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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1799589" data-attributes="member: 374531">Hi, [USER=472213]@CranberryIce[/USER] , xDrip+ only works on android phones, so it won't run on ios.However, there's a similar app, Spike, for ios4+ and I've seen screenshots showing it having blucon as a data source option.<a href="https://spike-app.com" target="_blank">https://spike-app.com</a>I've not used it myself but there's been some decent reviews of it. The developers move in the same circles and a guy who is involved with it was building his own ios version of xdrip+, so they'll have a lot of common features.Here's an interview with the developer.<a href="https://www.deebee.it/?p=14531&lang=en" target="_blank">https://www.deebee.it/?p=14531&lang=en</a>xdrip+ has certainly got buttons which allow entering food and bolus, but not exercise, although if you've got a smartwatch with a stepcounter, it'll show up exercise on the timeline as a series of green blobs. You can attach notes as well. I assume spike will have too.I think [USER=468055]@Mel dCP[/USER] has got spike, but not yet got blucon. Mel, can you throw some light on what spike's got for recording food/bolus and whether it's got predictive simulation? Don't know whether spike does this but xdrip deals with carbs/bolus entries much better than the libre reader. You can edit things like your own personal carb ratios, and switch on a feature called predictive simulations, so that when you enter carbs/bolus, it'll map out on the graph some purple dots predicting where that might take you, see pic below.It's surprisingly accurate, takes a while to read it properly, but it's  useful when I'm in two minds about whether a bolus should be, say, 6 or 8, just fire them in and see what the graph looks like for each.In the pic, you can see I prebolused 7u about 30 mins before a 75g meal, then there's a downward dip and then starts to curve up when I took the screenshot at 12:47. I can then see the prediction, the purple dots, reckoning it'll steady out before tracking up to 8, so when I see something like that, I'd be saying, ok, keep an eye on that, the prediction will rejig as it gets more info each 5 mins, so if I then see the blue dots tracking up more sharply and the prediction going above 8, I'd be thinking about whether a small 2u correction would be needed. I'd be guided a bit by the green line which shows iob which makes it a little easier to see when peak action is due.I've never had librelink and xdrip running on the same phone, so don't know whether you could use both together nor how it would with spike. I'd guess that because blucon and spike are using bluetooth and librelink uses nfc, they might work on the dame phone. I can still use the reader if I want to.[ATTACH=full]26830[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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