MeteoHealth vs Migraine Buddy and Bearable: what each app actually does

This is a comparison of what three apps say about themselves on their own App Store pages, not medical advice and not a claim that any of them treats, diagnoses, or predicts an attack — none of the three does that, and nothing below should be read as saying otherwise. It's also, by the numbers on the pages themselves, a comparison between a four-day-old app and two apps that have been around for a while: MeteoHealth's first release was 2026-07-24, it carries no rating at all yet because, in Apple's own words, it "hasn't received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview," and everything about it below should be read with that in mind. Migraine Buddy has been on the store since 2015-03-27 and has 41,050 ratings at 4.8 out of 5. Bearable has been there since 2020-03-17 and has 5,955 ratings at 4.77 out of 5. That gap in track record doesn't close just because this article exists, and it's worth saying up front rather than at the end.

A note on why it's these three and not a longer list. Migraine Buddy and Bearable are here because they are the two established apps that keep a record of symptoms and get used for the same job this app is meant for. To check whether anything closer was being left out, we searched the US App Store on 2026-07-28 for "weather health" and "weather symptom tracker" — reproducible queries, so anyone can run them again. What came back was mostly general-purpose weather apps; the nearest matches either keep no record of how you feel at all, or are small enough that comparing against them would say more about the choice of opponent than about either app. That's an account of our own search, not a claim that nothing else exists.

What each one is, on its own page

Migraine Buddy's listing name is "Migraine Buddy: Track Headache," developed by Voluntis, filed under Medical and Health & Fitness. Its description leans on weather as a stated trigger candidate — "Pressure and temperature fluctuations can trigger your migraines" is a line from the page itself — alongside features it describes as "comprehensive reports for a deeper understanding of your headache patterns," an option to "customize the tool to record your unique migraine attributes," and a stated aim to "uncover potential links between your sleep patterns and the onset of migraines." It also notes optional Health app integration: "Migraine Buddy optionally integrates with the Health app for a holistic health view."

Bearable's listing name is "Bearable - Symptom Tracker," developed by Bearable Ltd, filed under Health & Fitness and Medical. Its page describes a general-purpose tracker rather than a single-condition one, inviting people to "Join over 900,000 people securely managing their Chronic Illnesses, Migraine, Pain, Headaches, Fatigue, IBS, PoTS, PCOS, EDS, Period, Mood, Mental Health and more." It also makes a correlation claim of its own, which is worth quoting precisely because it's exactly the sort of thing a competitor writing a comparison is tempted to leave out: "Our simple, customizable tracking tools make it easy to understand the correlation between anything you do and the impact it has on your symptoms." Working out associations between what you log and how you feel is not something only MeteoHealth claims to do. The page mentions syncing outside data in — "Sync Health Data from Apple Health and Fitbit" — and customizing reminders, "Customise reminders for diary entries, medication, and more." How far that customization goes, and whether someone can define entirely new trackers of their own, the page doesn't spell out; we didn't install the app, so that stays unchecked rather than assumed.

MeteoHealth's page describes an app built around one axis — weather — correlated against a fixed set of self-logged symptoms, plus barometric pressure, temperature, humidity, and wind readings, with the correlation computed on the device rather than a server. Geomagnetic activity (Kp index) is also part of the app, but only inside notifications, not as an input to the correlation — worth stating precisely, since it's easy to conflate the two. The symptom list is fixed, not user-defined; that comes back below.

Platforms, languages, and what's supported

Migraine Buddy lists iPhone/iPod touch (iOS 15.1+), iPad (iPadOS 15.1+), Mac (macOS 12.0+, Apple silicon), and Apple Vision (visionOS 1.0+) as supported devices, in nine interface languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. Bearable lists the same OS floor on iPhone and iPad, plus Mac (macOS 12.0+, Apple silicon) and Apple Vision (visionOS 1.0+), in one interface language, English. Neither page lists Apple Watch among supported devices; that's what the page says, not a conclusion about whether either team has watch support in progress, which the page doesn't tell us either way.

MeteoHealth requires iOS 17.0+, iPadOS 17.0+, macOS 14.0 with Apple silicon, and lists an Apple Watch app on watchOS 10.0+, in six interface languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Arabic. The higher OS floor is a real trade-off, not a neutral fact, and it's addressed directly further down rather than left as a footnote.

What each one costs, as listed

Migraine Buddy's subscription list on its page, quoted directly, includes: Monthly Plan $9.99; Monthly Plan $12.99; Two-Month Subscription $24.99; Annual Plan $69.99; Annual Plan $89.99; Annual Plan (No Free Trial) $69.99; and four more annual variants at 30% or 50% off, at either $69.99 or $89.99. Which of those a given person actually sees isn't something the page states, and we're not going to guess at a pricing logic the listing itself doesn't spell out. Bearable's in-app purchases are listed as a "Bearable premium" tier at $4.49, $6.99, $18.99, two entries at $23.99, $27.99, $34.99, and $39.99, plus $49.99, alongside a separate "Premium subscription" at $15.99 — again with no billing period attached to any of the amounts, so matching a price to a length of commitment isn't possible from the page alone.

MeteoHealth's pricing is three tiers — Pro Monthly $2.99, Pro 6 Months $17.99, Pro Annual $24.99 — with a 7-day trial. Worth saying plainly, because it's the kind of detail that's easy to bury: the six-month plan works out to $3.00 a month, one cent more than paying monthly, so there's no savings built into it; the annual plan is the one that actually comes out cheaper, at roughly $2.08 a month. The free tier keeps seven days of history, a 24-hour forecast, and ten barcode lookups a day; the paid tier adds full history, a 7-day forecast, the detailed correlations, the Watch app, interactive widgets, and PDF/CSV export.

Privacy labels, read carefully

MeteoHealth's App Privacy label on its page has a single line: "Data Not Collected — The developer does not collect any data from this app." There's no account to create; data lives on the device and in the person's own private iCloud.

Migraine Buddy's label carries one heading — "Data Not Linked to You" — and no "Data Used to Track You" heading at all. Put plainly, since it's easy to get this backwards: MeteoHealth's label states that it collects nothing, Migraine Buddy's label states that it collects several categories but declares none of them linked to an identifiable person, and its page does not carry the tracking heading that would indicate cross-app or cross-company tracking. Under Migraine Buddy's "Data Not Linked to You" heading, the categories listed are Email Address, User ID, Device ID, and Product Interaction (for advertising or marketing purposes); Purchase History, Email Address, User ID, Device ID, Product Interaction, Crash Data, Performance Data, and Other Diagnostic Data (analytics); Health & Fitness data, Coarse Location, User ID, and Product Interaction (product personalization); and Health & Fitness data, Purchase History, Coarse Location, Email Address, User ID, and Product Interaction (app functionality). The page adds a standard Apple disclaimer that "privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age."

Bearable's label is different in shape: it does carry a "Data Used to Track You" heading, listing Contact Info and Identifiers under it. Its "Data Linked to You" section lists Coarse Location, Email Address, Device ID, and Product Interaction (advertising or marketing); User Content tied to customer support, User ID, Device ID, and Product Interaction (analytics); User ID (product personalization); and Health & Fitness data, Email Address, User Content, User ID, and Product Interaction (app functionality). Its "Data Not Linked to You" section lists Purchase History, plus Crash Data and Performance Data under diagnostics. That tracking heading is a real, checkable difference from Migraine Buddy's label, and it deserves to sit next to what Bearable's own description says on the same page, because the "Data Used to Track You" declaration is about tracking, not about selling data, and the two aren't the same claim: "We will never under any circumstances sell your data" and "Your data is encrypted securely on our servers" are both lines from Bearable's own listing. The page also states, "You have full control over your data and can export it or delete it from within the app at any time." None of that follows from, or is contradicted by, the tracking heading above it — they're answering different questions, and both belong in view rather than one standing in for the other.

The comparison, in one table

Where MeteoHealth is the weaker choice

Some of this is just the arithmetic of being new: four days on the store and zero ratings is not a track record, and there's no shortcut past that except time. The higher OS floor — iOS 17.0 and iPadOS 17.0, against 15.1 for both others — means MeteoHealth doesn't run on older devices the other two still support; that's a real access cost, not a footnote. The fixed symptom list is a genuine limitation, and the honest form of that comparison is against what the other two pages say they allow: Migraine Buddy's states it lets people "customize the tool to record your unique migraine attributes," and Bearable's describes "simple, customizable tracking tools." Neither page says how far that reaches, and we didn't check — but MeteoHealth's list is fixed by design, so for someone who wants to track a factor we haven't included, that's where the conversation ends. On languages, MeteoHealth's six trail Migraine Buddy's nine, though Bearable ships in one, English, so that comparison only cuts one way. Neither MeteoHealth's page nor this article points to any published research or outside validation behind its correlation feature — that's absent, not merely unmentioned. Two billing details, stated without softening: after a subscription lapses, MeteoHealth keeps the underlying records but shows only the last seven days, with export locked; and the six-month plan, at $17.99, comes out one cent more per month than paying monthly, so it isn't the discount its position on the page might suggest. Import into MeteoHealth covers its own CSV/JSON format and a Flo export; there's no built-in transfer from either Migraine Buddy or Bearable.

What we didn't check

We didn't install Migraine Buddy or Bearable and didn't read either company's privacy policy — everything above about them comes from their own App Store listing pages, read on 2026-07-28. So we don't know, and aren't claiming to know: what their free tiers actually include and where the limits sit; whether either offers a trial, and on what terms; whether either requires an account to use; whether either can import a history from another tracker; what happens to a person's data after they cancel a subscription; whether either has an Android or web version; and whether either publishes research or outside validation behind its features. Those are blanks, not zeros — the honest answer is "not checked," not an assumed no.

Who each of these probably fits

If migraine-specific reporting and a large, established user base built specifically around headache tracking is the priority, that's Migraine Buddy's stated territory — its report generation and attribute customization are built around that one condition, with nine years of iteration behind the page. If the priority is one tracker covering a broad set of conditions at once — its page lists chronic illness, migraine, pain, headaches, fatigue, IBS, PoTS, PCOS, EDS, periods, mood and mental health, and claims over 900,000 people using it — that's the job Bearable's page describes itself as doing, and it makes its own correlation claim about "anything you do" and your symptoms. If the working hypothesis is specifically weather, and it matters that the correlation runs on the device with nothing collected off it, that's the case MeteoHealth's own page makes for itself — with the caveats above about a fixed symptom list, a newer app, and no rating history yet attached to that claim.

None of this is static. Migraine Buddy and Bearable can change their pricing, their privacy labels, and their feature sets without telling us, and MeteoHealth's own page will change as the app does. This comparison carries the date it was checked for exactly that reason, and it's the kind of thing that needs revisiting rather than left to sit — a claim about a competitor's page from months ago is a claim about a page that may no longer say that.