Migraine JournalA migraine diary that takes under a minute
Log an attack one-handed, in the dark. Migraine Journal records the weather for you and turns months of entries into the four numbers your neurologist actually asks for.
Your journal isn’t stored on a server I control. It stays on your device and syncs through your private iCloud.
Logging and your full history are free forever — Plus adds the pressure forecast, PDF reports and deeper patterns.
- Free to track, forever
- Private — your own iCloud
- No ads, no data selling
- Under a minute to log an attack
Built by one developer for his mom, who had no usable answer when a doctor asked how often her migraines happened.
What it does
Four things, done properly
Logging, your full entry history, basic 30-day stats and exporting your data are free. Plus adds the pressure forecast, monthly summaries, trigger and medication patterns, the doctor-ready PDF report, and all-time trends.
Logging
Finishable during an attack
A dial for severity, a tap for where it hurts, and you’re done. Symptoms, triggers, sleep, stress, medication and how long it ran are all there when you want them, and all optional when you don’t. Log now, add detail tomorrow.
Weather
Pressure recorded for you
The barometric-pressure change over the preceding 24 hours is captured the moment you log, so the reading is pinned to when and where the attack actually started rather than to an approximate time you supply days later. You also get a plain forecast of the days ahead.
Patterns
Correlations, once there’s enough to say
How severity shifts on days with each trigger, and how your attacks line up against falling pressure. Nothing appears until there are enough entries to mean anything, and it’s described as a pattern in your data rather than a cause.
Appointments
A report built for the ten minutes you get
Attack counts, average severity, severity over time, and a clean PDF of your last 30 days. MIDAS and HIT-6 are built in, so you arrive with a disability score rather than an impression.
Privacy
Your data stays yours
Entries sync through your own private iCloud, not a server I control. I can’t read them, which also means I can’t sell them or lose them. Analytics are anonymous product-usage signals only and never carry health data. Everything exports as JSON whenever you want it.
Read the privacy policy
Paper first
Six free printables
No email, no signup. Print one, or use them alongside the app.
Writing
From the blog
Mostly for the people around someone with migraines — partners, parents, managers.
Alcohol and Migraines: The Same Night or the Next Morning
Red wine is the most-blamed drink and works less than one time in ten. The onset timing is what separates a real trigger from an ordinary hangover.
Exercise and Migraine: Prevention or Trigger?
Both, and the difference is timing. Aerobic exercise reduces migraine days in trials, while exertion during an attack makes it worse — two different things.
Screens and Migraines: It's Probably Not the Blue Light
Flicker and glare have better evidence behind them than blue light does — and unlike blue light, both are things you can change and then test in a fortnight.
Start tracking tonight
Free on iPhone. The first log takes under a minute, and the patterns come later.