Carbs & Cals: Diet & Diabetes

Chello Publishing Limited

In-app purchases

About this app

Join Thousands Managing Their Diet with Carbs & Cals!

The award-winning, UK-based Carbs & Cals app makes tracking food simple, visual and smart. Use the new Unified Food Scanner to snap a barcode, food label, or even the food on your plate. Our AI-enhanced system instantly identifies the food and extracts nutritional data for quick and accurate logging.

Search over 272,000 UK food & drink photos and compare up to 6 portion sizes per item for fast, visual carb and calorie counting. Log meals in seconds and track your carbs, calories, protein, fat, fibre, 5-a-day and alcohol. Create unlimited custom foods and meals, set nutrition goals, and share reports directly with your healthcare team.

Use the food diary to create a personalised diet plan for weight loss, diabetes management, or keto and low-carb living. Add notes on glucose, insulin, or weight changes for full health tracking.

Developed by NHS dietitians, Carbs & Cals is trusted throughout the UK for accurate and practical nutrition guidance. Download today: the smarter calorie counter, carb manager and food tracker in one app.

Designed to support health & lifestyle goals:
- Managing type 1, type 2, gestational or pre-diabetes.
- Weight loss, calorie counting, or maintaining a healthy weight.
- Following a keto diet, low-carb program, or NHS calorie counter plan.
- Tracking sports nutrition, macros & micronutrients.

The ultimate diabetes & carb counting app
Log meals visually with up to 6 portion sizes. Add meal times for accurate tracking, and use notes to log blood glucose, insulin, and weight. Carbs & Cals is your complete diabetes app and glucose tracker.

Support for weight loss & nutrition tracking
Whether you’re using a calorie counter app to kickstart your journey, following a keto diet, or looking for a flexible meal tracker, Carbs & Cals puts powerful nutrition tracking and calorie calculation in your pocket.

Huge UK food database
- 270,000+ foods & drinks with photos and nutrition values.
- Major UK brands: Cadbury, Heinz, Walkers, Warburtons, Birds Eye.
- 40+ UK restaurants & cafes: McDonald’s, Costa, Greggs, Wagamama.
- Diverse world foods: African, Arabic, Caribbean & South Asian cuisines.

Features at a glance
- NEW Unified Food Scanner: Snap barcodes, food labels or the food on your plate for instant nutrition info.
- Barcode scanner for quick logging.
- Food diary & timestamped meal tracker.
- Notes for insulin, blood sugar, weight & more.
- Track carbs, calories, protein, fat, fibre, alcohol & 5-a-day.
- Portion photos with up to 6 portion sizes.
- Blood glucose icons to highlight carb impact.
- Designed for phone & tablet use.


Trusted & Recommended
- 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
Starter Plan (Free): basic database & limited features.

Unlimited Plan (£6.99/month or £35.99/year): full UK food database, label scanner, and all premium features.

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 [e-mail]

*Remember to consult with a doctor or other medical professional before making significant

Ratings and reviews

This app is great! The interface is intuitive and easy to navigate. It helps me track my carbs and glucose levels, and my partner uses it to log her calories. The database includes many food items, and adding missing ones is simple, even with custom ingredients. The AI nutrition label scan works well, even when it is part of the ingredients list. My only gripe is that predictive text on the keyboard gets disabled when adding food - hopefully that gets fixed.

A great free/basic version of the app, I think I will have to buy the book version as the subscription is too much for me. Great variation of foods and super for seeing what I should be eating as opposed to what I am actually eating.

just recently downloaded looks good and I am on the 2 week free trial. from feedback appears will lose alot of features if dont pay for sub. I have no problem paying, but the option not to log calories burned per day is annoying, it looks like I am eating over my target, as I can't track this. If it had this feature I would pay the sub

What’s new

Our new AI-powered Food Scanner lets you take a photo of the food on your plate and get fast nutrient analysis. Swap typing and searching for quick, photo-based meal tracking.