✦ The bucket theory of migraine

Migraine is never just one thing.
See it filling — before it spills.

Food, sleep, stress, hormones, weather — every trigger pours into one bucket, and the attack comes when it overflows. Migraine Bucket shows you yours, live, before it's too late to change course.

Get the app Free to download · Extras available in Bucket Plus
The Migraine Bucket app showing a glowing bucket at 100% with eight trigger circles
✦ Why this app exists

“‘Oh, so you're gluten-free?’ ‘No.’ ‘Dairy-free?’ ‘No.’ It turned into a guessing game no one understood — including me. All I was really saying was: no citrus, no cheese. It sounds simple. It wasn't.”
— Samantha Treacy, founder · author of The Tyramine Effect

I spent fifty years decoding my own migraines — the restaurant apologies, the “random” attacks that weren't random, the food lists that never matched my body. What finally worked wasn't avoiding one thing. It was seeing how everything stacks: the cheese and the short night and the storm front and the week before my period. That's the bucket. I wrote the book about it, and then I built the tool I needed all along.

✦ The bucket theory, in one breath

Watch a day fill up.

Every trigger is a drop. Sleep, cheese, stress, a storm front — none of them is the migraine. The migraine is the overflow.

Know your bucket. Own your day.

✦ How it works

Know your bucket. Own your day.

Three ideas, one honest picture of your day — grounded in published threshold research, personalised by your own data.

01

Everything pours in

Log meals in seconds — 400+ foods pre-scored for tyramine — plus one-tap triggers for sleep, stress, light, noise and weather. Apple Health fills in sleep and cycle automatically.

02

The bucket fills

Every trigger adds load; time drains it. Hormone windows make everything weigh more — modelled the way it actually behaves. One glance shows where you stand.

03

You change course

“Nearly full” days get gentler choices. Your own outcomes teach the app your personal threshold — your list, not a generic one. Export a clinician-ready report any time.

✦ Inside the app

Calm by design. Honest by principle.

Muted, photosensitive-safe colours. No streak guilt, no nagging, no “this food causes migraines” certainty — estimated loads, honest ranges, your data in charge.

Home screen with the glowing bucket and trigger circles

Your bucket, live

The whole day's trigger load in one glowing glass — with eight circles showing exactly what's filling it.

Food diary with tyramine scores per food

The diary that scores tyramine

Calories, protein, sugar — plus the tyramine score no other diary has. Barcode scanning included.

Global tyramine intelligence world map

The world's tyramine picture

A live map of community trigger patterns across 49 countries — see how your bucket compares.

✦ Bucket Plus

Knowing is free.
Owning is Plus.

The everyday app costs nothing — the live bucket, the tyramine-scoring diary, your triggers, your check-ins, forever. Bucket Plus is for the day you want to go further: when you stop just watching your bucket and start putting it to work.

Walk in with proof

Months of buckets, triggers and outcomes distilled into one beautiful, doctor-ready PDF. Hand your neurologist the pattern, not the guesswork — generated in a single tap.

See the world's bucket

Global Tyramine Intelligence: live community trigger patterns across 49 countries. What's spiking where, which foods surprise people like you — and how your bucket compares.

The app studies you back

Advanced insights that surface the combinations you'd never spot alone — the cheese and the short night and the storm front — in gentle, plain English.

“One fair unlock — yearly, or once and it's yours forever.

No subscription treadmill. No paywalled basics. No guilt trips. Plus simply waits until you're ready.

✦ Book coming soon

The Tyramine Effect

Fifty years of migraines. Decades of decoding them. The book tells the story and the science of the tyramine-shaped hole in migraine advice — the app puts it in your pocket.

Want more info and a preview when it's ready? Leave your email —

One tap opens an email to Samantha — no mailing list, no spam, just a personal reply.

✦ Get started

Your bucket is already filling.
Start seeing it.

Migraine Bucket is free to download — the everyday app is yours at no cost: the live bucket, the tyramine-scoring food diary, personal triggers, routines and check-ins. And when you're ready to go deeper, Bucket Plus is waiting — doctor-ready reports, the world's tyramine picture, and insights that study you back.

Download on the App Store

Launching first in Australia, UK & Ireland — worldwide shortly after.