About postdrome
The problem we're trying to solve
About 5.5 million Americans live with chronic migraine, vestibular migraine, hemicrania continua, or new daily persistent headache. For all of them, every existing tracker — Migraine Buddy, Bearable, N1-Headache, MiG, Migraine Insight — assumes a "discrete attack" model: the migraine starts, then it ends, log severity once.
That model doesn't fit. A vestibular migraineur explained it best in a one-star Migraine Buddy review:
"I don't have 'attacks.' My symptoms are constant and ebb and flow throughout the day."
postdrome's primary data model is a continuous-symptom timeline — intensity 0–10 over rolling time, with optional discrete-attack overlay for users who think in episodes. Both modes coexist; you pick which one defaults during onboarding.
The other things that bothered us
Reading sixty 1-star and 2-star reviews of the leading migraine trackers, the same pain points kept showing up:
- The during-attack UX is broken everywhere. Tiny fonts, multi-screen flows, snarky reminders. As one user put it: "you should have a light sensitive migraine mode that asks for the bare minimum." So we built Aura Mode — true black, 56pt level number, voice-first input, automatic brightness drop.
- Insights are paywalled and shallow. N1-Headache makes you log for 90 days and then charges $50 to tell you what you came for. Bearable's "correlations are not deep." We give trigger insights and treatment effectiveness away free, day one.
- The category trust deficit on subscriptions is real. "Beware, app will bill despite 'free' trial." "Cancel button?? Not at all impressed with the back-and-forth needed to cancel." postdrome is $14.99 once, never. No subscription.
- Outdated medication databases. Reviewers complain "Nurtec and Aimovig weren't in the database" — these are the modern CGRP biologics. CGRP-era brands are top-of-search-rank in postdrome.
What we don't claim
postdrome is built by people who get migraines, not by neurologists. We are not a healthcare provider. We don't diagnose anything. We don't tell you what medication to take. The doctor's report is "tamper-evident" — meaning a cryptographic hash proves the document came from the app unaltered — not "signed by a board-certified neurologist." We could have lied; we chose not to.
Read our Terms of Service for the full picture, and especially the disclaimer about emergency symptoms.
Who builds it
postdrome is a product of SailQuery LLC, a small company that builds simple iOS apps for niches the big players ignore. We're solo-founder operated. Our portfolio includes other small apps you may have come across; postdrome is the migraine one.
Email support@sailquery.com with any questions. We read every email.