Signos 4+

Genuinely feel 10 years younger.

I found Signos after learning about CGMs through another company when I was looking for answers about why I felt like garbage all the time. I had a high BF%, erratic menstrual cycles, ocular migraines, nearly debilitating anxiety, and I was tired every moment of every day. The first week I spent most of my time terrified thinking something was wrong with the sensor, or me, because it showed my blood sugar constantly low even though I wasn't hungry. The second week I made it a goal to log everything I ate. By the third week, I started to see that certain foods created spikes. And after spikes come dips. And those dips coincided when I felt the worst. Now on my third month, workouts come easy about five times a week. I have more energy than I did ten years ago. I eat more, and somehow I’m still losing weight (which honestly wasn’t even the reason I signed up in the first place). My anxiety is what I would consider a healthy one and no longer debilitating. I don’t take naps anymore. And I’m genuinely happier. I didn’t know much about metabolic health before Signos. Just the same diet and sleep stuff everyone reads about. But this, this has changed the entire game for me.

Best way to understand how what I eat affects my body

Wow! I’ve been using Signos for a while now, and I had no idea how sensitive I am to simple carbs. One cup of white rice made my glucose spike as high as 50 g of sugar. I have learned to make small adjustments, and I can now keep my energy constant throughout the day. I’ve slowly but surely lost 8 lbs. Really great tool and experience.

Thank you for access. Otherwise … just fell off turnip truck.

* Just pushed a major (v x.0.0) upgrade.
On a week-end!! (Way to demoralize your engineering and support trams!)

* It’s required: it blocked your screen until upgrade.

* Microsoft trained me to NEVER do a major upgrade until other people do. But I figured damned if I do, damned if I don’t.

(Hint: taking away my agency is terrible UX.) App is now showing data AND ALSO showing it’s not connected to the Dexcom sensor.

Bug. A particularly confusing bug, what am I supposed to do? (Ans: look at the Dexcom app until the engineers who have to deal with this push a patch.)

* Their onboarding was frustratingly directive, also. You could never skip. And you couldn’t see ahead. Turns out, I can figure out my own experimentation; it was not worth the changes to my eating plan to do theirs.

In short, as an app, 2 stars.
Embarrassingly authoritarian.
(It gets the extra because it’s pretty stable.)

As a concept? 5 stars.
* If you’re trying to control your metabolic health you really want a CGM.
* Traumatized by the scale? Figure out what works for you and dump the scale - monitor your cgm.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for taking the time to share and we're sorry to hear about your experience!

We agree Friday releases are not ideal and apologize for any frustration it caused. Also, thank you for the feedback about our onboarding UX, we'll review that internally. We are always looking for ways to improve our member experience.

Any issues related to the initial release should be fixed with the latest version and we do apologize for the frustrating experience. If you are still experiencing any issues or have any questions, please reach out to support@signos.com so we can help make things right.