Comparison

Ando vs Beta Cell Lab Notes

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

Head to head
About

Ando

This app visualizes continuous glucose monitor (CGM) data alongside activities, sleep, and food logs. It offers personalized dashboards and insights into how lifestyle choices impact blood sugar. Users can also create and share visually appealing activity highlight cards.

Highlights
  • Personalized glucose dashboard
  • Activity, sleep, and food logging
  • CGM data overlay on activities
  • Shareable activity highlight cards
  • Integration with fitness trackers
  • Direct CGM connections
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Ando connects your continuous glucose monitor (CGM) with your life (activities, sleep, food, ...): all in one place. APP FEATURES - Personalized Dashboard: See your glucose with style. Your data at a glance. - Activity Insights: Get your activities with insights. Exercise, sleep, and food logs with CGM overlay. See how each activity affects your blood sugar. - Share Your Moments: Create shareable cards for Instagram Stories. Save or share your activity highlights with one tap. CGM CONNECTIONS - Dexcom: Connect your Dexcom G6 or G7 directly via OAuth. - LibreLinkUp: Connect your FreeStyle Libre 2 or Libre 3 via LibreLinkUp. - Nightscout: Connect your Nightscout server for full flexibility. - Medtronic: Connect your Medtronic sensor directly via OAuth. - Medtrum: Connect your Medtrum sensor directly via OAuth. INTEGRATIONS Connect it with your favorite apps. Ando works with: Strava, Fitbit, WHOOP, Garmin and many more to come... TERMS OF USE (EULA) This app uses the standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Ando Terms of Service: https://ando.care/terms Privacy Policy: https://ando.care/privacy SUPPORT Have a question or feedback? contact@ando.care --- — IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Ando is NOT a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendations. Ando does not connect directly to CGM hardware. It displays glucose data from manufacturer cloud services or user-hosted Nightscout. The underlying CGM sensors (Dexcom G6/G7, FreeStyle Libre 2/3) have regulatory clearance in specific regions only. Users must verify that their CGM device is approved for use in their country before relying on it. Supported regions where these devices are cleared include: United States (FDA), European Union and UK (CE marking), Canada (Health Canada), Australia (TGA), and Japan (PMDA). Ando is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Supported CGM devices have independent regulatory clearances in their respective markets: • Dexcom G6/G7: FDA 510(k) cleared (USA), CE marked (EU/UK), Health Canada, TGA (Australia), PMDA (Japan) • FreeStyle Libre/Libre 2/Libre 3: FDA 510(k) cleared (USA), CE marked (EU/UK), Health Canada, TGA (Australia), PMDA (Japan) Users are responsible for ensuring their CGM device is available and has appropriate regulatory clearance in their country or region before use. This app is not intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of any disease or medical condition. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional for medical decisions.

About

Beta Cell Lab Notes

Features
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Ever finish a run wondering why your blood sugar dropped like a stone one day and climbed the next — same route, same breakfast, same dose? Beta Cell Lab Notes is the organized home where you log, chart, reflect, and finally understand what exercise does to your glucose. It doesn't guess for you. It shows what happened, so you can work it out yourself. EVERY VARIABLE, ONE TIMELINE Your workout already lives in Apple Health. Your glucose and heart rate are in there too. What's missing is everything you did around it. Log your food, insulin boluses, and basal changes, and the app lays them over your glucose trace and heart rate on one synchronized timeline. The pre-run snack, the dose two hours earlier, the temp basal at the trailhead, the moment your heart rate climbed — all beside what your blood sugar was doing right then. Now you can see the effect your food, insulin, and workout intensity actually had on you. SEE THE INPUTS, NOT JUST THE OUTPUT Each factor draws as its own curve, so you can tell them apart at a glance: • Insulin — dips as the dose takes hold, tapers as it wears off. Inhaled gets its own faster shape. • Carbs — a bell that rises and falls with digestion, running longer for higher-fat meals. • Basal — eases into its new level, because a temp basal doesn't arrive all at once. • Heart rate — with your training zones, since intensity is a variable too. • Insulin on board — how much is still working at any moment. Scrub for exact values, pinch to zoom into the interesting few minutes, and switch between a combined view and one chart per factor. Every workout gets time in range, average and range, and an intensity read from your heart-rate zones. REFLECT WHILE IT'S FRESH The chart tells you what happened. Only you know how it felt. Tag each workout with a quick emoji — good, fine, rough, or a low — and note what you'd change while it's still fresh. Search your reflections later to find every session you described the same way, and they travel with the workout into anything you export. Patterns show up in your own words long before they show up in a number. LOG FROM YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch companion logs glucose, insulin, and food in a couple of taps, so you never miss a factor mid-run or at post-workout brunch. WORKS WITH YOUR SETUP • No CGM? Enter readings by hand and they anchor your chart just the same. • No sports watch? Add a workout manually with the details you know, and leave the rest blank. • Pump doesn't share carbs or boluses? Enter them here and they're written to Apple Health for everything else to use. Supports MDI, inhaled insulin, and both manual and automated (AID) pumps — including exercise-mode markers, so a shifted target shows up on the chart. SHARE IT WITH YOUR CARE TEAM Export any workout, or a batch of them, as a PDF or image — built for a printed page and a real conversation: charts, your stats, and your reflection, with editable note fields to fill in together. Blank printable templates are included too if you want to log by hand. BUILT AROUND YOUR JUDGMENT This app tracks and shows you patterns. It does not tell you what to do. No dosing suggestions, no predictions, no nudges. Every insight belongs to you, and every decision stays between you and your care team — reflecting the Beta Cell Foundation's view that informed self-knowledge is the most powerful tool a person with type 1 diabetes has. Beta Cell Lab Notes is an educational and record-keeping tool. It is not a medical device and must not be used to make treatment decisions. PRIVACY FIRST BY DESIGN Your health data stays in Apple Health and on your devices. It's never sent to us — no account to create, no server holding your glucose history. Your logbook syncs across your own devices through private iCloud, visible only to you. FREE FOREVER The app is free with no in-app purchases or ads. Because your health should never be paywalled. From the Beta Cell Foundation.

Screenshots

Ando4 screens
Beta Cell Lab Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Beta Cell Lab Notes at every 2 days against Ando's every 9 days. Ando's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ando ships an update every 9 days, Beta Cell Lab Notes every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ando versus Beta Cell Lab Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAndoBeta Cell Lab Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB4 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAretaeusBeta Cell Foundation

In-app purchases

None

Ando

No in-app purchases

None

Beta Cell Lab Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ando free?
Ando is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beta Cell Lab Notes free?
Beta Cell Lab Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ando or Beta Cell Lab Notes have ads?
Neither Ando nor Beta Cell Lab Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ando or Beta Cell Lab Notes?
Ando ships an update every 9 days, and Beta Cell Lab Notes every 2 days. Most recently, Ando was updated on October 10, 2026 and Beta Cell Lab Notes on October 1, 2026.

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