Hey all,
I'm looking at new cells phones for me and my wife. comparing iphone and android OS's which has the better app/s for diabestes management? has anyone used either? I am not sold on one brand over the other and am looking for something to set one of them apart...
thanks for ny comments.
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
I have an Ipod touch (same as an Iphone but without the phone) and my husband has an Android phone. I have several diabetes related apps on my Ipod. Most of them were free including my favorite app “Blood Wise.” Most of the apps on the Itunes range from free to $9.99. I looked through my husband’s app catalog to see what it had to offer for diabetics. It does have several apps that range from free to $5.99. They all had 3 stars and up. The android seems like it is a great phone and since it is a google phone you know that they will continue to grow their application market. Apple is a large company also though and the apps I have been using are pretty good for the most part. The two companies are competitors to one another so they are very similar. If I had to choose, I would probably go with an Android based phone because the plans are typically cheaper then ATT’s Iphone plans. Also, you may like to know that this summer (June) Android is coming out with a new software that is supposed to blow the Iphone’s software out of the water…but we will see. Hope I didn’t make your decision harder…really the apps are very similar including price.
-Kimberlee
Thanks Kimberlee! I did not realize android was upgraiding the os again, i had heard apple was so it must be a competition at this point. As of now i like the motorola droid and the htc droid incredible (both on verizon)… the iphone is a great phone to from what i hear. But cost will definately come into play…
thanks again for great info!
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
I use WaveSense for the iPhone. I’m actually not a big fan of Apple but I already had AT&T and they made the iPhone pretty much irresistable. As it turns out, Apple has tons of apps for glucose logging and I tried a bunch before settling on WaveSense. WaveSense has its share of little glitches, but it keeps track of stats and trends efficiently and works well for me.
My GF recently picked up the HTC Droid Eris and she loves it. We searched through its app store and found a number of glucose monitoring apps, though I didn’t actually try any.
Hope this helps,
Fred
Hi Jeff,
I tried both the Wavesense and Track 3 for my iphone. Wavesense was free and I think Track 3 was 5.99? I really prefer Track3 and think it’s worth the price. The best part of Track 3 is the nutrition guide. You don’t have to know the carbs of food, you can search for nutritional info or input your own. And then you add it to your food list or favorites list for future input. Shows complete daily nutrition, calories and carbs and exercise and has graphs and email ability. Don’t really like the way it comes in as an email. Opens in excel, still working on that part. I’m not an iphone fanatic, definitely things about it I don’t like , hate the touch pad but a lot of them are like that now but I do like the track3 app.
I don’t have either one but the other day i saw a video on youtube about a case that you put your iphone into and it has a meter on the end and it keeps a log in your iphone an there is an app to control a pump from your phone
Cooooooolllll!!!
Hey guys,
Thanks for the great info and suggestions!
So i wound up getting the Motorolla Droid, they gave me a great deal, due to having a verizon upgrade on my account, and a buy 1 get 1 free offer, my wife got the HTC incredible free! (i was happy about that). so I’ve begun looking at the apps for the android OS and will keep all your suggestions in mind as i go through them.
thanks again!
~Jeff
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Jeff,
I have an iphone and use Glucose Buddy. GB was developed by two guys with diabetes so I trust they know what they’re doing. Don’t know if there is a Droid version. It is free on iphone.
I too have the Droid. Love the phone. Keep us in the loop. I’d like to know what you find cause I’m interested in doing the same thing.
Kk will do! so far i have found 7 or 8 apps, a mix of free and fairly cheap (.99 - 5.99) i’ll let you know what i chose.
thanks again all!
i have the droid too…what did you choose?
Hi . I love my android and because its google its got thousands of great apps! Id go android. I’ve never had one problem with my htc android! Its so much fun and has some awsome diabetes apps for it! I got mine for 500 and its been worth every dime! No droped calls constant 3g its so fast its just awsome! I don’t regret my choice at all! I’m talking from a android users point of view not from just hearsay or what I’ve hear. I’m telling you the grraffics are incredable the camera is sooo nice the video recorder is wonderful! It also has a genius button that’s controlled by voice it works like a charm! Forget the I phone go with the android! I’m loving mine and have nothing but good to say about. It! It awsome! I’m one happy android user! And I love my diabetes app it even logs my insulin use and gives me pie charts and graphs! I’m telling you take it from some one who knows and I’m honest android rocks! Its sooo fun and you can also do office work on it. You can scan bar codes heck it let’s you scan documents with the app! Apps are all reasonable price the ones that cost. Its a fast machine! In my opnion and I know about android, get her the android. She will never have any trouble with it! I traded in my blackberry for android and I’m very happy. I truely hope you consider what I said cause I’m lovin my android!!
Looking for some Droid apps too. Appreciate any insight.
I’m using calorie counter by myfitnesspal. It doesn’t allow blood sugar tracking, so still hoping there might be one like myfitnesspal out there that does it. It’s been refreshing seeing carb counts I had previous underestimated, like baked potatoes at 84g carb! What I would really like is an app that will do regression analysis for me based on sugar readings. Like recently I had an awful event where at the amusement park they gave me sugar Coke instead of Coke zero. 466 when I finally noticed! Because I also have neuropathy, this would’ve resulted in another heat stroke if I hadn’t caught it. But it’s really easy to crash from that high. So I went to the nurse’s station and drank about two gallons of water to flush it out. After I urinated the first time I did three measurements at five minute intervals. 366, 316, 289. I would’ve liked an app right then to tell me where my stopping point was going to be so I could then base my insulin off of that point. Luckily I guessed right earlier and had only given myself enough insulin to cover the sugar after flushing out with the water.
Though when I first went to the clinic my fever was already 100.8. I then had to drench my head in cold water to cool myself down. Gave me a headache for a day and took three days for my excited pancreas/GI to calm down- after starting on myfitnesspal calorie counter to help me avoid starches and carbs. I love the barcode scanner thing, just wish it would auto sum up the carbs for each meal instead of me having to add myself.
Anyhow, would definitely love an app that would help me figure out the regression/trend on sugar drops from flushing out and sugar drops from taking humalog. (One trap to watch out for is taking humalog again based on a sugar reading two hours after your last humalog injection. Humalog peaks in lowering at 2 and 4 hours post injection. If you don’t calculate this into your sliding scale, it’s real easy to crash from an overlapping humalog peak.)
I have had the best of both worlds. I had an iPhone and used Diabetes Pilot. It is truly incredible. It is expensive. I think $10 or $15. But it has a pretty large food database, you can add foods and meals. If you carb count it does all the calculations for you, insulin/carb ratio, and correction factor. My Doctor was highly impressed with it. No more keeping track of everything separately. It’s also available for MAC, Windows, and palm OS. Then I got sick of my service with AT & T crapping out on me so I got a Droid with Sprint,my HTC EVO 4G that I love. On this phone I mostly use MyFitnessPal to track my foods exercise it has every food possible. I got a pump in April 2011, but before I had the pump I was using and app called Glucool. It is an Insulin calculator. Similar to diabetes pilot. Track glucose readings, insulin dose, carbs, exercise, and A1C. This app to uses your insulin/carb ratio and correction factor. Plus if you ate going to be slightly to moderately more active you can choose an activity level (none, light 10% less insulin, moderate 20% less insulin or heavy 30% less insulin).
I did buy Glucool for $4.99. I either had a problem with the free version and just sucked it up and bought the full. Or liked it so much I bought the full, either way its worth the $4.99 and its available through the Droid market app and amazon app store
I think its important for diabetics or anyone with health issues to have a modern day way of managing there health.
Sorry for the novel. Hope this info helps some people even though the original post was over a year ago
Alanna
28 with Cystic Fibrosis related Diabetes