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4.1 • 68 Reviews

Veri offers a glucose sensor that syncs to an app to help you monitor diet choices and make informed decisions regarding your health.

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4.1

Veri delivers usable continuous glucose monitoring and the reviews show Veri works for many users who want real-time metabolic insight, with strengths in sensor reliability and responsive customer support but weaknesses in confusing subscription wording and a redundant, limited app experience compared with the FreeStyle Libre app.

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  • 2y ago

    I found veri incredibly helpful to help me understand my cgm data vs the libre apps. They help me understand what food helps and what other things might be contributing. The AI sometimes missed things, but I just save my favorites anyways 🙂

  • 3y ago

    Review from USA. Yes I really do mean to give 5 stars. If you actually read what you are getting into before purchase then Veri works out great if it fits your needs. No issues signing up, getting a prescription or getting the sensors delivered. As people seem to be confused by Veri’s wording, here is what you need to know (and would know if you really pay attention to what their website says): Your Country: They use Freestyle Libre sensors, which only work in the UK and US. The reason they only work in those countries is because you need the Libre app to scan your sensor and there is only an app for the UK or US. The address to where you are shipping the sensor will dictate wether you get US or UK sensors. And if your phone is downloading UK apps but you shipped to the US they are not cross compatible and won’t work. Me, I am in the US, so I made sure to download the US app. Make sure your make/model of phone is compatible with the Libre app. Just because you can download the app doesnt mean your phone is compatible. The Libre app uses a chip in your phone to scan the sensor on your arm. If your phone is too old, it will not have this chip. For iphone, you have to have an 8 or newer. For android, you will need to check. Your needs: this is a glucose monitor. Its not a weight loss program. If you already have a weight loss program established that uses your blood sugar levels to help you lose weight then thats great. But thats not what this is. You are not buying a weight-loss program. Its a glucose monitor. I am on the edge of being pre-diabetic and was tired of sticking my fingers to monitor sugar levels based on what I eat. I want to still eat the foods that I like but not if they are sending my sugars sky rocketing. I also don't want to just cut out everything and eat as if I am full blown diabetic. Their app(Veri app): I agree with others it’s basically useless and I never intended to use it from the get go. The Libre app does what I need, I dont need another app that does the same thing. I also wasn’t interested in their community access or whatever it was. I just want the sensors. The Veri app is not even used to activate the sensor, the Libre app is, so there really is no need for it. That being said I did download it at the beginning because I needed to contact their customer support. Veri’s Customer Support: I contacted them via their app because my first sensor would not activate. They got back to me within an hour or two and troubleshot the issue. When they were not able to resolve it they referred me to call the makers of Freestyle Libre for further troubleshooting. Which I did, I called the makers of the sensor and they continued my troubleshooting, they deemed the sensor defective. Nothing I had done wrong. Nothing wrong with my app or phone. It must have just been damaged in handling. They shipped me a new one at no charge and I mailed the defective one back to the makers of the sensor. The sensor: It is the Freestyle Libre 14 day sensor. I had never used one on myself, but was familiar with them because I used to have a diabetic cat and the Vet would apply them to her. If the sensor can stay on a shaved cats skin, Im not sure how people have issues with them falling off early unless you are mangling or manhandling them, or just not cleaning your greasy skin before applying? It was painless when I applied, a flexible filament stays in your arm, not a needle. There is a needle on initial poke but you dont feel it and it then retracts into the applicator. None of my sensors have fallen off early and actually they are seriously stuck to me when I try to remove at the 14 days. I use mineral oil to help remove them because it’s really on there. That being said I never submerge mine in water, only shower. So can’t attest for that variable. These monitors are affected by taking Tylenol, they dont always read acutely if you have Tylenol in your system so keep that in mind and do a finger stick if Tylenol is needed. Once out of your system the sensors will again read accurate. The actual sensor itself only stores 8 hours of info, so you must scan at least once every 8 hours otherwise it begins to erase the oldest data to make way for the new. The app keeps all info that is downloaded via scan forever and does not delete data. Pricing: Now here is the big one. Essentially its $300 for 1 month of sensors. They send 2, 14 day sensors and then you have access to their app and community or what not for 3 months with the option to buy more sensors. This is what people are most peeved about. They dont fully read that you are only getting 1 month of sensors for the 3 month membership. Yes I understand that can be confusing. Its a 3 month membership to their app and community, not 3 months worth of sensors. The option to buy additional sensors are priced as $90 for 1, 14 day sensor. Or $160 for 2 of them(one months worth). Pricing Continued: When looking at other companies like nutrisense, they also have confusing wording that you need to fully read. Their 3 month membership is listed at $299 and yes, you do get sensors for the entire 3 months. However this is where their wording also gets confusing because it is NOT $299 for a 3 month membership, it is $299 PER MONTH for a 3 month membership. So actually is $897 for 3 months worth of sensors. With Veri, if you pay the $300 upfront and then purchase additional sensors $160 for 2 sensors, plus another $160 for 2 more sensors, that brings you to 3 months of sensors for $620, so thats still cheaper than nutrisense’s $897 for 3 months . Pricing Final Thought: Read on to the prescription and shipping, you can have your Rx transferred and then pay like $130-140 per month for the sensors. And not deal with either of the companies Nutrisense or Veri. Prescription & Shipping: I am in the US so you have to have a prescription for these. After going through Veri’s survey or whatever they approved and wrote me a prescription within an hour, they shipped quickly as well. I live in Indiana, the sensors were shipped from California and it took about 4 business days to arrive. Veri sends your prescription to a pharmacy called Truepill, and they ship you the sensors. The Truepill pharmacy has a policy where they will transfer your prescription to the pharmacy of your choice. My box of 2 sensors = 1 month of monitoring, came with 11 prescription refills (aka a years worth). So I can literally just ask Truepill to transfer my prescription to my local pharmacy and continue to buy monthly sensor’s separate from Veri and use something like SingleCare or GoodRx to get a discount. At my local pharmacy a box of 2 sensors with GoodRx is $130. I dont use the Veri app anyways, since the Libre app has everything I wanted. And the Libre app activates the sensors. Yes I had to pay Veri $300 up front for 1 month of sensors, but that also included getting a prescription written for me without any hassle. The 1 month subscription from nutrisense is $399 so its still cheaper than nutrisense. I never intended to use the Veri app since you can use the Libre app for free, so I dont need to continue membership for their app or their community stuff. I now have a prescription thats written for a years worth of sensors and going forward it only costs me $130 a month after having my prescription transferred to my local pharmacy. Cancellation Policy: Veri is a membership!!! Which means, you need to cancel as soon as you’re done getting your first order. I canceled even before that. As soon as I got the notification that it had shipped, the first thing I did was go and cancel my “membership” so that I wouldn’t have any reoccurring charges of $300 in the future. It was easy to cancel from their website. If you scroll to their FAQs section there is literally a tab for “how can I cancel?”.

  • 4y ago

    This is a great idea however here are some major issues I experienced and Veri were uninterested to learn of. I feel I wasted my money. 1) sloooooow customer service. It takes DAYS to get any form of sense from their online support team. So frustrating! 2) Incredibly loooooong shipment times! I paid for my second batch of sensors 9 days ago and they haven’t even arrived yet, leaving me with a huge gap between sensors. What’s the point if it isn’t a sustainable reading? 3) So far two sensors have come off waaaay too early. The first after 3 days and the second after 6 days. Veri keep sending me guides on how to apply but their marketing tells us how robust it is. They refuse to send replacements (I mean- it would take a month to get to you anyway!) and so I may have well as torches my money. 4) a chocolate bar equals less score than a salad. A glass of wine gets a higher score than a jacket potato. I don’t even know if this does promote good health?! I won’t be buying again- keep your money. Freestyle libre sell the same sensors without the middle man for much less and their all is just as good- if not more effective. This is a company capitalising on the sale of a product that was designed for those living with diabetes and they sadly haven’t done it very well. I won’t be lining their companies profits going forward and will buy from the originators.

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    1) sensors that work and don’t fall off 2) better and more timely customer support 3) an app that promotes health eating 4) overpriced 5) speed up the delivery times!

  • 2y ago

    Very happy with Veri one week into the testing. Following the information and graphs with great intetest.

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What is Veri?

Veri offers a glucose sensor that syncs to an app to help you monitor diet choices and make informed decisions regarding your health.

In their own words

At Veri, we help people improve their health by helping them find the right foods for their bodies. Our core users are health-conscious individuals aiming to optimize and improve their metabolic health or/and ensure they stay healthy. Most of the users come to us with concrete issues to tackle varying from losing excess weight, to improving their energy levels. It's constantly becoming harder to source and eat nourishing, quality foods. The foods that we eat are killing us and the worst part is that consumers are held responsible. The odds are stacked up against us. Especially in places like US, India, and China, where it's becoming more likely to be sick than healthy. With our fair share of nutrition-related health challenges, we can relate and are growing tired of the trend. We're laser-focused on bringing a product and an experience to the market that can help people feel better in their bodies, through the power of understanding what they put into them every day.