🇿🇦 Built for South Africa

Your intelligent bolus calculator on WhatsApp & Telegram

Photo, voice note, or text: DiaConnect analyses your meal, reads your live glucose, and calculates your bolus dose. Monitors you 24/7 and alerts emergency contacts if needed. English, Afrikaans & Zulu.

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AI analysisPhoto · Voice · Text
CGM syncLibre · Dexcom · Nightscout
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Hi! Ready to calculate your bolus 👋 Send me a photo of your meal.
12:31
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12:32
5.5 units🍚 Rice ~220g · 66g carbs
🫘 Lentils ~80g · 12g carbs
📊 Total: 78g carbs
💉 Meal bolus: 5.2u
🩸 Libre: 7.4 mmol/L (+0.3)
Always confirm with your doctor ⚠️
12:32
Does this look right? Reply ✅ to confirm or correct the carbs.
12:32

Three ways to log your meal

DiaConnect lives entirely in WhatsApp or Telegram. No app to install, no login screen.

Photo

Snap your plate

Take a photo of your meal. Braai, bunny chow, pap, or pasta: AI identifies every food item and estimates carbs instantly. Correct anything on the spot.

Voice

Describe your meal

Send a voice note in English, Afrikaans, or Zulu. Say your ingredients and weights. DiaConnect transcribes and calculates automatically.

Text

Type your ingredients

Type a meal description or just the total carbs. "200g pap, 150g chicken" or simply "45g carbs." Repeat previous meals with one tap.

Your meal is processed

AI calculates carbs

Every item identified, weighted, and totalled. A confidence score tells you how certain the AI is; correct anything instantly.

Live glucose fetched

DiaConnect auto-fetches your reading from Libre, Dexcom, or Nightscout. No CGM? Just type your BG reading.

Get your bolus

Your personalised meal bolus and correction dose calculated instantly, with injection site advice based on meal absorption speed.

⚡ First calculation in under 5 minutes

Your first dose calculation is one conversation away.

Send your first message to start. DiaConnect guides you through a short setup (your insulin type, ICR, and target range). Once you agree to the POPIA consent, you are ready to calculate.

Guided setup in plain language
In English, Afrikaans, or Zulu
No login or download required
DiaConnect
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Welcome to DiaConnect! Before we begin, we need your consent to store your health information under POPIA. We never sell your data.
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09:01
— guided setup: about 3 minutes —
You are all set. Send me a photo of your next meal, or describe what you are eating.
09:04
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09:05
5.5 unitsChicken curry ~180g · 42g carbs
Lentils ~90g · 14g carbs
Total: 56g carbs · Libre: 7.1 mmol/L
09:05
Our story

Why we built
DiaConnect

Dwain & family
DiaConnect founders
South Africa

Our daughter was four when she was diagnosed with diabetes. From that day, every meal became a calculation we could not afford to get wrong: the carbs in her food, her current glucose, how much insulin she needed. We learned fast. But it never got easy.

We built DiaConnect because we needed it. A tool that does the maths, reads the glucose, and gives you a number you can trust, right inside the app you already use every day. No downloads. No learning curve. Just an answer.

If you are a parent managing this for your child, or living with diabetes yourself, this was built for you. You should not have to work this out alone at every meal.

24/7 glucose monitoring

If your glucose goes critical, the right people know first.

3am. Your glucose drops to 2.8 mmol/L. DiaConnect sends an immediate alert to your phone with what to do. If you don't respond within 10 minutes, everyone you've named as an emergency contact is notified automatically.

You receive an immediate alert first
Contacts notified if you don't respond within 10 minutes
Contacts must consent before any alerts are sent to them
Up to 3 emergency contacts, all notified simultaneously
⚠️
DiaConnect → you
now

🔴 Low glucose alert

Your reading is 2.8 mmol/L ↓↓. Drink juice or take glucose tablets. Your contacts will be notified in 10 minutes if you don't respond.

✅ Got it, I'm okay
no response after 10 minutes
⚠️
DiaConnect → your contact
now

🔴 DiaConnect Emergency Alert

Thabo has a CRITICALLY LOW glucose of 2.8 mmol/L. Please check on them immediately.

Contacts must accept a consent request before alerts are activated

Not sure
what to cook?

Send a photo of your fridge or type what ingredients you have. DiaConnect suggests three diabetic-friendly meals with a full macro breakdown, then calculates your bolus for whichever you choose.

Photo or text your available ingredients
Three meals with carbs, protein, and fat per portion
Pick one and get the bolus calculation instantly
DiaConnect
online
I have chicken, broccoli, cauliflower and cheddar. What can I make for dinner?
18:42

3 meal ideas from what you have:

1. Cheesy Broccoli Chicken Bake
9g carbs · 44g protein · 14g fat
2. Cauliflower Rice Bowl
7g carbs · 38g protein · 11g fat
3. Ginger Chicken Stir-fry
13g carbs · 40g protein · 15g fat

Reply 1, 2 or 3 to get the full recipe and your bolus calculation.

18:42
DiaConnect
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2 hours after your last calculation
2-hour check-in 📊

Your glucose is back in range. Current reading: 6.2 mmol/L ↗ (from Libre)

How did the meal go?
All good 👍Went lowStayed high
11:03
All good 👍
11:04
Logged ✅ Chicken curry, 56g carbs, 5.5 units — glucose back in range in 91 minutes. See you at dinner! 🍽️
11:04

The full loop, not just the calculation.

Two hours after every bolus, DiaConnect checks back in via WhatsApp. It reads your CGM, confirms your glucose is back in range, and logs the outcome.

Over time, this builds a picture of how your body responds to different meals: which estimates were slightly off, which doses worked exactly right.

Everything your bolus
calculator needs

Built for the South African diabetes community, works on any phone.

78g carbs

AI-identified from photo

Photo meal analysis

Snap your plate. Braai, bunny chow, pap, pasta, or salad: AI identifies every food item and estimates carbs. Correct anything on the spot.

7.4mmol/L

Auto-fetched from Libre

Multi-device CGM sync

Connects to FreeStyle Libre (LibreLinkUp), Dexcom G6/G7 (OAuth), and Nightscout. Glucose is fetched automatically before every bolus calculation.

Glucose critical low

Emergency contacts notified

Emergency glucose alerts

Connect a CGM and DiaConnect monitors your glucose 24/7. If you go critically low or high, you're warned immediately and your emergency contacts are notified.

Voice note entry

English, Afrikaans, or Zulu. Just describe your meal.

Text & ingredient entry

Type ingredients and weights, or a carb total. Repeat past meals in one tap.

Meal ideas from your ingredients

Send what's in your fridge by photo or text. Get three diabetic-friendly meal suggestions with full macros (carbs, protein, fat) per portion.

Personalised calculations

Your ICR, sensitivity factor, and target range applied to every calculation.

Confidence scoring

Every entry gets a confidence score. Low confidence? DiaConnect asks you to confirm.

Scan history & trends

Review past meals, carb totals, and bolus doses with extended history.

English, Afrikaans & Zulu

Food terms like pap, boerewors, and uphuthu recognised automatically.

Made for South Africa

POPIA compliant, ZAR billing, local support, trained on SA foods.

Real usage · Updated hourly

Your glucose arrives before you need it

Set it up once. Every bolus calculation starts with your live reading already loaded.

FreeStyle Libre

Libre 2 & 3 · LibreLinkUp

Connect with your LibreLinkUp email and password. Glucose fetched automatically before every bolus.

Dexcom G6 / G7

Official Dexcom API · OAuth

Secure OAuth login, no credentials stored. Real-time glucose synced automatically.

Nightscout

Any CGM · self-hosted

Works with Medtronic, Omnipod, and more. Paste your Nightscout URL to connect.

NovoPen Echo Plus

Novo Nordisk smart pen · NFC

Tap your pen to your Android phone to import your full dose history automatically.

Manual entry

No device required · always free

No CGM? Type your current glucose reading and DiaConnect handles the rest.

Simple, affordable plans

Start free with 1 scan per day. Upgrade to connect your CGM, unlock emergency alerts, and get more daily scans.

Free
R0
forever
✓1 meal scan per day
✓Manual BG entry
✓7-day scan history
✓Personalised bolus calculator
✗CGM sync (Libre / Dexcom / Nightscout)
✗Emergency glucose alerts
✗Emergency contacts
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Standard
R99
per month
✓5 meal scans per day
✓CGM auto-sync (Libre / Dexcom / Nightscout)
✓Emergency glucose alerts
✓Up to 3 emergency contacts
✓30-day scan history
✓Manual BG entry
✓WhatsApp support
Pro
R199
per month
✓Unlimited meal scans
✓CGM auto-sync (Libre / Dexcom / Nightscout)
✓Emergency glucose alerts
✓Up to 3 emergency contacts
✓Unlimited scan history
✓Trend analysis & reports
✓Priority WhatsApp support

Your safety comes first. DiaConnect supports your dosing decisions; it does not replace them. This is a decision-support tool, not a medical device. Always verify the suggested dose before administering insulin, and confirm your settings with your healthcare provider or endocrinologist.

Common questions

Everything you need to know before your first message.

Your dose, calculated.
In seconds.

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