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.

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