Medtronic
Ando reads your Simplera or Guardian sensor through CareLink and puts your glucose on every workout, every Strava post and every night, and live on your Garmin, Apple Watch or lock screen.
What Ando adds to your Medtronic
Every workout
Ando lines up your Medtronic glucose with every workout from Garmin, Apple Health, Strava, WHOOP, Oura or Fitbit. Each one gets its curve from before the start to an hour after, with time in range and average.
On your wrist
The Ando Glucose data field shows your Medtronic glucose on a Garmin during workouts. Live puts it on your iPhone lock screen, in the Dynamic Island and in your Apple Watch Smart Stack, or in an Android notification that reaches Galaxy and Pixel watches.
Strava and nights
Each Strava activity gets a glucose block with time in range, average, minimum and maximum. Each night, your sleep stages from your watch or ring sit next to your overnight curve.
Signing in to CareLink
Ando connects through a CareLink care partner account that you create just for Ando. You sign in on Medtronic’s own CareLink page, inside the app, and Medtronic gives Ando an access token. Ando never sees or stores your CareLink password, and it only reads your glucose.
CareLink sessions can expire from time to time. When that happens, Ando sends one notification, you sign in again, and your readings fill back in. The CareLink guide covers every step.
Connect your Medtronic
Ando follows your readings like a care partner would, through CareLink.
In CareLink Connect, create a care partner account just for Ando and request to follow your main account.
Approve the request from your main account, then sign the partner account out of CareLink Connect.
Choose Medtronic, pick United States or Outside US and sign in with the partner account on Medtronic’s page.
Every tap, with fixes for common errors, in the connect carelink guide.
The details
| Topic | With Ando |
|---|---|
| Sensors | Medtronic Simplera and Guardian sensors whose readings reach CareLink |
| How Ando reads it | CareLink, through a care partner account linked to your main account |
| Regions | CareLink United States, or Outside US |
| Sign-in | On Medtronic’s own page; Ando stores an encrypted access token, never your password |
| Sessions | If CareLink ends the session, Ando asks you once to sign in again |
| Your Medtronic app | Keeps reading your sensor and uploading to CareLink; keep it running |
FAQ
Yes. Connect CareLink in Ando and add the Ando Glucose data field to your activity screens. Your glucose shows during workouts, and Garmin Connect charts it afterwards.
Yes. Start Live in Ando on your iPhone; with iOS 18 or later, your glucose shows in the Apple Watch Smart Stack.
It is how CareLink lets someone, or something, follow your readings without using your own login. Keeping that account just for Ando means signing in elsewhere never interrupts it.
No. You sign in on Medtronic’s page and Ando receives an access token, which it encrypts before storing.
No. Ando is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by Medtronic. It reads your data through CareLink, with an account you create and approve.
Free for 7 days on the yearly plan
Connect it once. Ando does the rest, on every workout, every night and every week.
Ando requires a membership. The yearly plan starts with 7 free days. Cancel anytime.
Ando is not a medical device. It shows your glucose in the context of your day for visualization and self-reflection only. Do not use it to make treatment decisions; follow your sensor’s instructions and your healthcare team.
Medtronic, Simplera, Guardian, CareLink, Garmin, Apple Watch and Strava are trademarks of their respective owners. Ando is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by them.