What’s NEW in the App?
In 2021, we made the decision to change the Carbs & Cals app to a subscription model in order to make the app financially sustainable, and pay for the huge ongoing costs to maintain the app. We’re committed to investing the income to continually improve the app for our loyal users, adding new features, food and content to the app each month.
Visit this page often to see what’s NEW and IMPROVED in the app, and check out the Foods in the App page for a list of popular foods, brands and restaurants included.

March 2025
NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menu added for Wingstop
- Latest foods & drinks added for Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Nando’s and Ping Pong
- Values updated for some GBK, Nando’s and Ping Pong foods & drinks, to reflect their latest recipes
NEW BARCODE FOODS
- Another 3,250 + 2,239 foods imported into the barcode database, bringing the total to nearly 255,000 foods!!











































February 2025
NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menu added for Supermac’s & Tim Hortons
- Latest foods & drinks added for McDonald’s & Pizza Express
- Values updated for some McDonald’s & Pizza Express foods & drinks, to reflect their latest recipes
NEW BARCODE FOODS
- Another 3,750 + 1,490 foods imported into the barcode database, bringing the total to nearly 247,000 foods!!











































January 2025
IMPROVEMENTS
- We’ve made some performance improvements to speed up the app and give you a smoother Carbs & Cals app experience!
NEW BARCODE FOODS
- 3 more batches of foods were added to the barcode database, with 1,068 + 1,661 + 1,470 extra foods imported











































December 2024
NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menu added for Joe & The Juice
- Latest foods & drinks added for Starbucks
NEW BARCODE FOODS
- Another 1,347 + 1,789 foods imported into the barcode database











































November 2024
NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menu added for Slim Chickens
- Latest foods added for Caffe Nero, Wasabi, Wimpy and YO! Sushi
- Nutritional values updated for some Wasabi, Wimpy and YO! Sushi foods & drinks
NEW BARCODE FOODS
- This month we imported 5,992 + 1,065 + 1,894 + 1,019 + 1,004 foods to the barcode database, making the total foods in the app = 234,753!











































October 2024
NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menu added from Ask Italian
- Nutritional values have been updated for food & drink items from KFC, Papa John’s, Pizza Hut, Subway and Zizzi (to reflect their latest recipes)
NEW GLUCOSE FOODS
- By popular request from our diabetes audience, we’ve added items from GlucoTabs, Lift and Dextro Energy











































September 2024
NEW FEATURE!
- We’re committed to continually improving the Carbs & Cals, and to help you keep up-to-date with all the improvements we’re making to the app, we’ve introduced a What’s New section!
- This will include new features, new restaurant & cafe menus, extra barcode foods, updates to any nutritional info (e.g. when a restaurant changes their recipes / nutritional values), as well as behind-the-scenes stuff like bug fixes






IMPROVEMENTS
- When you export any days from your diary as a PDF, it now includes diary notes (which is super useful for sharing with your healthcare professional, so they can see your blood glucose and insulin log in your diary)




NEW BARCODE FOODS
- This month, we’ve added a further 1,736 barcode food items











































August 2024
NEW FEATURE!
- By popular request, we’ve now added Diary Notes! This useful feature allows you to write a note for every meal, and also record your blood glucose level & insulin units






NEW BARCODE FOODS
- More foods added to the barcode database! This month we imported 2,376 + 870 branded / supermarket foods. Happy scanning!











































July 2024
NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menus added for Coffee#1, Cooplands Bakery & Pilpel
- Latest foods have been added to the Burger King menu (and a few existing foods have had their nutritional values updated)
NEW BARCODE FOODS
- This month we imported 1,802 + 1,600 foods to the barcode database, making the total foods in the app = 214,477!











































June 2024
NEW BARCODE FOODS
- Early this month we imported 1,219 foods to the barcode database, and a further 1,198 towards the end of the month, making the total foods in the app = 206,705!











































May 2024
NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menus added for Bagel Factory, Crepeaffair, and Frankie & Benny’s
- Existing food items from McDonald’s, Taco Bell & Wagamama have all been updated, reflecting their latest recipes and nutritional values
NEW BARCODE FOODS
- This month we imported 2,414 foods to the barcode database, making the total foods in the app = 204,288!











































April 2024
NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menus added for Toby Carvery & Tortilla
- 252 latest food items added to Papa John’s, Taco Bell & YO! Sushi menus
NEW BARCODE FOODS
- Early this month we imported 1,780 foods to the barcode database, a further 699 foods mid-month, and 1,461 later in the month (bringing the total foods in the app to over 200,000!)











































March 2024
UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- 109 latest food items added to Itsu, McDonald’s & Wagamama menus
NEW BARCODE FOODS
- This month, we’ve imported a further 2,359 foods, bringing the total foods in the app to 195,650!











































February 2024
UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- 146 new food & drink items added to Caffe Nero, Costa, Greggs, Leon, Pret, Pure & Starbucks
- All existing Domino’s, Krispy Kreme & Nando’s foods have been updated to their latest nutrition values
NEW BARCODE FOODS
- Every few weeks we import new foods to the barcode database, and this month we’ve imported a further 782 foods, bringing the total foods in the app to 192,604!











































January 2024
NEW RESTAURANTS
- Full menus from Neat Burgers and Wetherspoons











































December 2023
NEW RESTAURANTS
- Full menus from Cote, Honest Burgers, Pepe’s Piri Piri, and West Cornwall Pasty Co











































November 2023
IMPROVEMENTS
- By popular request, we’ve now added Timestamps! This useful feature records and displays the time you add each food to the diary, to give you a more accurate picture of when each food was consumed (and a simple left-to-right swipe on a food allows you to change the time if needed)

















































October 2023
UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Winter menus from Caffe Nero, Costa, Greggs, Leon, Pret, Pure & Starbucks has been added, so you’ve got all their latest foods & drinks, ready for the Xmas season!











































September 2023
NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menus added from Ben’s Cookies, Las Iguanas & Popeyes
- 147 new food & drink items added to Krispy Kreme, Nando’s & Pizza Hut











































August 2023
NEW RESTAURANTS
- Full menus from Franco Manca, Mr Pretzels, Ping Pong & Pure











































July 2023
IMPROVEMENTS
- We’ve implemented the much-requested feature of syncing the Carbs & Cals app with Apple Health Kit, so the data for Carbs, Calories, Protein & Fat for foods logged in the Carbs & Cals app will be sent to your Apple Health app
- Recently we added a HUGE amount of foods to the app by introducing a barcode scanner database, but now those foods are also available when you search for a food. Happy searching (and scanning)!






NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menu from Rosa’s Thai has been added
- Summer menus from Costa, Pret & Starbucks has been added too, so you’ve got all their latest foods & drinks
NEW BARCODE FOODS
- Between the early July and mid July imports, we’ve added nearly 4,000 more barcode foods, making the total foods in the app 166,177!











































June 2023
NEW BARCODE FOODS
- Early June we added 16,533 more foods to the barcode scanner database, and mid June we added another 1502, making the total foods in the app 162,186











































May 2023
NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menu from Bella Italia & Pho
- Extra foods have been added to the Domino’s menu











































April 2023
NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menu from Gourmet Burger Kitchen & Harvester
- Subway menu has been updated to their foods, including new photos and latest nutrition values











































March 2023
IMPROVEMENTS
- The much-requested BARCODE SCANNER has now been released!
- This means the food database has increased from 22,000 to a whopping 130,000+ foods & drinks!
- Includes UK supermarkets (the big ones like Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons, M&S, Co-op & Waitrose; and smaller food shops like Spar, Nisa, Happy Shopper, Budgens, Cost Cutter, Simply Fresh & Londis)






NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menu from Wasabi & Wimpy UK
- All existing KFC foods have been updated to their latest nutrition values











































February 2023
NEW PHOTOS for RAMADAN
- We’ve done another photoshoot and added over 134 new portion photos of Ramadan foods, including Sehri / Sahoor foods (such as Jereesh & Markook Shrak), Iftar meals (like Bhuna Kisuri, Haleem, Chana Chaat & Lamb Nihari), snacks (e.g. Dhai Bade & Kubbat Potato), drinks (Sharbat, Es Timun Suri & Sobia) and common sweets too (like Basbousa, Luqaimat & Sweet Rice)





































NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Full menu from Five Guys, including components so you can make up your own burgers & milkshakes
- Greggs & KFC has also been updated with the latest items (23 extra foods added)
- All Greggs foods now show the Fibre values!











































January 2023
NEW BRANDS & RESTAURANTS
- Violife & Waitrose Cooks’ Ingredients
- All foods & drinks on the Pret menu updated with their latest photos











































December 2022
NEW PHOTOS
- 75 new portion photos have been added to various popular food items that didn’t have any photos before
- 110 new portion photos have bee added for new requested foods such as more vegetables, soya mince, jackfruit, olive bread, omelette, noodles and miso paste




































NEW BRANDS
- Biotiful, Copella, Dolmio, Ferrero, Kinder, McCoys, Nutella & Warbutons
UPDATED RESTAURANTS
- Caffé Nero, Costa Coffee, Pizza Express, Starbucks, Subway & Zizzi all updated with latest Xmas foods
- Burger King & Pret updated with latest foods











































November 2022
NEW BRANDS
- Gatorade, Laughing Cow, Lurpack, Nurishh, Polo & Tic Tac











































October 2022
NEW BRANDS
- 7up, Alpro, Kettle Chips, Nature Valley, Philadelphia & Plant Pioneers











































September 2022
IMPROVEMENTS
- 50 search results are now displayed (instead of 20 in the previous version)
- Restaurant/brand names are now included in search results






NEW BRANDS
- Dairylea, IRN-BRU, Lindahls Kvarg, Linda McCartney’s, Lipton & Marmite











































August 2022
NEW FEATURES & IMPROVEMENTS
- You can now back up and restore your user data – perfect to transfer your data to a new phone
- Fixed currency formatting bug on payment screen






NEW PHOTOS
- We’ve done another photoshoot and added over 300 new portion photos of user-requested foods, including more breads (such as bagels, garlic naan & soda bread), nut butters & sauces, beans, fruit & vegetables, vegetarian foods (like paneer), popular desserts (e.g. lemon tart & chocolate cheesecake), and a few extra common dishes too (like cottage pie & cauliflower cheese)





































NEW BRANDS & RESTAURANTS
- Hovis
- Full menus from Papa John’s Pizza, Taco Bell & YO! Sushi
- McDonald’s has also been updated with the latest menu (22 extra foods added)











































July 2022
NEW PHOTOS
- 160 new portion photos have been added to various popular food items that didn’t have any photos before




































NEW BRANDS & RESTAURANTS
- Belvita, Pringles & Twix
- Full menu from Leon











































June 2022
NEW BRANDS & RESTAURANTS
- Coca-Cola, Batchelors, Ben’s Original, Dr Pepper, Eat Natural, Fanta, Grenade, Hodmedod’s, Lilt, Oasis, Sainsbury’s Food To Go, Schweppes, Sprite & THIS
- Full menu from Itsu











































May 2022
NEW BRANDS & RESTAURANTS
- Beyond Meat & Metcalfe’s
- Caffè Nero & Pizza Hut
- Costa Coffee updated with latest food & drinks (inc full range of M&S food)











































April 2022
NEW FEATURES & IMPROVEMENTS
- You can browse your own foods and restaurant foods whilst searching
- You can filter by Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten Free and My Foods in search
- You can tap Nutrient values on Home Screen to change highlighted nutrient
- You can view and add My Foods straight to the diary (rather than just editing them)
- We’ve added a Cancel link on My Plan
- The Home Screen search box is sticky
- Fixed bug on iPad where share tray not showing
- Fixed bug in PDF reports where end date is not selected






EXTRA PORTIONS for LEGACY USERS
- If you are on the Legacy Plan, you now have access to over 650 extra portions across 320 foods!
- That means if there were any foods you could view previously that had a few portions locked, you can now see all portions available for that food








NEW BRANDS & RESTAURANTS
- Babybel, Galaxy, Heinz, Hula Hoops & Quorn
- Starbucks & Zizzi











































March 2022
NEW FOODS
- Healthy meals for African, Arabic, Caribbean & South Asian communities in the UK








NEW BRANDS
- BirdsEye, Naked, Off The Eaten Path, Pipers, Quaker & Ryvita











































February 2022
NEW FEATURES & IMPROVEMENTS
- You can now export your diary as a PDF with graph
- You can now switch nutrients quickly in the diary by tapping on a nutrient
- Food search is now quicker and more accurate
- Thumbnails load faster in the custom foods list




NEW BRANDS
- Activia, Aero, Alpen, Müller, Ready Brek, Weetabix & Weetos











































January 2022
IMPROVEMENTS
- Improved saving of custom foods
- Handles large text better on iOS (improving accessibility)




NEW BRANDS & RESTAURANTS
- Pot Noodle & Dorset Cereal
- Greggs











































December 2021
LAUNCH!
🚀 The brand new Carbs & Cals app is launched on iOS! The iOS and Android apps now have all the same foods and features – hoorah!
NEW FEATURES & IMPROVEMENTS
- You can now setup and track daily Targets
- Ability to add foods to a future date
- Your My Meals have now been imported if you had the old app
- You can now view your diary data from the old app
- Have It Again section moved lower down the dashboard
- Food photos work offline more reliably for foods you’ve already viewed








NEW BRANDS & RESTAURANTS
- Actimel & Kellogg’s
- Domino’s, Nando’s & Pizza Express











































November 2021
NEW RESTAURANTS
- KFC & Pret











































October 2021
NEW FEATURES & IMPROVEMENTS
- New Legacy Plan, giving users who purchased the old app all the same foods & features as they’d already paid for
- In-app messages so we can inform you of new and improved features
- Fixed a freeze issue for some users















































July 2021
LAUNCH!
🚀 The brand new Carbs & Cals app is launched on ANDROID!




IMPROVEMENTS
- Usability for phones with small screens
NEW BRANDS & RESTAURANTS
- Cadbury, Doritos, KitKat, Mountain Dew, Nakd, Nestlé Cereals, Nobby’s Nuts, Pepsi, Snack a Jacks, Trek, Tropicana, Walkers & Yakult
- Burger King, Costa Coffee, Krispy Kreme, McDonald’s, Subway & Wagamama