Veri - Understand What You Eat 4+

Loving the data

I’ve been consistently using Veri for a few months now and have made some significant changes to my diet and lifestyle now that I am equipped with data about how my body responds.

There are a couple of little things that are keeping me from making this a five star review- namely the integration with Oura pulls over my “time in bed” vs my actual sleep. I struggle with insomnia so I’m often in bed for enough hours but not actually asleep. The snap shot in veri isn’t an accurate representation of my actual sleep.

Like others have mentioned, i wish you didn’t have to write text with every scan. Sometimes I’m on the go and don’t want to have a gap (like at work, or on a road trip) but am not in a position to type anything out.

The support team is INCREDIBLE, and all these little issues aside, their willingness to help solve my issues in a speedy way is why I keep using the app after all these months.

Additionally, their speed to market on features enhancements and bug fixes is impressive.

Overall, I love Veri. I wish the cost could come down a bit, but until the healthcare world recognizes that CGM technology should be affordable and covered for the people trying to prevent disease (vs those already sick with diabetes and managing disease), I don’t see this happening.

If you’re curious about how your body responds to the foods you eat and the lifestyle you live, I strongly suggest you give veri a try!

Positive reinforcement for disordered eating

Because this app focuses so myopically on JUST glucose responses - it can offer positive reinforcement for the wrong things when trying to consider a healthy, sustainable diet. The app happily gave me my best scores on days where I forgot to eat; even if I was hungry and had a terrible headache by the end of the day, and my body felt like trash, the app cheerfully offered me a 95 daily heath score!

The meal scoring also offered very low scores for foods like fresh fruits that (while they might cause a totally normal, more “spiked” blood glucose response than other foods, are still inarguably healthy foods that should be a part of any well balanced diet!). Because the food journal doesn’t include consideration for ANY nutrients, doesn’t offer the ability to track nutritional composition of foods, and the app doesn’t consider any biomarker other than blood sugar, it is not what I would consider a complete or helpful way to evaluate or change your lifestyle or optimize your metabolic health… there is so much more to metabolism than blood sugar!!!

If you do use the app, don’t put too much stock into the daily food scores - too many “high” scores for foods and activities I know aren’t healthy or sustainable, and “low” scores for things I logically know are healthy and reasonable!

Missing Data

This is a nice easy to understand app that provides great insights into your health. I have two complaints though.

First is missing data. I see the data in Freestyle Libre but Veri will show a 6 hour gap with no data. Eventually Veri will catch up but it’s frustrating. This doesn’t happen frequently but it happens enough to be annoying. I’ve seen it occur about 6 times in the last 2 weeks. I’ve already reached out to Tech Support.

Second is the pricing. Remember you’re only getting 2 sensors for the 3 month subscription. So that’s a total of 1 month of sensors as each one lasts 2 weeks. That means you’ll have 2 months of your subscription where you’ll have no sensors which makes the app pretty useless. You can buy more sensors but that adds to the cost. So at face value Veri looks cheap compared to Levels or Nutrisense but once you factor in buying additional sensors the cost savings is wiped out.

Developer Response ,

Hi there,
Thanks for the feedback! With any issues with the app, sensor or data, please reach out to our team via the in-app chat and our team will be happy to troubleshoot! There should not be any gaps in the data if the sensor is scanned at least once every 8 hours, so we hope our team has been able to resolve the issue for you!

We aim to keep our pricing competitive with the market and offer a membership based on the natural usage frequency of our customers (most people want to take breaks from monitoring). For those who wish to use the CGM's continuously, we offer additional sensors at-cost. We are continuously building our app to provide as much value as possible whether or not you are currently using a CGM.

To top health,
Team Veri