Concussion Coach vs Junior Headache Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Concussion Coach
This app provides a low-burden, engaging approach to daily healing and self-care after a concussion. It offers education, science-based tools for emotional, cognitive, and physical recovery, and resources to help you manage your well-being and improve relationships.
- Concussion education
- Tools for emotional, cognitive, and physical healing
- Health tracking
- Resources for accessing help
- Guided daily activity plan
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Concussion Coach offers a low-burden and engaging way to build healing and self-care into daily life after a concussion. This app is designed to help you get your needs met, inspire hope and self-compassion, and improve relationships during the recovery process. Concussion Coach provides: * Education about concussion * Science-based tools to facilitate emotional, cognitive, and physical healing * Trackers to help you keep tabs on your health over time * Resources for accessing help * A guided plan that offers bite-sized, curated activities and resources to optimize well-being Concussion Coach can be used as a stand-alone self-care and education tool, or to augment care with a healthcare professional. Concussion Coach was created by the National Center for PTSD.
Junior Headache Journal
This app helps children track headache patterns, identify triggers, and record relief methods. It offers a calming balloon breathing exercise and optional piano music. Users can generate a PDF report to share with a healthcare professional.
- Headache tracking
- Trigger identification
- Relief logging
- Balloon breathing exercise
- Quiet piano music
- PDF report generation
- On-device privacy
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Junior Headache Journal is a simple, kid-friendly tool for noticing headache patterns and taking a quiet moment to reset. Kids can track how their head feels, choose possible triggers, and remember what they tried to feel better. Over time, the app creates an easy-to-read personal report showing common triggers, helpful relief, and average pain. The Junior Headache Journal also includes a gentle balloon breathing exercise and optional quiet piano music for a calm break. A PDF report can be saved and shared with a parent, guardian, or healthcare professional when the user chooses. Privacy comes first: entries stay on the device, and the app has no accounts, ads, analytics, or data collection. Junior Headache Journal is for personal tracking and calming support only. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Talk with a parent, guardian, or healthcare professional about symptoms that worry you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Concussion Coach at 3 against Junior Headache Journal's 1. Concussion Coach also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Concussion Coach against 5.0 for Junior Headache Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Concussion Coach | Junior Headache Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 35 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | Daniel Keselman |
Customer experience
Concussion Coach
Junior Headache Journal
In-app purchases
Concussion Coach
No in-app purchases
Junior Headache Journal
No in-app purchases
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