Side by side
From each maker's own documents, checked 6 October 2026. Not stated means the documents say nothing, not that the app cannot do it. All seven apps.
| Glide | Dexcom Follow |
|---|---|
| Price | |
| Free, including the call. Photo carbs and My Lab are Premium: $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year for the whole profile source | Free source |
| Phones and other screens | |
| iPhone and Apple Watch. No Android, web, widget or CarPlay source | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android source source |
| Followers per person | |
| No limit (invite codes) source | Up to 10 source |
| Follow more than one person | |
| No: one profile per account source | Up to 25 (US listing) source |
| Low and high alerts | |
| Low. No high alert source | Urgent low (fixed at 55 mg/dL in the US), low, high; the follower sets the levels source |
| Rise and fall alerts | |
| Falling fast, rising fast source | Not in its documented alarm list (urgent low, low, high, no data) source |
| Alert when readings stop | |
| Banner after 15 to 120 minutes, your choice (30 by default) source | “No Data” notification, off until the follower turns it on source |
| Sound on a silenced iPhone | |
| Banners: no, but they show during a Focus that allows Time Sensitive. Call: rings through Silent and Focus with Emergency Bypass source | Follows the phone's settings; can be allowed in a Focus source source |
| Phone call | |
| On a low and on lost signal, in the night hours you set, to US, Canada and Europe numbers (free) source | Not in its documented alarm list source |
| Log meals and insulin | |
| Meals, insulin, notes, fingersticks, from any family phone source | not stated |
| Find repeats of a meal | |
| On its own, from the words you log for each meal (My Lab, Premium) source | not stated |
| Setup | |
| The wearer's Dexcom login, a LibreLinkUp or EasyFollow follower account, or a read-only Nightscout token source source source | Invite from the Dexcom G7 or G6 app source |
Where Dexcom Follow is stronger
- Android and iPad, as well as iPhone and Apple Watch.
- One follower can follow up to 25 people (US listing). Glide follows one person per account.
- A high alert and an urgent low alert. Glide has no high alert.
- It is Dexcom's own app.
Try Glide beside Dexcom Follow
- In the wearer's Dexcom app, keep Share on. In Glide, tap Connect a CGM, pick Dexcom and enter the wearer's own Dexcom login (a Dexcom Follow login does not work). Setup for each model.
- Invite the family: Settings → Followers → Invite a follower. Each person installs Glide, taps Watch someone else's glucose, enters the code and taps Join.
- On your phone, go to Settings → Notifications, turn on Signal lost and set No reading for (30 minutes by default, 15 to 120).
- For the night: Settings → Alerts → Add a phone number. Enter a mobile number (outside the US, with its country code) and the code Glide texts you.
- Under Wake-up call, set the hours (10 PM to 8 AM by default). Under When to call, keep Call on signal loss on.
- Tap Add caller to Contacts. In Contacts, open that contact, tap Edit → Ringtone and turn on Emergency Bypass, so the call rings through Silent and Focus.
- Tap Send a test call.
What you see
- At night, a real phone call from Glide Alarm. Glide's server places it, so the app does not have to be open.
- Another call every 15 minutes by default (the Snooze setting), until readings come back.
- The chart fills in when the sensor reconnects.
Questions
Can I keep Dexcom Follow?
Yes. Glide reads the same data, so Dexcom Follow and Glide work side by side.
Does Glide replace the CGM's alarms?
No. Glide is not a medical device. Keep the alarms on in the wearer's CGM app.
What does Glide cost?
Glide is free: readings, the chart, followers, alerts, the nighttime call, the report and the Apple Watch app. Glide Premium ($4.99 a month or $39.99 a year, two weeks free) adds photo carb counting and My Lab's food groups.
More with Glide
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