Disclosure: Ostra Health makes Meadow and publishes this comparison.
Checked October 7, 2026. Prices change, and a store listing is not a hands-on review.
Side by side, checked October 7, 2026.
| Meadow | Migraine Buddy | |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited to | An iPhone user who will open a short log and bring a PDF to clinic. | Someone who wants the community and cross-platform apps described in the store listings. |
| Forecast window | Next 24 hours, from pressure, temperature, humidity, and recent attacks. | 7-day weather forecast listed on the App Store page. |
| What the forecast is not | Not a prediction and not a diagnosis. | The listing tells people to stay alert to weather. It also says the app should not replace medical advice. |
| Sleep | Not listed as automatic sleep recording. | Automatic sleep recording is listed on the App Store page. |
Logging and medications
Meadow's log is built for a bad morning: pain on a 0 to 10 scale, where it sits, symptoms, and what you took. Preventives live on a weekly grid. Abortives sit on the attack. The same 0 to 10 anchors are explained on the pain scale page.
Migraine Buddy's App Store text describes customizable attack recording, medication tracking, and relief methods. We are not claiming a field-by-field gap. If a feature is absent here, it was absent from the listing text we checked, which is not the same as absent from the product.
Weather, without the myth
Both products talk about pressure. Meadow's window is 24 hours and includes your recent attacks. Migraine Buddy's listing describes a 7-day forecast of pressure and temperature. A longer forecast is not a more personal one, and a shorter one is not more accurate. The barometric pressure guide explains what a journal can and cannot show.
Reports and privacy
Meadow writes a PDF for 30, 90, or 180 days and states that the journal is not sold and not used for ads. Migraine Buddy's listing names a diary export and an MIR export for clinicians. Pick the report your neurologist will actually read.
Sources
- Migraine Buddy on the App Store, checked October 7, 2026
- Migraine Buddy on Google Play, checked October 7, 2026