Diabetes Software

Advancements in technology will continue to help us improve our monitoring and control of diabetes. Diabetes software continues to get better and better and incorporate these advancements, such as the smartphone market. We have listed a number of diabetes related software programs below, including smartphones, desktop and online software. If you know of any other useful software for people with diabtes, please contact us.

Mobile | Mac & Windows | Mac Only | Windows Only | Online

Mobile Software

iPhone

There are 50+ Diabetes related apps in the Itunes App Store. Some are loosely geared towards diabetes, but there are many diabetes specific apps available.

Glooko (with an additional cable) allows you to download information directly from your meter to your iPhone. Usable meters include: Contour, Freedom Lite, Freestyle Lite, Ultra2, UltraLink and the UltraMini.
Price: Free App + $40 cable
WaveSense Diabetes Manager can help you track your glucose results, carb intake, and insulin doses. Enter your information in seconds, review the data with convenient charts and graphs, and gain a new perspective on diabetes management. You can email results to your healthcare team.
Price: Free
Glucose Buddy - Diabetes Helper 2.0 allows you to enter glucose, carbohydrates, insulin, pills and activity logs. There are medication reminders and alerts built in, as well. You can email or view all of your data on your free GlucoseBuddy.com online account.
Price: Free
Blood Sugar Diabetes Control provides an easy way to record and keep track of all your diabetic information needs. Glucose levels get charted automatically. The chart is divided by colors making it easy to track and understand. Jot down your food and medication intake and exercise.You can take screenshots of the graphs and information and automatically send them to your physician.
Price: $0.99
Diabetes App for iPhone / iPod Touch is designed and supported by people with diabetes who actually use the software themselves. Every feature is designed to be fast, flexible, and easy to use. Use the program alone or, better yet, use it in combination with our Diabetes Pilot Desktop software. Information that you record on your iPhone or iPod can be transferred to Diabetes Pilot Desktop where extensive reporting and printing features to allow you to further analyze your data, print it, back it up for safekeeping, and save it in various formats for emailing, faxing, and use in other programs.
Price: $11.99
UTS Diabetes for iPhone is an application that allows you to keep track of your diabetes records and optionally to share your results with your doctor, relatives, and friends via the www.utshealth.com online service. Demonstration Video
Price: $9.99
With the IScan My Food app, consumers can scan various foods and cosmetic products, track the ingredients on packages, and instantly recognize through a visual color coding system whether the food ingredients and additives are potentially harmful, have a warning, or are accepted to be safe.There are two (2) versions of the iScan My Food iPhone app: a Lite version and a Pro version although we can't seem to find the Lite Version in the store.
Price: $9.99 for the Pro Version

Blackberry

There aren't many apps specifically for diabetes but you can search their app store for carb and calorie trackers.

National Institutes of Health Diabetics Consultant is more of a reference than an application for tracking. You'll find exercise suggestions, first aid handling insulin shock, diabetic coma, medications,nutrition info and more. Plus you ll find a approximately 300 word Glossary on Diabetes, Treatments for Diabetes, and Medical Terminology, as they relate specifically to Diabetics.

Android

For a comprehensive, up-to-date list of the thousands of titles that are available, you will need to view Android Market on a handset.

Palm OS

Diet Diary For Palm OS lets you record everything you eat and the exercise you do using our huge food and exercise database, and then track your weight over time. The personal profiling feature tells you exactly how many calories you need every day to lose, gain or maintain your ideal body weight. A Palm OS handheld device (note this software will NOT run on a Microsoft Pocket PC handheld device).Palm OS operating system version 3.5 or newer 8MB free space on the main memory of your Palm OS device (the software also supports being installed to an expansion card). Free trial available
Price: $29.95
Diabetes Log For Palm OS makes recording all aspects of your diabetes a breeze! Easily track and record your blood glucose level, exercise, meds, food intake and more! It combines the simplicity of a pen-and-paper log with the convenience and powerful analytical and filtering abilities of the Palm handheld.
Price: $14.95
Diabetes Pilot for Palm OS runs on Palm handhelds such as the Treo, Centro, Tungsten, and Zire as well as older Palm handhelds made my Palm and other manufacturers. It includes all of the standard Diabetes Pilot features and allows you to record and analyze your glucose, food, medication, exercise, and other diabetes data while you're on the go. Free trial available.
Price: $29.99
GlucoseOne is a Diabetes Management System that is FREE for non commercial use to all diabetic patients and caretakers. It makes capturing your data quick and easy and is a true convenience. Store your palm with your glucose meter and this application will make record keeping a snap.
HealthEngage Diabetes is designed as a comprehensive tool for Type 1 or Type 2 diabetics. Users of all ages can manage and organize all of the data (glucose, insulin, diet, medications, test, etc.) needed to manage and improve their condition and easily generate graphs and reports which can be printed out or shared electronically with their healthcare professionals. Free trial available.
Desktop: $59.99 - Desktop + Palm: $69.99
Logbook DM provides an easy and fast way to log blood gulcose levels, carbohydrate intake, insulin, low blood glucose, exercise, ketones and other notes. The developer is a pumper and uses the program daily so he knows what features are helpful. Extremely practical! Free trial available
Price: $12.00
UTS Diabetes is the palm OS software that tracks your blood glucose level, insulin injections, carbohydrates consumed and various medication intakes. Free trial available.
Price: $19.95, various upgrades available.

Windows Mobile

Diabetes Pilot for Windows Mobile runs on PDA's and Smartphones that use Microsoft's Windows Mobile or Pocket PC operating system. It includes all of the standard Diabetes Pilot features and allows you to record and analyze your glucose, food, medication, exercise, and other diabetes data while you're on the go. Free trial available.
Price: $29.99

Separate Devices

Coheso.com carries the Track3 to help you with your diabetes management. It's small enough to slip into your pocket or purse. In addition to providing a quick and easy method of recording your food, exercise, and medications, it also includes specific nutritional information for over 35,000 food items. You can even create a list to make entering your favorite foods easier.
Price: $79.99

Mac and Windows

CareLink Personal software is a free, secure, web-based therapy management software from Medtronic. It allows you to upload your insulin pump, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device, and blood glucose meter data to a free, web-based program. From there, you can store your information and give your Diabetes Healthcare Team access to it.
Calorie King Nutrition & Exercise Manager is built to help you lose weight quickley and effectively. You can record what you eat and the exercise you do and track your weight over time. Their personal profiling feature tells you exactly how many calories you need every day to lose, gain or maintain your ideal body weight. Free trial available
Download Price:
$45.00 Box Price: $49.00 Upgrade Price: $6.00
Diabasics is a nice program that lets you chart a number of necessary information you need for proper diabetes management. It logs blood glucose levels, carbs and fat eaten and, if you are insulin dependent, the amount of insulin you injected. Free trials are available
Download Price: $29.95
Animas ezManager Max helps manage and analyze diabetes information from select Animas insulin pumps and select OneTouch® glucose meters and insulin pumps. Works with both Mac and Windows based computers. Available with the purchase of new pumps.
Price: $49.00
Health Tracker is a simple program that helps you keep track of and graph any health related measurements. 15 Day Free Trial
Price: $19.99
GNU Gluco Control is open-source (free) software, intended for type 1 diabetics. It supports storing insulin, BG data and food data (use the USDA database that's included or create your own). Other features include a helper for Bolus doses, printing data, displaying graphs and support for importing meter data. Also works on Linux systems.

Mac Only Software

Track your blood glucose tests with ease with the 1-2 tracker for the mac. Download the free trial or purchase it for $15.00.

Windows Only Software

Nutritional Computing Concepts has release version six of their helpful programs. The NCC programs can be used to automatically plan meals/menus using carb counting , Choose Your Foods : Exchange Lists for Diabetes or any other approach you prefer. You can select the nutrient types you wish to have included in nutritional analyses (160 nutrient types are available). Although, it's kind of crude looking, it works fairly well. A few cosmetic changes could make this a great program.
DietPower has a 14 day trial. It allows you to track 30 different vitamins and minerals, and has a database of 21,000 foods.
Price: $29.99
Diabetes Pilot Desktop for Windows includes all of the standard Diabetes Pilot features and allows you to print reports, save your data for use in other programs or email, and edit and analyze your data on your computer. Free trial available.
Price: $39.99
GlucoseOne is a Diabetes Management System that is free for non commercial use to all diabetic patients and caretakers. It makes capturing your data quick and easy and is a true convenience. Store your palm with your glucose meter and this application will make record keeping a snap.
HealthEngage Diabetes is designed as a comprehensive tool for Type 1 or Type 2 diabetics. Users of all ages can manage and organize all of the data (glucose, insulin, diet, medications, test, etc.) needed to manage and improve their condition and easily generate graphs and reports which can be printed out or shared electronically with their healthcare professionals. Free trial available.
Desktop: $59.99 - Desktop + Palm: $69.99
UTS Desktop Companion software provides uniform interface for tracking various countable data: time, measurements, mileage, money, medical stats, events, etc. You may use UTS Desktop Companion in two modes: - As a standalone application. You may keep your data in a file on your local or network disk; - As a desktop companion for UTS for Palm OS PDA software or for your UTSHealth.com account. Via UTS conduit utility, you can keep your data synchronized with your PDA or with your UTSHealth.com account.
Price: $34.95
HealthEngage Diabetes gives you a set of applications to make diabetes management easy and convenient. HealthEngage Diabetes is split into four major sections, Collect, Graph, Reports, and Info/Help, so that you can have access directly to what you need at a click of a button. Free Trial. Windows Desktop Price: $59.99
Fitness Assistant is a software program that tracks calories and net carbs (great for diabetics). Free 30-day full featured trial. Windows portable edition available. Price: $49.95.
Lifescan Software downloads

Online Resources

Carelogger.com - Users can sign up and use CareLogger free of charge, as a logbook for glucose levels, blood pressure and medication intake. It helps users identify trends in their daily routine and tracks exercise.
SugarStats.com - SugarStats provides online diabetes management, community support and collaborative sharing to motivate and improve health. Free accounts or $8.29/month accounts available.
Sweetspot.dm - SweetSpot allows you to upload - or "fetch" - your blood sugar readings from your meter, email, or a cell phone. Once blood sugars are fetched, the information is accessible by anyone with an internet connection. Free 1 month trial available.
One of the better online record systems can be found at MyHealthChannel. This site lets you download most meters over the web via a PC or with their own modem device linked to your meter. Carbs, insulin, and comments can be entered with graphics available to interpret your data. You physician see your data directly online if you wish. Price: Free.
Mike Boeselager created his Dia-Log on the web for entering blood sugars, insulin doses, and foods online. Has some nice custom reports. Price: Free.
DiaTrak's Blood Glucose Manager lets you enter glucose, insulin, and food data manually and get nice graphics back. Price: Free
Bayer Healthcare offers an Online Logbook with graphics. Price: Free
Rose Technologies in Bellevue, WA, has an older setup, called the Diabetes HomeCare Center, for those who want to download their meter through a Windows PC. Said to download MediSense Precision XtraTM, Glucometer DEX, Glucometer Elite XL, ONE TOUCH Profile, and ONE TOUCH II. Price: Free
DiabetEASE is a web-based download program. Said to work with One Touch Basic, One Touch Profile, SureStep, Ultra, Glucometer Dex, Glucometer Elite XL, and FreeStyle meters. Price: Free
Accu-Chek Diabetes Assistant Plan graphs data downloaded from Accu-Chek meters. Price: Free
Dia-Log has an On-Line Diabetes LogBook in which data is entered by hand. Price: Free
LifeClinic has a Diabetes Tools section for entering glucose and related data. Price: Free
Novo Nordisk provides Novo Track for manual online entry of your data
RxLearn has a rudimentary Blood Glucose Monitoring Tool. Price: Free
SiDiary is a terrific freeware program by Alf Windhorst for Windows or Pocket PC. Price: Free
The new Version 5 is also available for purchase for Windows PC, Pocket PC, Smartphones and Java cellphones.
NuMedics founded by Kazi Ahmed has two products: CliniPro for the physician and Diabetes Partner PC for the person with diabetes. Downloads Lifescan, Roche, Medisense, and Bayer meters. Price: $99 for you, several thousand dollars for the physician who wants to be tied in.
Newholme Software has the Diabeasy Software Tool. It provides a simple, quick and easy way to enter and view data. It also sorts data by response or cause, allowing you to determine which factors effect your blood sugar control. Price: $38.50 for CD Rom or $25.70 for download.
GlucoControl is a PDA software that helps to control the glucose levels in blood, it replaces the classic diabetes notebook.
Fitness Assistant is a software program that tracks calories and net carbs (great for diabetics). Free 30-day full featured trial. Priced at $49.95.

Cables For Downloading

Cables allow you to connect the data in your meter to a blood sugar software program in your computer.

LifeScan Interface Cable (for use with LifeScan Blood Glucose Meters with data management capabilities) and the OneTouch Diabetes Management Software v2.3 is available at Drugstore.com for $29.99.
The Bayer Data Cable can be purchased online for $29.95 or for $49.95 with the Ascensia WinGlucoFacts Data Management Software.

Thu, 12/02/2010 - 16:28