Diabetes Diary app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 4240 ratings )
Health & Fitness Medical
Developer: fridayforward
Free
Current version: 2.1.1, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 05 Apr 2009
App size: 11.36 Mb

Diabetes Diary allows diabetics to record glucose readings, insulin doses and carbohydrate intake, supporting both mmol/L and mg/dL units for glucose readings and a fully customisable list of insulin types. As a diabetic myself, I wrote this application to help me monitor my diabetes and view trends over time.

Activity is available to view in a month-by-month history and is presented with an overview of mean glucose reading and daily insulin dose. The same information is also presented in a graph view with the facility to take a capture for future reference.

FEATURES:
- mmol/L and mg/dL support with low and high value highlight option
- fully customisable insulin brand list
- carbohydrate intake
- fully customisable time of day tagging with associated start and end times and auto-fill function
- note facility for glucose readings, carb intake and insulin doses
- edit and delete facility
- toggle fast-access to Add New Readings on application start-up
- month-by-month and last seven days history views with mean glucose reading and daily carb intake and insulin dose and email export
- graph view with capture facility
- average day graph view with capture facility
- injection site distribution diagram
- HTML/CSV export and full database back-up and restore via Dropbox and built-in web server

More is information at http://diabetesdiary.fridayforward.com
Twitter: @Diabetes_Diary

ALSO AVAILABLE:
Insulin Calculator: simple insulin calculation utility app
Squared: classic pen-and-paper game for iPhone and iPod touch

Pros and cons of Diabetes Diary app for iPhone and iPad

Diabetes Diary app good for

Been looking for a program like this to keep handy instead of relying on the meter to keep the records. Myself being a Type 1 the graphs are great for managing the glucose curves. Add a carb intake for meal times and this would be a "6" star rating,
The program is easy to use, and I like the graph functions. Improvements Id like to see in future versions are the ability to add two insulin doses to each blood glucose reading, and the ability to track carbohydrade intake. Id recommend this app for any diabetic
This is probably the best app for diabetics at this point available. However IPOD TOUCH 2G users should be able to enable EMAIL settings, and apparently it is a function only availble to IPHONE users as my versions settings for that feature are blanked out. I would suggest making that option available to all users on the next version; after all, I have WI-FI in my home and place of work so that emailing people from my TOUCH is always possible, I dont need a phone line for that. This app though is definately on the right track for all diabetics and their health care providers.
I love this app! Its simple and does all I need it to do: keep track of my blood glucose levels & the units of insulin I take. The only thing I dont like is that you cant add 2 kinds of insulin on the same entry. Very small complaint for an overall awesome app!
Ive used it for 6 months. A key part of my management routine. Love the app!
Does exactly what it needs to do with a very simple and straightforward design.

Some bad moments

A good design, but missing an important feature in the Add/Edit Event screen for Insulin dosage - it does not allow for the recording and tracking of mixed Insulin injections. Because of this, I have switched to another diabetic tracking app. Please fix this shortcoming...
Used app for months! Worked fine! Now it doesnt run! Tried reinstalling it but still doesnt run! Very disappointing because I paid for this app!!!
I just downloaded this app less than 2 hrs ago (in my search for the easiest & best way to manage my T2 Diabetes and already Im having problems AND issues; problems with stability (20+ crashes in less than 2 hrs ... as they say on ESPN: "Come On Man!"); issues in the app design ... advanced T2s often take several types of insulin but in the Daily overview you lump all types of insulin together ... BOGUS! I need to know that I took 10 inits of Novolog AND 31 units of Levemir, lumping these together is a little like saying Ive got 15 gallons of hydrocarbons in my car instead of 11 gals of gas and 4 gals of oil. 15 doesnt tell me how far my car will go and 41 units of Insulin doesnt tell me anything about what my body is doing. Ill hold on to this app for a while and check back to see if anything has improved (being retired on a fixed income I have issues with throwing money away) ... but for now Im going back to using Glucose Buddy for tracking my data, Glucose Companion for showing my BG graphs, and CarbControl for predicting my Carb intake to calculate how much fast insulin I need before each meal ... the search goes on for "One App to Rule Them All."
It is supposed to receive data from the Insulin Calculator app (same developer) but it doesnt seem to. Im looking for a different app to replace this one.

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