MigrainePulse Tracker vs PainTrail

MigrainePulse Tracker helps you record migraine and headache episodes with the details that matter to your journal: your own trigger wording, severity, duration, pain location, and notes. Log privately in the moment, review your complete saved history on a real monthly episode calendar, and select any marked date to revisit its entries. The calendar marks only dates with saved episodes; an unmarked date does not represent a pain-free record. The saved-entry severity trend plots one dot for every saved episode in chronological order. It adds no points for dates without entries and preserves multiple entries from the same day. All-time entry summaries show counts, averages, and transparent trigger associations such as “Weather front • 3 of 6 tagged entries.” Small samples are clearly qualified, and every summary reflects only the entries you save for personal review. No account is required, and there are no ads, external analytics, or network dependencies. Your entries stay local on device, with optional Apple Health writes for new entries: headache severity and duration only after you connect it in Settings. The first release is free and focused on a private, local migraine journal.

Living with chronic pain means remembering details your doctor needs — right when you're least able to. PainTrail is a private, calm way to log pain, symptoms, and medications as life happens, so you walk into every appointment with the full picture instead of scattered notes and guesswork. PainTrail is a calm, structured place to record pain as life happens. Log where you feel pain, rate the intensity, add context, and include a note only when it helps. Review a dated history by day, week, month, or all time so the details do not have to live in scattered notes—or in memory alone. WHAT YOU CAN RECORD • Pain location and 0–10 intensity • Context such as sleep, stress, activity, weather, and medication taken • Optional notes • Medication name, dose as entered, time, and notes • Questions for an upcoming visit REVIEW YOUR OWN HISTORY See daily entries, simple trends, common locations, and descriptive observations based only on what you entered. PainTrail may flag a logged day whose average pain is at least two points above the selected period's average. This is a descriptive comparison, not a medical assessment. PainTrail does not diagnose causes or recommend care. PREPARE A USER-ENTERED SUMMARY Create a PDF with pain averages and peaks, locations, context, and medication records for the selected date range. Questions saved for an upcoming visit remain in the app and are not included in the PDF. PRIVATE, WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Your records are stored in local app storage. PainTrail has no product account, backend server, advertising, or analytics integration. Files leave local app storage only when you choose to share a PDF or manually export a JSON backup. FREE • Unlimited pain and medication logging • Day, week, month, and all-time history and summary views • PDF exports up to 30 days • Manual JSON backup and restore for pain check-ins and medication records PAINTRAIL PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE • PDF ranges longer than 30 days • Optional free-text notes in PDF exports • Descriptive tag comparisons PainTrail is intended for personal tracking and informational purposes. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment recommendations, medication guidance, or emergency support. Consult a qualified healthcare professional about medical decisions.