# Carbon - Macro Coach & Tracker

> Calories, Nutrition, & Diet

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1437820611](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1437820611)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1437820611`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Reform LLC
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (8,059 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.77.6010
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-10
- **First published:** 2020-04-21
- **Size:** 106 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/carbon-macro-coach-tracker/id1437820611)
- **Website:** [https://joincarbon.com](https://joincarbon.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://joincarbon.com/privacy-policy/](https://joincarbon.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

Carbon Diet Coach is a science-based nutrition app designed by renowned nutrition coaches Dr. Layne Norton and Registered Dietitian Keith Kraker. It creates personalized macro-focused meal plans tailored to your goals—fat loss, muscle gain, metabolism, or maintenance—and adapts as you progress, just like a real coach. Simply log foods and your weight, answer a few questions, and Carbon does the rest.

Features include a robust FatSecret-powered food database, barcode scanner, custom foods and recipes, and Apple Health integration to read body weight and body fat. It supports diet styles like Balanced, Low Carb, Low Fat, Ketogenic, and Plant-Based, plus check-ins, charts, goal tracking, and automatic plan adjustments to keep you progressing.

## Rankings

- #19,782 — Overall
- #35 — tracking

## Review summary

Reviews consistently praise Carbon for its easy-to-use interface, AI coaching with weekly macro adjustments, and strong accountability that support weight loss and maintenance. Users value flexible tracking and cross-phase usability. However, recurring issues include data inaccuracies and barcode scanning reliability, pricing/trial/refund frustrations, and limited advanced customization compared with some competitors. Overall, Carbon is seen as a powerful macro-tracking and coaching tool with notable reliability and feature gaps that some users encounter.

### Pros

- Easy to use with a clean, intuitive interface.
- AI coach with weekly macro adjustments keeps you on track.
- Strong accountability and coaching support for weight loss and maintenance.
- Flexible tracking including the ability to create your own foods and customize macros.
- Effective across different diet phases (cutting, reverse dieting, maintenance) with robust macro management.

### Cons

- Inaccurate nutrition data and unreliable barcode/label scanning (data quality issues).
- Pricing and trial/refund issues; unclear upfront costs and charges without a trial period.
- Limited macro customization and goals (macro ceilings, single goal; lacks advanced inputs like body composition).
- Perceived lack of advanced features or AI/logging compared with competitors (e.g., MacroFactor).

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