US vendor Labstyle Innovations will next month launch an iOS app for diabetes and blood glucose monitoring. The free Dario app will initially be available in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

The vendor said customers can use the app with any monitoring device by manually feeding in the information.

However, Labstyle has plans of its own for a cloud-based platform, for which the app is the first step.The next stage is to soft launch its own monitoring device (pictured) in the first quarter of 2014.