Useful Diabetes Apps for your Busy Lifestyle
Are you looking for apps you can add to your smartphone, iPhone, iPad, or other device to help you manage your diabetes? Here is a bit of useful information about the different types of diabetes apps you may be able to find online, download for free or purchase, and use to help you monitor different aspects of your lifestyle. These will help you when you are on-the-go, or even if you are just monitoring your diabetes at home. Before installing any diabetes apps, you may want to consult your doctor and carefully peruse online reviews of each product:
Glucose Monitoring Diabetes Apps
These types of apps may be available for a number of different devices, both free or for purchase. Many of these will keep a history of your glucose readings, while some may be actual meters you can connect to a particular smart device to get readings. Others may help to monitor your glucose changes throughout the day, how particular foods or meals affect your readings, meals, and more. These can be very handy when you are traveling, out on the town for the night, or need simple, immediate access to your diabetic information, or to take a reading in only a few moments. They are also discrete, handy, and may be useful if you are ever in an accident or experience medical complications while away from home.
Carb Counting Apps
Carb-counting apps are another useful type of diabetes app you may be able to add to your smartphone or other device. By using these, you may be able to monitor your carb intake over the course of a day or during a meal (even a restaurant meal) to help you monitor possible spikes in your blood glucose readings. These apps may be found in combination with other apps, and may be available for both free or for a small fee from apps stores.
All-in-One Apps
Out of all the available diabetes apps (and there are many) all-in-one apps may be the most helpful and convenient for those trying to monitor their blood glucose levels or diabetes. Many of these apps help to monitor blood glucose levels, carb intake, activity, insulin levels, activity, how you feel on a given day, and more. Some may even feature email export, notes, injections, and more. Normally, if these are for purchase, the fees are minimal. Many more of them are available for free, and have very high reviews. The one all-in-one diabetes apps that has the highest star ratings on large app stores is Glucose Buddy, which allows you to manually enter most of your data, then look at it later on an online account connected to the app. Another app with a high rating that is also free is that of WaveSense Diabetes Manager. Not only does this app allow you to enter all your information quickly and look at it as convenient charts and graphs, but it also gives you access to helpful videos.