Carbs & Cals: Diet & Diabetes

2.7
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About this app

Join thousands using Carbs & Cals, the UK’s trusted calorie counter, food tracker and weight tracker app.

Track your food, calories and weight in one place. Use the new Unified Food Scanner to scan barcodes, food labels or even your plate. Our AI-powered food scanner instantly identifies foods and calculates calories, carbs and nutrition for fast, accurate logging.

Search over 272,000 UK foods & drinks with visual portion photos. Compare up to 6 portion sizes and log meals in seconds with one of the most intuitive calorie tracker and food diary apps available.

📉 Track Your Weight & See Results

Now with built-in weight tracking, you can log weight, monitor progress over time, and stay motivated. See how your eating habits impact your results by combining your food diary and weight tracker in one simple view.

🥗 Track Calories, Carbs & Nutrition

Track your calories, carbs, protein, fat, fibre, alcohol and 5-a-day. Set goals and use Carbs & Cals as your daily nutrition tracker, diet tracker and calorie calculator.

Create unlimited custom foods and meals, and share reports with your healthcare team.

✅ Designed for Your Goals
- Weight loss & calorie counting
- Diabetes management (type 1, type 2, gestational)
- Keto diet & low-carb lifestyles
- Nutrition tracking & healthy eating

🩺 Diabetes & Health Tracking

Carbs & Cals is a complete diabetes app and glucose tracker. Log meals visually, track carbs easily, and record blood glucose, insulin and weight in your diary.

Developed by NHS dietitians, it’s trusted across the UK for accurate and practical nutrition support.

⚡ Key Features
- AI Food Scanner: Scan barcodes, food labels or your plate
- Weight tracker: Log weight and track progress over time
- Search 272,000+ UK foods & drinks
- Visual portion sizes (up to 6 per food)
- Food diary & meal tracker
- Track calories, carbs & full nutrition
- Unlimited custom foods and meals
- Sync with Health Connect
- Share reports with healthcare professionals

🍎 Huge UK Food Database
- 272,000+ foods with nutrition data
- UK brands: Heinz, Cadbury, Walkers, Warburtons
- Restaurants: McDonald’s, Costa, Greggs, Wagamama
- Diverse global cuisines

⭐ 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 support@carbsandcals.helpscoutapp.com

*Remember to consult with a doctor or other medical professional before making significant
Updated on
Jun 15, 2026

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

2.7
2.61K reviews
Birgit G
May 21, 2026
Hadn't used this app for quite some time, but still surprised that you can just come back to an app you paid for, and suddenly cannot access even basic functionality anymore. What's worse, it pretends to give you a limited number of free lookups, but has multiple entries for the same food, and you can't even look at all of the options to compare. Definitely not giving any money to this company for withdrawing access for a tool for disabled people which they paid for. Shameful business practices.
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Chello Publishing Limited
May 26, 2026
Sorry to hear you are dissatisfied with our move to a subscription-based model. If you have previously paid for the app, please contact us at support@carbsandcals.helpscoutapp.com, and we should be able to assist you.
Sarah
May 7, 2026
Phenomenal app, I use it every day. Type 1 diabetic and had the book back when strip tops could be collected to get freebies. Now I'm trying to lose weight and found myself checking My Fitness Pal and Turtle against this to get the correct carbs and cals and suddenly realised that's insane. Now I use it for carb counting and weight loss tracking and it's fabulous for both. Developers are communicative and helpful if there's an issue. Even the free version is wonderful.
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Chello Publishing Limited
May 26, 2026
Thank you so much for your review! Really pleased to hear you're enjoying the app and finding it useful. If there's anything you need, just let us know at support@carbsandcals.helpscoutapp.com.
Harry Whitcher
April 19, 2026
I updated this 2 days ago, and now none of the foods stay stable enough to search. I deleted it, redownloaded it, and reinstated my backup. I have cleared the cache. still just partial, pixelated pictures, with no writing, and it hangs the phone. it was working fine
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Chello Publishing Limited
April 29, 2026
Sorry about this issue. Please contact us at support@carbsandcals.helpscoutapp.com and let us know the issue you encountered. We would be glad to help with this. Hope to hear from you soon.

What’s new

In this update, we've reinstated sugar targets, now with an updated default of 90g per day to reflect total sugars shown in our food data. We've also made some improvements to the support section of the app to help us investigate issues.