You may have seen apps that give you stars, badges, levels, coins, or daily streaks for using them. MigraineMe is not one of those apps, and that is on purpose.
We do not want you to feel pressure to log a migraine just because you might "lose your streak". A migraine is not a video game. The reason we ask you to log things is simply so the app can spot patterns for you.
What MigraineMe does not have
MigraineMe does not have:
- Points.
- Coins or in-app currency.
- Levels.
- Badges.
- Daily streaks that punish you for missing a day.
- Leaderboards or rankings against other users.
- Achievements you have to "unlock".
If you have used migraine apps with those features before, you may be used to them. With MigraineMe, you can simply skip a day, a week, or a month and come back whenever you want. Nothing will be lost. The app will keep waiting patiently.
What we do show you
We do show you things that are genuinely useful:
- Your migraine count: how many migraines you have logged this week or this month.
- Your trigger patterns: what your data is telling you about why migraines happen.
- Your risk score: how likely a migraine is in the next short while.
These are tools to help you understand yourself. They are not scores to chase. Lower numbers are better here, not higher.
Community engagement
The community has a few small numbers next to posts, like:
- Me too: how many people have tapped that they have had the same experience.
- Reply count: how many people have commented.
These exist to help you find posts that other members are talking about. They are not points you earn. You cannot "win" the forum.
Why we made this choice
People with chronic migraines are already tired. Asking someone to keep a daily streak going through a bad attack is not kind. The point of MigraineMe is to gently learn from your data, not to add another thing for you to feel guilty about.
So please, log when you can, skip when you cannot, and come back when it suits you.
What about rewards or discounts?
We do not currently have any rewards programme inside the app. If we ever add one in the future, it would be entirely optional, and it would never be tied to logging a migraine.
If you like a sense of progress
If you enjoy seeing how far you have come, the Insights tab is the best place to look. It shows your patterns over time, which medicines have worked, which triggers have come up most, and how your migraines have changed. It is a quieter kind of progress, and it is real.
You are doing a kind thing for your future self by tracking, however little or often you do it. That is enough.
