PainTrail vs Mirelya
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PainTrail
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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.
Mirelya
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Mirelya is the private journal for your menopause. Two minutes a day to log hot flashes, sleep, mood and symptoms - and finally see what’s really going on. • “I’m having one” button: log a hot flash in one tap, from the widget, Control Center, the Action button, or by saying “Siri, hot flash in Mirelya” • Your daily flower: each petal is a symptom, each ember a hot flash – your month becomes a garden • Guided breathing to help the wave pass • Your nights with Apple Watch: Mirelya reads your sleep from Health, shows when your nights were broken (and whether your heart was racing), and lets you log night sweats in one tap • Prepare for your appointments: note your questions as they come (even with Siri), get a reminder two days before with a summary since your last visit, then note what was decided to follow its effect • Mild, moderate or severe hot flashes, on the scale used in clinical trials: your doctor reads the measures they know • A count of days without a period (the 12-month milestone), and a flag for bleeding worth mentioning to your doctor • 100% private: no account, no server, your journal never leaves your iPhone, Face ID lock, CSV export Mirelya Plus: is your treatment working? Mark the start of HRT, a dose change or cutting out coffee, and Mirelya compares the 4 weeks before with the weeks after, week by week – a result to show your doctor. Describe your day and Mirelya fills in the journal, ask your journal questions in plain language (Apple’s on-device AI, 100% on your iPhone), correlations (alcohol, stress, caffeine…), when your hot flashes happen, 30/90-day trends, a summary written on your iPhone by Apple’s on-device intelligence, and a PDF report to bring to your doctor. Works with iOS 18 and later. “Ask your journal” and the summary written by Apple’s on-device intelligence require iOS 26 and an iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence; on other devices, the summary is offered in a simpler form. Mirelya is not a medical device and does not replace medical advice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Mirelya terms: https://mirelya.duc-dodon.fr/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://mirelya.duc-dodon.fr/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mirelya at daily against PainTrail's every 3 weeks. PainTrail's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. PainTrail sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Mirelya sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PainTrail ships an update every 3 weeks, Mirelya daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PainTrail | Mirelya |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Brito | Matthieu Duc-Dodon |
In-app purchases
PainTrail
- Pro Unlock$9.99
Mirelya
- Mirelya Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
- Mirelya Plus Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Mirelya Pro Lifetime$59.99









