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Earlier studies have not ranked diabetes management apps by correlating each app feature, and their review is not comprehensive. Therefore, this study presents a comprehensive analysis of the existing diabetes-related smartphone applications. Moreover, we examine the factors based on which most of the users provide a higher rank to a particular application. We classify the diabetes mobile applications with respect to the application features and perform rigorous analysis of the top 15 applications. The results indicate that there exists a weak correlation between the number of downloads and user ratings. For evaluation, we calculate the normalized discounted cumulative gain score to rank applications based on its features. 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