The Beet
You live with type 1 diabetes.
- Share your glucose with the people you trust.
- Ask for help in one tap, with your latest reading attached.
- Share insulin on board only if you want to, Buddy by Buddy.
Your glucose, shared with the people who care.
For people living with type 1 diabetes and the family and friends they choose.
In development. Not available yet.
Good Morning
Beet Buddy
Glucose is in range and steady.
Current glucose is 112 mg/dL and in range. 98% time in range over the past 24 hours.
Viewing Chris
CURRENT BG · 2 MIN OLD
112mg/dL→
In range3H6H12H24H
Meet the Beet and the Buddy
Beet Buddy is being designed for two people. One shares their glucose, and the other keeps an eye out.
The Buddy
You look out for someone with type 1 diabetes.
- See their latest reading, which way it's heading and how old it is.
- Get Low and High alerts at numbers you choose.
- Hear about it if new readings stop arriving.
Sample preview
Try a Nudge
Nudges are short messages Beet Buddy is being designed to send between a Beet and a Buddy. Send one as Chris, the Beet, and watch it reach Lisa, the Buddy.
Good Morning
Beet Buddy
Glucose is in range and falling slowly.
Current glucose is 72 mg/dL and in range. 96% time in range over the past 24 hours.
CURRENT BG · 2 MIN OLD
72mg/dL↘
In range3H6H12H24H
NUDGES
No Nudges yet
9:41
Sunday, October 25
Tap a Nudge on Chris's phone
Good Morning
Beet Buddy
Glucose is in range and falling slowly.
Current glucose is 72 mg/dL and in range. 96% time in range over the past 24 hours.
Viewing Chris
CURRENT BG · 2 MIN OLD
72mg/dL↘
In range3H6H12H24H
NUDGES1 new
ChrisJust now
Need help
BG 72 mg/dL ↘ · 2 min ago (at 09:39)
It rings on Lisa's phone, even on Do Not Disturb if Lisa has allowed that.
Sample preview
Look back on the last two days
The graph as it's being designed, with made-up readings: Lisa's view of Chris's last two days.
Viewing Chris
Sample previewCURRENT BG · 2 MIN OLD
112mg/dL→
In range
Drag to look back two days, or tap 12H to find last night's low. Tap or hold a dot to read it, and tap the red ring or a marker to see what happened.
Lisa was alerted
Beet Buddy · 2:51 AMBeet Buddy - Low BGGlucose is 66 mg/dL, below your 70 limit. Reading from 1 min ago. Not a medical alarm.
Lisa's Low alert is set at 70, so it went off when Chris's reading dropped below that. The red ring marks the low on the graph.
Sample preview
Know when it's time to change
Beet Buddy is being designed to show how long a Pod and Sensor have left, right on Home, and to pick up new Pods from the Omnipod 5 app on its own.
POD AND SENSOR
Sample previewPod · Omnipod 5
1 d 6 h left
ends Mon 3:41 PM
Sensor
9 d 21 h left
ends Wed 11/4 7:06 AM
Buddies would see the same countdown on their phones.
About this project
- Built by Chris Campbell for his own family, and tested privately.
- Not available to download. A public beta is planned, with no date yet.
- Not a medical device, and not for treatment decisions.
- Always rely on your CGM's and pump's own alerts. Beet Buddy is being designed to sit alongside them, never to replace them.
Beet Buddy works alongside your CGM's own app and alarms, never instead of them. Please keep them on.
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Beet Buddy isn't available yet. Answer a few quick questions, and we'll email you if a beta opens.
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