Comparison
Postdrome vs Bearable
Bearable is a well-liked general symptom and mood tracker that many people use for migraine. Postdrome is built only for migraine. That difference, general versus migraine-specific, is the whole comparison.
Choose Postdrome if
Migraine is your main concern, you want the postdrome phase and vestibular attacks as first-class data, a migraine-specific doctor report, and your data in your own iCloud.
Choose Bearable if
You track several conditions at once, not just migraine, you want a flexible general tracker with a strong correlations engine and free CSV export, and a subscription is fine.
| Postdrome | Bearable | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Migraine only | General symptoms, mood, and health |
| Data model | Continuous-symptom timeline | Daily severity-rating diary |
| Attack / phase model | Yes, with the postdrome as a recovery tail | None; a migraine is a day of ratings |
| Vestibular / headache-free | Yes, a first-class dimension | Only as a generic custom symptom |
| Migraine doctor report | Free, tamper-evident, neurology-ready PDF | CSV export; no dedicated migraine report |
| Weather correlation | Not the focus | Manual factor, not auto-detected |
| Pricing | $14.99 one-time, free core | $6.99/mo or $34.99/yr; CSV export free |
| Where data lives | Your iCloud | Bearable's servers (Google Cloud, EU) |
General tracker versus migraine tracker
Bearable is genuinely good at what it does: a flexible daily tracker for symptoms, mood, sleep, energy, medications, and more, with a correlations engine that looks for what affects what. If you are managing several conditions and migraine is one of them, that flexibility is the appeal, and the free CSV export is a real plus.
Postdrome does one thing. It models migraine, including the parts a general tracker has no specific concept of: the postdrome phase, headache-free vestibular attacks, and the way several symptoms move independently across an attack and its aftermath.
The data model is different
Bearable is built around a daily severity rating: you rate symptoms and factors, and the engine finds correlations. There is no discrete-attack object and no structured attack-phase model, so a migraine is recorded as a cluster of ratings on a day rather than an event with an onset, a peak, and a recovery tail.
For continuous symptoms that suits some people well. For the postdrome specifically, or for a vestibular attack that needs to be logged with no headache, the migraine-specific model gives you something the general diary does not.
In a daily-rating diary, a migraine is a day. In Postdrome, it is a shape that moves over hours.
Pricing and where your data lives
Bearable is freemium. The correlations engine and history beyond about a month sit behind a subscription, $6.99 a month or $34.99 a year, though CSV export and unlimited custom symptoms are free. Postdrome keeps pattern insights and the neurology PDF free and charges a one-time $14.99 for the rest.
On storage, Bearable backs your data up to its own servers on Google Cloud in the EU, and states it will never sell your data. Postdrome keeps health data in your own iCloud. Both are defensible; they are simply different choices about where your record lives.
Where Bearable wins
- Tracks any condition, not just migraine
- A strong correlations engine across all your factors
- Free CSV export of your data
- Multi-platform, including Android
- Flexible and highly customizable
Where Postdrome wins
- Migraine-specific, including the postdrome phase
- A real attack-and-recovery model, not a day of ratings
- Headache-free vestibular attacks as first-class data
- A neurology-ready PDF built for clinicians and insurers
- Health data in your own iCloud, one-time price
A tracker that knows what a migraine actually is.
Postdrome models the continuous pattern, the postdrome phase, and vestibular attacks as first-class data. Free pattern insights, a free neurology-ready PDF, one lifetime price, and your health data stays in your iCloud.
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