Comparison

Cafactor vs Migraine Tracker & Diary

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

Head to head
About

Cafactor

This app models your body's real-time caffeine levels using a scientific pharmacokinetic approach. It helps you understand your caffeine absorption, decay, and personal sleep thresholds, adapting to your unique biology and activity. Connect with health data for an even smarter metabolic coaching experience.

Highlights
  • Real-time caffeine curve modeling
  • Personalized physiological parameters
  • HealthKit integration for adaptive coaching
  • Exercise and sleep-adaptive thresholds
  • HRV & Recovery integration
  • Progressive calibration of half-life
  • Offline, private tracking
Features
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Caffeine Hourglass is now Cafactor — rebuilt from the ground up. What began as a simple caffeine timer has evolved into a full physiological model that adapts to your biology in real time. Version 2.0 isn't an update. It's a new category of health tool. Know your caffeine. Protect your sleep. Log a drink in seconds. Cafactor computes your real-time caffeine curve using a peer-reviewed pharmacokinetic model — complete with a realistic absorption phase, first-order decay, and your personal biological parameters. See whether you can safely have one more coffee, and exactly when your levels will drop below your personal sleep threshold. Personalised to your body Set your sex, height, weight, and age. Cafactor applies the Boer (1984) lean-body-mass formula to calculate how caffeine distributes in your specific body. Add smoking status, hormonal medication, or pregnancy for a half-life that's truly yours. Your tolerance to caffeine — derived automatically from 7-day history — rounds out the picture. HealthKit: exponentially smarter Connect Apple Health and Cafactor transforms from a tracker into an adaptive metabolic coach: • Exercise modifier — Recent vigorous workouts temporarily speed up your metabolism. Cafactor detects this from HealthKit and adjusts your decay curve automatically. • Sleep-adaptive threshold — Last night's poor sleep tightens your safe window today. Great sleep? More room for your morning ritual. • HRV & Recovery (Apple Watch) — Daily heart-rate variability fuses with sleep quality to create a PhysiologicalState score, shifting your optimal intake windows and adjusting thresholds by up to 40%. • Progressive calibration — Recency-weighted regression over 30 days of sleep and HRV feedback automatically refines your personal half-life, growing from Preliminary to Reliable confidence as data accumulates. Pro features Unlimited history · Trend, sleep quality and scatter charts · Last safe caffeine time · Four smart notifications (morning window, safe window, withdrawal, recovery) · Shareable weekly report · Siri shortcuts · Unlimited custom drinks Free, forever, offline Core tracking is always free. No account. No internet. No data leaves your device — ever.

About

Migraine Tracker & Diary

A private diary for tracking migraines and headaches. Quickly log attacks and symptoms, then add details when you feel better. View patterns, triggers, and medication effectiveness for doctor appointments.

Highlights
  • Two-tap logging for attacks
  • Dark, glare-free interface
  • Symptom and trigger tracking
  • Medication logging and analysis
  • Doctor-ready summary page
  • Calendar view of patterns
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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A calm, private diary for migraine and headache. Log an attack in two taps, then put the phone down. Balm is built for the moment you're in pain: dark, quiet, and fast. Nothing to set up before your next migraine, and nothing asked of you that can wait until you feel better. WHEN IT STARTS • Log a headache or migraine in two taps. Pain and symptoms are optional — add them later. • A calm, dark screen with no glare, made for light-sensitive eyes. • Start from your Lock Screen, a widget, or your Apple Watch. WHEN YOU FEEL BETTER • Add pain level and location, symptoms, triggers, and the medication you took. • Keep your own list of medications and watch your medication days against reference thresholds. FOR YOUR DOCTOR • One clear page for your appointment: headache and migraine days, your MIDAS disability score, medication days against ICHD-3 reference thresholds, and the patterns Balm found. • Export everything as CSV or a backup file whenever you want. SEE YOUR PATTERNS • A calendar of migraine, headache, medication, and clear days. • An air-pressure forecast from Apple Weather, so you can see the pressure behind your attacks. • Balm can show your sleep, heart-rate variability, and cycle from Apple Health beside your entries. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account. No ads. Never sold. • Your diary stays on your phone. Turn on iCloud to sync privately across your own devices. • Balm is a diary, not a medical device. It does not predict, diagnose, or treat. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscription anytime in your iTunes account settings. By using Balm, you agree to our: Privacy Policy: https://appmigrainetracker.web.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://appmigrainetracker.web.app/terms

Screenshots

Cafactor4 screens
Migraine Tracker & Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

Cafactor and Migraine Tracker & Diary are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Cafactor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Migraine Tracker & Diary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cafactor against 5.0 for Migraine Tracker & Diary. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cafactor ships an update weekly, Migraine Tracker & Diary every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Cafactor versus Migraine Tracker & Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCafactorMigraine Tracker & Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNan YuGokce EVREN

Customer experience

Cafactor

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Migraine Tracker & Diary

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cafactor

One-time1
  • Cafactor Pro$3.99
3 purchases

Migraine Tracker & Diary

Subscriptions2
  • Migraine Tracker & Diary$7.991 Month
  • Migraine Tracker & Diary14 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Migraine Tracker & Diary$79.99

Questions

Is Cafactor free?
Cafactor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Migraine Tracker & Diary free?
Migraine Tracker & Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cafactor or Migraine Tracker & Diary?
Cafactor and Migraine Tracker & Diary are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Cafactor or Migraine Tracker & Diary have ads?
Neither Cafactor nor Migraine Tracker & Diary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cafactor or Migraine Tracker & Diary?
Cafactor ships an update weekly, and Migraine Tracker & Diary every 8 days. Most recently, Cafactor was updated on November 5, 2026 and Migraine Tracker & Diary on October 31, 2026.

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