Diabetes diary

A diary for adults with type 1 diabetes.

You write down glucose, insulin, carbs and notes. That is all it does.

  • Your diary stays on your phone. No account.
  • Photograph the plate and get a carb proposal you correct yourself.
  • Log from your Apple Watch or Wear OS watch.
  • Free, with no ads and nothing to buy.

iPhone and Android. Swedish and English.

Today in Ronin: the latest reading, the day so far, and everything written down in order.

What Ronin does

A diary, kept the way a paper one was: you write down what happened, and you can read it back. Nothing is scored and nothing is interpreted.

Photograph the plate

Point the camera at what you are about to eat and get a carb proposal, with the items the app thinks it saw. You correct the number before anything is written down. An estimate is never presented as a measurement, and a photo leaves your phone only if you have switched the feature on.

Four things to write down

Glucose, insulin, carbs and notes. Ketones can be added as a fifth in Settings. Every entry can be edited or removed.

On your wrist

The same four buttons on Apple Watch and Wear OS. Type the value on the watch and it lands in the diary on your phone. The watch keeps no diary and shows no values.

No scores, no streaks

No points and no colours telling you how you did. Values are never coloured, graded or interpreted.

Carbs two more ways

Search a food and count portions, or weigh it on the kitchen scale. Every way ends in a number you can change.

The month on one page

Each square is a day and the marks sit where the readings sat. Tap a day to read it back.

A target range, if you want one

Drawn as a band behind the day’s glucose. Display only, not a prescription. You set the range yourself.

Your units, your words, your file

mmol/L or mg/dL, your own insulin names, Swedish or English. Export a CSV for your care team whenever you want one.

About Ronin

Ronin is a diary for adults with type 1 diabetes. You write down glucose, insulin, carbs and notes. That is all it does. It is free, from the people who make DiabetesNinja.

No advice, ever

Ronin never suggests a dose and never gives medical advice. Talk to your care team about treatment.

Your diary stays on the phone

Everything you write down stays on this phone and in the phone’s own backup. Ronin has no account. The app sends an anonymous daily ping and crash reports, and a photo of a plate only when you have chosen to. Never your diary. The privacy page has the details.

It asks for almost nothing

The camera only when you photograph a plate, and only if you have switched that on. No location, no contacts. The app uses the network for the ping, the crash reports and that photo, nothing else.