Best Calorie Counting App in Arabic (2026): 9 Apps Compared on Real Arabic Support

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title: "Best Calorie Counting App in Arabic (2026): 9 Apps Compared on Real Arabic Support" description: "Which calorie counting apps actually work in Arabic? We compared 9 apps on Arabic interface and right-to-left layout, Arabic food coverage, Arabic voice logging and UAE App Store prices, checked October 1, 2026." publishedAt: "2026-10-01" updatedAt: "2026-10-01" category: "App comparisons" tags: ["best calorie counting app in Arabic", "Arabic calorie tracker", "calorie app Arabic", "calorie counter UAE", "calorie app Saudi Arabia", "Arabic food calories app"] keyTakeaways:

• "Only 5 of the 9 apps we checked offer an Arabic interface at all: Callie, Cal AI, FatSecret, Rashaqa and Mirān. Yazio, MyFitnessPal, Lifesum and Foodvisor list no Arabic on the UAE App Store."
• "Callie has an Arabic interface with a full right-to-left layout and an AI coach that replies in Arabic, and it costs AED 99.99 a year in the UAE."
• "Arabic-first apps are real competitors. Rashaqa has more than 60,000 ratings on the Saudi App Store, and Mirān's listing says its photo scanner recognizes Saudi food."
• "FatSecret has the strongest database claim for the region. Its listing says the app is customized for each country's foods and brands, and it supports 23 languages including Arabic."
• "Arabic voice logging is the weakest area across the category. No app we checked documents an Arabic voice benchmark, including ours." faq:
• question: "What is the best calorie counting app in Arabic?" answer: "For an Arabic interface with right-to-left layout, an AI coach that replies in Arabic, and photo, voice and text logging, Callie is our pick at AED 99.99 a year in the UAE. If you want an Arabic-first app with home workouts and step counting, Rashaqa is the most established, with over 60,000 ratings in Saudi Arabia. For the deepest country-specific food database, FatSecret is the strongest option and supports Arabic."
• question: "Does MyFitnessPal support Arabic?" answer: "No. MyFitnessPal's UAE App Store listing declares 19 languages, and Arabic is not one of them, as of October 1, 2026. Its 20.5 million-food database is large but concentrated on US packaged goods and restaurant chains."
• question: "Does Cal AI work in Arabic?" answer: "Cal AI's App Store listing now includes Arabic among its 15 languages. We have not verified how complete its right-to-left layout is. In our testing, Cal AI adds a scanned meal to your day before you can review it, which matters for mixed Arabic dishes where photo estimates go wrong most often."
• question: "Which calorie app recognizes Gulf and Arabic food?" answer: "Mirān's App Store listing says its photo scanner analyzes Saudi food. FatSecret says its database is customized for each country's foods and brands. Callie and Cal AI estimate from the photo itself, so they don't depend on the dish's name. None of these apps publish an accuracy figure for Arabic dishes specifically."
• question: "How much does a calorie app cost in the UAE?" answer: "Callie costs AED 99.99 a year. On the UAE App Store on October 1, 2026, MyFitnessPal Premium and Rashaqa annual plans were listed at AED 184.99, Lifesum at AED 164.99 to AED 192.99, FatSecret at AED 146.99 to AED 224.99, and Mirān at AED 129.99 with discounted plans from AED 69.99. Yazio's 12-month plans ranged from AED 69.99 to AED 239.99, so Yazio can cost less than Callie."
• question: "Is there a free calorie app in Arabic?" answer: "FatSecret describes itself as free and supports Arabic, with paid premium plans on top. Callie is not free. You get 3 AI logs to try it, then it costs AED 99.99 a year."

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Callie is our app, and it is one of the nine compared here. We checked every other app's App Store listing ourselves on October 1, 2026, and each one gets the category it is best at.

The 30-second answer

The best calorie counting app in Arabic for most people is Callie: AI Calorie Tracker, at AED 99.99 a year in the UAE. Its interface is in Arabic with a full right-to-left layout, its AI coach replies in Arabic, and it logs by photo, voice or text with a review screen before anything is saved. If you want an Arabic-first app with workouts and a step counter, pick Rashaqa. If you want a large country-specific food database with Arabic support, pick FatSecret. If you mostly eat Saudi dishes and want an AI workout coach, try Mirān.

What "supports Arabic" should mean

A calorie app can list Arabic and still be hard to use in it. We judged each app on four things:

1. Interface language and right-to-left layout. Is Arabic in the app at all, and does the layout mirror correctly, or do numbers and buttons end up on the wrong side?
2. Arabic food coverage. Can it handle kabsa, machboos, mandi, harees, foul or a plate of mixed iftar dishes?
3. Arabic input. Can you type or speak "صحن كبسة دجاج" and get a sensible entry, or must you search in English?
4. Gulf pricing. What does the annual plan cost on the UAE App Store?

For the interface, we used the language list each app declares on the App Store (the languageCodesISO2A field in Apple's lookup API, UAE storefront). Callie is the exception. Its App Store listing currently declares English only, although the app itself ships an Arabic interface. That is a gap in our listing, and we are telling you so that you don't find it yourself.

How the 9 apps compare

Feature	Callie	Cal AI	FatSecret	Rashaqa	Mirān	Yazio	MyFitnessPal	Lifesum	Foodvisor
Arabic interface
Right-to-left layout		Not verified	Not verified	Not verified	Not verified
Languages on App Store listing	EN listed (app UI in 6)	15 incl. Arabic	23 incl. Arabic	Arabic, English	Arabic, English	20, no Arabic	19, no Arabic	14, no Arabic	20, no Arabic
Arabic and Gulf food	Photo-based, any cuisine	Photo-based	Country-specific foods	Not listed	Saudi food in photo scan	Europe-focused	US-focused	Not listed	Not listed
Photo logging				Calories Scanner		PRO	Premium	Premium
Voice logging	Yes, Arabic accepted	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed	English, Premium	Yes, no Arabic UI	Yes, no Arabic UI
AI coach replies in Arabic		Not listed	Not listed	Not listed	AI workout trainer
Review before a photo is logged			See app	See app	See app	See app	See app	See app	See app
Annual price, UAE App Store	AED 99.99	AED 19.99–199.99, periods not labelled	AED 146.99–224.99	AED 184.99	AED 129.99 (promos from AED 69.99)	AED 69.99–239.99	AED 184.99	AED 164.99–192.99	See app
UAE App Store ratings	New	5.0K	332	2.5K	121	1.6K	14.0K	1.0K	198

The apps, one by one

1. Callie: best for Arabic interface plus an AI coach in Arabic

Callie's interface is available in six languages, including Arabic with a full right-to-left layout. The AI coach replies in Arabic, so you can ask about your remaining protein or your week's average and read the answer in your own language. You can log by photo, voice or text. Photo scans are never logged automatically: you see the foods, portions, calories and macros on an edit screen and correct them first. That matters for kabsa or mandi, where rice hides the oil and meat portion.

What we don't do well: our food database is smaller than MyFitnessPal's, and our App Store listing doesn't yet declare Arabic. Our voice test included an Arabic-English mixed phrase, not a full Arabic benchmark (test details).

Price: free download with 3 AI logs to try it, then AED 99.99 a year, AED 59.99 a month or AED 19.99 a week in the UAE.

2. FatSecret: best food database for the region

FatSecret supports 23 languages including Arabic, and its listing says the app is "customised for each country's foods and brands." That is the strongest database claim in this list for Gulf shoppers. It includes photo recognition, a barcode scanner and Apple Health sync, and describes itself as free, with paid plans listed from AED 146.99 to AED 224.99 a year. We didn't verify how polished its right-to-left screens are.

3. Rashaqa (رشاقة): best Arabic-first all-in-one app

Rashaqa is built for Arabic speakers and has 60,458 ratings (4.5) on the Saudi App Store, the largest following of any Arabic-first app we found. Its listing covers a calorie tracker with a "Calories Scanner," over 400 meal plans developed by nutritionists, home workouts, a step counter and water reminders. Choose it if you want one app for food, steps and home training. Its annual plan is listed at AED 184.99. We couldn't find voice logging or an AI coach on the listing.

4. Mirān (مِران): best for Saudi food and AI-guided workouts

Mirān's listing describes AI photo scanning that works "even [on] Saudi food," a barcode scanner, diet plans and an AI trainer that corrects your posture through the camera and counts reps. It has 6,950 ratings (4.3) on the Saudi App Store. A 12-month plan is listed at AED 129.99, with discounted plans at AED 89.99 and AED 69.99. Choose it if workouts matter as much as food logging to you.

5. Cal AI: best for photo-only simplicity

Cal AI now lists Arabic among 15 languages. It is fast and focused on photo logging, with a 4.8 rating from about 5,000 UAE reviews. Its UAE in-app purchases run from AED 19.99 to AED 199.99 without labelled billing periods. In our testing it logs a scan before you review it, and MyFitnessPal owns it. Our Callie vs Cal AI page has the head-to-head, including our own 20-meal benchmark (13% mean error for Callie, 17% for Cal AI).

6. MyFitnessPal: best for packaged and restaurant food, in English

MyFitnessPal lists 19 languages, none of them Arabic. Its 20.5 million-food database is the largest here, so it is still useful for imported and chain-restaurant food if you are comfortable in English. Premium is listed at AED 184.99 a year in the UAE.

7. Yazio: best for European products, and sometimes the lowest price

Yazio lists 20 languages and no Arabic. Its strength is European packaged food. Its UAE 12-month plans range from AED 69.99 to AED 239.99, so on a promotion it can cost less than Callie. Our Callie vs Yazio page compares the two in more detail.

8 and 9. Lifesum and Foodvisor: good voice and photo logging, no Arabic

Both apps log by photo, voice, text and barcode, according to their listings, but neither lists Arabic. Lifesum's annual plans run AED 164.99 to AED 192.99. Foodvisor's UAE purchase list mixes plan names and prices, so check in the app.

Why photo logging matters more for Arabic food

Most food databases are indexed in English around US and European supermarket products. A search for "machboos" or "harees" often returns nothing, or a user-submitted entry of unknown quality. A camera doesn't need the dish's name. It estimates from what is on the plate.

Photo estimates are weakest on exactly the dishes common in Gulf homes: rice dishes with hidden oil and meat, stews and stuffed vegetables. That is why we think a review step before saving matters more here than anywhere else. Our multilingual calorie tracker comparison goes deeper on database coverage across languages.

When another app is the better choice

• Pick Rashaqa if you want an established Arabic-first app that combines food, steps and home workouts, and you don't need an AI coach.
• Pick Mirān if you mainly eat Saudi dishes and want AI-guided workouts with posture correction.
• Pick FatSecret if you want the broadest country-specific database with an Arabic interface and you are happy to use it without AI coaching.
• Pick MyFitnessPal if you eat a lot of packaged and chain-restaurant food and use English comfortably.
• Pick Yazio if you find it on a promotion below AED 99.99 and you don't need Arabic.

If you are planning for Ramadan, our Ramadan calorie tracking guide covers how to split your target across suhoor and iftar, with calorie values for common iftar foods.

Related reading

• Best calorie tracking apps that work in your language, the four-axis comparison across languages.
• Ramadan calorie tracking guide, with suhoor and iftar calorie values.
• Callie vs Cal AI, with our 20-meal benchmark.
• Callie pricing, with every region and plan.

Sources

1. Apple iTunes Lookup API, UAE storefront, languageCodesISO2A field (accessed October 1, 2026). Cal AI https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=6480417616&country=ae, FatSecret https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=347184248&country=ae, Yazio https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=946099227&country=ae, MyFitnessPal https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=341232718&country=ae, Lifesum https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=286906691&country=ae, Foodvisor https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1064020872&country=ae, Rashaqa https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1343105318&country=ae, Mirān https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1396961211&country=ae
2. Apple iTunes Lookup API, Saudi storefront, ratings for Rashaqa and Mirān (accessed October 1, 2026). https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1343105318&country=sa and https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1396961211&country=sa
3. Cal AI UAE App Store listing (accessed October 1, 2026). https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/cal-ai-calorie-tracker/id6480417616
4. FatSecret UAE App Store listing (accessed October 1, 2026). https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/calorie-counter-by-fatsecret/id347184248
5. Rashaqa UAE App Store listing (accessed October 1, 2026). https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/id1343105318
6. Mirān UAE App Store listing (accessed October 1, 2026). https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/id1396961211
7. Yazio UAE App Store listing (accessed October 1, 2026). https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/ai-calorie-counter-by-yazio/id946099227
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12. Callie internal 20-meal kitchen-scale benchmark (May 2026). Methodology at https://www.mycallie.app/en/compare/callie-vs-cal-ai