Diabetes Pilot for Android

I purchased this application for Android, Android and Mobile years ago and have been had a positive experience with the applications. Now the functionality I used is being held hostage for an annual fee. If I knew this originally I could have made an informed decision, now it feels like paying an annual ransim is required for what I have been using. I know the industry is going this way, but the policy is stated when the app is purchased, not after years of use. I have found another application that even supports iCloud jsynchronization. Bye Diabetes Pilot!

Nice app but I am upset the developer does not update the app at all. There are so many new features that could be implemented with the newer versions of iOS and Android and last update was 2014. Either the developer gave up, although he says he hasn’t or he is plain lazy, not that there is anything wrong with that. I am considering swithing to MyFitness Pal that is constantly updating to take advantage of new OS frameworks and api’s. Too bad he has a good start. ;(

I really like what this app does. It’s pretty easy to navigate and enter your data. Just needs to have a “recently entered” list. The thing I don’t like is that I enter 95% of my data on my Android because, well…it’s ALWAYS with me. Now that I have been using the sister app on my Android they want me to pay for a monthly or annual subscription. Shouldn’t the sister app be free, especially since I paid $30 for this one? Or at the very least be a cheap one time purchase price. Glad I synced my data up a couple of days ago because now it’s being held hostage in my phone because I can’t sync it without a subscription because, apparently, it’s been three weeks. I will now have to manually enter into the app on my desktop everything for the past few days. Not cool.

Recently diagnoses with diabetes and literally contains everything I need to track the management of my diabetes. Excellent notes feature and the ability to place entries that are not strictly about diabetes. The saved foods save me a lot of time. Highlt recommended,

I find the glucose and exercise programs exceptional. I would like to see a line for A1C readings. I really don’t like the food logging program at all. Some products for which I wanted to alter quantities were measured in ounces; i needed them to be measured in cups or tsp or tblsp. Altering amounts requires an esoteric knowledge of how the foods are calculated, then apply basic arithmetic to recalculate volumes appropriately. The locating foodstuffs is awful, and requires guesses as to how the particular food is catalogued. It is not a transparent part of the program. I use another much simpler program for logging food, then transfer calories and carbs to Diabetes Pilot by using the Quick Entry button. Fortunately that part of the program accepts all kinds of names that I can use for these entries. If Calorie Count provided Glucose logging, and a place for A1C logging I would use that program exclusively. But they don’t. What I do works for me, therefore I am content to give Diabetes Pilot a 3 star.