Wellbeing September 2026

5 apps that keep the clues to feeling off in separate places

The all-in-one symptom tracker asks twenty questions a day and gets abandoned by the second week. These five each keep one clue and nothing else — how you slept, when your head went, whether the dose was taken, where you are in the cycle, and what your heart rate is saying — so the doctor gets a picture instead of a shrug.

The apps that keep the clues to feeling off in separate places are AutoSleep, MigrainePal, Medisafe, Clue and Welltory. I built MigrainePal; the other 4 are other developers’ apps.

MiaAppLog— an iOS developer who reviews other people’s apps
Published September 2026 · apps and prices last checked 6 October 2026

Four stars is my score for how well an app answers this moment. An app I built gets four and a half — that is a rule, not a comparison. The App Store’s own average is on each card beside it.

1. 

   AutoSleep

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · $8.99 · Health & Fitness · App Store 4.7 (61,749)

   AutoSleep tracks sleep from the Apple Watch with no buttons to press — the Watch app is optional. Duration, a sleep bank balance, heart rate and Apple's sleep stages, with no analytics, no ads and no upload. Paid once.

   Skip it if you want a reading you can take at face value: accuracy is the recurring complaint, the charts take learning, and the Lights Off feature does not work for everyone.

   Official site ↗More lists with AutoSleep

   
2. 

   MigrainePal Editor’s pick

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · Free · Health & Fitness · App Store 4.9 (7)

   MigrainePal opens an attack with one tap and the start time; put the phone face-down and add pain level, aura and notes later. The calendar lays weeks and months side by side, in something you can show a neurologist.

   App Store ↗More lists with MigrainePal

   
3. 

   Medisafe

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Medical · App Store 4.7 (101,427)

   Medisafe is the pill reminder, with drug-to-drug interaction warnings and prescriptions imported through Health Records from 100+ US hospital systems. Whether a dose was taken, and when, is the first thing a doctor asks.

   Skip it if you want it to stay a reminder: the premium pop-ups and the health-topic feed are what long-time users are leaving over, and half doses and early doses are awkward.

   Official site ↗More lists with Medisafe

   
4. 

   Clue

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Health & Fitness · App Store 4.8 (405,064)

   Clue predicts periods from your own cycle length and flow, and takes 200+ symptoms to log against them — cramps, energy, mood, skin, sleep — so a bad week can be read against where you were in the cycle. Berlin-based, under GDPR.

   Skip it if you started with it years ago: the free features have been moving behind the subscription, and a recent update removed the custom tags some people used for medical tracking.

   Official site ↗More lists with Clue

   
5. 

   Welltory

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Health & Fitness · App Store 4.7 (133,861)

   Welltory reads heart rate variability from the phone camera or an Apple Watch and turns it into a stress and energy reading. Fatigue and burnout tend to show up here before they show up anywhere else.

   Skip it if you are careful with subscriptions: the auto-charged annual plan and the trial that isn't one are the loudest reviews, and several people found the numbers hard to trust.

   Official site ↗More lists with Welltory

   

MigrainePal is one of mine — everything else on this list is someone else’s app. How that works.