Thali: Desi Calorie Tracker
ameliorlabs Inc. Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Thali: Desi Calorie Tracker is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by ameliorlabs Inc. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated October 20, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 78 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Oct 20
- 2026 · v1.2.2
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About Thali: Desi Calorie Tracker
Every calorie tracker was built for someone else's plate. Thali is built for yours. Roti, dal, sabzi, biryani — logged in katori and pieces, not grams you have to guess at. START WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Open Thali and go. Set your goal, get your calorie target and log your first meal before signing up for anything. Create an account when you want your plan saved across devices — everything you entered comes with you. SEARCH THE WAY YOU SAY IT Thayir sadam, begun bhaja, atta. Type a dish the way your family says it and Thali finds it, typos and all, and keeps your word for it in your diary. Suggestions appear as you type, with your recent foods and what's popular for this meal ready before the first letter. FOODS YOU DON'T EAT Tell Thali once: vegetarian, no egg, no beef, no pork, Jain and more. Search hides what doesn't fit, packaged foods are checked against their own ingredient lists, and when we can't be sure about a dish, we say so. 8,000+ FOODS, INDIAN FIRST 1,014 hand-reviewed Indian dishes from ICMR-NIN's Indian Food Composition Tables, Pakistani, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi foods from their national food tables, plus the pizza, pasta and sandwiches you eat on the days you aren't cooking. One app, not two. PORTIONS THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY MEASURE A katori of dal and a katori of rice weigh different amounts. Thali knows the difference. Log by katori, piece, cup, tablespoon or grams. Log idli, and Thali offers the sambar that usually goes with it. JUST SAY IT "Do katori toor dal, ek roti aur thoda sa jeera rice." Half English, half Hindi, one breath — and it still gets the portions right. Works in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi and Urdu. SCAN THE MENU, NOT JUST THE PLATE Curry houses don't print calories. Photograph the menu and get an estimate per dish, before you order. BUILT FOR RAMADAN AND VRAT Sehri and Iftar times computed from where you actually are — Toronto, London, Dubai or Delhi — with your mosque's calculation method. Fasting-safe food flags for Navratri, Ekadashi and Jain fasts. MEASURED ON SOUTH ASIAN THRESHOLDS South Asians carry cardiometabolic risk at a lower BMI. Thali uses the 23 and 27.5 thresholds from the WHO's 2004 Asian cut-offs, not the Western 25 and 30 — and shows waist-to-height beside BMI. Every threshold is cited in the app. NUTRITION YOU CAN CHECK Built on the references dietitians actually cite: ICMR-NIN's Indian Food Composition Tables, USDA FNDDS and Open Food Facts. Nothing is invented — where a number isn't known, Thali says so instead of guessing, and every food shows its source. WHAT YOU GET WITHOUT PAYING Unlimited food logging, unlimited recipes, the full South Asian database, barcode scanning, fasting mode, meal reminders, nutrient alerts, 90 days of history, and a CSV export of everything you've ever logged. Your data is yours — no plan required to take it with you. THALI PREMIUM 50 AI photo scans a day, the restaurant menu scanner, 100 voice logs a day, unlimited history, weekly target recalibration, and iron, B12 and vitamin D alerts. Thali Premium — $6.99 USD/month or $34.99 USD/year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your device Settings. Thali is for adults aged 18 and over. Terms: https://www.ameliorlabs.ca/solutions/thali/terms Privacy: https://www.ameliorlabs.ca/solutions/thali/privacy
What’s new
Version 1.2.2 · Updated October 20, 2026
Log a whole plate in one photo. Take a picture of your thali or lunch plate and Thali finds every dish on it, up to six, and logs them together. More foods, and easier to find: • More than 1,700 foods added since the last update, including over 1,000 home-style dishes built from published recipes and 652 dishes from Singapore's national food database. • Half-typed searches work better: "masala do" finds masala dosa, "chicken br" finds chicken breast. • A food's page now shows its other versions (for example a thinner dal makhani), so you can pick the one you ate. • If your food choices hide every result for a search, Thali now tells you and links to where you can change them. Smaller improvements: • Thali greets you by the first name from your Google or Apple sign-in. • A gentle check under the amount if one entry comes to more than 9,999 kcal, so a slip of the keyboard doesn't end up in your day. Fixes: • A short freeze some iPhones had right after opening the app. • A search that failed no longer sends you back to the start screen.
App privacy
The developer, ameliorlabs Inc., reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers: Device ID
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- User Content: Audio Data
- Health & Fitness: Health, Fitness
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Usage Data: Advertising Data, Product Interaction
- User Content: Photos or Videos
- Search History: Search History
- Identifiers: User ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, App Functionality
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