You can download the migraine app for free from your app store here. Or simply use the QR code:
Migraine app – The digital documentation for migraines and headaches
The migraine app is a digital application for personal documentation and self-monitoring of headache and migraine episodes.
Users can record, save, and clearly display their own information about their symptoms.
functions
- Recording of headache and migraine events
- Documentation of duration, intensity and accompanying symptoms
- Overviews and graphical representations of trend data
- Statistical summaries of the entered information
- Export functions for personal use
- General information and help texts
Purpose of the application
The migraine app offers information about migraines and other types of headaches, as well as options for personally documenting your own observations in everyday life. The application was developed in collaboration with experts from the Kiel Pain Clinic, the nationwide headache treatment network, and the Techniker Krankenkasse (a German health insurance company).
The app helps users clearly record their headache symptoms and potential influencing factors in their daily lives. Personal records of symptoms, lifestyle, sleep, diet, exercise, and stress can be systematically documented. This can help to better recognize personal patterns and prepare observations for discussions with treating physicians.
Furthermore, the app provides easily understandable information about migraines and headaches. Content on lifestyle, relaxation, stress management, exercise, and general health topics can help users understand their own situation and deepen their knowledge about headaches.
An integrated media library offers current information and articles about migraines and headaches. Additional features allow sufferers to connect with others affected by migraines and to learn about services offered by the headache treatment network.
The app is for informational and personal documentation purposes only. It does not provide medical diagnoses and is not a substitute for medical advice, examination, or treatment.
Data privacy is a high priority. Data is stored exclusively on the user's device. It is only shared if users initiate it themselves, for example, to share information with their doctors.
Important NOTE
The migraine app does not diagnose, make medical or therapeutic decisions,
recommend therapy or medication, or replace medical advice or treatment.
Health-related decisions should always be made in consultation with a medical professional.
Privacy Policy – Migraine App
Status: 31.01.2026
1. Responsible person
The data controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:
Schmerzklinik Kiel GmbH & Co. KG,
Heikendorfer Weg 9–27,
24149 Kiel
, Germany,
Email: app@schmerzklinik.de
2. Subject of the application
The migraine app is a mobile software application for the personal documentation and self-monitoring of headache and migraine episodes.
The application serves solely to record, store, display, and analyze information entered by the user.
The app does not make diagnoses, medical or therapeutic decisions, or replace medical advice or treatment.
3. Type and scope of data processing
3.1 Local data storage
All data entered by the user is stored exclusively locally on the respective device.
No personal or health-related data is automatically transmitted to servers of the pain clinic or to third parties.
No central data collection takes place.
3.2 User-entered information
Depending on usage, the following information can be stored locally:
- Information on headache or migraine episodes
- Date, duration and intensity of events
- optional notes or comments
- optional personal information (e.g. name or profile picture)
Providing this information is voluntary.
3.3 Data export by the user
The app offers functions for exporting or sharing analyses or overviews.
Transmission occurs exclusively at the user's active initiative via their device's functions (e.g., email or other applications).
The data controller has no influence on the processing of data by third parties after such voluntary sharing.
3.4 Location data (optional)
If the user consents, location tracking can be used to display local weather information.
Location data is collected anonymously and is not stored permanently.
3.5 Usage data
The app does not process any personal usage or health data on the pain clinic's servers.
There is no user tracking, profiling, or analysis of individual usage behavior.
4. Purposes of processing
The processing is carried out exclusively for the following purposes:
- Provision of app functions
- personal documentation by the user
- local display and visualization of the entered information
- Optional export at the user's request
It will not be used for diagnostic, therapeutic, or care-related purposes.
5. Legal basis for processing
The processing is based on:
- Article 6 paragraph 1 letter b GDPR (provision of app functionality)
- Article 6 paragraph 1 letter a GDPR (consent for optional functions, e.g. location)
Insofar as health data is voluntarily entered by the user, the processing takes place exclusively locally on the end device under the sole control of the user.
6. Recipients of data
Personal data is not automatically transmitted to the data controller or to third parties.
Recipients can only be entities chosen by the user themselves, provided the user actively exports or shares data.
7. Storage duration
The data remains exclusively on the user's device.
Uninstalling the app will delete all stored data.
8. Data security
The data is stored exclusively locally, in accordance with current technological standards.
Access is restricted to the respective end device.
No central storage or server-side processing takes place.
9. Rights of data subjects
Under the GDPR, users have the following rights in particular:
- Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)
- Rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
- Erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
- Restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
- Data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
- Revocation of consent given (Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR)
- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR)
Since the data is stored exclusively locally, these rights can regularly be exercised directly by the user.
10. External services (app stores)
When you download the app, the respective app store independently processes personal data.
The data controller has no influence over this. The data protection regulations of the respective provider apply.
11. Changes to this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be updated due to technical or legal changes.
The current version within the app or on the website applies.
A very good app; it provides excellent tracking of the number of days you take your medication. I was very fortunate to see Ms. Frank give a lecture at the pain clinic in Kiel. A wonderful woman with a wealth of knowledge and dedication.
A very helpful app, brilliant explanations here on the website.
In fact, I hardly need the app anymore since starting galcanezumab therapy, as attacks are much less frequent and significantly easier to treat (ONE triptan, at most a second one after 12 hours, at most twice a month, more often than that).
THANK YOU, because our colleagues in peripheral medicine are often less knowledgeable about this topic. I'm glad that, with your help, I've been given some tools to help myself and now also to be well-informed about helping my patients.
Brigitta Götze-Hoffmann, Specialist in Occupational Medicine/Emergency Medicine
Very helpful for me and also for better understanding the suffering that accompanies us throughout our lives.
Thank you for everything
I use the migraine app regularly and find it very well done. I would like to see mental relaxation integrated as well.
Dear Dr Prof Hartmut Göbel and team,
This Migraine App is a fantastic development!!
As a medical pain blogger, I will dedicate this week's blog post to help spread the good news about your great Migraine App.
Thank you very much, on behalf of all migraine sufferers.
Sabina Walker
Blogger of 'Pain Matters' (in WordPress)
PS I think it would be a great idea if all the audio/video links were also translated into English (and other languages) one day.
(Most of my References are all in German for your great Migraine App….and my blog is only in English at the moment….although German is my second language.)