Malama - Gestational Diabetes

Malama Health

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About this app

Malama is a mobile solution for women managing gestational diabetes. Key features include: syncing glucose levels, accessing educational content, and visualizing trends.

Using Malama’s app, sync with the OneTouch glucose meter and automatically pull in glucose levels. You can also manually log your glucose levels if your glucose meter is not yet supported.

After syncing your glucose levels, you can add meal tags, photos, and notes to share with your care team.

We also offer powerful analytics automatically, using AI to help identify food triggers for high blood glucose levels.

Finally, we offer connections to a network of prenatal nutritionists who specialize in GD and other prenatal conditions.

Ratings and reviews

This app is great for logging meals, sugars, and getting reminders to test sugars. But I agree with another reviewer, the AI assumes the worst of your meals, even with a description. I wrote in that I had whole grain pasta with meat sauce, green beans on the side and water with electrolytes. The AI told me I should swap for whole grains, eat vegetables, eat lean meat (it *was* lean ground beef, but I didn't specify that), and drink water. All the "fixes" were things I was already doing?

Definitely a work in progress as the opening screen suggests. There are things I like, such as not having to do a proper food diary, but the AI always assumes the worst meal from the description you put in no matter how much detail I add. The suggestions aren't accurate. This app is specifically for pregnant women yet it suggests fish for every dinner. Pregnant women shouldn't have more than 2 servings/week. It told me to have more consistent breakfast even though I eat the same meal every day

This app is incredibly easy to use. Makes keeping an accurate log so much easier! I love the text reminders to take my blood sugars. My provider has been impressed with the detailed log and I love how easy it is to create the document and upload it to my provider. The only reason I had a 4 star and not 5 star is when using the "I'm about to eat" I would like to add my calculated carbs before the app does the analysis of my meal. Also, the AI analysis of my meal is sometimes very discouraging.

What’s new

We support food recognition in the app to make tagging meals even easier! If you upload 10 blood glucose logs with meals, you'll unlock personalized food insights, like potential triggers and patterns. Spanish, English, Japanese are available for Malama.