Daily Diabetes Goals and Streaks

Fifty-six goals, and forty-eight track themselves

Pick what you are working on. Every glucose and movement goal fills itself in from your CGM or Apple Health, so hitting one costs you no extra tapping.

Glucose

Time in Range targets at 70%, 80%, or 90%, no lows today, no highs today, six hours stable, waking up in range, going to bed in range. The bulk of the catalogue, because it is the bulk of the work.

Meals

Land back in range two hours after breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Or keep the rise after any meal flat, whatever you ate. These read the meals you log.

Movement

Step counts from three thousand to twenty thousand, a walk after dinner, moving every hour, exercise minutes, stand hours, calories burned. All tracked from Apple Health without you starting anything.

Upkeep

The unglamorous ones: rotate your site, swap the sensor, change the infusion set, calibrate, restock before you run out, plus a monthly eye screening and foot check.

Why set a goal at all?

You are already doing the work. A goal is only worth having if it makes the work land somewhere.

A goal you have to remember is a goal you will drop: Forty-eight of the fifty-six fill themselves in from readings and Apple Health data you were producing anyway. Nothing to open, nothing to tick, so a good day still counts on the days you never think about the app.
One thing at a time, on purpose: You are not meant to run the whole catalogue. Picking the one or handful you are actually working on this month is the point, and it is why the list is a catalogue rather than a checklist.
The unglamorous ones are the ones that slip: Nobody forgets to look at their glucose. Everybody forgets to rotate the site, and the eye screening is a year late before you notice. Those are goals too, and they are the ones a reminder actually earns its place on.
It is your range, not a textbook's: The glucose goals are measured against the target range you set, so a goal means the same thing your clinic means. Someone else's 70% is not your 70%.

The Glynce home screen showing Daily Goals with three of five completed: water, an 80 percent Time in Range target, six hours stable, waking up in range, and 7500 steps

Why post-meal goals are the interesting ones

A Time in Range target tells you how the day went. A post-meal goal tells you what to do differently at the next meal, which is a far shorter feedback loop.

Glynce finds the meals you logged today, waits the full two hours, then checks where you actually landed against your own target range. The flat-line goal is stricter and asks a different question: not where you ended up, but whether the rise on the way there stayed under about 2.2 mmol/L, roughly 40 mg/dL. Log lunch, and by mid-afternoon you know whether that lunch worked.

A logged meal in Glynce with the glucose curve that followed it

A streak for showing up

Glynce counts the days you open it. Come back on a new day and the streak grows. Skip one and it starts again at one, with no freeze to buy and no repair to earn.

It is not tied to hitting your goals, and that matters more than it sounds. A streak that broke because your glucose misbehaved would be punishing you for the disease rather than the habit. Diabetes hands out enough of that already. This one only asks that you looked.

A Glynce card showing a twelve day streak across a week

Daily goal questions

How many goals can I run at once?

One on the free tier, five with Glynce Plus. The whole catalogue is available either way, so the tier changes how many you can run rather than which ones you can choose from. Worth knowing: if you keep the water goal on your dashboard, it takes the free slot.

Free vs Plus

Do I have to tick goals off myself?

Almost never. Every glucose goal is worked out from your readings and every movement goal from Apple Health, which is forty-eight of the fifty-six. Only the upkeep goals need a tap, because no sensor can tell that you rotated your site.

How do post-meal goals work?

They read the meals you log. Glynce takes the moment the meal started, waits two hours, and checks whether the reading at the end of that window sits inside your target range. The flat-line goal instead measures the rise from the meal to its peak and passes if it stayed under about 2.2 mmol/L, roughly 40 mg/dL. If you do not log the meal, there is nothing for the goal to measure.

How meals get logged

What breaks my streak?

Not opening Glynce for a whole day. The streak counts consecutive days you showed up, not goals you completed, so a bad glucose day cannot cost you it. If you do miss a day it restarts at one. There is no grace day and no way to repair it.

Do I need a CGM for daily goals?

For some of them. The glucose and post-meal goals need readings, whether those come from a sensor or from readings you add by hand. The movement goals only need Apple Health, and the upkeep goals need neither.

Do I need a CGM?

Daily diabetes goals you do not have to remember