Migraine Insight: Tracker 12+

Finally the perfect tracking app!!

I have migraines and occipital neuralgia. I was using migraine buddy but stopped using it consistently because it just felt like too much. All I really wanted was a simple way to track symptoms that were frequent. Firstly I was so excited to see you can track multiple conditions simply. The user interface is really clean, quick, intuitive, and you can add your own symptoms. You can add notes and put in as much or as little as you want. You don’t have to add the end time for an episode before putting in a new one. You can add new entries for symptoms, triggers or treatments. You can track meds. You can add notes independent of an episode. Truly it’s perfect, you can do as much or as little as you want and they have thought about every little possible feature you may want. And all of this you can do in the free one version which is so incredible.

So far so good.

Most of my headaches are triggered by weather changes, and this was the only app I could find that automatically included weather in the logs. I like that there are many selectable pain points. Quick selection of full areas (for typical headache types - cluster, sinus, tension, would be a nice addition to the individual pain points. Would like to see the barometric pressure included, but perhaps that’s included in the subscription? The only negative is that the monthly subscription cost for pro is so expensive. I’d pay $30-40/year for an app like this, but $10/mo is prohibitive.

Significant updates

This app has been updated very significantly since I last used it, looks rewritten. It does look like a lot of my original complaints have been addressed. I don't see a way to delete this review entirely, so I'm leaving the original text below for context. I'm leaving four stars in case I forget to come back and update the review again after spending more time with the app.

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OLD REVIEW BELOW

The overall design is pretty straightforward, and seems like it'd potentially be helpful, but there are a lot of bugs -- everything from unresponsive buttons, to misinterpreted gestures, to the wrong items being selected, to times being wrong, to scrolling not being correctly matched to finger position. They interfere with use of the app. I'd also like more expressiveness in logging headaches and categorizing non-headaches. For instance, caffeine could be a trigger or a treatment. A headache might come on slowly, and then ramp up in intensity over the course of hours. There isn't currently a clear way to express that kind of information. It'd also be great to have some ability to log weather and meal times (or say, unusual gaps between them).

Developer Response ,

We've made a lot of updates since 2020. And, happy to say a lot of the ideas in this review have been addressed. We now have a lot of ways to track pain that changes over time. For weather and meal times, there is now automated tracking. And, custom triggers so you can more easily track skipped meals or anything you'd like. Thank you for the feedback, James! And, here's hoping you might remove this review or update the rating. Genuine thanks for the ideas. Questions? team@migraineinsight.com