Glooko vs Dexcom Clarity
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Glooko
This app helps individuals manage their diabetes by tracking blood glucose, insulin, weight, exercise, food, and medications. It facilitates remote collaboration with healthcare providers by sharing data and reports, enabling better informed health decisions.
- Track blood glucose, insulin, weight, exercise, food, and medications
- Sync data from over 200 diabetes devices
- Share health data with care teams
- View glucose trends with reports and charts
- Digital logbook for activities and events
- Integrate data from activity trackers
- Barcode scanner for food intake
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Glooko is a comprehensive diabetes management platform that helps people with diabetes quickly and easily understand and control their blood glucose levels and well-being. People with diabetes looking to take the next step with their diabetes management can track their blood glucose, insulin, weight, exercise, food, and medications in one place to make more informed decisions around their health. Designed to enhance the relationship between people with diabetes and their healthcare providers, the free and secure Glooko Mobile App helps users stay connected and collaborate remotely with their care teams between visits, identify trends, share reports, and keep their diabetes and related health data in a single app. The clinically proven Glooko platform syncs data from more than 200 diabetes and health monitoring devices, including blood glucose meters (BGM), insulin pump, continuous glucose monitors (CGM), smart scales, fitness apps, and activity trackers. Health data can be synced from compatible connected devices and third party diabetes and health monitoring apps, or manually inputted. For a complete list of compatible devices and apps, visit www.glooko.com/compatibility. POPULAR FEATURES: • Automatically share health data with care teams through unique ProConnect codes. • View glucose trends in multiple ways, using the same easy-to-understand reports and charts as care teams. • Use a digital logbook to automatically track activities and events in one place. • Sync data from BGMs, insulin pumps and pens, and CGMs. • Integrate data from popular activity trackers, including Apple Health, Fitbit, and Strava. • Add food and nutrition intake using the built-in barcode scanner, search functionality, or voice activated database. Glooko does not measure, interpret,or make decisions on the data it conveys nor is it intended to provide automated treatment decisions or be used as a substitute for professional judgment. All medical diagnosis and treatment are to be performed under the supervision and oversight of an appropriate healthcare provider. Not all product features are available in all countries. If you have concerns with your current diabetes diagnosis and treatment, please contact your healthcare provider.
Dexcom Clarity
This app provides diabetes management insights for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) users. It helps identify glucose patterns and trends over time, aiding in better diabetes control and potentially increasing time in target glucose ranges. Users can track key metrics, share data with healthcare providers, and set personalized goals.
- Glucose pattern and trend analysis
- Time in range tracking
- Data sharing with healthcare professionals
- Setting Time in Range goals
- Report viewing, saving, printing, and emailing
- Notifications and email alerts
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Dexcom Clarity is a diabetes management application for CGM users. It provides relevant insights into users’ retrospective glucose values, patterns, and trends over time. Dexcom Clarity is an important part of your Dexcom CGM system. It can help you identify glucose patterns and, with your healthcare professional, determine the potential causes of those patterns. Dexcom Clarity users experience up to 15% increased time in range (70-180mg/dL) as compared to non-users.* Log in with your Dexcom account to: • Keep tabs on your time in range, patterns and other key metrics. • Allow clinics to access to your data and reports to make appointments more efficient. • Set Time in Range goals. • Turn on daily or weekly notifications and emails. • View, save, print, and email all reports. • Connect to partner apps for more features and benefits. This app store should not be used as your first point of contact to resolve technical or customer services issues. In order to protect your privacy and personal information, and promptly resolve any technical or customer services issues you are having with any Dexcom product, please contact 1-888-738-3646. Dexcom is required to follow up with customers regarding product-related complaints. If Dexcom determines that your comment/complaint requires follow up, a technical support representative will attempt to contact you to gather more information regarding your comment/complaint. *Parker AS, Welsh J, Jimenez A, Walker T. Insights from big data (2): Benefits of self-guided retrospective review of continuous glucose monitoring reports. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2018;20(S1):A-27.
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Verdict
Glooko and Dexcom Clarity both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 46% of Dexcom Clarity's written reviews are positive against 29% of Glooko's. Dexcom Clarity also leads on chart position (#171 vs unranked). Glooko's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Glooko against 4.6 for Dexcom Clarity. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9.7K and 13K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 29% of Glooko's written reviews are positive against 46% of Dexcom Clarity's.
Glooko ships an update monthly, Dexcom Clarity every 3 months. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Glooko | Dexcom Clarity |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (9.7K ratings) — better | 4.6 (13K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 28.9% of reviews | 45.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.7K | 13K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #171 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 150 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Glooko, Inc. | Dexcom |
Customer experience
Glooko
Dexcom Clarity
User reviews
Glooko
From 9.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent for pre-diabetes monitoring
- 👍 Helpful for understanding serving sizes
- 👍 Great piece of tool for blood glucose monitoring
- 👍 Accuracy at its best
- 👍 Excellent app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Sync issues with devices
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Blank screen issues
- 🐛 Unreliable and laggy
- 🐛 Difficult to register and set up
Dexcom Clarity
From 13K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Provides great insight
- 📊 Helpful reports and data
- 💯 Life-changing device
- 🔍 Detailed glucose tracking
- 🤝 Integrates with healthcare providers
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connectivity issues
- 🔒 Login problems
- 📉 Unreliable sensor readings
- 🚫 Doesn't work internationally
- 📱 Poor iPad support
Bugs and requests
Glooko
Reported bugs
5 issues- Sync issues with devices
- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Blank screen issues
- Inability to register and set up
- Delayed data sync
Requested features
8 requests- Add Mobi integration
- Improve food logging functionality
- Add ability to delete/edit entries
- Enhance Apple Health integration
- Improve sync reliability and speed
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- Optimize UI for iPad
- Add insulin dosage calculation and IOB tracking
- Unify meal entry and dosage calculation
Dexcom Clarity
Reported bugs
4 issues- Reports not updating
- Clarity app crashing
- Sensor calibration issues
- Data not syncing between apps
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to add personal notes
- Customizable report formatting
- More detailed data export options
- Ability to adjust graph scales
- Display daily high/low/average glucose
In-app purchases
Glooko
No in-app purchases
Dexcom Clarity
No in-app purchases
Questions
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