Comparison

Migraine Brief vs Alison

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

Head to head
About

Migraine Brief

Easily log migraine details like duration, severity, triggers, and medications. Generate AI-powered summaries for doctor visits to ensure you're prepared and make the most of your appointments. Understand your patterns to make better health decisions.

Highlights
  • Fast episode logging
  • Track medications
  • AI-generated visit briefs
  • Understand migraine patterns
  • Secure and private data
  • Distraction-free interface
Features
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Migraine Brief Migraines don't just hurt — they cost you. Hours lost, appointments rushed, and the frustrating moment when your neurologist asks "how have your migraines been?" and you can't remember. Migraine Brief changes that. Log episodes in seconds Capture what matters — duration, severity, location, triggers, and medications taken — while it's still fresh. No complex forms, no friction. Track your medications Manage your acute and preventive medications in one place. Know what you're taking, when you started, and how it's fitting into your overall picture. AI-generated visit briefs Before your next appointment, generate a clear, structured summary of your recent migraine history. Patterns, frequency, medication use — organized the way your doctor thinks, not the way a spreadsheet does. Walk in prepared. Use your appointment time on decisions, not recapping. Understand your patterns See your migraine frequency over time, which medications you reach for most, and how your episodes trend — insight that helps you and your clinician make better decisions together. Built for real life - Fast episode logging — done in under a minute - Secure, private — your data stays yours - Clean, distraction-free interface designed for people who are often in pain when they need to use it Whether you see a neurologist monthly or yearly, Migraine Brief makes sure you never waste another appointment trying to remember.

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

Migraine Brief4 screens
Alison4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Migraine Brief at none against Alison's 1. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Alison sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Migraine Brief asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Migraine Brief versus Alison: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMigraine BriefAlison
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB16 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperAibillity LLCPaturious Grey

Customer experience

Migraine Brief

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

Alison

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

In-app purchases

None

Migraine Brief

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Alison

Subscriptions1
  • Keep Monthly1 Month trial$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Migraine Brief free?
Migraine Brief is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Alison free?
Alison is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Migraine Brief or Alison?
Migraine Brief and Alison are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Migraine Brief or Alison have ads?
Neither Migraine Brief nor Alison shows ads.

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