Diabetes Carb Counter
This application uses the USDA nutrition database as a source of carbohydrates and other nutrients. This app is primarily for Type 1 diabetics. It displays the carbohydrates for the amount you want to consume at snack time or the meal. The nutrients button shows other nutrients besides carbohydrates, including total fat, for those evening snacks. You can use it for Type 2 diabetics, but it does not save daily food items or calculate insulin.
• Primarily for Type 1 diabetics.
• Uses the USDA Nutrition database with over 8700 food items updated every year.
• Works well on old phones.
• Works offline, does not need internet access.
• Looks good on small phones to 10 inch tablets.
• Everything is on one page except for other nutrients and help.
• Loads fast and searches are finished in less than a second.
• Extensive help page and remembers your position.
• Portrait display only so display does not rotate when you lay it down.
• Fast searches with words in any order.
• Saves your searches to a recent database for easy access.
• Use English or metric units or both in meals and recipes.
• You can use weight or volume units for most food items.
• You can use fractions or decimals.
• Has a numeric calculator and conversion calculator that can use fractions as well as decimals.
• Enter a single food item, meal or recipe.
• Save your food item, meal or recipe to a local database.
• Shows many other nutrients: Fiber, Calories, Saturated fat, Monounsaturated fat, Polyunsaturated fat, Sodium, Sugar, Cholesterol, and Protein.
• Tested on Android versions 2.3.4, 4.1.1, 5.0.1 and 6.0.1.
• Only one permission to save to files.
• A web link to USDA Branded database with 77,000 food items is at the end of the help page. You will need internet access.
If you have a food item that is not in the USDA database, you can enter your own and save it to the user database. The minimum required data is serving size, carbohydrates per serving, and the amount you want. You can enter other nutrients if you wish and save it to the user database.
If you have multiple items for a meal, or have a recipe you want to enter, you can enter the ingredients to get the total carbohydrates. You can save this to the user database with any name you want. The recipe ingredients are shown at the bottom of the screen and saved with the item you save. You can use metric or English units and mix them in a recipe.
Most items in the USDA database have weight and volume units as well as descriptions that are not units. A good example is Apples, raw, fuji, with skin which has two descriptions, 1 cup sliced and 1 large. If you select 1 cup sliced, the units will be cup so you can use a measuring cup or tablespoons or liters, while if you select 1 large, the units will be large. You could select 2 large for two apples or 0.5 large for half an apple.
For food items not in the database, you will have to search the manufacturers web site. If you expect to use this food item again, save the food item to the user database which is searched along with the USDA database.
A cooking database was extracted from the USDA database and put at the beginning of the search so that if you search for salt, you will find Salt, table near the top of the screen instead of tens of screens later, since the word salt is in many descriptions.
There is a miscellaneous database that includes food items and recipes that we have entered for our granddaughter. It does not have all the nutrients or show the recipe for all items.
Category : Health & Fitness
Reviews (30)
This app is just what I was looking for. It may not be flashy but is quite robust in functionality. I retired from IT and recognize value. I was on (15-80mg/day) Prednisone for nearly 15 years. As soon as I started, I developed severe type 2 diabetes. I was able to use an alternative medicine a year ago but the diabetes remains. I am a lightweight so that doesn't figure in. I just about have to go keto even with large doses of 2 kinds of insulin. I NEED this. Thanks!
Son has type 1 diabetes. Very helpful once you get the hang of using it. Learning curve to everything. I will give more feedback after using it a while longer. Thx to the creator of this app.
Extremely complicated very hard to figure out how it works. It gives you a half screen to read through instructions very lengthy instructions. Take two aspirin before you begin reading
I really like being able to put in my blood count as well as my blood pressure and weight. It does have ads but its easy to click them off!
Very helpful for calculating carbs. I have T1D and use an insulin pump. This is great. Wish it would scan UPC codes. Thanks!
I am now using Dexcom and it's meter. My doctor at UCLA prescribed an IPEN yesterday. I thought I should do better about knowing what goes into my body This is truly amazing and glad I found it today. I now have three items that will surely help with my control. Thank you for creating this app. RG
I applaud the effort in putting this app together and sharing with the world. Yes it is a little rough around the edges but it serves a very important purpose.
I can't thank you and enough from making something that at to beginning on paper is so difficult and with your app makes it so easy God-bless you sir
Way to complicated. Kept shutting down while I was trying to figure out how to use the app. I am uninstalling.
This app was not a good fit for me, that being said it appeared to be a helpful app. If I could make it work for me I'd keep it.
So great! Does exact what you need it to do and has so many food types available. Thank you for this ❣️
Not easy to follow
Very helpful with carb counting to determine my insulin levels.
Not good who knows how many grams of vegetarian meatloaf? That's not meatloaf then.
The Best work I have seen in year's 👌 Thank you .
To complicated. I will not be using.
easy to use
It's hard to be a diabetic!
gives you no clue on how to use
Thank you so much...🤗🤗🤗🤗
I'm a Type I diabetic, and the app is extremely useful. You must take the time to read the "Help" section, and also to get accustomed to it. For the person who wanted toast with butter; you can certainly find both food items, enter the amounts you consume(not everyone eats the same amount of butter)and then save/create as a meal. The app is probably most useful to diabetics. I did experience difficulty installing the app via the Google play; however, Steve was extremely helpful in sending a link via email. Thank you!
Not user friendly. I Was looking for the carb content on 2 slices of toast bread with butter but it didn't work
So far, so good. The database seems extensive. There is a bit of a learning curve but it gets easier with each use. I suspect I will go to 5 stars after a week or so!
So far this app seems to be very outdated. This type 1 diabetic could not find one single item that I ate. Time to search for another app that actually does what it says. Most likely none available as everyone here on Google thinks they are a programmer and actually know nothing of it. At least this app tried. Put generic terms in it will not find any info.
Didn't load at all 😐😐
Found this to be great for getting carbs information for food
About time there was an app that didn't require you to sign in. I like that no network is required to use once it is installed. Custom recipes are a plus.
I tryed this beacuse i have tipe one deabeates and does not load and i just hate it! DO NOT GET THIS APP!!
It will be good for me
I've used this app for years; it's a wonderful app for counting carbs, especially when I'm away from home and don't have labels for reference. Is there a way to also view protein and fat? I can't find a way to do it. UPDATE: I FIGURED IT OUT!! Just upgraded from 4 to 5 stars. I love that this app never crashes, and NO annoying ads or videos.