Diabetes Tracker by MyNetDiary 12+

Use it and lose it

Cataloging everything that passes your lips can be very tedious and all the times I tried writing it down I never seemed to be where my log was. With this app and our age of technology, I'm never far from my phone. I love that it interfaces with Fitbit and other apps. Yes the food library is a bit limited but the app provides ways to help them help us. It also allows you to put in your favorite recipe and account for things you'll never find in another place on the planet. It conveniently lets you scan the upc and in most cases, the dietary data is provided. When it doesn't, it's easy as pie to take a pic within the app of the front of pkg and of the nutritional data and they update the system as we collectively provide data. You can keep track of anything you want in this app and it's especially helpful to see trends. It's always a good thing to raise one's awareness and through the use of this app I've been able to significantly lower my A1C, lose 20 pounds over the last year and increase my awareness of what I'm doing to and for my body and health. The spreadsheet is miraculous to review with your doctor and see trends that support your health. My doctor commented, while I showed her the graph on her screen at the Ofc that she wished all her patients were willing to use technology to help themselves. It inspires me to see the guy descend the slope each time I'm able to show another pound gone. Yay for this app!

Great app and great support team

Update: Wow! Support team responded to my direct message and communicated that the insulin tracking issue was being worked on and would be fixed in a few days. Here we are a few days later and the app works like a dream again. Well done!

This was a terrific app but the latest update made the app instantly useless for diabetes management. The Dashboard shows an Insulin tracker. Pretty good right? Nope. Choose this tracker and the next page DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY INSULIN DATA. Instead it shows many other health trackers but NO INSULIN info whatsoever. WTH?! I reach out to support and they state that it’s working they way they intended. With the “update” I’m supposed to now find the My Health section (which is buried at the bottom of the page behind other useless data) and then search for the insulin tracker. Why can’t it just be found under the supposed insulin tracker from the dashboard??!! The best part is that once you finally find the insulin tracker, it now shows a useless bar chart by default which does not include any meaningful past data. Just a bunch of bars that are supposed to indicate insulin units but is so jumbled it renders it, well, useless. Guess I’ll need to find a new app. Frustrating.

Developer Response ,

Hi, Sorry to hear about the trouble. We did have some issues with insulin. They have been fixed in the release 9.19. Please update the app as soon as it is available for you. -- Support Team

Love it, with big reservations

I bought the premium version especially for the meal planner - but the meal planner is SO impractical &?hard to use. For one thing, you can’t copy a recipe (or a food) from Monday’s plan into Friday’s plan, even in the same week. You have to go through the same steps as though entering the recipe (or food)for the 1st time, over & over again. This is a major waste of time. Strangely, once you LOG the plan to the dashboard, THEN you can copy any recipe (or food, or any whole or part day’s entries) to any other day,,, but then it isn’t in the planner - this makes the planner obsolete in terms of further planning, checking macros, etc. There are other features of the dashboard log that aren’t available in the planner: you can’t reorder foods in a particular meal, for example. The same holds true for the whole weekly plan. You can’t lift a meal or a day of meals and paste it to a different week. But you CAN do this on the dashboard. In the planner, you can copy a whole weekly meal plan, but not parts of it. Who copies a whole week of menus without varying them? I’m just planning my meals on the dashboard & editing them, like I did before I paid for the planner! Also the “How To” videos are nearly impossible to learn from. They move at a very quick pace and often the screen shots are at a distance, so you can’t see them well or pause the video to figure out a particular transaction. I hope the planner AND the planner-teaching-videos get improved.