Comparison

Glucometer vs Glucomate

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Glucometer

Easily log and review your glucose and insulin levels. Track your HbA1c results and view averages over selected time periods. This tool helps manage diabetes data alongside professional medical advice.

Highlights
  • Log glucose and insulin levels
  • Track HbA1c results
  • Review glucose averages
  • Day-by-day insulin tracking
  • Data storage and management
Features
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- Store, list, update or delete your fasting and post meal glucose results - Review average of your glucose results within selected time range - Follow your insulin takens day by day - Insert, update or delete your HbA1c results Disclaimer: You should seek a doctor’s advice in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions.

About

Glucomate

Log and visualize your blood glucose levels with elegant summaries and detailed charts. Integrate with HealthKit for seamless data import from monitoring devices. Review trends, compare with sleep and workouts, and gain insights into your health.

Highlights
  • Blood glucose logging
  • HealthKit integration
  • Interactive widgets
  • Apple Watch complications
  • Daily summaries
  • Sleep and workout comparisons
  • Customizable charts
Features
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Glucomate presents your blood glucose data in an elegant way with glanceable summaries and more detailed charts and lists of data. It can be used to record your blood sugar if you check manually – like a logbook – or it can read your glucose readings from HealthKit. Glucomate helps you review history and trends later on with beautiful summaries and charts, a detailed history view, along with sleep and workout comparisons. Glucomate is your go-to companion for staying on top of your blood glucose. It works seamlessly with HealthKit on your device. It can access data from a CGM or other glucose monitoring device as long as it exists in HealthKit. Since any readings entered into Glucomate are stored in HealthKit, these readings become available to other apps that use the data. Glucomate offers a completely free, full-featured Demo Mode. It lets you get a feel for the app before subscribing, or allows you to try out the app even if you don't record your own blood glucose in HealthKit. Main features: • Quick entry of blood glucose data into HealthKit on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch • An interactive widget for an even quicker way of entering a new blood glucose reading • Complications on Apple Watch, widgets on iOS (may require your device to be unlocked for updates to come through) • A summary of the current day, highlighting the most recent glucose reading, along with highs, lows, and time in range • Look at glucose readings during workouts or sleep, and compare your waking glucose across days • Detailed insights and analysis with information and trends from the last 7, 14, 30, 90, 180, or 365 days • History view with averages, high/low information, time in range, and the ability to view all readings for a given day, along with readings during any sleep or workout from that day • Customizable charts that you can show, hide, and reorder to personalize your app experience • A full-featured Demo Mode allowing you to get a feel for the app without having real blood glucose readings in HealthKit • Support for mmol/L and mg/dL units Glucomate tries to be the perfect companion for people who monitor their blood glucose. Is something missing? Got an idea? We're always looking for feedback or new ideas. Feel free to get in touch via the "Contact" button in the app. We'd love to chat! --- Glucomate contains an optional yearly subscription and/or lifetime in-app purchase unlock. A taste of some features is available for free, and some features can be trialed through a Demo Mode. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Subscriptions and trials renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to expiration of the current period. To turn off auto-renew, and/or to manage your subscription, visit your iTunes/App Store account settings. Privacy policy: https://glucomate.app/privacy Terms: https://glucomate.app/terms --- Glucomate respects your privacy. There's no third-party code, and potentially sensitive information such as data read from or written to HealthKit doesn't leave your device.

Screenshots

Glucometer4 screens
Glucomate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Glucomate at every 3 weeks against Glucometer's every 15 months. Glucomate also leads on ratings volume (158 vs 11) and device support (3 vs 1). Glucometer's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Glucometer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Glucomate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Glucometer against 4.3 for Glucomate. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Glucomate has 158 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Glucometer ships an update every 15 months, Glucomate every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 18, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Glucometer versus Glucomate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlucometerGlucomate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (11 ratings)4.3 (158 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—36.7% of reviews
Number of ratings11158 — better
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB33 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperOnur YuzbasiogluHarbour City Software Pty Ltd

Customer experience

Glucometer

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%

Glucomate

All ratings158 ratings
Positive82.3%
Neutral4.4%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive36.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative46.7%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Glucometer

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$5.99
3 purchases

Glucomate

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime unlock$49.99

Questions

Is Glucometer free?
Glucometer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Glucomate free?
Glucomate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Glucometer or Glucomate?
Glucomate is rated higher. Glucometer averages 4.2 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Glucomate averages 4.3 from 158 ratings.
Do Glucometer or Glucomate have ads?
Neither Glucometer nor Glucomate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Glucometer or Glucomate?
Glucometer ships an update every 15 months, and Glucomate every 3 weeks. Most recently, Glucometer was updated on August 18, 2026 and Glucomate on September 21, 2026.

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