About Relief

Why this app exists

My name is Knyaz Harutyunyan. I build iOS apps, and I get migraines.

The problem that started all of this was a question I could never answer. At every appointment my doctor would ask what had triggered the attack — and I never knew what to say. My migraines were scattered across my memory, a few notes, and nothing else. Nothing was in one place, so there was nothing to look at and no pattern to find.

I knew tracking would fix that. So I tried the migraine apps that already existed.

Every one of them wanted too much. Long forms, multiple screens, a dozen fields to fill in — while I had a migraine. That is exactly the moment you have the least capacity for it: the screen hurts, you feel sick, and you want to lie down in the dark. So you tell yourself you will log it later. You never do. Three months on you are in the same appointment, being asked the same question, still with no answer.

So I built Relief around one rule: logging an attack takes one tap and under five seconds. Every other feature had to survive that constraint or it did not ship.

Now when my doctor asks, I hand over a report instead of guessing.

What Relief does

It logs an attack in a single tap. It watches barometric pressure where you are, because falling pressure is among the most commonly reported environmental triggers. It finds patterns between your attacks, your habits, your sleep, and the weather. And it produces a report you can give to your doctor — including a MIDAS score, the disability measure clinicians actually use.

That last part is the whole point. A doctor with three months of structured data makes a faster, better decision than a doctor with "I don't know."

What I am, and what I am not

I am a developer who lives with migraine. That gives me a good instinct for what a tracker has to do at 3am, and none at all for what medication you should take.

I am not a doctor, a neurologist, or a medical researcher.

The articles in the Research Library are written by reading published, peer-reviewed research and summarising it in plain language, with sources cited so you can check them yourself. They are educational material, not medical advice. Nothing on this site or in the app replaces diagnosis and treatment by a qualified clinician. If your headaches are new, severe, or changing, please see a doctor.

If I have got something wrong, I want to know. Email me and I will correct it.

Your data

Your migraine records stay on your iPhone. There is no Relief server holding them, no account to create, and no way for me to read what you log. Your health data is never sold and never shared. Full detail is in the Privacy Policy.

Core tracking is free permanently. Premium features are an optional subscription. See the Terms of Use.

Get in touch

I read everything. Especially welcome:

• Errors in an article — send the link and what is wrong
• Feature requests — above all, anything that removes friction during an attack
• Clinicians — if you treat headache patients and would review this content, I would value that enormously

knyazharutyunyan03@gmail.com
LinkedIn — Knyaz Harutyunyan

Relief is developed by Relief AI. — Knyaz Harutyunyan, Founder