The free UK calorie counter that reads the ingredients too
Log up to 25 foods a day on the free tier, scan any UK barcode, and see the additives and Big-14 allergen flags on the label, not just the calorie number. No ads, no card needed. NutraSafe Pro (£3.99/month) lifts the caps and adds vitamins, workouts and the reaction diary.
Free download Pro £3.99/month or £34.99/year UK barcodes, UK reference intakes
Count calories free, and see what's in the food
The free tier is the real app, not a taster. Log up to 25 foods a day, scan UK barcodes, and read the additives and allergens on the label. Pro is for the extras above the basics.
Count calories free for 25 foods a day
Type a food, search it, or scan the barcode. NutraSafe finds it in the UK database, branded or own-brand, and fills in the calories and macros straight off the label rather than a rough estimate. The free tier logs up to 25 foods a day, which covers a normal run of meals and snacks with room to spare.
Your running totals build as you go: calories, protein, carbs, fat, fibre and salt against your targets, with a ring for the day so you can read where you are at a glance. No card, no trial clock, and no ads on the free tier. Log breakfast, lunch, dinner and a couple of snacks and you are still inside the daily cap, so the free calorie counter is a tool you can lean on every day rather than a demo you hit the wall of by mid-morning.
Scan the barcode, read the ingredients too
Most free calorie counters give you one number and stop. Scan a can of Coca-Cola in NutraSafe and you get the calories, yes, but also how processed it is, the sugar, and the additives pulled off the ingredients list. That is the hook against every other free calorie counter: it reads what's in the food, not just the count.
Every additive carries its source. E150d, the caramel colour, is flagged to IARC. The flag itself is free on every scan; the plain-English line on each additive and where the concern was published open up on Pro.
The additive and allergen breakdown, free
The free tier reads the whole ingredients list, not just the kcal. You see every additive on the pack, the ones worth a second look flagged, and the Big-14 allergens the label declares. Always check the packet itself if you have an allergy, because recipes and labels change and ours is a copy of what was on the pack.
This is the bit that separates a food scanner from a plain calorie counter: what is actually in the food, sorted by how much is known about it. Two products can land on the same calorie figure while one is a short list of ingredients and the other is a page of additives, and the breakdown is where that difference shows. The full plain-English line and the published-research detail on each additive open up on Pro.
Macros, fibre and salt, not just the kcal number
A calorie counter tells you how much you ate. The diary also adds up the macros behind that number: protein, carbs, fat, fibre and salt, day by day, so a day that fits your calories but runs high on salt or short on fibre shows up rather than hiding inside one figure.
Vitamins and minerals go a step further, 14 vitamins and 12 minerals measured against the UK reference intakes, which is where you catch what a low-calorie week can leave you short on, such as iron or vitamin D. Vitamin and mineral tracking is a Pro feature.
What a free Coca-Cola scan shows you
One scan, more than the calorie number
Point the free scanner at a can of Coca-Cola and it returns 139 kcal per 330ml, the sugar, the macros and a note that it is ultra-processed, all in one card. A plain calorie counter would give you the 139 and nothing else.
The nutrition is straight off the can. Every additive is listed with its source, so E150d the caramel colour shows its IARC flag on the line. The flag is free; tap in for the plain-English detail on each additive and where the concern was published on Pro. You get the fact and the source, so what you make of it is your call. Nothing about the free scan is held back to push you into paying: the calories, the macros, the processing note and the additive flags all show without a subscription.
What's free, and what £3.99 a month adds
The download is free, and so is everything most people use daily. Pro lifts the caps and opens up vitamins, the AI meal scan, the reaction diary, workouts and fasting.
The honest split
Free: log up to 25 foods a day, scan any UK barcode, get the additive flag and the Big-14 allergen flags on every scan, log up to 5 reactions, and use the E-number library on this website. No ads, and no time limit, so you can stay on the free tier as long as you like. Check the packet if you have an allergy, since recipes and labels change and what we show is a copy of what was printed on the pack.
NutraSafe Pro is £3.99 a month or £34.99 a year on iPhone. It lifts the 25-a-day and 5-reaction caps and adds vitamin and mineral tracking against UK reference intakes, the AI meal scan for food with no barcode, the reaction diary with suspected-triggers analysis, workouts and fasting, and the plain-English detail on each additive. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.
Free calorie counter questions
Honest answers about the free tier, the cap, and what £3.99/month or £34.99/year actually unlocks.
Yes. Our free tier includes barcode scanning, the UK food database, and calorie logging for up to 25 foods a day. No ads. NutraSafe Pro is £3.99/month or £34.99/year on iOS if you want unlimited logs, vitamin tracking, AI Coach, workouts and fasting.
A good UK free calorie counter reads UK supermarket barcodes, doesn't make you sign up to a paid plan to log a sandwich, and tells you more than the kcal number. Our free tier covers Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl, Co-op and Waitrose, with the additive flag on every scan.
MyFitnessPal has a free tier with ads. We don't run ads on the free tier. Detailed nutrition and barcode scanning behave differently between apps, so the practical test is whether your common shop foods scan straight on the free tier.
NHS Better Health treats calorie awareness as part of weight management. Logging shows you where the kcal are actually coming from. Most people use it as a learning tool for a few months, then check in occasionally rather than logging forever.
Yes. We read any UK barcode (GTIN/EAN), the same format every UK supermarket uses. Branded or own-brand, big shop or local. Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl, Co-op and Waitrose all scan the same way.
Barcode scanning is the most accurate route because it pulls the numbers straight from the label, which UK food labelling law requires to be within 20%. Weighing portions, logging straight after eating, and using the barcode rather than guessing all improve accuracy.
Free for 25 logs a day, then £3.99 if you want more
Free tier: 25 food logs a day, barcode scanner with the additive flag, Big-14 allergen flags, 5 reactions, the E-number library. Pro is £3.99/month or £34.99/year on iOS for everything else.
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