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The halal calorie tracker · Free on iPhone soon

The calorie tracker App that finally knows your food.

Nihari, shawarma, nasi lemak, phở — 1,450 home-style dishes, each with an honest calorie range built from real ingredients. Just type what you ate.

  • No card
  • No ads
  • 8 languages
  • Halal catalog
A woman tearing roti over a steaming chicken karahi at a home dinner table
Lahore · Chicken karahi
Overhead Lebanese mezze spread with hummus, tabbouleh and flatbread under lattice light
Beirut · Mezze
A plate of shorshe ilish mustard hilsa with rice beside a rainy window
Dhaka · Shorshe ilish
Chopsticks lifting rice noodles and beef from a steaming bowl of phở
Hanoi · Phở
A woman holding nasi lemak wrapped in banana leaf at a Kuala Lumpur night market
Kuala Lumpur · Nasi lemak
Weekend brunch of avocado toast, a fruit bowl and iced coffee at a sunny café counter
London · Weekend brunch
Chicken Karahi 443–645 Cal per portion

The problem

Search “nihari” in any other calorie app.

A typical calorie app

No results. Did you mean “beef stew”?

So you log Chicken curry, 1 serving = 412 cal. Exactly. Apparently.
Thali
Nihari1 portion · slow-cooked beef, ghee, spices
382–614 Cal
Roti1 piece
95–116 Cal

Built from its 6 real ingredients. Adjust any of them.

Two problems: your food is missing, and the numbers pretend to be exact. Thali fixes both.

How it works

From “I just ate” to logged, in three taps.

  1. 01

    Type it the way you’d say it.

    “karahi, 2 roti”. No barcodes, no grams, no hunting through lists of “curry (generic)”. Thali matches every dish, in English, Urdu, Arabic or Hindi spelling.

  2. 02

    Count it like a person.

    Two rotis. One bowl. A glass of lassi. Portions come in pieces, bowls and plates, the way food actually arrives. Grams are there if you want them.

  3. 03

    See an honest range.

    Every dish is built from its real ingredients, so you see what really moves the number: the oil, the ghee, the size of the portion.

  4. 04

    Watch your day fill your Thali.

    Calories, protein, carbs and fat fill your daily plate. Targets fit your goal, streaks keep you honest, and your full history stays yours.

The honest bit

A range, because that’s the truth.

No two pots of karahi are the same. One more spoon of ghee, a bigger roti, a heavier hand with the oil. An app that shows one exact number for home cooking is guessing. Thali shows each dish as the range it really falls in. Tell it more, and the range tightens.

Try it: change the meal and watch the range move.

Chicken karahi + 2 roti Medium confidence

633–877Cal

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Example meal using Thali’s recipes. Your daily total is one running number, so it stays easy to follow.

Built for real food

The food other trackers forget.

Dishes
1,450
Ingredients
479
Languages
8
Pork
0
Home dinner with chicken karahi and roti
Lahore · Chicken karahi

A Pakistani and Indian calorie tracker at heart. Karahis, daals, parathas and the chai that goes with everything.

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    In your words

    Thali speaks 8 languages

    The question Thali asks every day, in the language you think in. English, اردو, हिन्दी, العربية, বাংলা, Bahasa Melayu, Tiếng Việt and 中文, with proper right-to-left layouts.

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    FAQ

    Good questions, honest answers.

    Something else? Ask us or write to thali@m-malik.com.

    What is Thali?

    Thali is a free calorie tracking app built for South Asian, Middle Eastern and Asian home cooking. You type what you ate, like “chicken karahi, 2 roti”, and Thali shows the calories and macros as an honest range built from each dish’s real ingredients. It covers 1,450 dishes and 479 ingredients in 8 languages.

    Is Thali really free?

    Yes. Track unlimited meals, keep your full history and use every feature. No card, no ads, no paid tier.

    Does Thali know Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi food?

    South Asian home cooking is the heart of Thali: rotis, daals, biryanis, karahis, nihari and chai. The catalog also covers Middle Eastern, Turkish, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Chinese and everyday Western food, 1,450 dishes in all, and it grows every month.

    Is there a halal calorie tracker app?

    Yes. Thali is a free halal calorie tracker: there is no pork anywhere in its food catalog, and it covers the food Muslim families actually eat, from Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi cooking to Arab, Turkish, Malaysian, Vietnamese and Chinese dishes. Each dish shows its calories as an honest range built from real ingredients.

    Is there a calorie tracker for desi food?

    Yes. Thali is a calorie tracker built for desi food first. It covers Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi home cooking, from roti, daal and sabzi to nihari, karahi and biryani, and shows each dish’s calories as an honest range built from its real ingredients. It’s free, and works in Urdu, Hindi and Bengali as well as English.

    Does Thali have Arab, Turkish and Asian food too?

    Yes. Thali covers Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian, Jordanian, Gulf and Egyptian dishes, Turkish food, Malaysian and Singaporean food, and Vietnamese and Chinese food, plus everyday Western staples. Each cuisine has its own calorie guide on this site.

    How accurate are Thali’s calorie estimates?

    Every dish is built from its real ingredients and shown as a calorie range, because home cooking varies with the pot, the oil and the portion. Your daily total is one running number so it’s easy to follow. Thali isn’t a medical device; talk to a professional for medical decisions.

    What languages does Thali support?

    Eight: English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Malay, Vietnamese and Chinese, with right-to-left layouts for Urdu and Arabic. You can search in the spelling you grew up with.

    Is Thali’s food catalog halal?

    Yes. There is no pork anywhere in Thali’s catalog.

    When is Thali available on iPhone and Android?

    Thali launches on iPhone first, with Android to follow. Leave your email on this page and we’ll tell you the day it’s live.

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