Carbs & Cals: Diet & Diabetes

2.2
2.5K reviews
100K+
Downloads
Content rating
USK: All ages
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About this app

Join Thousands Managing Their Diet with Carbs & Cals!

The award-winning, UK-based Carbs & Cals app makes logging your daily food intake easy.

With an integrated barcode scanner and a database of over 200,000 UK foods & drinks, Carbs & Cals is the simplest meal tracker app and the fastest way to track nutrients.

Use the daily diary to create a bespoke diet plan for weight loss or diabetes management. With our NEW diary notes feature you can log your blood glucose levels, insulin doses, weight changes and create bespoke notes for precise health tracking.

Carbs & Cals is the only carb and calorie counting app that allows you to compare photographs of food portions for a fast and accurate nutrient count.

Download Carbs & Cals to stay in control of the food you eat.

Carbs & Cals is designed for diseases and conditions management to help you confidently manage your nutritional needs and track your diet. It's perfect for:
- Managing type 1, type 2, or gestational diabetes.
- Weight loss and maintaining a healthy weight.
- Following a keto, low-carb, low-calorie or very-low-calorie diet.
- Sports nutrition and micronutrients tracking.

THE ULTIMATE COMPANION DIABETES APP
The visual food tracker makes managing your diabetes easy! Simply choose from up to 6 portion sizes and compare the photo to the food on your plate for an easy, reliable carb count.

Our Timestamp feature allows meal times to be added and modified in your food diary for exact HealthKit synchronisation. Gain control over your meal tracking with precise and personalised health logging.

WEIGHT LOSS, NUTRITION AND WEIGHT MANAGEMENT
The Carbs & Cals app is ideal for people following a keto, low-carb, low-calorie or very-low-calorie diet. The Carbs & Cals app puts the power to manage weight loss in your hands. No matter where you are, you can count calories and track your diet with just a few taps.

Diseases and conditions management

HUGE UK FOOD DATABASE
- Extensive visual database of more than 200,000 popular UK foods & drinks.
- Thousands of UK brands like Birds Eye, Cadbury, Heinz, Walkers & Warburtons!
- Full menus and photos for over 40 popular UK restaurants & cafes including Costa, Greggs, McDonald's, & Wagamama!
- World foods from African, Arabic, Caribbean & South Asian communities in the UK.

FEATURES AT A GLANCE
- Barcode scanner to quickly add foods.
- Food diary & timestamped meal tracker.
- Keep notes on insulin, blood sugar, weight & more.
- Track carbs, calories, protein, fat, saturated fat, fibre, alcohol & 5-a-day.
- Up to 6 portion sizes per food with clear nutritional values.
- Blood glucose icons to highlight carb content and impact on glucose level.
- Over 200,000 food and drink items, including leading supermarkets, brands and restaurants.
- Designed for phone and tablet use.

RECOMMENDED BY NHS DIETITIANS AND HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
- Developed by Chris Cheyette BSc (Hons) MSc RD, Senior Diabetes Specialist Dietitian with 20 years experience working in the NHS.
- Recommended across the UK by NHS dietitians and healthcare providers.
- Reviewed and approved by independent health app specialist Orcha Health.
- The Carbs & Cals books are supported by Diabetes UK.

PRICING
- The free STARTER plan gives you access to our basic database and limited features.
- The UNLIMITED plan gives you access to the full UK database and all features. Choose from £6.99 per month, or £35.99 per year (less than £3 per month!).

Try out the Carbs & Cals app on the UNLIMITED plan for FREE with our 14 day free trial. No commitment.

FOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT, QUESTIONS & SUGGESTIONS: Please email support@carbsandcals.helpscoutapp.com

*Remember to consult with a doctor or other medical professional before making significant changes to your diet.
Updated on
Apr 3, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Photos and videos and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.2
2.41K reviews
CK
May 14, 2025
Fountain of Knowledge & Information. As a Type 3c Diabetic I have found this app invaluable. The ability to scan food codes lets me access nutritional information and make informed decisions on carb & nutrition. I can work out portion sizes visually. I can log meals and track intakes. I can add my own personal recipes and add nutritional information, so it is there should I need it. I no longer go food shopping without my app. Customer service is 5 star! Worth the subscription.
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Chello Publishing Limited
May 16, 2025
Thank you so much for your review! It is always heartwarming to hear how the app is helping and making life that little bit easier. Thank you for also mentioning how good our customer service is, this is something we pride ourselves on.
Dale Berry
April 24, 2025
Suggested has become basically useless, it used to be a list of the most recent items, now its random. How is sourdough i had last week first, but the bread i eat every day halfway down!? Not sure if it's a bug or people trying to fix what isn't broken, but it needs changing back.
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Chello Publishing Limited
April 28, 2025
Hi Dale, based on recent feedback we've been updating suggestions to account for time of day. I'm really sorry to hear these changes haven't improved your suggestions. It would be great if you can fire us a quick message at support@carbsandcals.helpscoutapp.com so we can look at improving the suggestions without negatively impacting your recents
Rose Chilcott
February 2, 2025
I have this app on trial at the moment but already love it. The bar code reader is a good but there's lots it doesn't recognise - not sure if that's because of the trial. As type 2 diabetic medication controlled it would be nice to see the difference in good and bad fats. Adding your own recipe is hard as I don't know the nutritional value of things but I'm a newbie and there may be a different way of doing things. All in all I like the app.
6 people found this review helpful
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Chello Publishing Limited
February 3, 2025
Thanks for taking time to write a review. Great o know you love the app. We have some instructions on how to add a recipe here https://carbsandcals.com/app/instructions/ If you would like to get in touch and let us know any specific products you have not found, just email support@carbsandcals.helpscoutapp.com

What’s new

In this version, we've made several accessibility improvements for devices that are using larger text settings. We've also begun working on some updates to suggestions based on recently logged foods, and improved colour consistency across the app.