Living with T1D
The everyday tools for living well with T1D.
The insulins, CGMs, pumps and automated insulin delivery — each scored 0–100 against published, category-specific criteria. The default ranking is evidence-weighted; weight the criteria yourself and every list re-ranks live to what you value. Expand any row for the full scorecard and sources.
The insulins themselves — scored against their role peers on onset, peak, tail and consistency.
Insulins are scored relative to their role peers (see tags: rapid, ultra-rapid, basal, inhaled). A basal insulin's onset score compares it to other basals, not to mealtime insulins.
A dry-powder human insulin inhaled at the start of a meal. Its standout trait is speed — it reaches the blood and starts lowering glucose within minut
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Available now
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
An ultra-long-acting basal insulin with a ~25-hour half-life and a flat, stable glucose-lowering effect lasting beyond 42 hours — its standout feature
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Available now
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
A concentrated (300 U/mL) once-daily basal analog of insulin glargine. The triple concentration forms a smaller, more compact subcutaneous depot that
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Available now
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
An investigational once-weekly basal insulin from Eli Lilly that fuses a single-chain insulin to an IgG Fc domain for a ~17-19 day half-life and a nea
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Coming
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
The original once-daily, peakless basal analog and the affordable basal benchmark. A flat ~24-hour profile that transformed basal insulin, now with wi
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Available now
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
Insulin lispro reformulated with treprostinil and citrate to widen and loosen local blood vessels, speeding absorption — one of the two fastest mealti
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Available now
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
An ultra-rapid mealtime insulin — insulin aspart reformulated with niacinamide (and L-arginine) to speed early absorption, appearing in the blood abou
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Available now
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
An investigational ultra-concentrated (500 U/mL), ultra-rapid mealtime insulin aspart from Arecor. In a Phase 1 type 1 diabetes clamp study it was abs
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Coming
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
The long-standing rapid-acting mealtime analog and the practical reference point for "rapid insulin": approved since 1999–2000, pump-cleared, availabl
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Available now
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
The original rapid-acting mealtime analog (1996) — the molecule that made fast, flexible bolus insulin possible. Decades of use, cleared for pumps, on
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Available now
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
Arecor's U100 ultra-rapid insulin formulation, designed to accelerate absorption after injection or pump delivery and better match meal physiology. Ea
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Coming
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
A rapid-acting mealtime analog, zinc-free so it stays largely un-clustered in the vial — giving it a marginally faster early action than aspart or lis
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Available now
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
The first once-weekly basal insulin: a single injection covers seven days via an albumin-bound depot with a ~196-hour (≈8-day) half-life and a near-fl
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Available now
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
An investigational mealtime insulin lispro from Diasome wrapped in a liver-targeting phospholipid carrier (HDV) that steers a fraction of each dose to
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Coming
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
A class of insulins engineered to sense blood glucose and self-modulate their own activity — turning down when glucose is low to prevent hypoglycemia
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Research
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
The legacy intermediate-acting human (non-analog) basal insulin, and by far the cheapest and most accessible — sold behind the pharmacy counter withou
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Available now
Onset speed
Time to peak
Short tail
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