Comparison

Carb Counter and Tracker vs Carb Pilot

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Carb Counter and Tracker

This app helps you monitor and manage your carbohydrate intake to support various health conditions like type 2 diabetes, obesity, and PCOS. It offers features like barcode scanning, dictation, and personalized food databases to track your progress and share data with healthcare providers.

Highlights
  • Lower carbohydrate intake for health management
  • Personalized carb intake goals
  • Barcode scanner for food logging
  • Dictation and search for food entry
  • Monitor daily and long-term progress
  • Export data for healthcare providers
  • Integrates with Apple HealthKit
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Lower carbohydrate intake to lower risk of or manage type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome (high blood pressure & high LDL cholesterol), obesity, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), a variety of cancers, inflammation and difficulty fighting off infection. Inflammation plays a key role in osteoarthritis and heart and circulatory disease, depression and Alzheimer's dementia. Set your daily carb intake based on guidance provided in the app and your preferences for weights of food (g or oz). Record food and beverage consumption using the barcode scanner, dictation, search or by favoriting foods and using the serving sizes provided (which can be changed at any time). Tap the notepad to add notes. Compare the carb content of different foods by tapping the Compare button on the "Foods" screen. Monitor daily and long-term progress, export data to share with healthcare providers, synchronise data with other First Line Medical Communications Ltd nutrient counter apps, and share data with Apple's HealthKit. Add your own foods and recipes and change serving sizes to personalize the app's 400-item database for you. All food and beverage popups indicate whether the item is a plant, good prebiotic, probiotic or ultra-processed food (UPF) to inform a healthy diet and whether they are high or low FODMAP per serving where data are available to support people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).  Useful lists show carb content of foods per 1oz or 100g and serving, which can be toggled from high to low & low to high. Also useful UPF, unprocessed plant, prebiotic, probiotic, high & low FODMAP food lists.

About

Carb Pilot

Estimate carbohydrate and macronutrient counts for meals using natural language input. Quickly log food, track nutritional data, and export to HealthKit. Features include voice entry, recipe building, and meal sharing.

Highlights
  • AI-powered carb estimation
  • Natural language meal input
  • Voice entry option
  • Track carbs, fat, protein, fiber, calories
  • HealthKit export
  • Recipe builder
  • Meal sharing
Features
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Carb Pilot is designed to make it quick and easy to get carbohydrate (carb) counts, without having to look up restaurant nutritional menus or dig through rigid meal databases. Use our AI estimator to enter - in plain language - what you're eating, and get back carb counts (and also fat, protein, fiber, and calorie counts, if you choose). You can view your saved estimates in the app, and you can also export your data to HealthKit to be used in other apps or trackers that you already use. Carb Pilot is designed to be easy, getting carb counts in a snap. PRIVACY PRESERVING - Carb Pilot sends the meal description to an AI (large language model) for generating the carb and macronutrient counts, but otherwise your data doesn't leave your device. There is no identifying information collected in the app. EASY TO USE, SAVES YOU CLICKS - Carb Pilot means you don't have to click and click and click to find what you're eating in a meal app database. Simply use the same language you would use to describe your meal to a friend, and get back the estimated macronutrient counts. VOICE ENTRY OPTION - You can use the microphone button - click to start and click when you're done - to tell the system what you're eating. Carb Pilot will grab your transcribed meal description, and you can edit it if needed and send it off to the AI to get your estimates. TRACK WHAT YOU CARE ABOUT - You can get estimates for carbs, fat, protein, fiber, and/or calories. Don't want to see anything but carbs? You can disable and hide the counts on previous meals by changing your preferences in the settings menu any time. CHANGE YOUR MIND - If you change your mind and want to track another macronutrient, simply turn it back on in settings and your previous saved meals will then display that macronutrient, too. REPEAT A MEAL - Eating the same thing again? Swipe on a previous meal entry and select the option to repeat the meal with today's date. Or copy the previous meal's description to the clipboard if you want to slightly tweak it and run it through the estimator again. BUILD A RECIPE -Making a recipe and cooking from scratch? Carb Pilot's recipe builder feature allows you to get estimates on each ingredient, adjust them, and then indicate how many portions the recipe makes and how much you're eating now - or save it for future. SHARE A RECIPE OR MEAL -You track carbs, they track protein, and you're cooking dinner. You can share any logged meal or recipe from your Carb Pilot with another Carb Pilot user, who can save and adjust it for their own tracking purposes. DELETE A MEAL EASILY - You can swipe and delete a previous meal, too. INTERNET CONNECTIVITY - (Please do note that the AI meal estimation feature does require AI connectivity and will not work offline. However, you can still change your in-app settings and view your data while offline, and also log your meals manually.) MANUAL LOGGING, IF YOU WANT - Click the plus button and add a manual entry if you know the counts in what you're eating. By using this app, you agree to Carb Pilot's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://diyps.org/carb-pilot/privacy/

Screenshots

Carb Counter and Tracker4 screens
Carb Pilot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Carb Pilot at Free against Carb Counter and Tracker's $4.99. Carb Pilot also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 4). Carb Counter and Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Carb Pilot is free to download; Carb Counter and Tracker costs $4.99 up front. Carb Pilot sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Carb Counter and Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Carb Counter and Tracker against 4.5 for Carb Pilot. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 15 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Carb Counter and Tracker ships an update monthly, Carb Pilot every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Carb Counter and Tracker versus Carb Pilot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCarb Counter and TrackerCarb Pilot
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (4 ratings)4.5 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings415 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB18 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFirst Line Medical Communications LtdDana Lewis

Customer experience

Carb Counter and Tracker

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Carb Pilot

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

Carb Counter and Tracker

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Carb Pilot

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Membership$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Carb Counter and Tracker free?
Carb Counter and Tracker costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Carb Pilot free?
Carb Pilot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Carb Counter and Tracker or Carb Pilot?
Carb Pilot is rated higher. Carb Counter and Tracker averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Carb Pilot averages 4.5 from 15 ratings.
Do Carb Counter and Tracker or Carb Pilot have ads?
Neither Carb Counter and Tracker nor Carb Pilot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Carb Counter and Tracker or Carb Pilot?
Carb Counter and Tracker ships an update monthly, and Carb Pilot every 2 months. Most recently, Carb Counter and Tracker was updated on November 6, 2026 and Carb Pilot on November 3, 2026.

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