Migraine Journal: Headache Log

Log multiple migraines per day, add custom triggers, track symptoms, medications, and pain levels, and capture entries faster with quick-tap buckets.

Migraine Journal is a calm, private place to track your migraines and figure out what triggers them.

Built for people who have lived with migraine long enough to know that "just write it down" is harder than it sounds — especially when you're in the middle of an episode. Logging takes about 20 seconds. Insights surface only when you have enough data for them to actually mean something.

THE DAILY LOG

Open the app, tap one card, and walk through six quick steps:

• Severity — a soft 0-10 dial that pulses gently when you cross 7 • Pain location — tap a head diagram to mark where it hurts (forehead, temple, behind the eyes, jaw, neck, or "whole head") • Symptoms — aura, nausea, light sensitivity, sound sensitivity, dizziness, fatigue, and others • Triggers — sleep, stress, food, weather, hormonal cycle, screen time, and 9 more • Context — when it started, how long it lasted, what medication you took and whether it helped • Review — a clean summary before saving

You can also log past days by tapping any cell in the 12-week calendar heatmap.

INSIGHTS THAT EARN THEIR PLACE

The Insights tab waits until you have at least three entries before it shows you anything. Then:

• Pain-day rate — what percentage of the last 30 days you logged a migraine • Average severity — across all your entries • Severity over time — a clean line chart • Trigger correlations — for each trigger you log, how much it shifts your migraine severity. Surfaces only correlations strong enough to be worth knowing about.

The point is to find your pattern. Most people with migraine have one. The app's job is to help you see it.

PRIVACY, ACTUALLY

Your data lives in two places: your iPhone and (if you're signed into iCloud) your private iCloud database. That's it.

• No account to create • No analytics SDKs • No advertising SDKs • No third-party sharing • No data ever sent to a developer's server • Works fully offline

You can export everything as JSON from Settings any time. You can delete everything from Settings any time. You can import a previous export to restore your data on a new device. You're never locked in.

SYNC ACROSS YOUR DEVICES

If you use both an iPhone and an iPad — or a Mac in the future — your entries sync automatically through your private iCloud. Apple's CloudKit infrastructure handles the encryption; even Apple can't read the contents. The developer (a real person, not a company) definitely can't.

You can check sync status in Settings → iCloud.

WHAT IT WON'T DO

• It won't diagnose your migraines. That's your doctor's job. • It won't tell you what medication to take. • It won't predict the future. • It won't spam you. There's exactly one optional reminder per day, at whatever time you choose.

DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE MIGRAINES

The visual design is intentionally calm. Soft sage and warm cream, generous spacing, a serif headline, gentle haptics. The kind of interface you can look at when light sensitivity is at its peak.

The flow is intentionally short. Six steps with the option to skip any of them. The whole log takes 20 seconds when you're well, less than a minute when you're not.

FREE, WITH NO CATCH

This is version 0.1 of a one-person project. There are no in-app purchases, no premium tier, no advertising. If a paid tier is added later — which it might — the features available today will remain free for everyone who is using the app now.

QUESTIONS, BUGS, OR FEEDBACK

Email hosam@mhosam.com. One person reads them. I'll reply when I can.