Know your biryani's calories,all with TrackDesiCalories.
Upload a meal photo, answer a few cooking questions, and get a calorie estimate for real desi food — from dal tadka to chicken curry to aloo paratha.
Built for South Asian fitness enthusiasts who need calorie counts they can actually trust.
How it works
Why it works for desi food
Why TrackDesiCalories works better than the others
An alternative to MyFitnessPal, HealthifyMe, Cronometer and Lose It! for anyone eating South Asian home cooking — where a database entry was never going to be enough.
Most calorie trackers
TrackDesiCalories
You search a dish by name and pick an entry — often several conflicting ones for the same food.
You photograph the plate. It identifies the dish, then asks about the meal in front of you.
One number per entry, whether it was cooked in ghee, in oil, or in nothing at all.
Cooking fat, gravy richness and frying each move the estimate before it's final.
Standardised servings — "1 cup", "100 g" — that rarely match a home-served plate.
Portion is always asked, in terms you can eyeball on your own thali.
A number, with nothing showing where it came from.
Every estimate lists the assumptions behind it and carries a confidence rating.
vs MyFitnessPal
The largest food database there is, and hard to beat for packaged and restaurant food.
Entries are crowd-sourced, so one dish can have a dozen conflicting versions — and none of them know whether your rajma had cream in it.
vs HealthifyMe
Genuinely good Indian food coverage, which most Western trackers simply don't have.
Logging is still a lookup: you pick a dish and take the number attached to it, rather than describing how yours was cooked.
vs Cronometer
The best of these for data quality — lab-verified entries and serious micronutrient depth.
Verified data for a generic "chicken curry" still can't account for the two tablespoons of ghee that went into yours.
vs Lose It!
Photo logging isn't unique to us — Snap It, like MyFitnessPal's Meal Scan, will read a plate.
The difference is what happens next. They map the photo to a database entry; we ask how it was cooked before committing to a number.
If you mostly eat packaged or restaurant food, a big database may serve you better. This is built for the meals those apps handle worst — the ones cooked in a South Asian kitchen, where the ghee is invisible and the portion is whatever fit on the plate.
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Explore the full app during judging, with no daily scan limit and no payment details needed. Create your own account to keep your meals private.
- Unlimited AI meal and nutrition-label scans
- Cooking and portion questions tailored to your meal
- Unlimited saved Kitchen dishes and quick re-logging
- Full meal history, 30-day trends, and CSV export
For adults 18 and older. Photo-based nutrition values are estimates.
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