Carbs & Cals: Diet & Diabetes

2.77K reviews
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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
UK carb manager & calorie counter. Award-winning food & weight tracker
Updated on
Oct 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

2.68K reviews
Philip Foobar (Tofu muncher)
August 9, 2026
only works with branded food. seems to be pushing us to use "restaurants" ie. chains. I make my own meals as much as I can but there are no generic ingredients for muesli or actual meals. it lists flour and sugar but not whole grains. so it's basically encouraging poor eating. aims at calorie counting but this is only a part of the story. tuna contains calories. so does white sugar. all food contains calories. swap tuna for sugar? I don't think that would be healthy.
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A Google user
October 24, 2019
I've always bought the books in the past & loved them so I thought I'd go digital and have it with me all the time. Sadly no the app is missing so many items and what's worse when it does show what you are looking for there is a good chance that the nutritional information will be missing. My advise if avoid the app and get a book instead
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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.

What’s new

This update includes further performance improvements and enhancements to keep things running smoothly