Suffering from diabetes? Five apps to help you manage your lifestyle better

Diabetes requires long-term treatment, often spanning over many years. This makes adherence to a blood sugar-controlling lifestyle, such as healthy eating, regular physical activity, and timely medication, a challenge.

It is common for patients to make errors in their diabetes management, by either binge eating carbohydrates on a particular day, not exercising enough, or forgetting to take their medicine. Fortunately, patients today have access to mobile apps that can help them manage their diabetes and keep their blood sugar under control.

Here are five apps that can make the lives of patients with diabetes simpler:

1) Wellthy Diabetes
Wellthy is an AI-powered personal health coach for people with Type 2 diabetes. Carey, its virtual diabetes educator, provides immediate, personalised feedback on logging meals, activity and blood sugar levels. All the logged data gets stored and analysed, and can be shared with the doctor.

The app also provides certified diabetes educators to coach patients and answer their queries, and has been approved to be prescribed by doctors.

2) Life in control
By connecting doctors, patients and diabetes coaches, this app helps people with diabetes manage their blood sugar level and maintain a healthy lifestyle. The app offers personalised and easy-to-follow diet plans, sets daily healthcare goals, provides regular access to the coaches, and allows the doctors to track HbA1C and blood sugar levels, medicines, insulin and other health vitals of their patients.

3) Diabeto
Diabeto provides a comprehensive diabetes management solution. The app allows users to transfer data from around 30 various glucometers via Bluetooth into the smartphone application. With this feature, the app makes self-monitoring of blood glucose extremely simple and fun. All the data is securely synced to a cloud server and can be accessed anytime.

4) Apollo Sugar
This app aims at connecting diabetes care, technology, and the human touch. Users can access their prescriptions, lab reports, and vitals, and gain an understanding about the results. One can also chat with personalised health coaches and get educational information about diabetes. By tracking the patient's daily health parameters, Apollo Sugar helps deliver superior and positive patient outcomes.

5) Habits Diabetes Coach
Designed for those who are either pre-diabetic, starting insulin treatment, or diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, this app helps you achieve moderate weight loss. It also helps you incorporate lifestyle changes to prevent and delay diabetes development. Along with glucose tracking and providing meal recommendations, it provides diabetes lessons for a course of 16 weeks.