About Calma

I've had migraines since childhood. Growing up, I couldn't understand why — no one else in my school seemed to have them. There was always that quiet "why me?" that I could never shake.

My migraines weren't just headaches. I used to get blackouts — with my eyes open — during class. Sitting at my desk, the world would just go. That's when I started to understand that migraine is a neurological condition, not just bad head pain. A headache is one symptom of migraine, not the whole thing. Most people don't know that distinction, and it matters enormously for getting the right help.

For years, I read every blog and forum I could find trying to figure out what was causing mine. Eventually I started tracking things myself — what I ate, how much I slept, when the attacks happened. And slowly, patterns started to appear. Things I never would have connected on their own began to make sense together.

That process of tracking changed everything for me. So I built Calma — the tool I wish I'd had back then.

Migraine is one of the most misunderstood conditions in medicine. Symptoms vary so much from person to person that two people with migraine can have completely different experiences — different triggers, different warning signs, different relief strategies. What works for one person may do nothing for another.

My mission with Calma is simple: help people understand that even the smallest changes can make a real difference. But you can't make those changes if you don't know what's driving your attacks. Tracking gives you that knowledge. Data gives you back control.

Calma is built to make that process as frictionless as possible — so that anyone, regardless of how bad an attack gets, can log what they need and start building a picture of their own migraine health.

Calma is an iOS app that combines simple attack logging with AI-powered pattern detection, visual insights, and doctor-ready PDF reports. It tracks the factors that matter — sleep, food, weather, stress, medication — and surfaces the correlations that are impossible to spot manually.

It's free to download, with a Premium tier for advanced AI analysis and the Kalm chat assistant.