Quick verdict
- What it is
- Glucose Buddy is a diabetes management app that allows users to track blood sugar, carb intake, and medication. It also provides features such as exporting reports as PDF or CSV and sharing glucose logs with doctors.
- Best for
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- someone who tracks blood sugar
- someone who manages diabetes
- At a glance
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- Free to download
- In-app purchases
Categories and search queries
Official categories
- Medical
- Health & Fitness
AppCorpus categories
Key functions
| Function | Availability | Access | Scope | Evidence |
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| Free app | Yes | Free | — | Store published |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Limited free | — | Store published |
Screens
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Pricing & paywalls
App Store
- Multi-Device Cross-Sync (bidirectional) 1Y add-on — $12.99
- Premium — $14.99
- Premium — $39.99
- Premium — $49.99
- Premium — $59.99
Ratings & reviews
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4/5GB Improvements
Great App, simple and easy to use, great way to keep track of blood sugar readings in an easily understandably format. Plus can email results directly to Dr, cutting down on time consuming expensive visits. Only two things keeps it from a Five Star Rating, wish would add capability for two separate accounts, so could keep track of my wife's readings all in one App, and it's a small nitpicking thing, wish you would add another "Fasting" category with it's own color. My Dr is mainly interested in my "Fasting" readings, and I can only list "Out of Bed" or "Before Breakfast", which show up with the same colors as "Other" or "Before Meals", causing some confusion and time consuming research to separate them. Add those capabilities, and you've really got a winner.
Kenrit · 30 Aug 2026
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2/5Ads make it worthless
The app has a lot of decent features. The interface is cluttered to the point it’s hard to use and hard to find things. The reporting aspect of the app is poorly done, and that’s the most important part. In the free version, the ads after a day become so obnoxious that it’s fundamentally unusable. Full screen ads with the volume forced to 100% that offends everyone in the room. If you purchase this app you are funding a company that cares about monetizing the app far more than providing a good user experience. A premium subscription is VERY expensive, and honestly provides only a few real benefits, outside of removing the ads. I will look at EVERY alternative in the App Store before I feed this marketing tactic. There is a “plus” version with a one time app purchase that likely removes some ads, but there is no clear statement of any difference so the only way to know is to buy it and find out. If you read enough review responses, you will learn if you buy that version you simply get another nagging form of encouragement to buy the expensive subscription. What this app provides is worth no where close to what the premium version provides.
GregMatthews · 30 Aug 2026
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1/5This app was great
I loved this app before they changed to the subscription model a few months back. There are so many things you used to be able to do that aren’t available, even small things like using a custom label instead of before/after a meal. And now in order to share your graphs with your doctor you can only go back two weeks and you have to print it out vs email it. It’s a real shame not to be able to afford an app that used to be an asset to my medical care. I would have been able to use this app had there been a one time purchase price, but I can’t justify adding another monthly automatic charge just to log my glucose levels. I used to hype this app to everyone I knew with diabetes. Even my doctor was impressed, although I had to explain what happened when I could no longer send her my full detailed data via the health portal. Now I tell everyone about the app, explain how the developers forced a subscription model on users, and use it as an example of how patients suffer when profiting from their diseases becomes the goal. I wish I had never trusted this developer with my data. Now it’s locked away and I had to start over again with another app.
mommahippi · 30 Aug 2026
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1/5Not easy to use, weird ad blocking screen
I’m not sure how this has gotten such good reviews! From the very beginning, there was a lot of pressure to “upgrade“, with even a warning of it this will be the “only time” I can upgrade, with a full screen countdown clock? 10,9,8...what? Of course I said no, and it ends up that the features they were trying to get me to pay for, are already on the app such as your A-1 C average level? I wanted to enter previous data from the last month but that became too difficult in this app. When you are entering the information, they have a tag that you can say before breakfast or before lunch etc. but then they don’t have a separate area to add food. Even though I might be entering my fasting blood sugar level, they make you add the food on that page? So in that entry you have to look hard to understand that I ate that breakfast AFTER I took my level. Also after entering about four numbers, this ad began to block the view and then when you click the X to close it, it would open it. That happened a few times, and I quickly deleted the app!!! Never had anything like this on an app!
HaveAGreatDay:) · 30 Aug 2026
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2/5So disappointed
I finally upgraded to the premium version, expecting so much more. I am not able to add items with a title/label and its nutritional values. The database is pretty much nonexistent. Every barcode I scan is not found in the database and unlike other apps, you cannot add it, which tells me the database will continue to fall short of other apps like fitness pal, Omada, heck, just about every other app I’ve used. If I enter an item’s nutritional info, o cannot label the item. I reached out to tech support and never heard back. This was a feature I expected to be there when I upgraded. While i can track my glucose levels, the substandard food database makes the app practically useless for me since I’m still having to use other apps to log my foods and those do not log my glucose levels. This app was a complete waste of money for me. I’m still searching for an app that has a great food database, tracks nutritional information I need, as well as my glucose levels. Still searching and out money for this app. Sad.
Txsingirl · 30 Aug 2026
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Versions
App Store
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5.298
Here's what we have for you in this update: - Misc bug fixes Love Glucose Buddy? Leave us a review! Have questions? Feedback? Email us at [email protected]
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5.300
Here's what we have for you in this update: - Ability to change date/time for logs is fixed - Crash fix Love Glucose Buddy? Leave us a review! Have questions? Feedback? Email us at [email protected]
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5.312
Here's what we have for you in this update: - Date changer fixed - Calories crash fixed - Barcode scanner bug fixed Love Glucose Buddy? Leave us a review! Have questions? Feedback? Email us at [email protected]
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5.316
Here's what we have for you in this update: - Bug fixes Love Glucose Buddy? Leave us a review! Have questions? Feedback? Email us at [email protected]
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5.318
Here's what we have for you in this update: - Performance enhancements - Bug fixes Love Glucose Buddy? Leave us a review! Have questions? Feedback? Email us at [email protected]
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5.326
Here's what we have for you in this update: - Bug fixes Love Glucose Buddy? Leave us a review! Have questions? Feedback? Email us at [email protected]
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5.328
Here's what we have for you in this update: - Bug fixes Love Glucose Buddy? Leave us a review! Have questions? Feedback? Email us at [email protected]
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5.332
Here's what we have for you in this update: - Bug fixes Love Glucose Buddy? Leave us a review! Have questions? Feedback? Email us at [email protected]
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5.334
Here's what we have for you in this update: - We have a brand new insights tab! Love Glucose Buddy? Leave us a review! Have questions? Feedback? Email us at [email protected]
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5.338
Here's what we have for you in this update: - We're taking the new Insights tab back to the drawing board, so we're putting back the old one for the time being. - Other bug fixes Love Glucose Buddy? Leave us a review! Have questions? Feedback? Email us at [email protected]
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5.344
Here's what we have for you in this update: - Bug fixes Love Glucose Buddy? Leave us a review! Have questions? Feedback? Email us at [email protected]
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5.362
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5.364
- bug fixes
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5.366
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5.376
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5.378
Optimizations
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5.394
- performance optimizations - bug fixes
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5.418
- bugfixes
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5.420
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5.428
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5.434
A refreshed, streamlined design you'll love. Performance upgrades and bug fixes included.
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5.438
A refreshed, streamlined design you'll love. Performance upgrades and bug fixes included.
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5.442
A refreshed, streamlined design you'll love. Performance upgrades and bug fixes included.
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5.444
· 24 Jul 2026
A refreshed, streamlined design you'll love. Performance upgrades and bug fixes included.
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Availability by market
- US
Data quality & evidence
- Page completeness
- Independent summary published
- Last verified
- 30 Aug 2026
- Sources
- App Store