Carbs & Cals: Diet & Diabetes

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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 [e-mail]

*Remember to consult with a doctor or other medical professional before making significant changes to your diet.

Ratings and reviews

I tried the free trial vs the unpaid app and I don't think it's worth the price to pay €43 let alone a yearly subscription! I had the old version which i paid for years ago and it was excellent, it was more diabetic focused and was easier to navigate, this new one has lots of bugs, limited options and sometimes very imprecise weight portions. With the free option everything is locked which makes the app useless to force you to pay not just once but a lifetime subscription. Uninstalled.

OK at first but as a user of about 6 months now I'm finding the UI a drag. The majority of time spent is obviously entering foods eaten and it becomes a slog. For example, the search is less than stellar when searching for food stuffs. Entering 'bolog' when searching for Bolognese sauces returns better results than entering 'bolognese'! When visiting one of the restaurants covered, I have to continually reselect the place to pick the next food item eaten. Slicker data entry is needed!

What's to be said...other than this app. has been a game changer for me .As I type 1 diabetic I need to carb count everything I eat .This app has a excellent list of various categories of foods with their carb....fat, protein, etc amout per measured portion . It also has a diary where I can log the carb amount and doze of insulin take . I COULD NOT recommend the app more highly . Also any questions I have ask the team have been responded to immediately. All round excellent.Five star plus.

What's new

NEW diary notes feature that allows Unlimited users to keep notes on insulin, blood sugar, weight & more. We've also unlocked more food portions on our Free plan for Starter users.