Wellbeing October 2026

5 apps for people who get migraines

A migraine rarely has one cause; it is the weather, the night’s sleep, the water and the coffee lining up on the same day. These five each keep track of one of those — the pressure drop coming, the attack itself and what came before it, how much you drank, how you slept, and how much caffeine is still in you — so the pattern shows up on paper rather than in hindsight.

The apps for people who get migraines are Barometric Pressure Today, MigrainePal, Water tracker Waterllama, AutoSleep and HiCoffee. I built MigrainePal; the other 4 are other developers’ apps.

MiaAppLog— an iOS developer who reviews other people’s apps
Published October 2026 · apps and prices last checked 13 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. 

   Barometric Pressure Today

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Weather · App Store 4.7 (186)

   See pressure drops coming in the forecast, hours ahead.

   Official site ↗More lists with Barometric Pressure Today

   
2. 

   MigrainePal Editor’s pick

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

   Log an attack in one tap, then see which triggers line up with it.

   App Store ↗More lists with MigrainePal

   
3. 

   Water tracker Waterllama

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Health & Fitness · App Store 4.9 (162,376)

   Water reminders and a tally of everything you drink.

   Skip it if you want to log drinks other than water or fix a mistake for free — both need premium, and reviewers see more upgrade prompts than reminders to drink.

   Official site ↗More lists with Water tracker Waterllama

   
4. 

   AutoSleep

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

   Tracks your sleep from your Apple Watch automatically. No buttons.

   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

   
5. 

   HiCoffee

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Health & Fitness · App Store 4.8 (843)

   Logs every coffee and shows how much caffeine is still in you.

   Skip it if you drink anything unusual, or you want Health sync — custom drinks and the sync both sit behind the paywall, and the preset list is narrow.

   Official site ↗More lists with HiCoffee

   

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