Type 1 Diabetes Carb Counter is a health & fitness app developed by Steve Ems.
How many times has Type 1 Diabetes Carb Counter been downloaded?
Type 1 Diabetes Carb Counter has been downloaded 52 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 5 times.
What is the rating of Type 1 Diabetes Carb Counter?
Type 1 Diabetes Carb Counter is rated 3.44 out of 5 stars, based on 63 ratings.
Is Type 1 Diabetes Carb Counter free?
Type 1 Diabetes Carb Counter is free to download. The APK download size is 27.60 MB. The latest version available is 4.3. The last update was on December 22, 2025.
What are the requirements for Type 1 Diabetes Carb Counter?
Type 1 Diabetes Carb Counter requires Android 4.4+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play November 2016.
Description
Type 1 Diabetes Carb Counter
This application uses the USDA nutrition database and the USDA Food Data Central database as sources 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 a meal or snack time. The nutrients button shows other nutrients besides carbohydrates, including calories and total fat.
• Reads the barcode on a food package and then automatically searches the internet for the barcoded food item. • Uses a local USDA Nutrition database with over 8,700 food items. • Uses the internet to search the USDA Food Data Central database with over 336,600 food items updated continuously. Saves each search result to a local FDC database. • Saves USDA Food Data Central food items in a local database. • Can work offline using the local databases. Internet access for USDA database can be turned off. • Search directly from the opening page using words or the upc code from a food item. • Searches are fast, usually less than a second. • Nutrition values are now in the new USDA nutrition label format. • Display the brand owner, upc, or gtin code by setting check boxes in the settings. • Email your user database or a single food item to anyone and then download the database to any Android device. • Basic use is on one page. Other less used pages are nutrients, settings, and help. • Help page has an index to help find topics and can be set as a half page help on main screen. • Portrait display only. • Fast searches with words in any order. • Saves your searches for easy reuse. • 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 these nutrients on the Nutrients page: Calories, Total fat, Saturated fat, Polyunsaturated fat, Monounsaturated fat, Cholesterol, Sodium, Total Carbohydrates, Dietary Fiber, Total Sugar, and Protein. • Requires permissions to save files locally and use the camera.
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 as well on the Nutrients page.
If you have multiple items for a meal, or have a recipe, you can enter the ingredients to get the total carbohydrates. Save this to the user database with any name. The recipe ingredients are shown at the bottom of the screen and saved with the item you save.
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, tablespoons, liters, etc. If you select 1 large, the units will be large. You could select 2 large for two apples or 1/2 large for half an apple.
For food items not in the databases, you will have to search the manufacturers web site or get it from a nutrition label. If you expect to use this food item again, save the food item to the user 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 in the Cooking Database.
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.
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Comments on Type 1 Diabetes Carb Counter for Android
★★★★★Robert Talkington· Oct 10, 2019
Very helpful for calculating carbs. I have T1D and use an insulin pump. This is great. Wish it would scan UPC codes. Thanks!
★★★★★Gary Adelman· Jul 20, 2019
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
★★★★★Dwight Nicholson· Jan 27, 2021
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 (15-80 mg/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!
★★★★★Janet Eliassen· Mar 11, 2022
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.
★☆☆☆☆Chester Bohach· Feb 6, 2022
Not good who knows how many grams of vegetarian meatloaf? That's not meatloaf then.
★☆☆☆☆A Google user· Jan 1, 2017
Horrible I tryed this because I have tipe one deabeates and does not load and I just hate it! DO NOT GET THIS APP!!
★★☆☆☆A Google user· Sep 23, 2017
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.
★☆☆☆☆A Google user· Jun 7, 2018
Not user-friendly. I Was looking for the carb content on 2 slices of toast
bread with butter, but it didn't work
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