A new app has been launched to help prevent complications from diabetes. Cheshire-based company Gendius have launched a free version of diabetes app Intellin on app stores.

Intellin enables people to track how they are managing their diabetes with the unique benefit of telling individuals their risk of developing complications from their diabetes.

Intellin acts as an electronic diary allowing an individual to input how they are managing their diabetes. During the set up you are taken through three sections of background questions and the App uses these to generate a risk profile.

The app then sends daily hints and tips on how to prevent these complications. The platform has been built after extensive collaboration with people with diabetes and healthcare professionals.

It also follows funding from Health Innovation Manchester through the Momentum Fund, which enabled the company to complete a final piece of market research to better understand the patient journey and what people with diabetes would want as their “ultimate” app to help manage their diabetes.