What’s NEW in the App?

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