For people with T1D and the family who follows them · iPhone
From unpredictable spikes to clear patterns: see what works for every meal. Live glucose, meals and doses on one timeline, shared with the people who follow along: a parent, a partner, a sibling.
Works with
Glide is not affiliated with or endorsed by Dexcom, Abbott, Medtrum, Tandem, Glooko or the Nightscout project.
How it works
Each entry keeps the plate, the carbs, the dose and the readings that followed. Have the same meal again, and the new day files next to the old ones.
Type the carbs, or snap the plate and AI drafts the count in an editable field.
Meals and doses sit on the CGM chart, from any family phone. Replay goes back day by day.
Log the same meal again and Glide shows its history on the Home tab: how many times you logged it, how often you stayed in range, and the insulin-to-carbohydrate ratio (ICR) you used.
The My Lab tab lists each time you logged that meal: the photo, the ICR, the pre-bolus timing, and your time in range afterward.
My Lab
Waffles, tacos, cereal: My Lab files every meal you repeat under one entry and scores each time against what actually happened after. The more you log, the more your library knows.
Time in range and median rise per meal, from the meals and readings you logged.
A verdict appears only after enough repeats. A single day proves nothing.
Every trial shows its ICR and pre-bolus timing, so you can compare what you did.
Log a meal you’ve had before, and Glide shows how it went on previous days.
Carbify
AI proposes a count and a description in an editable field. Nothing is logged until you accept it, and the final number is always yours. Refine in plain words: “add an apple”, “only half the rice”.
| Measured on | Average miss | Share of meal | Within ±10 g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Familiar home meals19 of our own weighed meals, shot on a phone | 2.0 g | 12% of 17 g | 89% |
| Packaged foods, per serving200 products from Open Food Facts, vs. the label | 3.5 g | 16% of 22 g | 91% |
| Plated meals300 lab-weighed dishes from Nutrition5k | 11.9 g | 34% of 35 g | 57% |
| Hand-counting by people with T1D448 meals, 50 adults, dietitian-verified (Brazeau et al.) | 15.4 g | 21% of 72 g | – |
As a share of the meal, hand-counting beats our plated estimate. Different meals and protocols, so not a same-test comparison. Method, benchmarks and weak spots.
Lock Screen, alerts & nightstand
The latest reading stays on the Lock Screen. Lows, fast rises and falls, and lost signal arrive as a banner. A low overnight rings your phone: an actual call, the kind that wakes you. Every threshold, window and interval is yours to set.
Turn on Live Activity, and the reading, the arrow and the last 3 hours stay on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while Glide is closed.
The number, the arrow and the last two changes. Read it and move on.
Cross your low threshold in the hours you pick, and Glide calls, then calls back until the low clears. It also calls when readings stop arriving.
Tap the reading: a black screen with the number, trend, clock and a faint sparkline. It stays awake all night, and your brightness settings stay in charge.
Insights
Time in ranges, GMI and GRI for any period from 3 days to 6 months. Below them, Glide compares each hour with your own best 1 in 4 days and names the 3 hours to look at, weekdays and weekends apart. Share the whole period as a PDF for the clinic or the school nurse. Free, for every profile.
Time in ranges, GMI, GRI with its zone letter, a typical day and daily time in range, against the 2019 consensus goals. The PDF report
Time in range by hour against your own best days. The gap shows where the time goes. How it works
With a pump connected (beta): each high or low sorted by what came before it, such as a high after a bolus or a rebound after a low. Below it, breakfast, lunch and dinner as bands. Meal-time spikes
Screens show made-up data. Some of every good day is luck, so the gain is the most you could expect. Observations from your own data, not medical advice.
For the family
A profile is one person's CGM: your child, your partner, your parent, or you. Everyone who follows signs in with their own account.
Following someone else's CGM
Press and hold Carbify to see four options: Ask to treat low, Ask to bolus, Manual BG and Note. Slide to either “Ask to” option and let go to send a notification to their phone, regardless of their Glide alert settings. Sending a request doesn’t log a meal or dose, and the message contains no insulin amount. When they log the bolus or carbs, it appears on your chart. They can also answer: hold Carbify and tap On it, and every follower gets a notification.
The two requests are available to followers. For example, a parent can send one to a child who owns the profile and uses Glide on their own phone.
The owner makes an invite code in Settings → Followers. It works once and expires after 7 days.
Any follower can add, edit or delete a meal or a dose. It shows on every phone that follows the profile.
Access ends right away, and the profile's data is cleared from that person's phone.
Anyone on the profile can buy Premium, and it covers everyone. Followers see that the profile is covered, not who pays.
Grandma can read mmol/L while you read mg/dL. Units and display settings belong to each account.
An adult connects their own CGM and invites a partner or a sibling. For a child, a parent runs the profile; under 13, a parent agrees in the app.
Shortcuts
Hold the graph, then slide. A cursor follows your finger and shows the time and the reading at each point.
Swipe the graph sideways. It flips between 3 hours back with the 3-hour forecast, and the whole day.
Press and hold Carbify, slide to Manual BG or Note, and let go. If you follow someone, you’ll also see Ask to treat low and Ask to bolus.
Tap the reading. A black screen shows the number, the trend and the clock, and stays awake. Tap once more, or swipe up or down, to leave.
Privacy
Each line below links to the part of the privacy policy that says it.
Data goes only to the providers that run Glide, such as AWS for hosting.
Who we share data with →Product analytics are anonymous and not tied to you.
What we collect →The AI provider keeps no copy and does not train on it. Type the carbs instead, and nothing goes to the AI provider.
AI carb estimates →On a shared family phone, signing out removes the cached health data from the device.
Security →Settings → Delete account removes the account, and for an owner, the profile's readings, events and photos.
Retention & deletion →Connect your CGM and pump
Glide gets the readings through each maker's own sharing service, or from your Nightscout site. In the app: Settings → CGM, or Set up monitoring on a new account. Pumps connect in Settings → Pump. Anyone else joins that profile with an invite code instead.
Reads through Dexcom Share
A Dexcom Follow login won't work. Only the wearer's account can share readings.
Reads through LibreLinkUp
The wearer's own Libre or LibreView login won't work. Glide reads through a LibreLinkUp follower account.
Reads through EasyFollow
The wearer's own EasySense login won't work. Glide reads through a follower account.
Reads your Nightscout site
readable.Your API_SECRET won't work. Glide accepts only a read-only token, so it can never write to your site.
The profile owner connects the pump. Glide imports boluses and the carbs entered in the pump's bolus calculator. Home and Replay show them as outlined labels (Settings → Display → Show pump doses), and a bolus also logged in Glide within 15 minutes shows once. Insights and My Lab's By time of day use them too. Basal is not imported. Dose from the pump, never from Glide.
Reads through Tandem Source
Tandem has not approved this connection. Glide reads Tandem Source the way tconnectsync does, so a Tandem change can stop imports until Glide is updated. The Tandem app uploads about once an hour, so data can be over an hour old.
Reads through Glooko
Glooko has not approved this connection. Data arrives when the pump's app syncs, and Glide checks every hour. From Glooko, Glide also reads the pump's carb ratio and correction factor for each time of day, which the forecast can use.
Pricing
One Premium subscription covers everyone on the profile: the owner and every follower.
Free
$0
Always
Premium
$7.99 / month
or $59.99 / year · first 2 weeks free
Why I built this
Juicebox Podcast episode #217 tells the story of a teenager who loved one candy and could never get it right. He bought a week's worth, got one of the first CGMs, and ran the same experiment every day (dose, eat, watch the numbers, adjust) until he found what worked for him.
Single days lie. The same meal and the same dose give a different number, and the only way through is repetition. Most families don't have the energy for that, because T1D already takes all of it.
Glide is that week of testing, made automatic: every meal logged in seconds, every outcome scored, every repeat compared.
— Jan, building Glide for my kid
Questions
Dexcom G6 and G7, FreeStyle Libre 2, 3 and 3 Plus, Medtrum EasySense, and any CGM that uploads to a Nightscout site (beta). See Connect your CGM for the login each one needs.
In beta, from Tandem Source (t:slim X2, Mobi) or Glooko (Omnipod 5 and other pumps). Imported boluses and carbs show on the chart as outlined labels, and in Insights. Dose from the pump, never from Glide. Details.
No, never. Glide shows your own logged history and what followed; dosing decisions stay with you and your care team. It is not a medical device. Keep your CGM app and the rest of your usual diabetes tools running exactly as they are.
Anyone can hold an account. Under 13, a parent agrees in the app when the account is created. Parents can also run the profile from their own phone, and family members join with a one-time invite code.
The next three hours if you take no further action, from recent readings and the insulin and carbs you logged, with a cone sized from its own measured errors. How it works.
Any one account on the profile can subscribe, and Premium then covers everyone on it. Followers see that the profile is covered, not who pays.
Connect your CGM, invite the family, and snap dinner tonight.
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