Thali / calorie tracker for Indian food
Katori, piece and cup sizes instead of guessing grams. Scan a plate, log it in seconds, see South Asian macros that are right.
Why it exists
Aloo matar, idli, dal: Thali finds the right dish in its own food database. When you search or scan a meal, the AI only picks the dish and the nutrition comes from the database.
In the app
The problem
Generic calorie app
Thali
Built different
Built for the South Asian diaspora, not retrofitted for it.
Point your camera at a dish and an AI vision model identifies it. Works on thali plates, curry bowls, biryani, street food and home-cooked meals. Confidence-rated so you always know how certain the AI is. It only picks the dish. The calories come from our database.
1,014 hand-reviewed Indian dishes from ICMR-NIN's Indian Food Composition Tables, plus Pakistani, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi foods. Nutrition comes from published food tables, not random user submissions, and where a number is not known Thali says so.
Overweight starts at BMI 23 for South Asians, not 25. Obese starts at 27.5, not 30. WHO-recommended thresholds so your health picture is accurate.
Log food in grams, ml, oz, cups (US/UK/AU), tablespoons, teaspoons, or katori (150ml). No gram scale required. Measure the way your family actually cooks.
Sehri and Iftar times worked out from where you are, with your mosque's calculation method. Fasting-safe food flags for Navratri, Ekadashi and Jain fasts.
Tap-to-track water glasses, weight logs with South Asian BMI calculation, a custom recipe builder, weekly progress charts and achievements.
How it works
Three ways to log: scan, search, or build your own meal.
Point your camera at a dish and AI identifies it in seconds. Or search 8,000+ foods, Indian first. Or log anything manually.
Choose katori, cup, tablespoon, gram or oz. Thali shows the nutrition for your exact portion with no conversion math.
Calories, protein, carbs, fat, water intake and South Asian BMI, with weekly progress charts.
Pricing
Your data is yours on either plan. Thali is for adults aged 18 and over.
$0 to start
$6.99 /month
$34.99 / year
Prices in USD. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled in your device settings at least 24 hours before the period ends.
FAQ
Yes. Thali has 8,000+ foods, Indian first, including 1,014 hand-reviewed Indian dishes from ICMR-NIN's Indian Food Composition Tables, plus Pakistani, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi foods. You can also scan a dish with your camera: the AI only identifies the dish, and the nutrition comes from our food database. See the data sources page for where the nutrition data comes from.
South Asian bodies carry metabolic risk at lower BMI values than Western populations. WHO and major health bodies now recommend "overweight" starts at BMI 23 or higher (not 25) and "obese" at 27.5 or higher (not 30) for South Asians. Using Western thresholds systematically underestimates your risk. Thali uses the South Asian thresholds so your health picture is accurate.
Thali supports grams, ml, oz, cups (US/UK/AU), tablespoons, teaspoons, and katori (150ml, the standard Indian bowl). Most food database apps only offer grams, which is useless when your mom serves in katories. We built the unit system around how South Asians actually measure food.
Take a photo of your meal in the app. The photo is sent over an encrypted connection to our server, which passes it to a third-party vision model, either Google (Gemini) or OpenAI (GPT-4o), to identify the dish and estimate a confidence level (high, medium or low). Thali then looks up the nutrition for that dish in its own database. Photos are not stored after processing. Free users get a daily allowance of scans, at least one a day, more in some regions, and the exact number is always shown in the app. Premium gets 50 a day. See our Privacy Policy for exactly what is sent and to whom.
Yes. Thali has a fasting mode with Sehri and Iftar times worked out from where you are, using your mosque's calculation method, and fasting-safe food flags for Navratri, Ekadashi and Jain fasts. Fasting is part of life for a large part of the South Asian diaspora.
No. Thali is a personal nutrition tracking app, not a medical device or clinical tool. The calorie targets and BMI thresholds are general health references. For medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, please consult a qualified healthcare professional.
