Comparison

PainFlow vs Hermly

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

Head to head
About

PainFlow

Features
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Living with chronic pain can make every day unpredictable. PainFlow helps you track pain, mood, and energy, notice patterns over time, and plan your day around how you actually feel. PainFlow is a gentle daily companion for people living with chronic pain. It offers practical self-regulation tools for difficult moments without replacing medical care, therapy, diagnosis, or treatment. What you can do with PainFlow โ€ข Track pain, mood, energy, gratitude, and daily notes โ€ข Review your history and simple statistics โ€ข Notice changes and patterns over time โ€ข Create a personal support plan โ€ข Practice energy pacing and explore spoon theory โ€ข Use breathing, grounding, and body awareness practices โ€ข Move through an anxiety wave step by step โ€ข Explore exercises such as circle of control and body connection Support during pain flare-ups When pain feels overwhelming, use the always-free self-help section with gentle audio support and grounding tools. Privacy PainFlow does not connect to Apple Health or other external health services. PainFlow does not sell your data. Access PainFlow includes a 14-day free trial of all features. After the trial, full access is available through a monthly or yearly subscription. The self-help section for pain flare-ups remains free. Important information PainFlow provides general wellbeing and self-regulation support. It is not medical advice and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your symptoms, medication, treatment decisions, or urgent health concerns. If you need urgent help, contact your local emergency services. Privacy Policy: https://www.painflow.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.painflow.app/terms

About

Hermly

Features
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A quiet migraine companion for iPhone. Hermly reads the signals you already collect in Apple Health โ€” sleep, heart rate variability, cycle, the weather around you โ€” and looks for patterns in the days before your attacks. Over time, it learns what tends to precede yours. So you can act earlier, and bring something useful to your next doctor visit. Built for women living with chronic or menstrual migraine. Designed for iPhone and the small moments when an attack starts. WHAT YOU GET Today's risk A single number on your home screen, based on patterns from your own past. No alarms. No red. Reverse insight In the first minute of setup, Hermly looks at the last 90 days of your Apple Health and proposes days that may have been attacks. You confirm what's true. Your baseline starts there. Attack Mode When a migraine begins, one tap turns on a Live Activity, dims your screen, enables a quiet Focus, and starts a timer. End it when you can. Hermly logs everything for later. Cycle awareness If your migraines cluster around your period, Hermly shows you when, in plain numbers. No assumptions, no advice โ€” your data, your decisions. Doctor Report A structured PDF of your last 30 days for your neurologist. Frequency, trigger correlations, medication overview, topics worth discussing. Evidence Report A longer-window dossier โ€” 6, 12, or 24 months โ€” for disability claims, insurance, or workplace accommodations. PRIVACY Your health data never leaves your iPhone. Hermly does not run a server-side database of your migraines, your pain levels, your medications, or your cycle. The only thing kept on our servers is your subscription status, tied to an anonymous transaction ID โ€” not to your name or email. Optional iCloud sync uses your iCloud Keychain for end-to-end encryption. We cannot read it. No ads. No data sale. ## NO MEDICAL CLAIMS Hermly is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent migraine. It is a personal health tracker that helps you see patterns in your own data and share them, on your terms, with the people who help you. ## Support & Feedback: Questions? Suggestions? We're here for you at support@hermly.app ## Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

PainFlow4 screens
Hermly4 screens

Verdict

The call

PainFlow and Hermly are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. PainFlow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Hermly sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $49.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
PainFlow versus Hermly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPainFlowHermly
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size25 MB10 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperKyrylo Yarovyiๅฐฑๆดช ้‚“

In-app purchases

2 purchases

PainFlow

Subscriptions2
  • Subscription14 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Subscription14 Days trial$34.991 Year
1 purchases

Hermly

Subscriptions1
  • Hermly Pro โ€” Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is PainFlow free?
PainFlow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hermly free?
Hermly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PainFlow or Hermly have ads?
Neither PainFlow nor Hermly shows ads.

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