Signos: A Comprehensive Review of the Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) App for Weight Loss
A Look into the technology and how it can benefit your metabolic health
Updated: Thursday, January 25, 2024
Preface: This is a long-overdue follow up to my previous article comparing Levels, Veri, Nutrisense, and January.ai. I would highly recommend going back and reading that for some basic info on metabolic health and continuous glucose monitors.
To inject humor, I previously used some literary anthropomorphism to describe these companies as if they were high school stereotypes attending the high school that is Silicon Valley. I will attempt to continue this effort as it seemed well-liked.
If Silicon Valley were a high school, and Signos were a student, it would be a cheerleader — not the super preppy, too-cool-for-school kind, but the body-positive kind who was really smart and in multiple clubs and organizations.
Signos focuses on helping users lose weight, maintain optimal blood sugar levels, and improve overall health by providing real-time data, personalized recommendations, and easy-to-understand visualizations.
The app & sensors
Unlike many of its competitors who use the FreeStyle Libre, Signos uses the Dexcom G7 sensor.
For more information on how the Dexcom G6 compares to the FreeStyle Libre, read: FreeStyle Libre vs Dexcom G6 for Non-diabetics.
For more information on how the Dexcom G6 compares to the Dexcom G7, read: Dexcom G6 vs Dexcom G7: CGM for Non-Diabetics
FEATURES
- Works on both Android and iOS
- Integrates with Dexcom G7 directly: only 1 app required on iOS (Android still requires two for now)
- Real-time glucose alerts when you need them the most without the need to scan (Example: Fast rise notifications to encourage movement to help blunt the glucose spike)
- Personalized insights: customized nutrition and exercise recommendations based on your individual data
- Daily log: Food, Workouts, Body Measurements, Sleep, Water, and Tags
- Lots of data: track your weight and glucose trends — avg. glucose, variability, fasting glucose, and time in range
- Guided daily activities to help you learn about how your body responds to foods and experiments
- Chat in-app with a nutritionist
- Private Facebook community
- Challenge your Signos friends to a contest in the Social tab
- Integrates with Apple Health Kit and Google Health Connect
- Apple Watch complication
- OGTT (oral glucose tolerance test) kit included
- Referral program (My link for 21% off the 3 month plan and 23% off the 6 month plan is below)
Price
Signos offers 3 plans: a 1, 3, and 6-month renewing subscription that can be canceled any time. Each subscription includes 3 sensors per month and 1 transmitter every 3 months.
As of this writing, the 1 and 3-month subscriptions must be paid in full up front while the 6-month subscription can be split into two equal payments.
Pricing is as follows (as of Aug. 30, 2023 — they’re running a 20% discount) for the subscription plans: 1 month at $359/month, 3 months at $183/month ($549.60 billed up front), and 6 months at $143/month ($859.20 billed up front or 2 payments of $429.60). You can get a slightly better discount using my link below👇.
Summary
Signos is more than just a company that provides CGM data; it offers a comprehensive metabolic health system.
Though Signos is currently focused on weight loss using CGM as a tool, individuals who want to improve their overall metabolic health can easily adapt the system to meet their specific needs. Improved metabolic health often leads to some weight loss, which further underscores its versatility. The app comes with an abundance of data and recommendations allowing users to track their weight and glucose trends, while the guided daily activities provide valuable insights into metabolic health. Additionally, access to the Bluetooth-enabled Dexcom G7 sensors offers a significant advantage for users who might forget to scan other sensors.
Links
Signos website
Signos Facebook community
Referral link for 21–23% off
Thank you so much to all of the amazing companies who are trying to make the world a healthier place and for giving people a little bit of power to make more informed decisions.
