Eversense 365

The software is good and stable. Just a couple of things would improve it drastically. 1. The placement guide pops up a message in the middle of trying to place it asking to continue or go to my glucose, interrupting the placement process. Just get rid of that question and if you can keep the screen open until the user clicks to close it. 2. Add complications to the Lock Screen and the watch face would be a major improvement. If possible allow the watch to directly read the data and display your blood glucose without having to have your phone with you. 3. Add either time of the last reading or how long since the last reading with the glucose value on the top of the screen. 4. Add average glucose, GMI and glucose variability in the phone app would make it perfect.

This app does what it is supposed to do, which is interface with the Eversense 365 pod to get blood sugar readings. The UI, however, needs some more thought put into it. Unlike almost every other system I’ve used (Freestyle Libre/Libre2, Dexcom G6/G7), this app almost has a fetish for making the users scroll through numbers to enter a calibration or adjust any other setting using numbers. This is a very frustrating experience that could be easily solved by allowing for DIRECT NUMBER ENTRY like every other app out there. Secondarily, the app alert settings for sound selection are limited to the app sounds from IOS from several years ago. Most of them are almost cheerful, and sound like an incoming call. I can’t believe the devs wouldn’t bundle their own “Stuff’s going down, yo!” alert sound that sounds like an actual alarm. Or allow us to set any of our custom alert sounds to be the alert. This is a quality of life thing that would add a lot of polish to the application that would make it feel less like an afterthought. Also, no screen widget to get my sugar at-a-glance. Finally, there needs to be Siri integration for Shortcuts or similar actions, it is one of the biggest features I’m missing switching over from Dexcom not being able to ask what my glucose is via voice command. For vision impaired users (which tends to happen in the T1 and T2DM diabetic communities) this would be a huge quality of life improvement.

The app is very nice and functions well overall. The only thing I can’t get fixed is that I have specific sounds set in the app itself to play when high/low and no matter what I do.. it comes through my phone with the same sound that’s set in my phones notification settings. It makes me run high through the night because I don’t want to set something super loud and annoying for throughout the day for obvious reasons (which brings up another issue where I can’t have my phone on silent like I could with Dexcom or I get no sound notifications from the app) but I also don’t want to run high because the notification is too short and quiet to wake me up. The vibration from the transmitter doesn’t wake me up either because I’m a deep sleeper but Dexcom had that one down good. I’m in love with this system but the app is the only thing I think really needs upgrading and finding ways to make it better. I’d also really love a dark mode because you can use smart invert in your phone settings if you really want but that still distorts all the colors headers making the background dark :// I really hope someone can help me with the sound issues tho. All my permissions and settings are correct as I’ve checked multiple times but it’s stuck playing this same sound no matter what I do for any and all notifications from the app.