the app is intended for patients registered at a clinical service which has invited them to download the app to manage their condition remotely, complete assessments, and access support resources to improve their health and wellbeing, according to the individual serviceβs purpose. The app may also be used for research studies who register participants onto the app to take part in projects. If you are using the app as part of a service or project, a member of staff will provide users with their login details or instructions on how to sign up for the app. Please contact a member of staff at your service or project team for support if you get stuck. We have two public facing apps as of 2025: 1 Autonom-e+ in collaboration with University of Leeds. This is free to register and comes with an optional subscription service. 2 The ME Clinical Assessment Toolkit in collaboration with ME Association. This is free to register and comes with an optional subscription service. Auto-renewable subscription options for our public apps: 1 month (Β£2.99) duration 1 year (Β£19.99) duration Your subscription will be charged to your Apple App Store account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period Current subscriptions may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your App Store Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://autonom-e.com/legal/privacy-policy/ End User Licence Agreement: https://autonom-e.com/legal/end-user-licence-agreement/
Migraine Diary Plus
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Most migraine diaries ask you to remember what the weather was doing. This one measures it. Log an attack and Migraine Diary records, at that exact moment and from your own position, the barometric pressure and how far it has moved, the geomagnetic storm level, the solar wind, the high-energy proton flux, and how likely the northern lights are where you are standing. You do not have to do anything to make that happen. WHAT YOU LOG β’ Start and end time, pain 0-10, headache type, where it hurts and what it feels like β’ Aura symptoms and how long they lasted β’ Nausea, and sensitivity to light, sound and smell β’ 22 suspected triggers, including work and stress β’ Stress and workload, sleep hours and quality, caffeine, alcohol, water, cycle day β’ Medication taken and whether it helped β’ How much it stopped you, and notes in your own words WHAT IT RECORDS FOR YOU β’ Pressure now, its change over 3, 6 and 24 hours, and the 24-hour peak-to-trough range. The movement is what the research points at, not the number. β’ Temperature, feels-like, humidity, dew point, wind, gusts, rainfall β’ Cloud cover, UV index, daylight hours, PM2.5, PM10, air quality, pollen β’ Kp index now, its 24-hour peak and the forecast ahead β’ Solar wind speed, density and magnetic field β’ Proton flux at 1, 10 and 100 MeV, with a radiation-storm flag β’ Your local aurora probability, overhead and in the poleward sky LOCAL AURORA, NOT A GLOBAL NUMBER Most aurora apps show you the Kp index, which tells you nothing about where you are. This one downloads NOAA's worldwide OVATION grid and asks two questions about your actual position: the chance directly overhead, and the best chance in the band of sky toward the pole. The second is the one that matters, because aurora sits 100-300 km up and can be seen from a long way south of the oval. It also works out where the sun is, so it can tell you the sky is too bright rather than sending you outside at four in the afternoon in June. BUILT TO BE EXPORTED A spreadsheet for you, raw JSON for a clinic that wants it, and a readable summary that goes into the body of an email so your doctor can read it without opening an attachment. Entries are numbered, so "entry 7" means the same attack in every format. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-in. No server. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no third-party code of any kind. Your diary is stored on your iPhone and is never uploaded. The only thing that leaves the phone automatically is your location rounded to about a kilometre, sent to a weather service to fetch the forecast, with nothing attached that says who you are. Refuse location and the app still works - you lose the local weather and local aurora figure, nothing else. FREE FOR 30 DAYS Everything is free to try for 30 days. After that, a single payment of Β£3.99 unlocks logging new attacks for good - not a subscription, and never charged again. Everything you have already logged stays readable, editable and exportable whether you pay or not. Your diary is your medical record and is never held back over a payment. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO It will not tell you what causes your migraines. Showing you that most of your attacks happened on low-Kp days would look like a finding and would almost certainly be wrong, because low-Kp days are simply far more common. Answering that question honestly needs the conditions on the days you were fine as well, and a future version will add them. Until then the app shows you what it recorded and refuses to pretend it is a cause. Not a medical device. It records what you tell it and what public weather and space-weather services report. It does not diagnose anything and is not a substitute for talking to a doctor.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Autonom at 3 against Migraine Diary Plus's 1. Autonom also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Autonom sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Migraine Diary Plus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Autonom | Migraine Diary Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 β better | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elaros | Scicon Systems Ltd |
In-app purchases
Autonom
- Autonom-e Self Reporting$2.991 Month
- Self-Reporting Subscription$2.991 Year
- MEA-CAT Self Reporting$2.991 Month
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- Autonom-e Self Reporting$19.991 Year
- MEA-CAT Self Reporting$19.991 Year
Migraine Diary Plus
- Unlock full access$3.99
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