HeadSense

A headache diary that works in the dark.

Log one in seconds, even mid-attack with one eye shut. See what is actually going on over weeks and months. Keep every bit of it on your phone.

Dim the room
Download on the App Store Free
The HeadSense record: August 2026, one headache this week, and the day's entries ruled beneath it. The same record with the light on: warm linen instead of near-black.
The record, in whichever light you asked for.

Why it is dark

Most health apps are a bright white page.

That is precisely what a person mid-migraine cannot look at. HeadSense is a dim room with one soft green light, because narrow-band green is the part of the spectrum that does not make photophobia worse. The control above is the same one that sits in the app's settings. Mercy should be one tap away, not buried in iOS Settings.


Log it in seconds

Big targets, one thumb, no forms to fill in before the pain is recorded. Update the intensity later from the Lock Screen, without opening the app or raising the brightness.


See the pattern

Frequency over weeks and months, triggers, time of day, and which medications actually helped. Laid out plainly, with the numbers shown.


One mark for each one, at its own weight

A headache is a mark on the page, coloured by how bad it was. A month of them is a shape you can read at a glance, without a chart to decode first.



The reports

Arithmetic, not guesswork.

Weekly and monthly reports are counts, frequencies and comparisons over what you logged, worked out on your phone. No server, no model, no guessing. Every figure is one you could arrive at yourself with the entries in front of you, and the report shows its working. Export one to take to an appointment.

A month of headaches: seven, three of them bad, the same as the 18 days before, with one mark per week coloured by how bad that week was.
A month, counted. Nothing here came from anywhere but your own entries.

The price

Free. Every part of it.

PriceNothing
SubscriptionNone
AccountNone
AdsNone
Data collectedNone

HeadSense used to charge for its reports, because they ran on a server that cost money every month. They are arithmetic now, and arithmetic runs on your phone for free. So there is nothing left to charge for. There is a tip jar in Settings if you want one, and it unlocks nothing.