Carbs & Cals: Diet & Diabetes

2.9
2.27K reviews
100K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

The award-winning, UK-based Carbs & Cals food tracker makes logging your daily food intake easy! With an integrated barcode scanner and a database of over 160,000 UK foods & drinks, Carbs & Cals is the simplest meal tracker app and the fastest way to track nutrients.

Say hello to intuitive portion control! Carbs & Cals is the only visual carb management and calorie counting app that allows you to compare food portions for a fast and accurate nutrient count.

Use the daily diary and recipe builder to create a bespoke diet plan for weight loss or diabetes management. Carbs & Cals is your all-in-one food planner, carb manager and calorie counter.

Download Carbs & Cals to stay in control of the food you eat. Try it FREE for 14 days!

Carbs & Cals is designed to help you confidently manage your nutritional needs and track your diet. It's perfect for:
- Managing type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, 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.

FOOD TRACKER FOR WEIGHT LOSS 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 or what you’re eating, you can count calories and track your diet with just a few taps.

HUGE UK FOOD DATABASE
- Extensive visual database of 160,000+ popular UK foods & drinks.
- Thousands of UK brands like Birds Eye, Cadbury, Heinz, Walkers & Warburtons!
- Full menus and photos for popular UK restaurants & cafes including Costa Coffee, Greggs, McDonald's, Subway & Wagamama!
- World foods from African, Arabic, Caribbean & South Asian communities in the UK.

KEY FEATURES
- Barcode scanner: Scan products instantly and use the quick and easy meal tracker.
- Timestamps: Log and edit meal times directly in your diary with HealthKit synchronisation.
- Leading Supermarkets: Including Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose, M&S, Co-op and more.
- Portion control: Up to 6 portion sizes per food with clear nutritional values.
- Food planner: Daily diary to track your carb, calorie, protein, fat, saturated fat & fibre consumption.
- Visual food tracker: Track your 5-a-day intake and alcohol units.
- Leading diabetes app: Blood glucose icons to highlight carb content and impact on your glucose level.
- Meal tracker: Custom foods and meal options for easy recall.
- Personalised calorie counter: Recipe builder to calculate nutritional content per serving and create your diet plan.
- Multi-platform: Designed for phone and tablet use.

RECOMMENDED BY NHS DIETICIANS 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 and we'll be happy to help!
Updated on
Apr 26, 2024

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
Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

2.9
2.18K reviews
Steven Hilton
May 2, 2024
I'm going to compare this app to Nutracheck which I have been using for the last 12 months. Carbs & cals is good in principle especially seeing the portion size on a plate, however the food database is lacking a lot. Very often I search for a food or scan the barcode to find the food is not available, whereas Nutracheck has it every time. Carbs and Cals is missing some key restaurant chains such as premier inn group restaurants, again Nutracheck wins here too. Nutracheck is cheaper also.
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Chello Publishing Limited
May 14, 2024
Thank you for your feedback which has been sent onto our developers. Good to hear you appreciate the difference in that we show different portion size images. We are working to improve search and are adding new restaurants every month.
Diccon Lowe
March 27, 2024
Have used it since it was free. Used to be okay with a limited amount of foods and little updates. Then went to a pay wall. Usability improved a little and the foods you could access were slightly better than the free version. But lately it seems every time I use it there's something else that's not free anymore. No loyalty to early adopters and loyal customer base. EDIT - legacy plan was for one year. As you can see I have used it for some time. Recent issues have made it fairly unusable
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Chello Publishing Limited
March 27, 2024
Sorry to hear you are unsatisfied with the fact that we have had to move to a subscription based model. This was done over 2-years ago. We have given previous users access to a Legacy Plan, that gives all the foods they had before in the app. Please contact us at support@carbsandcals.helpscoutapp.com if you have any further feedback.
Rebecca D'Alessio
April 28, 2024
This app was really good when it first came out and was really helpful with having to carb count, but now you need to subscribe and half the time the things I eat I can't look up the carbs because you need to subscribe to it and it is pretty expensive for what it is. So, unfortunately, this app is now very disappointing and useless for me!
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Chello Publishing Limited
April 29, 2024
Thank you for your feedback. While we would love to offer the full app at a lower price, we are a small UK company and have kept price in-line (often cheaper) with other apps in the category. We are investing heavily in lots of improvements and features and therefore need to charge a subscription for full access.

What's new

We’ve enhanced the barcode scanner for faster and more accurate results.